Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems to be going well. But now Richard has become withdrawn, and Celia is constantly haunted by a vague dread. When she suffers a breakdown and wavers between life and death, a wise doctor realizes that only by forcing Celia to relive her past can he enable her to escape her illness. Celia travels back 400 years in time to her past life as a beautiful but doomed servant. Through her eyes, we see the England of the Tudors, torn by religious strife, and experience all the pageantry, lustiness, and cruelty of the age. As in other historical romance titles by this author, the past comes alive in this flamboyant classic novel.

    It is a night for festivity and joyful celebration. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love.Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest -- especially its legends. But then, on the Night of the Seventh Moon, she started to live one of them, and the enchantment turned suddenly into a terrifying nightmare . . .

    Her kingdom may be only a working class household in County Durham, but within its walls her iron will governs a predominantly male family and her word is unchallengeable law. The apple of Hannah’s eye is her pretty younger daughter, Rosie,who has just returned home after a spell in London. Her return is shrouded in mystery and evasions, and when the truth does come out, Hannah’s world is torn apart.THE FIFTEEN STREETS: Life in the Fifteen Streets was tough — a continual struggle for survival. Some families gave up and descended into a dismal state of grinding poverty. Others, like the O’Briens — and especially John O’Brien — fought grimly for a world they were only rarely allowed to glimpse. When John O’Brien fell in love with Mary Llewellyn,he knew there was a gulf between them that nothing could bridge — it was the gulf of the Fifteen Streets.

    It is a strange world she finds at Cluain - an arrogant and lonely old man running one of the finest whisky distilleries in the world with two women running the house.

     Remarkably, the astounding protagonist of Gabrielle Wittkop’s lyrical 1972 novella, The Necrophiliac, has never appeared in English until now.   This new translation introduces readers to a masterpiece of French literature, striking not only for its astonishing subject matter but for the poetic beauty of the late author’s subtle, intricate writing.   Like the best writings of Edgar Allan Poe or Baudelaire, Wittkop’s prose goes far beyond mere gothic horror to explore the melancholy in the loneliest depths of the human condition, forcing readers to confront their own mortality with an unprecedented intimacy.

    What dark and secret spell beguiled Oriskany Forks?Why did Crazy Lizzy paint her body with strange symbols? Who stole Cass's newborn baby girl? Why did the round house have a windowless second story -- and no way to reach it? Was the circular pit in the woods a meeting place for a witches' coven?Who would believe there could be so much evil in such a pretty little town?

     But Diane and her brothers Barrett and Andrew had had more than their share of sorrow. Shadowed by the uncanny prophecies of the Tarot, Ellen becomes involved in a terrifying family struggle that first began more than ten years ago. Ellen is obsessed and must investigate… What was the secret of Seven Oaks? The Secret of Seven Oaks is a thrilling supernatural horror tale told in the classic tradition, sure to delight and terrify fans of Stephen King and Simon Clark. Praise for Juanita Coulson: “… A richly detailed construction…” C J Cherryh “Coulson works on an enormous canvas — sometimes almost overwhelming. The characters are always memorable.” Marion Zimmer Bradley Juanita Coulson is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She is also widely known in filk music circles since the 1950s for her singing and songwriting; she has won several Pegasus Awards for her filking. For thirty-three years, she co-edited the science fiction fanzine Yandro with her husband "Buck" (Robert Coulson). Yandro was nominated for a Hugo Award every year from 1958-1967; it won the award in 1965, thus marking Coulson as one of the very first women to be so honored.

    Now destitute and alone, she came to the old mansion--Gryphons ... to fill the post of companion to the elderly Mrs Clune, mistress of the estate. -- It seemed the only road open to Rowena. The position meant a new home and a new family. Maybe even a little happiness. -- But Gryphons quickly showed itself as something other than gracious and charming. there was something sinister trapped in the house. A mysterious tension and foreboding that made Rowena feel like an intruder.Then, one day, Mrs Clune was found dead...murdered. Rowena no longer was an intruder. She was part of Gryphon's secret. And for her there seemed no escape.

