Each story contains the common elements of the gothic tale--a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world. Bringing together the work of such writers as Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jorge Luis Borges, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

    160 illustrations including 100 in color.The Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks, official companions to films, large format (8 3/8 x 10 7/8), heavily illustrated throughout, with color photographs, details on the making of the film, background on the filmmakers and cast.

    Taking a job as a landscape architect at the last place Brad was seen—the sprawling estate where he worked as a caretaker—she prowls the strange old house determined to unlock its secrets. But each mystery Diana uncovers is more unsettling than the last, as odd visions, scents, and sounds pervade an atmosphere of dread and barely suppressed violence. And in her zealous search for answers, she may have inadvertently opened a door to something frightening and deadly that can never be closed again.

    Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not. Ann, longing for love, and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself.Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds - Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah (whose eyes are as green as limes) are on their own lost journey; slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh.They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself...

    Their home, Barras Hall, is at first a welcome refuge, until Charlotte realizes that the manor has become her prison, and that she is surrounded by a horror she cannot escape.

    Nothing in an Engstrom story is what it first appears to be, yet at its core each tale has the ring of truth.Nightmare Flower is Engstrom's first major collection, containing eighteen short works plus a novelette, "Fogarty & Fogarty," and a short novel, "Project Stone." The stories span a wide range of styles and genres, varying from the almost fable-like simplicity of "The Pan Man" to the spine-chilling horror of "The Jeweler's Thumb is Turning Green."Love - what people will do to get it and keep it, the devastations of the loss or betrayal of love, the transformation of love to obsession - Love in all its different forms - lies at the heart of several of Engstrom's eloquent and quietly unnerving tales, including "Fogarty & Fogarty" and the collection's title story, "Nightmare Flower."In "Rivering" a woman confronts grief; in "Genetically Predisposed" a man, a woman, and a snake form a new version of the old, eternal triangle. "Quiet Meditation" reveals the little lies that make life bearable; "The Old Woman Upstairs" studies the complex relationship between mother and daughter.Each of these stories is a sideways glimpse of the world, a slant on life both moving and thought-provoking.

    Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto-Surrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror.

    

    An evil governess, bewitched dolls, and a dip into the past combine in a tale that's just right for a stormy afternoon's read.

    The peaceful town of Stoneridge, Kansas, turns suddenly deadly when a bottomless shaft mysteriously appears in the town cemetery and an evil force lures Karl, Beth, and Erik.

    After struggling for so long to make ends meet as a music teacher, Emily Woodstock was astonished to learn that she was the closest living relative of Sir Ralph Woodstock. Suddenly, poor and lonely Emily was a member of a wealthy family, with Edgecliff Manor as her new home. It was all she had ever dreamed, and upon first meeting her handsome cousin Richard, she wondered if she might find riches of the heart as well. But when the death of her uncle left Emily the sole heir to his vast fortune, her dream was shattered for she was certain that someone was out to kill her.Surely it wasn't her charming cousin Charles or their lovely, yet aloof, neighbor Evonne DeVere. And even the grim-faced housekeeper did not seem capable of murder. That left only Richard, of dark mind and brooding spirit, the man to whom Emily had given her heart. Would he take her life, as well?(Out of Print)

    Did she push her mother to her death? If she is ever to be free to spend her life with the man she loves, April must return to scene of the crime and confront her forgotten past.But there are those at Calendar House who also fear the return of April's memory, including the man she loves, and they will do anything to keep the truth from coming out. Including committing another murder.

    But when a sudden storm came up over dark Crannoch Loch, her beloved aunt and uncle lost their lives in a boating accident. Only Della was saved by handsome, dark-eyed Sir Robert MacCrannoch who pulled her from the icy depths and carried her to his castle. Alone now, and weak from her brush with death, all Della wanted was to leave the grim turreted castle and return to England, but the brooding, imperious laird had not only saved her life, he had awakened her passions. The castle's scheming, cruel chatelaine, Lady Fiona MacCrannoch, had reasons of her own for wanting Della to leave, and other, darker reasons for forcing her to stay. For Crannoch Castle was not only a maze of underground tunnels, ruined towers, and desolate moors, it was also a place of centuries-old, closely guarded secrets. Secrets that Della had overheard and must not be allowed to repeat, or even remember.

    But when she learned that she would be staying at Aspenwood Abbey, a frightening place, built into the mountains and surrounded by dark forests of spruce and pine, her worries began. The wind howled around the eaves, and strange scratchings at her door warned her that odd doings were afoot. Never had Elizabeth felt so alone. Even the protective embrace of the sleek-haired, golden-eyed master of Aspenwood couldn't allay her fears, for nothing was as it seemed in the snowbound, windswept abbey... nothing except the certainty that she had been chosen as the next victim of the ancient Aspenwood curse, and must fight for her life.. before she lost her heart.

    Katherine will go to London and a theater career, while India will take Katherine's place at her ancestral home. But someone at Hathaway Manor is planning a little reunion for Katherine--by silencing her forever.

    Avenge me so that I may rest in peace." — Orphaned in a train wreck as a little girl and raised by a family of poor coal miners, "Jane" spent her girlhood toiling in the mines near Newcastle, plagued by flashes of forgotten memories. Who was she and where did she belong? Only after fleeing the mines and traveling across England with a band of gypsies did she meet the man who had haunted her dreams...and who took her home at last to Wyndcliffe Manor.But the arrival of Jane -- now Jennifer Hardwicke and the heiress of Wyndcliffe -- fanned the flames of intrigue and desperate blackmail that had been smoldering for years among the jealous heirs. Finally understanding her past, unafraid of the future, and determined to avenge her grandfather's murder and claim her rightful dominion. Jennifer managed to avoid the first furtive attempts on her life. Yet when she took her seat at the head of the huge baronial table and lifted her wine goblet, she realized that only doom awaited her in the shadowy mist-filled courtyard of Wyndcliffe Manor.