There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi­cial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill­ers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.

    THEY’RE LOST FOREVER. Nellie Clay married Hobbs Pritchard without even noticing he was a spell conjured into a man, a walking, talking ghost story. But her mama knew. She saw it in her tea leaves: death. Folks told Nellie to get off the mountain while she could, to go back home before it was too late. Hobbs wasn’t nothing but trouble. He’d even killed a man. No telling what else. That mountain was haunted, and soon enough, Nellie would feel it too. One way or another, Hobbs would get what was coming to him. The ghosts would see to that. . . . Told in the stunning voices of five women whose lives are inextricably bound when a murder takes place in rural Depression-era North Carolina, Ann Hite’s unforgettable debut spans generations and conjures the best of Southern folk-lore—mystery, spirits, hoodoo, and the incomparable beauty of the Appalachian landscape.

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    Strange things and strange people were no longer welcomed in Widowsbury, for one could never be sure of what secrets waited under the surface . . . Adelaide Foss, Maggie Borland, and Beatrice Alfred are known by their classmates at Widowsbury's Madame Gertrude's School for Girls as "scary children." Unfairly targeted because of their peculiarities—Adelaide has an uncanny resemblance to a werewolf, Maggie is abnormally strong, and Beatrice claims to be able to see ghosts—the girls spend a good deal of time isolated in the school's inhospitable library facing detention. But when a number of people mysteriously begin to disappear in Widowsbury, the girls work together, along with Steffen Weller, son of the cook at Rudyard School for Boys, to find out who is behind the abductions. Will they be able to save Widowsbury from a 12-year-old curse?

    Dangerous first love. This is where it all begins...The mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood empty for years. But one day it seems to be occupied, and its mysterious, handsome inhabitant Alexander Sterling becomes the source of much talk around town. Raven, a vampire-obsessed Goth-girl who has always considered herself an outsider in 'Dullsville', is determined to uncover the truth surrounding the secretive Alexander. As she gets to know him, and their spark intensifies, Raven finds herself in some unanticipated situations. Vampire Kisses: The Beginning captures the thrill of a most unusual romance.Also available by Ellen Schreiber:Vampire Kisses 2: Kissing CoffinsVampire Kisses 3: VampirevilleVampire Kisses 4: Dance with a VampireVampire Kisses 5: The Coffin ClubVampire Kisses 6: Royal BloodVampire Kisses 7: Love BitesOnce in a Full Moon

    from an internationally renowned author.This haunting tale follows two cursed families in a saga of romance, black magic, and music set in an ancient abbey where the lines between the past 500 years and the present are blurred into oblivion. The handsome, mysteriously compelling owner of Beauregard Abbey, Nicholas Beauregard, must help Zuleika Rathbone as she traces the path of a murderous ancestor, rousing an unimaginable evil centered around a mystical violin. An unlikely romance amidst the havoc wreaked by practitioners of the dark arts takes the reader deep into the thrilling world of the occult.

    Her soul is catapulted backward in time to 1938, where she meets Ivy and Harry—a Depression Era Romeo and Juliet—who will someday become Zan’s grandparents. Night Journey is an eerie tale of ghosts who weave in and out of life, past and present, from fact to fiction.

    She's happy being a freak - but now everyone thinks she's crazy. Or evil. Goths aren't all the same, you know. Some are Christians. ...Christians to whom God sends visions.Students at her university are being attacked, and Winter knows there's more than flesh and blood at work. Her gift means she's the only one who can stop it - but at what price?

    Compiled by an acclaimed Goth journalist and poet, this compendium provides insight into the unique vernacular of this fascinating community, describing in detail and with black humor the fashion, music, and lifestyle as well as sharing insider slang such as Baby Bat, Corp Goth, and the Gothic Two-Step. A Goth Band Family Tree and essential Goth listening, reading, and viewing recommendations are also included in this phantasmagorical work.

    When a beautiful young woman is brutally slain in the streets of New York City, the demon Azriel sets out to discover who killed her, only to find a far more sinister plot that could end the world. Once a human in ancient Babylon, Azriel is a spirit of rage and terror that gradually rediscovers his humanity through holy vengeance and spiritual love. Ornately illustrated by the New York Times Best-selling team of Renae DeLiz and Ray Dillon.

