Best of
Supernatural

1996

House of Echoes


Barbara Erskine - 1996
    Eager to begin a new life there with Luke, her husband, and Tom, her small son, she is also impatient to find out about her newly discovered family who lived there for generations.But not long after they move in, Tom wakes screaming at night. Joss hears echoing voices and senses an invisible presence, watching her from the shadows. Are they spirits from the past? Or is she imagining them? As she learns, with mounting horror, of Belheddon's tragic and dramatic history, her fear grows very real, for she realises that both her family and her own sanity are at the mercy of a violent and powerful energy which seems beyond anyone's control.

True Singapore Ghost Stories : Book 8


Russell Lee - 1996
    Take a trip to Hell and back with Russell Lee. This collection of stories is the most powerful yet of the True Singapore Ghost Stories series!

The Cold Calling


Will Kingdom - 1996
    Death is even harder.When Maiden is revived in hospital after dying in a hit and run incident, his memories are not the familiar ones of bright lights and angelic music, only of a cold, harsh place he has no wish to revisit...ever.But his experience means that Bobby Maiden may be the only person who can reach The Green Man, a serial murderer the police don't even know exists...a predator who returns to stone circles, burial mounds and ancient churches in the belief that he is defending Britain's sacred heritage.Meanwhile, New Age journalist Grayle Underhill arrives from New York to search for her sister who's become obsessed with the arcane mysteries of the Stone Age.The bloody trail leads to a remote village on the Welsh Border...and to people who know there are more crimes in heaven and earth... Originally published under the pseudonym Will Kingdom, The Cold Calling has long been one of crime fiction’s best-kept secrets

By My Hands


Alton Gansky - 1996
    Who's healing these patients? And why do they suddenly disappear? As the hospital, the media, and the police all scramble to answer these questions, Pastor Adam Bridger launches his own investigation--and finds himself in harm's way in the process.

The Ebon Mask: Dark Kingdoms Volume 1


Richard Lee Byers - 1996
    Now in the Underworld, he embraces deceit and unbridled ambition -- he's no one's idea of a hero. That's too bad because something truly evil is stirring, and Montrose is the only being with a prayer of stopping it.

The Ghosts of Virginia, Vol. 4


L.B. Taylor Jr. - 1996
    

The Ghosts of Virginia, Vol. 3


L.B. Taylor Jr. - 1996
    

Testimony


Mark Chadbourn - 1996
    A ghost plane rises from the depths of Ladybower Reservoir on the Derbyshire Moors. The mummified hand of an English martyr is used to raise a Benedictine monk from a coma on the edge of death.Odd stories. Perhaps unbelievable stories. Yet all of them were reported in British newspapers in the first half of 1995. They are just a tiny drop in the tidal wave of weirdness that sweeps over us every day of the year, all over the globe. Somehow, though, we persist in maintaining the illusion that in this age of high technology there can be no such thing as the supernatural. At least that is the view presented by much of the media.

More Kentucky Ghost Stories


Michael Paul Henson - 1996
    Certainly he finds plenty of ghosts throughout the Bluegrass State, and it seems there are no limitations to the variety of incidents encountered. In most stories of this genre, some happening from the past is interjected into the life of someone in a later time period. The reverse is experienced by Jamie Stidham, a pilot who flies his plane through a cloud bank -- and 200 years back in time -- for a surprise landing. Daniel Boone was just as bewildered as the pilot!Inhabitants of the "shadow-world" may appear anywhere. The Kentucky coal mines harbor their share of manifestations, with balls of light and apparitions being seen by numerous miners. Many of the spirits are benevolent, having played a role in saving lives and guiding trapped miners to safety. There are tales of haunted houses, cemeteries and gravestones, roads and tunnels, along with disappearing soldiers, Indians, animals, and even ghostly trees. But there is so much more -- a total of seventy-five narratives "of the sixth dimension" or, some might say, close encounters of the sixth kind.

Obake Files: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawaii


Glen Grant - 1996
    Included are 8 full-color reproductions of "uncanny photographs" taken in the Islands. Based upon archives, newspaper articles and extensive firsthand accounts collected over twenty-five years, Obake Files is the definitive reference book for anyone interested in the supernatural traditions of Hawai'i's multicultural people. ". . .I thought about the presence that I had felt at my right shoulder during the ceremony and held back my tears, as we drove through the mystic Kohala night under the lunar bow. From that time forward, I realized that I could never look upon the supernatural tales that I was gathering in a wholly objective light. . ." - Glen Grant

The Ghosts of Virginia, Vol. 2


L.B. Taylor Jr. - 1996
    

Mr. Monster: His Books of Forbidden Knowledge, Volume One


Michael T. Gilbert - 1996
    Gilbert's "Doc Stearn... Mr. Monster" in a new book featuring seven stories of Forbidden Knowledge culled from his self-titled Eclipse Comics series. Contents include Mr. Monster classics, such as "The Case of the Reluctant Werewolf," "The Hemo Horror," "No Escape from Dimension-X" and more. Comics legend Alan Moore contributes not only the Foreword, in which he elevates Mr. Monster (alongside Captain Marvel, The Spirit, The Fighting American and Plastic-Man) into his approved pantheon of essential superheroes, but also a story of garbage-gone-bad, "The Riddle of the Recalcitrant Refuse." Supporting Gilbert's efforts to document the frightening facts forming Mr. Monster's Forbidden Knowledge are artists Williams Messner-Loebs, Roger Stewart, Jeff Bonivert, Dave Stevens and Steve Bissette; colorists Steve Oliff and Eric Vincent; and lettering wizard Ken Bruzenak. Witness the terror for yourself in Mr. Monster: His Books of Forbidden Knowledge, Volume One. Read it at your own risk!