He rents an outbuilding from Mennonite couple Sarr and Deborah Poroth, and at first his holiday is happy and productive, but then odd things begin to happen...

    At the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell - which may be a curse - on all the sons of the family.

    There is one catch to her sudden windfall - she must share the wealth with a taciturn and oddly attractive young man who has an entire town stirring up rumors - about murderous secrets and a dark legacy. Now Meg is about to learn the truth behind an old adage: all that glitters is not gold....

    But nothing is what it seems... Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn's secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn's heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother; but with Philip, she imagines a lovely dream of romance... Then Dawn's mother suddenly dies, and her entire world begins to crumble. After a terrible new shock, she is thrust into a different family and an evil web of unspoken sins. Her sweet innocence lost, humiliated and scorned, Dawn is desperate to find Jimmy again and...strip away the wicked lies that will change all their lives forever!

    A secretary has found a new life as a champion bodybuilding contender, but her turns things upside down with their redneck antics.

    This volume collects one example of each type of composition for which Bierce is most famed: a hilarious satire, a bone-chilling horror story, a sardonic piece of humor, and a macabre poem. Renowned artist Gahan Wilson, whose work finds the comic and the eerir in the most common of situations, brings the perfect, blackly humorous touch to Bierce's eccentrically unique visions.

    0—1)Fairy-Land"The Happiest Day"The Haunted PalaceTo HelenTO HelenHymnHymn eo Aristogeiton and HarmodiusImitationTO IsadoreIsrafelThe Lake—to —LenoreTo M. L. S—To My MotherTo One in ParadiseA Pa•anScenes From "Politian"The RavenTo The River —RomanceSilenceThe SleeperSongSonnet—To ScienceSpirits of the DeadTamerlaneUlalumeA ValentineThe Valley of Unrest"In Youth I have Known One"To ZaneThe Rationale of VerseThe Poetic Principle

    James Forbes, the castle's owner---who was recently found dead at the foot of a stairway---owned the Erskine letter, a letter which might prove that Mary, Queen of Scots' son died at birth and was secretly replaced by another woman's. It’s just what Rebecca needs for her Ph.D. dissertation. At Dun Iain Rebecca finds herself saddled with a co-worker, Michael Campbell, a Scottish academic sent from the Museum of Scotland to choose which among the Forbes' family treasures should go home to Scotland. He has a tartan chip on his shoulder and, Rebecca suspects, a hidden agenda. Sparks fly.Sparks of a different kind fly between Rebecca and Eric Adler, the charming, handsome executor of the Forbes estate. Then there’s Dorothy, the eavesdropping busybody of a housekeeper, and other locals, all of whom always seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ghostly presences stalk the halls, throw dishes in the kitchen, turn lights on and off, and move objects around. When valuables start vanishing and accidents start happening, Rebecca suspects more than just ghosts are at work. Someone wants her and Michael out of Dun Iain. And amid all the precious artifacts, she can’t find the Erskine letter. Introducing Rebecca Reid and Michael Campbell, who also appear in the Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron series.

    

    Later somebody pitied him enough to kill his poor deformed body when he became an adult. But then he chose to return from beyond the veil to enact revenge and to follow Anjelen, ruler of the sinister monastery.

    It details the film's shooting, offers rare behind the scenes photographs, a complete pressbook and a special interview with the film co-star Bela Lugosi.

    She desperately needed employment, and the fact that she signed her letter of application with initials instead of her full name was only a slight deception. The position at Cheviot Chase was her last chance, and she approached it with high hopes. But Janet’s life darkened the moment she set foot inside the ponderous, dimly lit stone mansion, for the halls of Cheviot Chase were dark and empty, the servants sullen and bitter.What was it about Cheviot Chase that doomed its occupants to tragedy? Already strongly attracted to her handsome employer, Janet refused to admit that Lord Rathbone might have played a part in the sinister events that were only whispered about – even when she learned that his first wife had hurled herself into the sea and his second, a madwoman, had burned down the East Wing. And where was Lady Rathbone now?Janet soon realized that she was no longer a mere observer of the frightening drama taking place at Cheviot Chase. She was at its center. And her very life was in mortal danger.

    Exploring the psychological, religious, and epistemological context of this anxiety, DeLamotte argues that the Gothic vision focuses simultaneously on the private demons of the psyche and the social realities that helped to shape them. Her analysis includes works of English and American authors, among them Henry James, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Bront�, Charlotte Bront�, and a number of often neglected popular women Gothicists.

    Now, at eighteen, her long awaited return to Glengarra Castle in County Down was a bitter disappointment. Once again, she was an exile ... in her own home. Her father was a frail shadow of his former robust self: her brother Hugh, embittered and violent; her childhood sweetheart, hostile to the Kincaids and quick to turn his back on Elly. Naively determined to mend her family's fences, Elly agreed to meet the dark-browed Gavan Mitchell--if only to learn why Hugh was so insistent that she marry the eccentric lord of Bonnie Brae Castle. Powerfully drawn to the brooding, intense Gavan, Elly was determined to ignore the whispered threats, the hints of ghosts and banshees, even the startling sight of a pale woman in her mirror, standing behind her...Then Elly heard the wailing sounds from the Tower. Someone was trying to terrify her ... trying to sap her strength... trying to make her a prisoner...

    Jacob Wier, a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, is hounded by the minions of hell who are looking for a book written by Satan himself and will stop at nothing to get it

    Penniless and alone, Joellen was grateful for the opportunity to live in the infant resort and work as a "printer's devil" in her uncle's small shop. But when she arrived at the darkened frame house, she found no warming family. She found her uncle, slumped to the floor. Alone once more, in a hostile, unfriendly town, Joellen was astonished by the rush of warmth she felt when she met the handsome entrepreneur, Taylor Lorillard. Determined to hate him for turning picturesque Atlantic City into a commercialized circus, Joellen tried in vain to deny her rising passions. She refused to heed the warning signs - the veiled threats, the averted glances, the whispered insinuations, for she yearned to visit Moontide Manor and waltz in Taylor Lorillard's arms. But as Joellen stepped out onto the wooden pier that led to the moon-drenched mansion, someone was following her. And the tide was about to turn.

    Architect Hugo Raphael disappears into North Africa after boarding a plane in Tunis, and kidnappers try to snatch his son Jay, but Jay's half-sister Alison takes him to Sicily to an old castle where Hugo may be hiding from his pursuers.

    As a child she had vowed to never set foot in the tainted towers, but now, destitute and alone, she had no choice but to accept her aunt's grudging offer to take her in, at least for awhile...