    Then he meets Willy, and the other boy - charismatic and strange - saves him ... or damns him. WILLY, an atmospheric novel of suspense by the author of THE PINES, THE SHORE and MARTYRS & MONSTERS, becomes both an evocation of painful growth and a dark psychological thriller.

    With a steadily-growing fan-base, the five members looked forward to a promising career in the music industry. And then things went to hell. Soon after a strange sighting, the Bloodtones' lead singer, Bekka, finds herself capable of the impossible and in mortal danger from otherworldly forces that catch even the non-human members of the band off guard. With their rock-solid future rapidly crumbling before their eyes, the Bloodtones find themselves struggling for not only their music... but their very lives.

    

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     When Australian botanist Ellen Quinn travels to her ancestral home in Ireland determined to complete her family tree, she expects quaint villages and a rustic countryside. What she finds are the cold dark walls of Banth Manor and much more than just dusty old books. The manor’s handsome but mysterious caretaker has captured her imagination…and her heart. As terrifying nightmares and visions of the past threaten to send Ellen to the brink of madness, a shocking truth will put her life in jeopardy. Rowan O’Connell wasn’t expecting to find a stranger wandering Banth Manor’s conservatory. But Ellen is no ordinary trespasser. Though many visitors have come and gone over the years, few stayed long enough to get to know him. Ghosts rarely make a good impression. Faced with a future more haunting than the past, Ellen would rather sacrifice life itself than lose the man who brings out her deepest desires.

    He leans close enough to touch her ear with the fringe of his mustache and whispers, "What part of the museum would the famous Madame Tussaud like to survey on her inaugural visit?""The Chamber of Horrors, I think," she says softly."Really, my dear? All that grim fantasy and blood?""There is no fantasy about it, Francois. It is an embryo, a showing of what is to come."Blending historical fiction with fantasy and the macabre, Adam McOmber's debut short story collection brings the influence of Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen, and Edgar Allan Poe to the next generation. In "The Automatic Garden," a solitary architect from the court at Versailles builds a water-powered pleasure garden; in "There Are No Bodies Such as This," we read a haunted and romantic fiction about the creation of Madame Tussaud's wax museum; in "Fall, Orpheum," a small town movie palace becomes the temple for an entire town's devotion and sacrifice. McOmber seamlessly blends history, artifice, and desire to create a dream of the past that intertwines with our own notions of modern life.Adam McOmber's stories appear in Conjunctions, StoryQuarterly, Third Coast, The Greensboro Review, Arts & Letters, and Quarterly West. He is assistant director of creative nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago and associate editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika."

    His melancholy brilliance, passionate lyricism & tormented soul would make him one of the most widely read & original writers in American literature. Here, in one volume, are his classic short works: masterpieces of horror, terror, humor & adventure--& the finest lyric & narrative poetry of this ill-fated genius whose influence on both prose & verse continues. Introduction (1951) uncredited essay The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) story The Cask of Amontillado (1846) story Hop-Frog (1849) story (aka Hop-Frog or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) The Black Cat (1843) story Ligeia (1838) story The Assignation (1834) story (aka The Visionary) The Oval Portrait (1842) story (aka Life in Death) The Masque of the Red Death (1842) story (aka The Mask of the Red Death)The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) story The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) novelette The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842) novella The Purloined Letter (1844) novelette The Gold-Bug (1843) novelette Shadow—A Parable (1835) story (aka Shadow: A Fable) Ms Found in a Bottle (1833) story A Descent into the Maelström (1841) story The Pit & the Pendulum (1842) story The Sphinx (1846) story The Man of the Crowd (1840) story The System of Dr Tarr & Professor Fether (1845) novelette William Wilson (1839) novelette (aka William Wilson: A Tale) The Raven (1845) poem Lenore (1843) poem To Helen (1848) poem (aka To__I saw thee once...) Ulalume (1847) poem (aka To__: Ulalume: A Ballad) The Bells (1849) poem Annabel Lee (1849) poem The Haunted Palace (1839) poem The Conqueror Worm (1843) poem To__I heed not... (1829) poem (aka To M__) The Valley of Unrest (1831) poem (aka The Valley Nis) The City in the Sea (1831) poem (aka The Doomed City) The Sleeper (1841) poem A Dream Within a Dream (1849) poem Dream-Land (1844) poem Eulalie (1845) poem Dreams (1827) poem Silence (1840) poem (aka Silence, a Sonnet) Eldorado (1849) poem Israfel (1831) poem For Annie (1849) poem Sonnet—To Science (1829) poem Bridal Ballad (1837) poem (aka Ballad) A Dream (1827) poem To the River (1829) poem (aka To the River__) To__The bowers whereat... (1829) poem (aka To__The bowers whereat...)Romance (1829) poem (aka Preface) Song (1827) poem (aka To__I saw thee on the bridal day...) Spirits of the Dead (1827) poem (aka Visit of the Dead) To Helen (1831) poem Evening Star (1827) poem Imitation (1827) poem In Youth I Have Known One (1827) poem (aka Stanzas) A Paean (1831) poem Alone (1875) poemA Biographical Note on Edgar Allan Poe (1951) uncredited essay

