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The Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Age of Innocence explores the supernatural and other unknowns in six short stories.
The acclaimed Gilded Age author travels around the world and into the unknown with these six tales.
After recovering from a bad fever in a Swiss sanitorium, an American pays a social call to a friend's lonely sister on the coast of Brittany, but his journey takes a terrifying turn in "Miss Mary Pask."
A wealthy resident of...
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A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky.
In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil
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A new collection of horror stories for Halloween. The tales are set variously in sun-soaked California, stylish Paris, haunted Austria, in the outskirts of Berlin and even rainy Cumbria. These fourteen stories are intended to scare you, make you shiver, horrify you and at times even to give you a wry smile.. If you have enjoyed Tony's previous collections of horror and ghost stories, you are sure to enjoy this new anthology of tales to terrify.
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A fantastic collection of eleven short stories by Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Contains the stories: • The Old Nurse's Story • Clopton House • The Crooked Branch • Crowley Castle • Curious, if True • Disappearances • Two Fragments of Ghost Stories • The Heart of John Middleton • Morton Hall • The Well of Pen-Morfa • The Shah's English Gardener
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A collection of dark, atmospheric stories sure to please lovers of haunting tales. In The Inheritance, a young man is heir to an English Manor. Its furnishings include a curio cabinet, where a sinister object awaits the arrival of the new master, who will soon discover its appalling purpose. Other tales include The Keeper, where a leisurely afternoon drive spells doom for a group of young scholars after their auto stalls near an isolated house inhabited...
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Una inquietante llamada de teléfono te invita a traspasar la primera de las tres puertas que Maríe Yuset ha dibujado para ti en esta colección de relatos. Tres puertas con tres nombres: dolor, demencia y desasosiego.
Encuentros imposibles entre seres que habitan distintas dimensiones, mentes insanas que rigen actos impíos y situaciones al límite de la realidad: un palmeral testigo de la maldad, una flor con poderes mágicos, mariposas vengadoras,...
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"From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning pioneer of "ironic gothic" (Washington Post) comes a wry and spooky set of ghost stories, replete with original illustrations. Since her acclaimed novel A Carnivore's Inquiry, Sabina Murray has been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores...
11) Grim Tales
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Grim Tales (1893) is a collection of seven horror stories by English writer Edith Nesbit. Noted for her work as an author of children's novels and stories-especially her beloved Bastable and Psammead Trilogies-Edith Nesbit crafts tales of wonder, mystery, and terror for children and adults alike. Grim Tales, one of the author's early works, is a collection of tales of horror aimed at an adult audience.
In "The Ebony Frame," an impoverished journalist...
13) The Dream
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A powerful, emotional short story from the prime minister and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, detailing a conversation with the ghost of his beloved father. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory...
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Treten Sie ein, nehmen Sie Platz. Aber seien Sie gewarnt.
Im Archiv lauern Dinge, die vielleicht niemand jemals sehen sollte!
Ein Pianist, der sich seinen eigenen Dämonen stellt. Respektlose Jäger, die von einem uralten Gott
verfolgt werden und ein alternder Schauspieler, der sein Heil in der Höhe sucht.
Dies sind nur ein paar der Geschichten, die Ihnen der Archivar zeigen möchte.
Sind Sie mutig genug?
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Florida's famous swamps-from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell-serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses, the swamp can be a refuge...
16) Hectoring
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This is a 5 minute read. Hector may be dead, but that doesn't mean he can't stick around, does it? Stories in the MINUTE READS collection are perfect little breaks in your day when you don't have time or focus for a longer read.
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Architect Roy Mackie's life is turned upside down when his twin brother Raymond passes away. As he tries to come to terms with his loss, his well-ordered life begins to come unraveled. A rare bottle of wine is found empty and discarded, and Roy doesn't remember drinking it. Personal items are found rooms away from where he's sure--almost sure--he left them. When Roy's son begins to question his father's sanity, Roy turns to the only person who can...
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An enticing new collection of six short stories from Joe Cleary, author of Blood Writer and other stories... and The Adventures of Oscar and Midge!From the ghostly tale of a father trying to come to terms with the loss of his son in Fairway to Heaven, to the tension of Thanksgiving dinner and a family at the breaking point in King of the Kitchen Table, each story in this collection resonates with emotional impact.Includes the next chapter of the Mickey...
19) Lost Friends
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At the farthest corner of the cemetery, a very special mausoleum stands vigil. Tall, solid, and spacious, it houses the remains of our town's Jane and John Does. The bodies nobody claimed.Two police officers arrive with a new urn, to be placed in a slot without a name. Clothilde and Robert, the cemetery's only resident ghosts, attend the funeral from their side of the veil.Most people need time to come to grips with being a ghost. Most people scream...
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The 1940s. A time when Hollywood studios owned their talent. Which included making sure the talent avoided scandal. Shining star Tabitha St. Claire has a secret. PI Sam Belmont accepts the job to learn what that secret is. To devastating results… A standalone story in the popular Nikki Ashburne series, "An Ocean of Secrets in Her Eyes" originally appeared in Fiction River: Chances, 2021.
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