Can he escape the terror that hangs over Witches' Bridge? That night, Dan sees a weird light, flickering out on the marsh. "D-A-N,"the light spells out in code. "DAN PRIDE..."

    And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet—despite a long-standing family rule strictly forbidding unannounced visits. Because when the Gabriel hounds run howling over the crumbling palace of Der Ibrahim in the Lebanon, someone will shortly die.A strange new world awaits Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim—"Lady Harriet's" ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanon—where a physician is always in residence and a handful of Arab servants attends to the odd old woman's every need. But there is a very good—very sinister—reason why guests are not welcome at Dar Ibrahim. And the young cousins are about to discover that, as difficult as it is to break into the dark, imposing edifice, it may prove even harder still to escape.

    The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure garden. And brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshops. The classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative works. "Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes—from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch… It leave behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling" —The New York Times Book Review

    Contains three Gothic novellas: "Sanguinarius," "Sardonicus," and "Sagittarius," plus author's introduction entitled "The Haunted Castle: A Confession."

    A moment before, he had seemed handsome, fascinating. Now she saw that one side of his face was disfigured - ugly and horrible, a welter of angry scars."You were foolish to come here, Miriam Wakeford. You should have stayed where you were." His words were soft, almost too soft to hear. "Go back. Pack your bags and leave us. There is nothing you can do in this house. Go back before it is too late..."THIS WAS THE MASTER OF TANCRED!

    Will he remember her? She thought he had died. She gambles that he will not recognize her, because she needs to lay down the memory of the perfect ghost from her past, thereby releasing the potential to unglue her life.

    But she will not run. For the beauty of Silverhill's setting hides more than one family's secrets. And Malinda must fight for both her sanity and her life before she discovers the full, horrifying truth about the past evil and present terrors that may engulf her....

    

    Eagerly she accepted the companionship of a sophisticated older woman, though the woman was clearly more than just a fellow tourist. Willingly she let her senses be dazzled by the pleasures and beauties of a sun-enchanted land -until the sudden shadow of brutal violence fell across her path. Siri Quain's eyes were open now, in a foreign place where every smiling face could he a mask of deceit, a lover's kiss could be a seal of betrayal, and there was no one Siri could trust to save her....