    Situated on the northern boundary of the Massachusetts Bay colony, the town of Cold Marsh is a place of secrets, a village characterized by repression and guilt. Fourteen years have passed since the outbreak of King Philip's War and darkness has come to the Cold Marsh. Two of the town's young women have vanished under mysterious circumstances, and the country seethes with rumors of witchcraft and devilry. Even their God has abandoned them. When a third young woman disappears, the men of the village determine to leave the safety of the village and enter the other world of the woods in search of her. Revenants is a lyrical evocation of the colonial landscape, a poetic meditation on the hills and wilds of that vanished country. It also brings back to life, with breathing intimacy, the inner landscape of sombre repression known to the settlers of New England.

    Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.More info: This article lists all known poems by American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849), regardless of importance. They are listed alphabetically with the date of their authorship in parentheses.

    Collector's edition limited to only 60 hand numbered copies.Imagine if Herodotus had lived on through the centuries, collecting supernatural tales along his travels; or if a collection of scattered medieval fragments could be brought together and made to yield their secrets. Imagine, too, a storyteller who writes for the dead, crafting tributes to past masters from the depths of his nostalgia. Imagine, finally, prose so pristine and economical that every tale is a universe, and you have, then, a true impression of George Berguño’s The Exorcist’s Travelogue, his second collection of short stories.The eight stories that are showcased in The Exorcist’s Travelogue blend history with the uncanny. From modern Scotland to sixth-century Norway; from Roman Constantinople to Soviet Russia; from medieval Iceland to an eerie contemporary London – the stories glow with compassion for their characters; a kindness that tells of the suffering of those who are spiritually homeless and dispossessed.An archaeologist stumbles upon an ancient riddle in the Outer Hebrides that can only be solved on an infinite chessboard. In the midst of a famine in Iceland a beached whale brings a message from another world. A young man searches for his long lost father in the secret galleries of the British Museum. A lonely old Lamia revises Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of love. On the day he dies, a maligned Russian author remembers a mysterious conversation with Joseph Stalin. These are some of the strange encounters to be found in this deeply autumnal book; a book that ends with a remarkable true story about an extraordinary incident one summer’s night in Aachen.ContentsThe Son’s CrimeThe Leviathan at RifskerA Chronicle of RepentanceThe Sad Eyes of the Lewis ChessmenThe Loneliness of the One-Night LamiaThe Farewell LetterFlaubert's Alexandrine

    Gothic Blue Books were short fictions popular in the 18th and 19th century. They were descendants of the chap book trade. Burial Day Books presents its first Gothic Blue Book, The Haunted Edition. The following twelve short stories and two poems honor the Gothic story. Misery, fear, despair, regret and dread are highlighted in the following pages, stirring old ghosts, witches, and awakening death. The following collection of new and established horror authors weave together brilliant tales of terror celebrating the history of the Gothic story with a new twist.Authors:Helena Marie Carnes-Jeffries - The Beach HouseJohn Everson - The TappingAbe Grace - Death and All His Friends M. N. Hanson - The Squatter K. Trap Jones - The Realtor Ben McElroy- Emergence of the Hidden Things Greg Mollin - Where the Fault LiesMonica Nickolai - DollCynthia (cina) Pelayo - The Gravedigger Gerardo Pelayo - El ConventoMarc Ruvolo - The Ladies Escape Jordan Scrivner - AtticCourtney Sloan - Antidote for the Soul Lisa Stock - The Wild Hunt Editors:Cynthia (cina) PelayoGerardo PelayoAssistant Editor: P MaxwellCover Art: Abigail Larson

