Books like 'Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places'
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Counting Creatures by Julia Donaldson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gorgeous lift-the-flap counting book that pairs parent animals with their babies, from the bestselling author of Room on the Broom .From a bat and its pup, to a frog and its twelve tadpoles, young readers will delight in counting each creature's babies and learning unusual scientific names for young animals... -
![H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror by Stephen Jones, Guy de Maupassant]()
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror by Stephen Jones, Guy de Maupassant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStories praised by Lovecraft in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature." H.P. Lovecraft's essay on "Supernatural Horror in Literature" is published here together with a showcase of the fiction which Lovecraft recommends. Authors include Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, A. Conan Doyle, H.G... -
![The Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell, Clive Barker]()
The Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell, Clive Barker
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis highly acclaimed anthology traces the evolution of horror, from Nathaniel Hawthorn and Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King. Adopted by colleges across the country to be used in literature courses, The Dark Descent showcases some of the finest horror fiction ever written.Contents: Pt. 1 - The Color of EvilThe Reach / Stephen KingEvening Primrose / John CollierThe Ash-Tree / M. R... -
![Not Quite Clear by Lyla Payne]()
Not Quite Clear by Lyla Payne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the 5th book in USAToday Bestselling Author Lyla Payne's LOWCOUNTRY MYSTERY series. It continues to follow Graciela Harper and her friends as she navigates ghosts, romance, in-laws, and the legal system in rural Heron Creek, SC... -
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![Not Quite Right by Lyla Payne]()
Not Quite Right by Lyla Payne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor the living, the dead, and the people stuck somewhere in between, Heron Creek has become a battleground. Graciela Harper might be new seeing ghosts, fighting curses, and just living with her old friends again, but there’s no doubt she’s on the front lines—and overwhelmed.Leo and Mel have been arrested. Amelia teeters on the edge of a deep depression that could cost her her child... -
![Shifters of the Wellsprings: The Complete Paranormal Collection by Leela Ash, Tabitha St. George]()
Shifters of the Wellsprings: The Complete Paranormal Collection by Leela Ash, Tabitha St. George
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection contains both the DRAGON DREAMS and SHIFTERS OF THE AEGIS series. For the first time, get the full 12 book complete story in one box set... It all begins with a mysterious coin that has been handed down through Hannah's family. With her brother in peril, she is desperate... -
![Irish Throne by M. James]()
Irish Throne by M. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo brothers at war. A spy in the ranks. And one last effort at peace… Connor and Liam survived the deadly fire that nearly claimed them and their men, but there’s still danger at every turn. Someone wants their war to come to an end—and that someone doesn’t seem to care who dies in the process. And as for the war on our home front? Connor wants me. I want him... -
![Rangikura by Tayi Tibble]()
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue.Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble.These poems live in the space between the end of the world and a new day... -
![The Lurid Possibility of Murder by Beth Byers]()
The Lurid Possibility of Murder by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOctober 1925 Severine DuNoir has returned home and continued to investigate the death of her parents. She has, however, reached a roadblock. As she tries to break through, she comes across an unexpected offer of help. While she delves into the history of her father’s life, she also starts to investigate the haunting of an elderly woman... -
![A Shadow Beyond by Emma-Nicole Lewis]()
A Shadow Beyond by Emma-Nicole Lewis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of Kate Morton and Barbara Erskine, comes a thrilling and beautiful dual-time novel, set in the present and during 1665 – 1666, when plague broke out in the Peak District village of Eyam. A Shadow Beyond is a heart-rending and chilling tale of sacrifice, love, obsession and tragedy... -
![Mystery in the Darkest Shadow by Beth Byers]()
Mystery in the Darkest Shadow by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOctober 1925 The hunt for the person who killed Severine’s parents continues, and things are intensifying. She’s finally got a direction along with the most unexpected of helpers. Will she be able to find out why they were killed? As she presses forward, she again encounters the man in the shadows... -
![The Wicked Fringe of Mystery by Beth Byers]()
