Ghosts

In the summer of 1925, the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become unbalanced. Devastated by her mother’s death and a cruel, broken engagement, Sadie Halloran learns that her great-aunt Marguerite, a renowned artist now in the throes of dementia, needs a live-in companion. Grasping at newfound purpose, Sadie leaves her desolate Kansas City boardinghouse for Blackberry Grange, Marguerite’s once-grand mansion sitting precariously atop an Arkansas bluff.

When ghostwriter Maz Amani inherits a house from an uncle he’s never heard of, he offers heartfelt thanks to the universe, packs up his car, his cat, and his skepticism about mysterious uncles leaving all their worldly goods to unknown nephews, and high-tails it to a small town halfway to the Oregon coast. Anything would be better than week after week of couch surfing his way around Portland. Even if the alleged house is a rundown shack ridden with termites, spiders, and—shudder—rats, he’ll deal. Because hey, he owns a house!

When elderly Walter Shoebridge hires Hester Rose to guide his family through his final days, he hopes to ease their grief. But as old wounds and hidden truths come to light, Hester finds herself entangled in a web of betrayal and deception. A furious son disinherited from his legacy. A daughter haunted by the possibility that she hastened her father’s death. And a shadowy name in the will all lead to a shocking revelation that threatens to destroy what’s left of the family.

Still reeling from his battle with Beatrix, retired marine Shane Ryan finds evidence revealing the full extent of the Harvesters’ ghost-stealing operation. He decides he must hunt her down and destroy every deadly spirit she had freed, before they unleash more horrors into the world. Battling one vicious wraith after another, the trail of death and bloodshed takes him to a weathered beach house in Rhode Island, where Shane discovers the dark truth about Beatrix's past—and her malevolent benefactor, known as Mr. Shadow.

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories. Many of these stories are time-tested classics. Montague Rhodes James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests.

Gerry Sheffield is a miserable man. He can't hold a job or a relationship together for more than a few days, and he hates everything. This week in particular has been a beast. To cope, he drinks too much and uses drugs. His elderly parents won't bail him out anymore. As for his parents, he hates them most of all. When he gets out of jail this time, they have a special surprise for him, and in this pitch-black comedy, it's not what anyone is expecting.

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kathe Koja comes a fiercely poetic homage to Emily Brontë’s supernatural masterpiece Wuthering Heights, where love is relentless and the dead are never gone.

Two weeks ago, Christine Sinclaire's husband slipped off the roof while hanging Christmas lights and fell to his death on the front lawn. Desperate to escape her guilt and her grief, Christine packs up her fifteen-year-old son and the family cat and flees to the cabin they'd reserved deep in the remote Pennsylvania Wilds to wait out the holidays. It isn't long before Christine begins to hear strange noises coming from the forest

Harding, Missouri is a peaceful community with rolling hills, vast neighborhoods, and a school with a ghost. Ravin, the lost soul of a young girl, stalks the halls causing havoc to custodians and staff. Corey, an immigrant from Ireland, hopes to settle down in Harding and retire from the School District to a life of leisure. Ravin has different ideas for him–her new found love.

Drei junge Männer, eine verlassene Psychiatrie und eine Nacht voller dunkler Geheimnisse. Was als harmlose Mutprobe beginnt, entwickelt sich für Logan schnell zu einem beklemmenden Spiel zwischen Realität und Wahnsinn. Die Geschichten über den verrückten Arzt und seine qualvollen Experimente werden mit jedem Schritt greifbarer. In den verwahrlosten Räumen beginnt Logan, Dinge zu sehen, die nicht sein können. Er hört Stimmen, die ihn verhöhnen. Doch sind es wirklich Geister, die ihn verfolgen oder lauert das wahre Grauen in ihm selbst?