    From the UK's sprawling post-punk scene, Japan's highly visual movement, the USA's deathrock explosion and Germany's extremely popular Schwarze Szene, Worldwide Gothic explores how they all came about and the influence they've had on contemporary music and fashion. Spat out of punk at the tail end of the 1970s, goth became a major subculture in the UK with bands like Siouxsie And The Banshees and The Sisters Of Mercy scoring Top Ten hits and its fashion inspiring catwalk collections. After the scene died down in the early 1990s, it spread out to Europe where it attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and became assimilated with other muscial genres. This book also looks at how goth is now returning to its roots now with the emergence of dark rock and indie bands who pay homage to gothic greats like Bauhaus and Joy Division.

    Now, sixty years later, the village has been declared safe again, but there are those living in nearby Bramley who would much rather that the past remain hidden.When the village is reopened, Ella Haywood, who used to play there as a child, is haunted by the discovery of two bodies. Shortly before the isolation of the village, she and her two oldest friends had a violent and terrifying encounter with a stranger - with terrible consequences. They made a pact of silence at the time, but the past has a habit of forcing the truth to the surface. With the mystery surrounding the now derelict Cadence Manor drawing increasing local interest, Ella finds that she will have to resort to ever more drastic measures if she is to make sure that no one discovers what really happened all those years ago.

    You'll enjoy such stories as: God brings vengeance with acidic doughnuts! The beginners guide to being a bitch hermit! Evil, vile dreams! Discover the mysteries of The Vampire Bat-Kitten! Live through dental horror! Try to do school work while your room mate is having butt sex! Satanic college students!Vampire truths revealed! Poetry! Exploding boobs! Soul searching! Scones! Gothic laments! Intergalactic space pornos!Spitballs in the afterlife!Returning from the dead!How to deal with friends who make porn!Also: The Joyful Suicides of Reese Wtherly and various 4y-Records comic strips! Newly updated to included the never before released print version of Writer's Block, and The Neurotically Yours Relics Pages showcasing old world oddities from years gone by. It's fun for your brain!There is no debate. This cult comic collection must be owned! MATURE READERS(For folks who bought the original graphic novel, this has essentially the same material, just a few pages were added. and the book has a wider format so the reader doesn't have to worry about images, text falling into the cracks)

    But he wanders too far, over the borders to a Faerie land that could only exist in Appalachia.Faerie-napping, cold knives, underground oppressors, horror stories, and unwilling affections threaten to suck him forever into their desolate Company Town. If they do, he’ll lose himself in every way possible.You might escape the fae, but you can never go home. Not really.

    includes the following pieces of short fiction: Cat Call by Kat Heckenbach, The Crooked House of Coins by Jeff Chapman, Glass House by Heidi Mannan, Don't Let the Rain Come Down by Gerald Costlow, With Breath Too Sweet LaShawn M. Wanak, Unexpected Guests in My Basement by Charles Day, Aliens, Angels, and Arsenic by M. Kaye Moon, The Other Side of Silence by Fiona Glass, Wrong Side Down by Rob Rosen, Her by Walter Campbell, Little Girl Blue by Kevin McClintock, Crooked Time by Samuel Gibb, Summer Schwartz and the Crazy House by David Perlmutter, Remembered Sins by H.J. Hill, Olverston Grange by M. Leon Smith, That's What Little Boys Are Made Of by Emma Ennis, Every Choice by Mary-Jean Harris, The Mobile Home by Gregory L. Norris, 22 Beckett St. by Deb Eskie, I Am But Its Instrument by George Wilhite, Nightmares Every Night by Gary Buettner, Metamorphosis by Eva Glynn Stephens, The Nanny by Susan York Meyers, Eviction Notice by John H. Dromey, Can't Stop Growing Old by Patrick Shand, The Wyandotte Haunting by K.A. Laity, The Girl in the Crooked House by Katherine Simmons & Clown Fish by Richard Jay Goldstein.

