While this is his first book for adults, he has been writing ghost stories for young adult readers such as "The Machine Gunners".

    Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute in the pink caravan on Hooper’s Hill. And it is Euchrid, spiraling ever deeper into his mad angelic vision, who will ultimately redeem both the town and its people. “Surprising, remarkable.” — The Atlanta Journal

    

    Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic--and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place. Linking terror -- the most important ingredient of the Gothic novel -- to acts of transgression, Ellis shows how houses in Gothic fiction imprison those inside them, while those locked outside wander the earth plotting their return and their revenge.

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    A handsome lord. A lover's ghost. When Caroline Tucker arrives to take up her post as librarian at Shripney Manor House in Sussex, she has no idea that danger awaits her, or that she is about to fall passionately in love with the handsome lord of the Manor, William Pott. She soon finds that the querulous invalid, Isabella, as well as William’s cousin, John, and the young girl, Jasmine, are all deeply involved with her in the mystery that has surrounded a former lady of the Manor who was evicted under tragic circumstances. Can Caroline, caught up in a dramatic turn of events, brave alone the long-held secrets of the house for the sake of the man she loves? Rosalind Laker is a best-selling novelist that has been published all over the world, with her works translated into twenty languages. The author of over forty historical novels, her first work was published in 1970; Warwyck’s Wife is the first of her acclaimed Easthampton trilogy and is followed by Claudine’s Daughter and The Warwycks of Easthampton.

    Disinherited by her wealthy Aunt Harriet, Susan searches her fourteen volume diary for clues that may lead to a share, but her readings convince her that the fortune may be comprised of blood money

    Nothing could be less true of Harriet Prescott Spofford's stories. In fact, her editor at the Atlantic Monthly at first refused to believe that an unworldly woman from New England had written them. Her style, though ornate by our 20th century standards, adds to its atmosphere, like heavy, Baroque furniture in a large and creepy house. The title story presents a self-centered and captivating woman who ruthlessly steals her orphan cousin's lover. In "Circumstance," a pioneer woman returning home through the woods at night is caught by a panther; her husband, who has come to save her, can only watch from the ground as she sings for her life, pinned in a tree. A train engineer hallucinates again and again that he is running over his wife. And Mrs. Craven, who's a bit "weak" in the head, mindlessly repeats "Three men went down cellar and only two came up." These stories combine elements of the best ghost stories—timing, detail, and character —with just enough chill to make you think twice about turning out your lights at night. Collects seven stories, including her classic detective story "In a Cellar" (1859), her frightening tale of frontier adventure, "Circumstance" (1860), and her complex fantasy "The Amber Gods" (1860), considered "one of the most powerful short stories in the language" by Quinn. "The Romantic Gothic tales of Harriet Prescott Spofford have affinities with the frenzied monologues of Poe and the self-absorbed sinners of Hawthorne. The heroine of "The Amber Gods" is Giorgione Willoughby (called 'Yone'), an inversion of the dark lady of the Gothic, a sort of blond Ligeia. Perverse, vainglorious, blasphemous, she is a type of malign spirit who serves the strange gods symbolized by the beads of an amber necklace, a sort of Satan's rosary ... Bizarre, sensational, and cryptic in its macabre depiction of the fatal lady as a Venusian figure, 'The Amber Gods' is a connecting link between the physical Gothicism of Poe and the cerebral Gothicism of Henry James. Going beyond the extrinsic Gothicism of 'Ligeia,' Spofford's story [according to Barton Levi St. Armand] 'startled the American public into a confrontation with, if not tolerance for, the erotic nature of woman.'" - Frank, Through the Pale Door: A Guide To and Through the American Gothic 449. "Mrs. Spofford wrote in her long career two hundred and seventy-five short stories. She could not always be at her best, but she reflects in her career some of the most important phases of the short story. No one has better portrayed the relations of sound and color, the influence of glorious music upon the fates of human beings. Few except Poe and Hawthorne have established so well the mystic relation of gems and flowers upon their characters, and we have to go back to Cooper and Melville for her equals in describing the moods of the sea. The artist who wrote 'The Amber Gods' in 1860 and published THE ELDER'S PEOPLE in 1920, swinging the complete circle between romantic idealism and classic realism, remains a remarkable phenomenon in our literature." - Quinn, American Fiction, p. 214.

    But scandal surrounded the family's New Hampshire hotel, and as Teresa found herself falling under the spell of her magnetic employer, she became the target of a deadly conspiracy.

    When he screeches in the night, someone dies.'She heard his call the night her mother died; now his shriek pierced the terrible blizzard that raged outside the mountain cabin she shared with her trapper father. Twice the falcon's chilling call had sounded. Each time Molly O'Bannion lost a parent.With his dying breath, Colin O'Bannion entrusted the care of his beautiful half-breed daughter to the man who had once tried to save his life, the dashing Count Jabal del Valle. Molly had no choice but to go with him to his lavish seaside estate. But being a paid companion was no life for the daughter of an Indian princess. Before Molly could begin to plot her escape, she was drawn into the inescapable web of the aristocratic family. She tried to deny first her mounting passion for Jabal and then the nagging terror that someone was trying to kill her. Who was it? Jabal's cruel and venomous grandmother? His abused and neglected half-brother? His seemingly friendly stepmother? Or could it be Jabal himself, the man she secretly and desperately adored? Molly O'Bannion found herself waiting, trembling in fear, and listening, always listening. Would the falcon screech in the night one more time?

    

    with money and raffish good looks, Richard Veringer abandoned holy orders for the unholy life as an 18th centruy rakehell - a decision that brought down upon him and his family three hundred years of supernatural horror. Thrice Cursed... by a scorned witch, the sins of the father were visited upon Veringer's sons and daughters, turning them into unspeakable creatures of the night...devourers of human flesh, drinkers of blood. Driven out of England by terrified townspeople, they roamed the earth for three centuries, searching for an end to the curse and their eternal torment. Little did they dream they would find the answer to their unsanctified prayers in the glittering Hollywood of the 1920s. Only in this unreal city could help be found - and the very real terror be stopped forever