    But soon she was shocked by his evil society friends, mortified by his bursting hot-tempered fits, and plagued by the fear that his worsening heart condition was more than simply the gypsy curse on the men of Kenton.Taunted by her suspicions through chilling, dark nights, she began to trust no one. Someone in that ominous castle was planning murder - and each moment marched Barbara closer to the awful truth!

    There, virtually isolated from civilization, she meets a man unlike any she has ever known--and with him in this timeless place she is forced to reckon with the gnawing hungers of both their dark and driven souls....

    Now she found herself in possession of everything that had been his - a strong roof over her head, when she's never known anything but the shelter of an orphanage, and money enough to not have to worry about the next meal, or the next paycheck. She had everything that was Silas's - including an unexpected curse! For Polk House had been corrupted by its owner's dealings with a power from beyond - a power that was now demanding the prize it had won from Silas! Could Leigh stand against the powers of Satan? Had she really found someone she could trust or had coming to Polk House already damned her to eternal torment?

    In this placid 19th-century Cornish neighborhood, dangers arise that are rooted in the passions of the past. A light flickers by the pool where a witch was once drowned; strangers move across the moor to the abandoned farmhouse where Cal s cousin was born. Attempted murder leads to tragedy, and over all broods the shadow of Fair Kilmeny, in whose small hands a web of violence is slowly spun.

    Does she participate in satanic rituals and black masses or are they only horrifying dreams? Is her husband a witch with great powers at his command? And why does the ghost of Lord Satan's mother mournfully roam the halls of the castle?Desperately Adrienne sought the fearful truth, through shadows that concealed nightmarish terrors, in a world that cloaked dark unseen forces she was powerless to control....

    And indeed at first that great estate did seem an enchanted paradise to the American girl. In the magic of a moonlit night, Caroline surrendered to the embraces of handsome, powerful Marc Ferreres, who ruled all around him with an iron hand, and who took Caroline as his bride as easily as he tamed the wildest mount. Only then did Caroline begin to learn that behind the gracious facade of El Paraiso bubbled a hellfire cauldron of guilty secrets---and that a strange curse born centuries ago had marked her as victim..

    Go away! You will die here if you do not!"The strange warning had come over the loud-speakers the moment I arrived at the Gibbons' chalet. Although they were visibly upset, neither my husband-to-be nor his relatives would tell me what the warning meant.The first chance I had, therefore, I went hunting for the tower room. In it was a breath-taking doll house, a miniature of the chalet. Beautifully made dolls represented each member of the household, and at first sight it was enchanting. But when my future mother-in-law found me studying it, she was furious. "It is ugly and portends evil and death," she said. "That's all you have to know. Stay away from it."

    And she had to be quick to escape the sharp tongue of the cook and the pawing hands of the officers. She hated her work, but she was good at it and besides it gave her a chance to overhear the British officers as they plotted with their leader, the cruel Colonel Fairfax.No one at the tavern knew Maggie had joined the small band of American patriots. No one knew she had secretly married their rebel leader, Seth Wright. No one knew she was the one who gave away the Colonel’s plans. But as the messages began to backfire, and as the rebel plans began to go horribly amiss, the suspicion that a traitor was in the rebel band grew into a certainly … And Maggie herself was the bait in a diabolical plot to destroy the rebel cause.

    Strangers pried, asked too many questions and pointed accusing fingers at Charlotte - herself eager to escape from the oppressive atmosphere of her father's home. She fled deep into the countryside and there taught at a school run by the untrusting and untrustworthy Mrs Armitage, who was prepared to keep quiet about Charlotte's past - but only up to a point. When the events come to be recreated, some questions naturally arise. Had Charlotte been responsible for the death of the little pupil she loved? And has that crime been repeated? In darker moments, even Charlotte herself cannot be sure.

    Haunted by a strange desire, she returned to the house where it began - a house which has a life of its own!

    Gioia fell in love with Rome, but she was unnerved by the strange, aloof behavior of her grandmother and by Visconti, the elegant, sinister man who controlled the household, filling it with his bizarre circle of friends.The supernatural evil began to engulf the high-walled palazzo. An unsigned letter led Gioia on a terrible journey, so that at last she know that if she followed Visconti into the death-shadowed Tower Room, she might never be seen or heard from again. And yet she was compelled - even at the risk of her life - to enter that topmost room to discover its terrifying secrets.