    To Madeline’s dismay her first meeting with the estate’s strange owner Michael Denver does not go well and when she learns that he is a suspect in the disappearance of his wife Laura, she is compelled to find out more. While she is delving into the mystery of Ravenswood Madeline finds herself getting close to handsome rival real estate agent Daniel Eastman. She soon discovers that despite his warmth and friendliness Daniel is a man with secrets of this own. Madeline begins to suspect that he may know more about the events at Ravenswood than he is revealing. Madeline’s search for answers turns into a fight for her life as she struggles to work out which of the two men she can trust and how Laura’s disappearance is connected to the tragic death of a young woman at Ravenswood one hundred years earlier.

    But moving to England and marrying Chadwick Masters, Earl of Gilchrest isn’t what she has in mind. And falling in love with the mysterious earl could endanger both their lives.

    or what comes after death ... or before. Fear of the unknown perhaps? It's the question we all ask ourselves at one point in our lives: What comes next? What comes next, indeed? This is the story of one girl who found out. A lavishly illustrated book of horrors, Children of the In-between is more than just a picture book. This is a journey you'll be dying to go on. Rated 'DH' for DARKLY HORRIFIC, this book includes adult themes of death, suicide, murder, drugs and other dark and disturbing things. So, please don't read if you are prone to wetting your pants.

    A young apparition appears, sparking a chain of horrifying occurrences involving Christie and the two men closest to her: Anthony Longfield-Lothian and Tristan Ely. A saga of mystery and sordid family history weaves intrigue for the passionate love triangle. Past and present war as the secrets of three aristocratic families come to light.

    Each Virtue promotes personal evolution and embraces the Vampyre Spirit with some examples including Primal Nature, Romance, Mystery, Transhumanism, Music, Culture, Glamour, Elegance, Courtesy, Chivalry, Immortality, Magick and Sensuality. Each Virtue is beautifully presented with the design of French conceptual artist William Vocant and an enticingly written forward by vampire author Gabrielle Faust. What makes this book unique and a must-read is the fact that it was written from the inspiration of over two decades of close interaction between Father Sebastiaan and his fang clients. This cumulative knowledge is presented to the reader in a simple and easily understandable format. Here is what the experts are saying about Vampyre Virtues "The Red Veils"; "A definitive perspective of modern Vampyre culture written by one of the most experienced thinkers in the international community." Dr. Mark Benecke, German Forensic Biologist "An amazing piece of work. From Fledgling to Elder to ancient f**ks like me, there is something here for everyone." Lord Chaz, New Orleans "I always have great consideration about the work of Father Sebastiaan, I love him as fangsmith, and I love him as an author too! Vampyre Virtues is a tome which every single vampire on the earth should read." Sonya Scarlet, Theatres des Vampires' lead vocalist "Vampyre Virtues is a tome which can bring the reader into the possibility that we can be charged and embrace the best attributes of the darkest anti-hero of our modern age, the VAMPIRE." Magister Mael, Grand Magister of the Ordo Strigoi Vii "This book reminds me of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne but written with the perspective of the vampire archetype. " Adrian Lumley, Father Sebastiaan's fang client from 1997

    IDW Publishing presents an expertly selected menu of outstanding vampire stories that either informed or benefited from Bram Stoker's hugely popular creation. These eerie tales of the undead - some 22 in all - form the core cannon of classic vampire literature. Chosen and introduced by celebrated literary scholar and author Leslie S. Klinger (The New Annotated Dracula), with illustrations by an array of noted horror artists, In the Shadow of Dracula brings to adventuresome readers stories of nocturnal terror that have lived in Stoker's shadow for too long. Authors include M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and Bram Stoker himself. Included are what's considered the first true vampire story 1816, as well the classic novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, the first vampire tale with a lesbian theme (it's been adapted to comics and film several times), and "The Family of the Vourdalak" by Aleksei Tolstoy (he's the cousin of the famous one), which gave Boris Karloff one of his greatest roles.

    Determined to be the first to escape a life of abandonment, Anora fled Harlem for Brooklyn, not only severing her ties with her mother Angela, but also ending her relationship with Winston Emerson, her lover and the father of her child.Six years later, Anora comes home to make peace, but an unseen force manifests itself during the homecoming and targets not only Anora, but her little girl Cammie.With nowhere to run, Anora must confront the evil now trying to destroy her life. She vows to protect her daughter at all costs, but if that protection can only be found with Winston back in her life, how will Anora protect her heart?Winston's offer to help resurrects the ghost of heartbreak which haunts Anora still. Can fighting one ghost free her from another? Does she want it to?