The Wicked Fringe of Mystery by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNovember 1925Severine DuNoir has discovered who has been hunting her. Now she needs to discover why. As the foes circle each other, their friends and family get drawn into the conflict. Just who can Severine trust? How can she stop him? And what will happen to those she loves if she fails? She’s all too afraid the answer is one she won’t be able to live with... -
![Painted Devils by Robert Aickman]()
Painted Devils by Robert Aickman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStories included:RavissanteThe Houses of the RussiansThe ViewRinging the ChangesThe School FriendThe Waiting RoomMarriageLarger Than OneselfMy Poor... -
![Dark and Desperate Things by Kelly Martin]()
Dark and Desperate Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElise Morgan is about to find out that the sins of the father come back to haunt you. Running from Abel Hale seemed like a good idea at the time. Now as the only living soul in her cramped dorm room, Elise thinks maybe she's made a very bad mistake. Naked Girl, who has waited patiently, wants to tell her story. Elise's mom and Abel's mom want to be heard. And Kim Forrester.. -
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![Dark and Dangerous Things by Kelly Martin]()
Dark and Dangerous Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final showdown has begun. With Abel in the hospital and Molly stronger than ever, it is up to Elise and newly released Silas Ford to figure out a way to send Molly back to Hell for good. She won't make it easy, of course. She has bargains to keep. Elise Morgan is ready for this to all be over... -
![The Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. 1 by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say... -
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![The Uncountable Cost of Mystery by Beth Byers]()
The Uncountable Cost of Mystery by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsApril 1926 Severine DuNoir and friends have left New Orleans and started on the trail to just what happened to Jane Oliver.Things are confused and emotions are intense as they find Jane. The relief of finding their missing loved one fades as they have to face what they’ve found? Will their friendship survive? Where do they go from here?Book SIX in the Mysteries of Severine DuNoir... -
![The Ghost Tree by Sara Bain]()
The Ghost Tree by Sara Bain
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA newcomer to a small town must contend with a 17th century poltergeist intent on murder Five years after the death of his wife, MacAoidh Armstrong moves into a smallholding in southern Scotland with the intention of living a self-sufficient existence. Although he’s heard the steading has a reputation for being haunted, the pragmatic Highlander does not believe in ghosts... -
![In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner]()
In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:In the PinesWhere the Summer EndsSticksThe Fourth Seal... -
![Dark and Dreadful Things by Kelly Martin]()
Dark and Dreadful Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can't believe everything you see. Reeling from the events that took place at the King House, Abel Hale and Elise Morgan have been sent to a new haunting at the house of Cody Cain. Except thanks to overhearing a private conversation between Abel and the evil Silas Ford, Elise isn't sure she can trust Abel, much less work with him... -
![Dark and Devious Things by Kelly Martin]()
Dark and Devious Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow that Abel Hale and Elise Morgan have been forced to hunt ghosts for Silas Ford's television show, things are about to get all kinds of freaky. Their first case involves Shonda King, a mother in Kentucky whose friendly childhood ghost has turned into an adult nightmare. Shonda, terrified for the safety of her family, wants Abel and Elise to get rid of the ghost-- by any means necessary... -
![The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman, Reece Shearsmith]()
The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman, Reece Shearsmith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRobert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories in which strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged, but all have the same thing in common: they are brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is... -
![The Soul Auction by Amy Cross]()
The Soul Auction by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“I saw a woman on the beach. I watched her face a demon.” Thirty years after her mother's death, Alice Ashcroft is drawn back to the coastal English town of Curridge. Somebody in Curridge has been reviewing Alice's novels online, and in those reviews there have been tantalizing hints at a hidden truth. A truth that seems to be linked to her dead mother... -
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![Bayou Bodyguard by Jana Deleon]()
Bayou Bodyguard by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsONE REMOTE BAYOU MANSION WAS HOLDING TIGHT TO ITS SECRETS Bodyguard Brian Marcentel knew Justine Chatry had a job to do, but so did he. He'd been hired to keep her safe-- from whatever lurked behind the walls of a long-neglected mansion... -
![The Farm by Amy Cross]()
