Best of
Ghosts

2007

Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story)


Mary Downing Hahn - 2007
    She knows the two children in it are her mother, Claire, and her aunt Dulcie. But who’s the third person, the one who’s been torn out of the picture?Ali figures she’ll find out while she’s vacationing in Maine with Dulcie and her four-year-old daughter, Emma, in the house where Ali’s mother’s family used to spend summers. All hopes for relaxation are quashed shortly after their arrival, though, when the girls meet Sissy, a kid who’s mean and spiteful and a bad influence on Emma.Strangest of all, Sissy keeps talking about a girl named Teresa who drowned under mysterious circumstances back when Claire and Dulcie were kids, and whose body was never found. At first Ali thinks Sissy’s just trying to scare her with a ghost story, but soon she discovers the real reason why Sissy is so angry. . . . Mary Downing Hahn is at her chilling best in this new supernatural tale that’s certain to send shivers down her readers’ spines.

Deadly Night


Heather Graham - 2007
    They've inherited a ghostly presence -- and a long-kept secret.Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the haunted-house rumors -- especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white. But when he finds a human bone on the grounds and another by the river, Aidan delves into the dark history of the Flynn plantation.Forced together to uncover the truth, Aidan and Kendall realize that a serial killer whose victims seem to vanish into thin air has long been at work -- and that their own fates are about to be sealed forever unless they believe in the unbelievable.

The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth


Sarah Monette - 2007
    Ghosts, ghouls, incubi: all have one thing in common. They know Booth for one of their own . . .

The Scary States of America


Michael Teitelbaum - 2007
    With Jason Specter—the nation's unofficial collector of all things paranormalÑas your guide meet the girl in Illinois who can start fires with her mind, the Skunk Ape of Florida that knocks victims flat with its stench, the mischievous Shadow People of Arkansas, the Jersey Devil, the extraterrestrials who take human organs as a souvenir of their trip to Washington, and the wailing ghost of a teenage girl trapped forever in an Oregon lighthouse. Some of these visitors from other worlds don't mean to hurt anyone . . . and some of them do.Warning: All of these stories are based on true events. Are you ready to face the terror in your state?

When Ghosts Speak: Understanding the World of Earthbound Spirits


Mary Ann Winkowski - 2007
    You feel drained and inexplicably irritable. Your four-year-old is scared to enter her bedroom.Tell these things to Mary Ann Winkowski, and she'll tell you that you have a ghost.A happily married, devout Catholic, suburban mother and full-time paranormal investigator, Mary Ann Winkowski has been able to see earthbound spirits, spirits that are trapped on earth and haven't "crossed over," since she was a little girl. Mary Ann works with these spirits to help them make peace with what keeps them here - whether it be people they can't let go of or homes they love.In When Ghosts Speak, Mary Ann will tell the amazing story of growing up with this gift, and will share tips on how to recognize when you're not alone, and what to do if you are in the presence of a ghost.

Four 'til Late


Eric Garrison - 2007
    But that won't keep them from reaching their goal: New Orleans. Along the way they discover that some spirits leave you with more than a hangover and regrets. Can they get there in one piece, or will they be stopped and rest in peace? The bags are packed, the engine's running. Turn up the radio and get moving because the road ghosts are waiting, and it's Four 'til Late. Four 'til Late is the first book of the Road Ghosts Trilogy.

Dismal Rock


Davis McCombs - 2007
    DISMAL ROCK showcases a revisitation to the landscape of McCombs' youth on the tobacco farms of Kentucky. Initially chronicling events in local and family history, this collection of verse widens in scope until it includes subjects as diverse as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Elgin Marbles, John Keats, Bob Marley, fatherhood, and fishing. Several poems in this volume explore the grief McCombs feels over the loss of local culture as it resonates within the broader context of ecological destruction, imbuing the global with the undeniably personal.

Dagger Key And Other Stories


Lucius Shepard - 2007
    This is a collection of short stories from the pen of Lucius Shepard.

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4


J. Sheridan Le Fanu - 2007
    Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.Contains the titles: Ghost Stories of Chapelizod The Drunkard’s Dream The Ghost and the Bonesetter The Mysterious Lodger

Over The Darkening Fields


Scott Thomas - 2007
    A Young woman explores the mysteries of death through the paintings of an enigmatic artist. A young couple discovers a restless antique doll in a cemetery. The charred bodies of homeless men appear in the snowy alleys of Boston. A strange mural with an appetite for bones haunts a deserted house. In the past... A woman roams the slums of London hoping to be Jack the Ripper's next victim. Night after night a man dreams of his lonely lover and her trip to a strange museum. Following a tragic accident, a widow orders the construction of a secret chamber with walls thick enough to muffle screams. In a strange city, long ago... Women are blinded at birth; this has been the law for 500 years. Now they can see, and they are coming back from the grave to take their revenge. A cryptographer struggles to solve the mystery that may save the living from the dead. 26 Stories From The author of Westermead and Cobwebs and Whispers.