    Plagued by sudden nightmares and a voice that calls to her for help, Mallory must uncover the truth behind why someone seems so desperate to buy the worthless, old house. In a race against time, she is soon caught up in a devious plot involving the Marlatt family and their strange past.

    His basement room is full of wires, rats, and silverfish. He doesn't know his name or where he came from, only that he is the caretaker in a house of drugs, sex, and mindless violence. The Caretaker finds himself in the middle of a horrible, slithering conspiracy that threatens all of humanity. He finds that he is its unwitting accomplice. Without it, he would not have a home. He enters a romance with Olwyn, a young woman ravaged by drugs and the menace of LaMore, the man who runs the house and supplies her drugs. Suddenly, she makes things less clear, a choice must be made. They will soon uncover a terrible secret which threatens all of humanity. With taut language and gritty description, readers will be wrapped tight by the tentacles in the story. This novella was inspired by the work of H.P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, and Edgar Allen Poe. If you are a fan of Chuck Palahniuk, this is a good choice for you. This is literary fiction with an edge, language that'll bite you back.

    This definition sums up splendidly the flavour and the content of the excellent stories you will find in this collection. Here are tales written by masters of the genre which feature ghosts, monsters, magic, and horror - everything and anything which is out of kilter with the norm and challenges the imagination, while creating that special tingle of fear which is generated by uncertainty. In reading these pleasantly disturbing stories it is as though one is looking at the world through a glass darkly. This wonderfully potent brew of macabre titbits is guaranteed to entertain and enthral.

    A dentist from New Jersey, marooned at midnight in the Florida swamps, makes the mistake of falling into the clutches of a hilariously depraved family of amateur surgeons devoted to a seventeenth century libertine whose discovery of an elixir has kept his evil presence alive for the past three-hundred years.

    P. Lovecraft.Included stories are:Medusa’s CoilPoetry and the GodsThe Crawling ChaosThe Horror at Martin’s BeachThrough the Gates of the Silver KeyThe Curse of YigThe DisintermentThe Green MeadowThe Horror in the MuseumIn the Walls of EryxOut of the AeonsThe MoundThe Electric ExecutionerThe Horror in the Burying-GroundThe Night OceanThe TrapTwo Black BottlesWinged DeathThe battle that ended the centuryThe Challenge from BeyondCollapsing CosmosesThe Diary of Alonzo TyperThe Last TestThe Man of StoneThe Thing in the MoonlightTill A’ the SeasThe Hoard of the Wizard-BeastThe Slaying of the MonsterThe Tree on the HillUnder the Pyramids

    71 pages of summaries and analysis on The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.br/br/This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

    It is replete with contacts, rumours and clues which will guide you on your quest for forbidden knowledge. Written as the companion volume to Bookhounds of London for Trail of Cthulhu, it can be used as a Keeper's resource as well as an in-game artefact for players in any Mythos game.In 1933 a mysterious secret society commissioned Augustus Darcy to compile a guide to occult London. By the end of that year, Darcy was dead. Within these tales of The Smoke's legendary past are scattered clues to its future. Was a magical war brewing? Were forces from other dimensions breaking through into our own? Who were the mysterious Brotherhood? Who killed Augustus Darcy and why? After eighty years Darcy's book is here for you to make up your own mind. Use it as a guide as you venture into Darcy's world and may your gods be with you in the days ahead.It is a work of fiction, an autobiography, an occult miscellany and a murder mystery, a book which should not be read, and yet cannot be cast aside. It is all these things and more, but most of all it is a guide for your own journey through the streets of the Big Smoke.

    She finds the once grand Stoneleigh is now a gloomy, decaying mansion. Additionally her sister’s husband Sir Roland is now a deranged drug addict. To her surprise she finds her sister’s neglected child of whose existence she was unaware. Also a woman of dubious character appears to be managing Roland’s life. The only hope she has is Roland’s brother Edmund but he is away fighting in the Crimea. The society background of her young life has not conditioned her for what she experiences at Stoneleigh or the filth and lowlife of the London streets and the hypocritical upper class London Society. A dark, gothic tale of disillusionment, tragedy, loss, rape, lunacy, child abuse, and frustrated love set in Victorian England

