The Haunted Bookshop (1919) is a novel by Christopher Morley. Although less popular than Kitty Foyle (1939), a novel adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The Haunted Bookshop is a fast-paced thriller that deserves a modern audience. From unassuming beginnings as a tale about a lovelorn advertising salesman who visits a charming bookstore, The Haunted Bookshop quickly morphs into a story of paranoia, stalking, and kidnapping. "If you are ever...

"First published in 1897, Richard Marsh's classic work of gothic horror, The Beetle, opens with Robert Holt, an out-of-work clerk seeking shelter in an abandoned house. He comes face to face with a fantastical creature with supernatural and hypnotic powers; a creature who can transform at will between its human and beetle forms and who wrecks havoc when he preys on young middle-class Britons. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author Chelsea...

Algonquin legend tells of the Wendigo, an evil spirit sent to punish mankind. It can possess a person and turn them into a monstrous creature consumed by a need to eat human flesh. For John Bear the Wendigo was merely a scary story his grandfather used to tell him. That is, until a man is found dead in the deep northern woods of Maine, butchered like an animal and with his heart cut out. And the only tracks they can find are massive footprints that...

Dick opened the door again swiftly, Vera clinging to him-and they were so astounded at what they saw that he forgot for the moment to slam the door shut again. For the phantom was there-clearly visible in the sunlight, which now blazed across the upper half of the great window. A strange, incredible caricature of a being hung in the dusty air, a haze of blurry light surrounding it from the back. There was the pointed tail, the simian ears, the long...

The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a reissue of one of literature's most audacious and thought-provoking novels of murder and intrigue, in hardback with its 1929 cover design and a brand new introduction. "The Detective Story Club", launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearinghouse for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90...

GREED (Murder & Mystery)What does A Face in the Falls, August Wolf and The Sharecropper's Son have in common?These stories reveal the perplexities, the strengths and the weakness of people that are true to life and like life these stories expose the innate greed present in mankind.There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above...

His father had taught him well. Too well. Many had paid the price. Now he had to pay it. Just how much would it cost? His life? His soul?

Jim Thompson received a phone call from a dead man-a man he watched die one drunken, adulterous night while out of town on business. Jim's wife, Deirdre, doesn't know his secret. Neither does Detective Frank Gibbons, who is hot on the case of the year-old crime. In this supernatural thriller, Jim's past surfaces through his guilt and lies. As Detective Gibbons closes in on the truth, Jim and Deirdre must run from a malevolent stalker in this terrifying...

It has been ten years since Jennifer, Roberta, Brooke and Clarissa have hung out. Meeting at their high school reunion, they discuss the circumstances behind the mysterious death of Amy, their classmate whose murder remains unsolved..When each of the women realize that each of them knows something secret about Amy's past, they begin putting the pieces together to find the killer...even if it may be one of their own...

Dark Minds features characters with toe-curling actions and plot lines that keep you up at night-or at least leave you wrapped in a disconcerting aura.From the innocently evil to the opportunistic criminal, the mysteries unfold line by line and paragraph by paragraph.Find a safe space to dive into the twisted gray matter of the diabolical and maybe leave a light on tonight…Stories in this collectionAwakeBonfireBackroad Driver's EdNondisclosureOften...