Moths on the Mirror


Fleshflutter - 2007
    Supernatural Fanfic - Sam/DeanThere's something wrong in Red Haven Hospital for the Criminally Insane, but no one's going to listen to a psychopath like Dean Winchester.Download here: http://amalthia.mediawood.net/ebooks/...Podfic here: http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/moth...18978 words CompleteCover by dreamery101

The Red House At Münstereifel


Helen Grant - 2007
    "The history of the Red House at Münstereifel has a life of its own. When I began my research - which was meticulous - I was hoping to come across something in the building's history which would inspire a fiction. Instead I found that certain facts stood out, presenting themselves in a disturbing pattern. The more I investigated, the more these true facts in the history of the Red House suggested the narrative revealed in the booklet. I began to wonder whether I was researching a work of fiction, or really uncovering the most shocking secret in the history of Münstereifel. I leave it to the reader to judge!"

Legends of the Mountain State


Michael KnostScott Nicholson - 2007
    A unique and eerie anthology, this volume includes thirteen chilling accounts of Mountain State ghostly manifestations, myths and mountain mythology, based on known legends from West Virginia. Rural hauntings and stories of the macabre take center stage. Topics and stories covered include the Mothman monster, the Ethel coalmine spector, Silver Run, the Chapmanville high school haunting, the Ghost of Holden #22 Mountain and many, many others. West Virginia noted horror writer Michael Knost, of Logan County, WV, aptly serves as the anthology's editor; and writers for this special project are an amalgamation of nationally respected authors in the horror, science fiction and fantasy fields. There are also several up-and-comers included who are from in and around the state. All 13 of these disquieting accounts take place in rural West Virginia and are surprisingly of a family-friendly nature. However, Knost laughingly suggests that these are not the types of stories to be read late at night. He added, "The thirteen tales are more than just documented biographies of legends, ghosts or spooky events. These are individual cases as told by some of the best storytellers in the business. Buckle up your seatbelt and enjoy the ride."

56 Water Street


Melissa Strangway - 2007
    From the sidewalk in front of the abandoned house, ten-year-old best friends Derek and Ravine watch lights flicker on and off, again and again. When they race home to tell their parents, theyre in for a shock: there is no house at 56 Water Street The house is invisible to everyone but Derek and Ravine, and the ghost haunting the old place wants to get their attention. Trapped for more than a hundred years, Isabel Roberts needs to solve the mystery of her younger sisters fate before she can truly rest in peace. And shes chosen Derek and Ravine to help her. When the two friends summon the courage to venture inside the house, theyre unprepared for what they find (after all, meeting a ghost face-to-face isnt exactly normal) and for the spine-tingling adventures in store for them. But Derek and Ravine are determined to help Isabel. If they dont, she could be a ghost forever

Ghost Wind


Charlotte Boyett-Compo - 2007
    It was kismet that her car broke down on Interstate 80 in the heart of Iowa, for she learns her ex-husband is lying in wait for her in her native Georgia, his anger building, his irrational behavior even more frightening. Deciding to stay in the little town of Grinnell as her car is being repaired, Lannie discovers an old farmstead that calls to the country girl in her, bidding her to buy the quaint Victorian farmhouse and make it her own. But the long-vacant house at Rock Creek has a ghostly resident whose siren call to Lannie is stronger than death and more seductive than she can withstand. Glimpsing a handsome face in the depths of a mirror, she is spellbound and unwilling to forego the pleasures it whispers. In the arms of a spectral lover, she will discover that there really is life after death. "Reader Advisory: There is a graphic antagonist scene against the heroine."