    Abernathy’s experimental therapy will soon have her restored to sanity. Unknown to Elizabeth, the sprawling mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean was once home to Roland de Winter, the high priest of Hollywood’s most notorious Satanic coven. Now, it has been transformed by Dr. Clark Abernathy into a private sanitarium catering to the Hollywood elite.But something evil lurks in the shadows of the Abernathy Clinic and Elizabeth is soon caught in a vortex of unexpected romance, séances, hallucinogenic drugs, and murder, as one by one the other patients begin to die. Is the Pentagram Killer also a patient at the Abernathy Clinic, or is Elizabeth spiraling into madness?For lovers of drive-in B movies and vintage paperback horror novels, this blood spattered Gothic potboiler plunges the reader back to the year 1968 - a time of mini skirts and ironing board straightened hair, when pot smoking and peace signs walked hand in hand, and the Hollywood Jet Set made pacts with the Devil.

     Fantasmagoriana: a collection of Gothic tales by Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori, all originating in a night of ghost storytelling. Contains the complete FRANKENSTEIN and Polidori’s influential THE VAMPYRE, plus Gothic works by Byron, Shelley, and Mathew ‘Monk’ Lewis. First serialised in Schlock! Webzine (www.schlock.co.uk)

    Discover the lore and myth behind today's favorite vampire books like those in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series.br/br/Some of these works don't explicitly include the term "vampire," but they lay the foundation for future vampire lore. In the case of Ruddigore, the vampire connection is vague, but present in a few interesting facts: Ruthven (pronounced Rivven) is also the name of one of the first vampires in English literature (see John Polidori's "The Vampyre," which is also included in this volume); Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, one of the deceased baronets, is typically dressed as a vampire when he steps out of his portrait; and Robin is foiled in his attempt at abducting Rose by a Union Jack flag--a visual gag when you realize the flag has a cross, which is anathema to vampires.br/br/Vampiricon includes the following vampire works:br/br/Der Vampir, by Heinrich August Ossenfelder (1748)br/Lenore, by Gottfried August Burger (1774)br/The Bride of Corinth, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1797)br/Wake Not the Dead, by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1800)br/Thalaba the Destroyer, by Robert Southey (1801)br/The Vampire, by John Stagg (1810)br/Cristabel, by Samuel Tayler Coleridge (1816)br/The Vampyre, a Tale, by John Polidori (1819)br/The Giaour, by Lord Byron (1819)br/Fragment of a Novel, by Lord Byron (1819)br/Lamia, by John Keats (1820)br/La Belle Dame sans Merci, by John Keats (1820)br/The Viy, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1835) br/Berenice, by Edgar Allan Poe (1835)br/The Dead Lover, by Theophile Gautier (1836)br/Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood: A Romance, by James Malcolm Rymer (1845)br/The Vampyre, by James Clerk Maxwell (1845)br/Morella, by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)br/Metamorphosis of the Vampire, by Charles Baudelaire (1857)br/The Last Lords of Gardonal, by William Gilbert (1867)br/Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)br/The Vampyre (Stigioul), by Vasile Alecsandri (1886)br/Ken#x2019;s Mystery, by Julian Hawthorne (1887)br/A Mystery of the Campagna, by Anne Crawford (1887)br/Ruddigore, or The Witch#x2019;s Curse, by William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (1887)br/Let Loose, by Mary Cholmondeley (1890)br/The Last of the Vampires, by Phil Robinson (1893)br/The True Story of a Vampire, by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1894)br/The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, by H. G. Wells (1894)br/The Vampire of Croglin Grange, by Augustus Hare (1896)br/Good Lady Ducayne, by Mary E. Braddon (1896)br/The Vampire, by Rudyard Kipling (1897)br/Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897)br/Dracula#x2019;s Guest, by Bram Stoker (1897)br/The Tomb of Sarah, by F. G. Loring (1900)br/Marsyas in Flanders, by Vernon Lee (1900)br/The Vampire Maid, by Hume Nisbet (1900)br/Luella Miller, by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman (1902)br/Lazarus, by Leonid Andreyev (1906)br/The House of the Vampire, by George Sylvester Viereck (1907)br/The Feather Pillow, by Horacio Quiroga (1907)br/The Singular Death of Morton, by Algernon Blackwood (1910)br/For the Blood is the Life, by F. Marion Crawford (1911)br/The Transfer, by Algernon Blackwood (1912)br/The Room in the Tower, E. F. Benson (1912)br/The Vampire, by Conrad Aiken (1914)br/An Episode of Cathedral History, by M. R. James (1914)br/Aylmer Vance and the Vampire, by Alice and Claude Askew (1914)br/The Vampire, by Jan Neruda (1920)br/Mrs. Amworth, by E. F. Benson (1922)

