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Riding the Bulletby Stephen King
Simon & Schuster 2000; US$ 3.99Riding the Bullet is "a ghost story in the grand manner" from the bestselling author of Bag of Bones, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and The Green Mile -- a short story about a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side. more...
The Turn of the Screwby Henry James
The Floating Press 1898; US$ 3.99The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James. A masterpiece in ambivalence and the uncanny, The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young woman who is hired as governess to two seemingly innocent children in an isolated country house. As the tale progresses she begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor. Or does she? The story is so ambivalent and eerie, such a psychological thriller, that few can agree on exactly what takes place... more...
The Woman in Blackby Susan Hill
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 9.99The classic ghost story by Susan Hill: a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford—a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway—to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. Mrs. Drablow’s house stands at the end of the causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but Kipps is unaware of the tragic secrets that lie hidden behind its sheltered windows. The routine business trip he anticipated quickly takes a horrifying turn when he finds himself haunted by a series of mysterious sounds and images—a rocking chair in a deserted nursery,... more...
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Storiesby Peter Haining
Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 5.55Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert - all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted... more...
The Cold Embrace and Other Classic Ghost Storiesby Bram Stoker; Charles Dickens; Henry James
Soft Editions 2002; US$ 5.99A new collection of classic ghost stories, some well known and some long forgotten, by the masters of the genre. more...
Scent of Rosesby Kat Martin
MIRA 2006; US$ 7.20Elizabeth doesn't believe in ghosts. But this time she has no choice. Family counselor Elizabeth Conner isn't sure what to think when Maria Santiago comes to her for help. Pregnant and terrified, Maria claims to be visited each night by the ghost of a little girl, warning her to flee. more...
Raintree: Hauntedby Linda Winstead Jones
Harlequin 2007; US$ 4.75Gideon Raintree, a homicide detective, can harness electricity and talk to ghosts. He will need to wield gifts he?s kept hidden to solve his newest case?a relentless serial killer unleashed by the dark Ansara wizards. But first he must deal with his reaction to Hope Malory, his alluring new partner. He?d never planned on love in the midst of battle. With evil lurking at every turn, Gideon and Hope are in a race against time to save their love, their family?and their newly conceived child. ?A love story, a mystery, an adventure? Haunted has it all, and the plot moves at a lightning pace. Linda Winstead Jones has a magic touch with paranormal, and, yes, the pun is intended!?? New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard more...
For One More Dayby Mitch Albom
Hyperion 2007; US$ 12.00<p>"Every family is a ghost story . . ." </p><p>Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers, <i>The Five People You Meet in Heaven</i> and <i>Tuesdays with Morrie</i>. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss. </p><p><i>For One More Day</i> is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? </p><p>As a child, Charley "Chick" Benetto was told by his father, "You can be a mama's... more...
The Graveyard Bookby Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 7.99Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jackwho has already killed Bod's family. . . . Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling... more...
The House on the Borderlandby William Hope Hodgson
The Floating Press 1908; US$ 3.99The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house and the diary of the house's former occupant... more...