The Farm by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne farm. Two tragedies, thirty years apart. And a tortured figure whose presence connects both incidents... In 1979, the Bondalen family farm in Norway is home to three young girls. As winter fades to spring, Elizabeth, Kari and Sara each come to face the secrets of the barn, and they each emerge with their own injuries... -
![Pride of Eden by Taylor Brown]()
Pride of Eden by Taylor Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe enthralling new novel from the acclaimed author of Fallen Land, The River of Kings, and Gods of Howl MountainVietnam veteran, retired racehorse jockey, and keeper of secrets, Anse Caulfield rescues exotic big cats, elephants, and other creatures for Little Eden, a wildlife sanctuary near the abandoned ruins of a failed development on the Georgia coast... -
![The House Beneath the Oak Trees by Faye Belle]()
The House Beneath the Oak Trees by Faye Belle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPenny couldn’t believe her luck when they first arrived at Oak Tree House, the grand country estate where she would be spending the week to celebrate her sister’s 30th birthday along with her mum and aunt. Guarded by two gigantic oak trees, the empty house stands alone within Oakdene, a quiet and desolate village... -
![The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by James D. Jenkins, Bernard Taylor]()
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by James D. Jenkins, Bernard Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted. Table of ContentsForeword by James D... -
![Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories by Darcy Coates]()
Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories by Darcy Coates
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomething mimics human voices as it lures you into the woods. One of the morgue's corpses is missing. Your friend wants to meet late at night, but they're not acting like themselves. Immerse yourself in the macabre, the gothic, and the chilling with this collection of fifty short stories... -
![Three Graces by Victoria Connelly]()
Three Graces by Victoria Connelly
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCarys Miller doesn’t believe in the aristocracy nor does she believe in the supernatural. So, when she finds herself married to Richard Bretton, 12th Duke of Cuthland, and living in his haunted house, she wonders if she’s going mad.As the new mistress of Amberley Court, Carys discovers she’s now in charge of a house the size of a small village... -
![He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson by Christopher Conlon, Ed Gorman]()
He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson by Christopher Conlon, Ed Gorman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn anthology of original stories paying tribute to acclaimed short stories and novels of Richard Matheson. Includes the first collaboration between father/son Stephen King and Joe Hill. Also includes work by Whitley Strieber, F. Paul Wilson, Joe Lansdale, John Shirley as well as a collaboration between Matheson and the late Charles Beaumont ("Conjure Wife")... -
![The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition by Paula Guran, Elizabeth Bear]()
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition by Paula Guran, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys, mundane terrors, and supernatural visions. You may stumble into obsession - or find redemption... -
![Ghost Stories From The Raj by Ruskin Bond]()
Ghost Stories From The Raj by Ruskin Bond
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRuskin Bond's readers range from nine to ninety. And if there are such things as ghosts there are probably a few who are reading him in the spirit world... -
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![Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas]()
Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClose your eyes. Picture open plains, wheat stalks swaying gently in the wind. Picture the quaint Main Street of a one-stoplight town. Picture endless summers on sunny, tranquil lakes. With four provocative novellas, Kill Creek author and Kansas native Scott Thomas takes a hatchet to the idyllic tropes of the American heartland... -
![The Amber Light by Ambrose Ibsen]()
The Amber Light by Ambrose Ibsen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome Things Are Better Left Buried...Kim's curiosity reaches a fever pitch. Reaching out to the people who knew the Reeds, she ends up with conflicting accounts of their lives and habits. Nothing is making sense, and with every passing day she becomes less sure of what she knows.An unmarked grave just outside the woods. A series of revelatory dreams... -
![The Complete Hauntings by Vernon Lee]()
The Complete Hauntings by Vernon Lee
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeveral of Lee's stories have been anthologized over the years, yet a complete collection of her supernatural writings, long anticipated by enthusiasts, has never before appeared... -
![The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 by Paula Guran, Lisa Tuttle]()
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 by Paula Guran, Lisa Tuttle
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTake a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark — in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods... -