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    He has spent the past twenty years following news of rural murders and journeying incessantly back and forth into danger in this never-ending hunt. Theo is recuperating at a relative's house in idyllic Derbyshire when he comes across young Audrey Masterson, who is pricking her finger with a pin and collecting her tears. These tears produce a rather freakish effect and Theo feels duty-bound to investigate. He soon connects Audrey to an eerie, abandoned church on a lonely hill and also possibly to the death of an old woman in town. Theo knows how to deal with monsters, but how is he supposed to handle the budding evil of a witch-child?

     Syria Warrington came home one afternoon and found an old black top hat on her front step, being a lover of all things old; she did not hesitate to take it into her home. But bringing this top hat into her home unknowingly exposed her to the spirit that called this hat, home. The strange happenings that began to take place in her home, from that day on had Syria questioning her sanity. Her life, as she knew it, began to quickly unravel before her very eyes, as night after night she found herself in the arms of a stranger. Were her experiences real or imagined?

    He was admired by nineteenth-century literary figures such as Poe, Hawthorne, George Lippard (who dedicated his gothic novel Quaker City to him), and John Greenleaf Whittier; identified as an important figure in the development of the American literary tradition by critical heavyweights including R. W. B. Lewis, Richard Chase, Harry Levin, and Leslie Fiedler; and clearly influential to the entire American Gothic tradition. However, it remains true that Brown is seldom read outside of courses on American Romanticism and is more often celebrated for what he initiated than for what he achieved. Here, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock fills this void in the academic and cultural record with an introduction to Brown and his writing that makes the case for Brown as a major author in his own right.

    Addressing the question of why we are fascinated by ghosts, demons, and monsters of all sorts, despite the professed rationality of our society, Armitt shows how such stories of these supernatural creatures can serve as an outlet for deep-rooted fears about continuing problems in contemporary society.

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    In the forbidden Dark Library, Victor finds an ancient formula, and seeks an alchemist to recreate the Elixir of Life. With friends Elizabeth and Henry, he scales highest trees in the Strumwald, dives deepest lake caves, and each sacrifices a body part.

    First published in 1886, 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' is one of his best-known tales, and probably the most famous 'dual personality' story ever written. Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the most widely read and translated authors in literary history. Here are five carefully selected short stories of horror and macabre excellence. Included in this collection is his most well know horror stories, 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', and 'The Body-Snatcher', and some lesser known tales 'Thrawn Janet', and 'The Sire de Maletroit's Door'.

    and Mrs. Crang are upset about it. At stake is their estate, Leith Hill, which can only be saved by the marriage of their daughter, Charlotte, to a suitable man of means. But the stubborn Charlotte has rejected every eligible bachelor introduced to her, leaving the Crang family with one solution; an arranged marriage.Charlotte's Aunt consults with friends and finally locates a very suitable candidate for Charlotte's hand. He is the Earl of Leighton's son, a widower named William Brett who manages the family's vast tea plantation, Mossbrook, located in Ceylon, the lush, tropical island off the southernmost tip of India.Deeply hurt and saddened by her parent's irreversible decision, Charlotte embarks on the long voyage to Ceylon where she expects to find yet another dismal marriage prospect. But in William Brett Charlotte finds the embodiment of aristocratic elegance with an extremely attractive personality to match. The chemistry between the two is instantaneous and as man and wife they embark on their new life together with enthusiasm.But their blissful union is soon threatened by the unexpected arrival of Nelda, the only child of William and his deceased wife. Soon Nelda's influence begins infusing Mossbrook like a mysterious virus and Charlotte finds herself beset by disturbing dreams. When the dreams begin to merge with her reality, Charlotte begins to unravel. She seeks Williams help but neither of them is able to deal with the malevolent forces Nelda has unleashed. Events soon spin out of control as William and Charlotte find themselves in a turbulent and dangerous battle of wits with Nelda, eventually forcing them to grapple with events that threaten to end their marriage, ruin their estate and ultimately claim their lives.