This book is for anyone who has shivered at shadowy figures in the dark, heard strange sounds in the night or felt the presence of a mysterious 'something' from the unknown. Ghost stories are as old as recorded history and exist all over the world; described in this book are haunting spirits, screaming skulls, phantom ships, demon dogs, white ladies, gallows ghosts and many more.

    Steinway · ss Fantastic Apr ’54 113 · The Past Master · nv Bluebook Jan ’55 141 · I Like Blondes · ss Playboy Jan ’56 153 · All on a Golden Afternoon · nv F&SF Jun ’56 185 · Broomstick Ride · ss Super Science Fiction Dec ’57 197 · Daybroke · ss Star Science Fiction Magazine Jan ’58 209 · Sleeping Beauty [“The Sleeping Redheads”] · ss Swank Mar ’58 225 · Word of Honor · ss Playboy Aug ’58 237 · The World-Timer · nv Fantastic Aug ’60 271 · That Hell-Bound Train · ss F&SF Sep ’58 289 · The Funnel of God · nv Fantastic Jan ’60 319 · Beelzebub · ss Playboy Dec ’63 329 · The Plot Is the Thing · ss F&SF Jul ’66 337 · How Like a God · ss Galaxy Apr ’69 355 · The Movie People · ss F&SF Oct ’69 269 · The Oracle · ss Penthouse May ’71 377 · The Learning Maze · ss The Learning Maze, ed. Roger Elwood, Messner, 1974 393 · Author’s Afterword: “Will the Real Robert Bloch Please Stand Up?” · aw

    There still is much confusion and misuse of the office and the responsibilities of the prophet and the intercessor in the Christian arena. John and Paula Sandford explain how prophets are called and trained. With a great passion and urgency, they challenge all intercessors to realize and understand their vital role in the world today and how closely they must work with the prophets. John and Paula Sandford clearly explain:What it means to be called and trained as a prophet or intercessorHow to understand dreams and visions and hear directly from GodWhy it is important for the body to work in unityThis book is filled with spiritual discoveries that will effect dynamic changes in every reader.About the AuthorsJohn and Paula Sandford have applied the principles of this book with great success in their parenting of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. The founders of Elijah House, the Sandfords are well known around the world for their contributions of teaching, counseling, writing, and leading in the fields of family living, inner healing, prophecy, social concerns, human behavior, and theology. They have written thirteen books.

    Set in coal mines and remote farm cabins, in hidden hollows and on mountain tops, some of these stories look back to the days when West Virginia was first settled; others reflect the rancor and brutality of the Civil War. But most of these tales guide us through the recent past of the uncommonly rich folk heritage of West Virginia. This

    -- Explore the frontiers that lie between belief and fact-- Illustrated with lots of diagrams and pictures

    Judges, servants, city fathers, elegant courtesans and society belles.Marie Laveau Rich young planters begged for dances, pleaded for kisses, and fought duels in her name.Marie Laveau She could win back your lover, turn your grey curls to gold, help you win the jackpot, or put the death fix on you. She cast her wild spell on men and women, spirits and conjurors, until the entire city of New Orleans lay at her dancing feet. You've never met anyone like her -- except in your most fantastic dreams.

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    Part One: Tales of the Uncanny and SupernaturalPart Two: Tales of the Mysterious and MacabreForty three stories including:Running Wolf The TrodThe Glamour of the SnowThe Pikestaffe CaseThe Lost ValleyChinese MagicFirst HateThe SacrificeThe DamnedThe Sea FitThe Destruction of SmithInitiation

    Contents include: The Horror at Oakdeene; the Viking's Stone; Aunt Hester; No Way Home; The Cleaner Woman; the Statement of Henry Worthy; Darghud's Doll; Born of the Winds4000 copies printed.

    

    He has been described as a writer on whom the mantle of Poe has fallen and no less an authority than H.P. Lovecraft wrote: few can equal him in conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal. This volume, the first in the Masters of Terror Series represents the very best of Hodgson's tales of sea horror:the Voice in the NightA Tropical HorrorThe Mystery of the DerelictThe Terror of the Water-TankThe Finding of the GraikenThe Stone ShipThe DerelictMasters of Terror is a series of collections of short stories by those authors who have made their name in the genre of the macabre and supernatural. Each volume is edited by an authority on the author in question and includes an introduction giving details of the author's life and works.