![Flesh and Blood by Graham Masterton]()
Flesh and Blood by Graham Masterton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerica's biggest pig, Captain Black, undergoes experimental surgery to implant it with the genetic code of a murdered human child. But unknown to the surgeons, the child was a descendant of the vengeful and psychotic "Green Traveller", and the huge pig embarks on a bloody and unstoppable rampage... -
![Taibhse: Aparición by Carolina Lozano]()
Taibhse: Aparición by Carolina Lozano
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEn Escocia abundan los fantasmas y muchos escoceses creen en su existencia. Para Lia, una joven de Barcelona que estudia en el colegio Royal Dunedin de Edimburgo, estas tradiciones sólo forman parte de la leyenda urbana de la ciudad, pero un día conoce a Álastair, de quien se enamora, y con él descubrirá la otra cara de la ciudad llena de muerte y de vida, de luz y oscuridad... -
![The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling]()
The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMisery meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence. Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated... -
![Phantoms: Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre by Marie O'Regan, Joe Hill]()
Phantoms: Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre by Marie O'Regan, Joe Hill
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA stunning new ghost story anthology featuring stories from bestselling authors Joe Hill, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay and M.R. CareyThe brightest names in horror showcase a ghastly collection of eighteen ghost stories that will have you watching over your shoulder, heart racing at every bump in the night. In “My Life in Politics” by M.R... -
![Spook House by Michael West]()
Spook House by Michael West
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are some places in this world that go far beyond any normal definition of “haunted.” These places are so evil, so diabolical, that they become gateways to Hell itself. The Fuller Farm is one such place.It is said that old man Fuller conducted unspeakable acts, blood rituals and human sacrifices, all in an attempt to gain the ultimate knowledge, the ultimate power... -
![Cinema of Shadows by Michael West]()
Cinema of Shadows by Michael West
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the Woodfield Movie Palace. The night the Titanic sank, it opened for business...and its builder died in his chair. In the 1950s, there was a fire; a balcony full of people burned to death. And years later, when it became the scene of one of Harmony, Indiana's most notorious murders, it closed for good. Abandoned, sealed, locked up tight...until now... -
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![Ghostly Stories by Celia Fremlin]()
Ghostly Stories by Celia Fremlin
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFaber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'Be sure you don't answer the door to anyone you don't know.'A little Patricia Highsmith, a touch of Shirley Jackson: the long-neglected Celia Fremlin wrote short, sharp stories that threw women's lives into shiver-inducing relief... -
![Alphabet Soup: Horror Stories for the Tormented Soul by Tobias Wade, P.F. McGrail]()
Alphabet Soup: Horror Stories for the Tormented Soul by Tobias Wade, P.F. McGrail
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThriller, horror, and suspense short stories. Multiple Award-Winning authors. A is for Addiction...B is for Barnacles...C is for Clairvoyance...Discover the rest of these original horror stories from around the world. Each author chose a letter of the alphabet and was given complete artistic freedom to make something horrible happen... -
![Stephen by Amy Cross]()
Stephen by Amy Cross
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFresh from the convent, Beryl Seaton accepts a position as governess for the Brooks family. When she arrives at the family's remote house, however, she discovers that a terrible secret is waiting for her in the nursery. From the author of Asylum and The Farm, Stephen is a horror novel about a young woman who finds herself torn between two worlds... -
![Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub]()
Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis spectacular collection of 13 dark, haunting tales by bestselling author Straub exposes the terrors that hide beneath the surface of the ordinary world, behind the walls of houses without doors. "Straub at his spellbinding best".--Publishers Weekly... -
![Women and Ghosts: Tales by Alison Lurie]()
Women and Ghosts: Tales by Alison Lurie
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story. In nine spooky tales, Alison Lurie writes of women haunted by ghosts both literal and metaphorical: A woman about to marry Mr... -
![The Memento by ChristyAnn Conlin]()
The Memento by ChristyAnn Conlin
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Memento is a dazzling, gothic and often mordantly funny meditation on the persistence of memory as a living, perhaps undead thing. The summer Fancy Mosher turns twelve, she goes to work at Petal’s End, the rotting, sprawling mansion perched on the cliffs of The Bay of Fundy...
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