The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge


Mark Brown - 2007
    The Trial of the Century! One year after his miraculous transformation in Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale, Ebenezer Scrooge appears to have reverted to his old ways. Amidst plenty of mayhem and laughter Scrooge indignantly files suit against Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. The charges: breaking and entering, kidnapping, attempted murder and the intentional infliction of emotional distress. With Scrooge representing himself (to save a pound), and London's charismatically clever barrister, Solomon Rothschild representing the ghosts, what will become of the spirit of Christmas? The classic Dickens' characters return to take the witness stand in this courtroom farce. The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge is guaranteed to keep audiences in stitches!The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge is a holiday sequel inspired by A Christmas Carol. A year after his miraculous transformation, Ebenezer Scrooge is back to his old ways and is suing Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future for breaking and entering, kidnapping, slander, pain and suffering, attempted murder and the intentional infliction of emotional distress. The ghosts employ Solomon Rothschild, England's most charismatic, savvy, and clever barrister. Scrooge, that old penny pincher, represents himself. One by one, Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's nephew Fred, solicitor and philanthropist Sara Anne Wainwright, and the ghosts themselves take the witness stand to give their account of the night in question. But the Spirit of Christmas Future breaks down under heavy questioning and confesses that Jacob Marley forced the spirits to break one of the rules of redemption: Do not use a dead body to scare someone into redemption, for the consequences could prove fatal. Judge Stanchfield Pearson gives his verdict: Jacob Marley and the Spirits of Christmas, guilty! Pearson fines the spirits 40,000 pounds apiece and terminates their redemptive duties. Rothschild desperately pleads with the judge not to terminate the spirits of Christmas. It's a death sentence. But in another staggering turn of events, Scrooge makes the spirits an offer: work every day, not just one day a year, and he'll drop the charges. The spirits agree and, to everyone's amazement, Scrooge does drop the charges. But he's keeping the money the ghosts owe him to start a fund to help the poor. Everyone stares at Scrooge. And then … a twinkle in Scrooge's eye, a smile and giddy, joyously delirious laughter. Scrooge confesses that Jacob Marley and the Spirits of Christmas had to go to extraordinary measures to change him, so he had to go to extraordinary measures to change the Spirits of Christmas. The spirit of caring and giving should be every day, not just once a year. Scrooge then leads the stunned crowd to his house for a wondrous party.

Ghosts of Virginia Volume XI (Ghosts of Virginia, Volume XI)


L.B. Taylor Jr. - 2007
    Paranormal pages from the past..bones, bodes and premature burials...legends of spectral love...embodiments of evil...shadow people...haunted murderers...messengers of death.. from Leesburg to Bristol.. the Eastern Shore to the mountains...over 200 more "new" cases of the unknown and unexplained in Virginia.. combined with rich historical vignettes and anecdotes- all part of the commonwealth's colorful heritage.

Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits


Dusty Rainbolt - 2007
    A mezmerizing collection of strange and unexplainable encounters between human and feline.

Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore, Volume 3: The Gulf Coast and Pensacola


Greg Jenkins - 2007
    Walk through Pensacola in Florida's Panhandle, where spirits are beckoned by an eerie lighthouse shining through the night, or stroll through its Seville Quarter, where you may spot the specter of a long-dead bartender. Visit the Island Hotel and Restaurant in Cedar Key, where thirteen spirits are said to roam the building. Venture again into the unknown with Greg Jenkins, who will guide you through some of Florida's most frightening haunted locations. Prepare yourself for the spine-chilling and uncanny tales of specters and ghosts that inhabit Haunted Florida.

Hollywood Ghosts


Veronica Wilde - 2007
    Over the decades, its luxurious rooms have witnessed multiple movie star deaths and scandals from suicides, to cult rituals, to brutal celebrity slayings. And the ghosts who loved being famous in life don't like getting ignored in death. Rachel Dentley, a UCLA student who's been hired to house-sit for four months, doesn't know any of this. To her, the mansion is simply her beautiful new home for the semester ... until phantom bloodstains and ghostly parties scare her senseless. Luckily for her, not one, but two, experts in shining armor offer their assistance--gorgeous filmmaker Lorenzo Cortez and free-spirited parapsychologist Dr. Zane Sullivan. Lorenzo wants to film a documentary about the house that will launch his career. Zane wants to gather enough evidence of the hauntings to validate his field. And each man wants Rachel for his own.As the days pass, the haunted house grows more menacing--and the sexual tension between Rachel, Lorenzo, and Zane reaches fever pitch. When all three indulge their cravings in a scorching menage, the murderous ghosts intercede with their own agenda--to make Rachel one of them.

Bury Me Deep and Other Southern Folk Songs


Joshua Reynolds - 2007
    It is rusted through now and lays limp and bent in a ditch on the side of the road, its green face strangled by the thick, fleshy kudzu vines that pervade the county like the bulging veins of an arthritic. But it's there, greeting visitors as they come.The second way is more instinctive. You know when you are in Jackapo County when the hairs on the back of your neck rise and your bowels clench, for there are many hidden places in Jackapo County. Some bloom with achingly colorful wildflowers, in others things hide from the light beneath the boughs of nodding trees and wait until dark to emerge.So welcome to Jackapo County. We hope you enjoy your stay...

Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England


Sasha Handley - 2007
    This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.

The Attic Above


Terry A. Reschke - 2007
    You see, James was murdered in England many years ago. His house has been moved to the United States and completely rebuilt. With the help of Tory, James will find out who killed him. After finding an old necklace which links him to James, Tory goes back in time to right how James was wronged, hoping not to change the present by his actions. Many twists and turns are taken in finding the correct path to take.