British Ghosts

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE Gated is a UK & US Horror Chart Top 10 best seller, the 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & the 2014 Full Moon Awards Horror Book of the year. Michael and Emily are a happy and contented English couple, a writer and a school teacher. Their lives are complete when Emily falls pregnant, however their dreams are shattered one cold winter night by a car accident that robs them of their happiness. To overcome their loss they up stick and move to Eden ...

Muchos crean que Inglaterra es una tierra llena de fantasmas. Durante siglos, la gente ha contado historias de fantasmas que acechaban sus edificios históricos, extrañas criaturas acechando en sus primitivos bosques, y caminos inexplicables que unen sus antiguos sitios. Y naturalmente, como una de las capitales más históricas del mundo, cada paso en Londres lleva a los visitantes a través de cientos de años de historia. Desde las más magníficas avenidas y monumentos hasta las más humildes calles y casas particulares, parece que cada ladrillo y adoquín tiene una historia que contar.

Myles Phillipson, the local magistrate, is eager to obtain the lands of Kraster and Dorothy Cook by any means necessary. He frames the couple for theft and sees that they are hanged. But on the scaffold Dorothy curses him. He might build his mansion on the lakeside where the Cooks' house once stood, but he would never know a moment's peace from that moment on. Myles is a practical man, not given to superstition, but when he holds a banquet in his newly built stately pile, he hears noises from upstairs--rolling and bouncing, and then demonic laughter. On the wall, the shadows of two macabre ...

England is an ancient land steeped in history and tradition, filled with prehistoric ruins, majestic castles, and a countryside sculpted from millennia of human habitation. Thus, it is not surprising that many believe England is a land filled with ghosts. The Ghosts of London: A Collection of Ghost Stories from the British Capital offers a sampling of the many strange ghost stories and unexplained phenomena that make London such an intriguing place.

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE Hugo Montague was a man of boundless cruelty that lived on beyond his mortal days. The portrait that he commissioned has hung on many walls, but has always overseen tragedy and murder. The painting was long thought destroyed in a fire, but now there are those desperate to find the portrait if it still exists Travis Parker was an insurance investigator, but now he is a widower trapped within his own pain and broken promises. When he is approached by the mysterious Telfer Vargas...

When decades-old human bones are discovered beneath the old glasshouse behind Foxglove & Hemlock, the local florist, DS Harriet March and DI Ben Taylor find themselves digging into Raven's Edge's murky past. As a frosty wind whips down the cobblestoned lanes of the village, the two detectives feel an ominous chill that has nothing to do with the weather… The discovery coincides with the arrival of enigmatic novelist Iris Evergreen at Raven's Hollow, a gothic monstrosity of a mansion that's been sitting empty for years.

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE It has been 10 years since the events in the small picturesque town of Eden. Lives were forever altered as two newcomers found the courage to peek behind the curtain and bring Tolan Christian's reign to a violent end as the town burned around them. No-one was more affected than Sarah-Jane Mears. The once bubbly ball of good nature is now a shadow of the former woman she used to be. After travelling to try and find a new home she has eventually settled in Northern England. She ...

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is... When Lucy and Jack purchase a run-down terraced house, they're thrilled at the prospect of turning it into a fast profit. Leaving his wife and daughter living in their nearby flat, Jack moves in to begin work. But excitement soon turns to horror when he makes a chilling discovery beneath the floorboards. Strange occurrences plague every renovation step, from mysterious whispers to inexplicable shadows lurking in the empty house. Even with the discovery of something horrific, Jack moves his family in and rents their flat as soon as ...

Halloween means parties and the local residents association are planning a get-together at the Queen Languoreth to celebrate Halloween. However, with everyone out in the street at the same time, this opens the window for a gang of cat-phobic robbers to come in and take advantage. Leger and Ginger have overheard the men planning the robbery in an alleyway but can they uncover the identity of Gus and Andy in time? Meanwhile, a local man has discovered the body of a cat who looks just like Leger and taken the body to Annabella for burial. Annabella isn't sure it's really Leger who has died but...

It seems like the answer to their prayers: a cash-in-hand residential job in a part of the country where no-one knows them – and no-one can find them.To single mother Bridget Sweeny and her daughter, Rospetroc House means sanctuary and a fresh start, with new names and new hope for the future. But the isolated manor on Bodmin Moor guards its own secrets: a history of high staff turnover and a disturbing reputation in the village. Strange things begin to happen: furniture moves by itself, Bridget hears whispers and footsteps in the empty corridors, and often has an eerie feeling that she ...

The House on Thornhallow Moor (Book One of the Between Heartbeats Series) On the wind-swept cliffs overlooking Blackwater Hollow stands Thornhallow Moor—a house bound by secrets older than the sea. When Clara Wren returns to the neglected Victorian estate of her childhood, she expects memories, perhaps even closure. But the house has waited patiently for her arrival, harboring more than just dust and echoes of the past. Whispers drift through empty rooms, footprints glisten with seawater, and in the shadows stands Silas Vale—a ship’s captain lost to a storm over a century ago. Bound ...

Dana didn’t heed the warning about not using the house on the island at Christmas time. She went ahead and did it anyway. But some doors are better left unopened. When Dana and Sterling decide to escape London’s dreary confines, and spend Christmas at the families island house, they defied a Christmas tradition. No one should spend Christmas day at the cove. When the couple arrive they discover a ghostly Christmas tree, its candles burned to stubs, and a dust-covered copy of A Christmas Carol, relics of a bygone era. But their fascination turns to horror when the veil between the living...

Jenny thought her life was finally settling into something ordinary—until everything shattered Haunted by a lover who refuses to stay dead and hunted by a ruthless Satanist obsessed with stealing her psychic gifts, Jenny’s world is spiralling into the unthinkable. Her powers are growing, but so is the danger. Just when she believes the past is behind her, Detective Mark Bishop walks back into her life—dragging old wounds with him. Their history is complicated, their chemistry undeniable, and their trust fractured. But Mark may be the only one who can help her survive what’s coming. ...

'It was as if whoever or whatever was in there knew I had arrived and at last had what they wanted. Something was waiting for me and I shuddered and felt a cold trickle of sweat run down my spine.' It had all started so perfectly, but life never turns out quite as you planned. ‘Our new home,’ Beth had whispered. ‘Our dream house. New beginnings.’ But she couldn’t have been more wrong… From the author of the Write Here, Right Now 2018 Prize shortlisted 'When She Was Bad' and the acclaimed 'Bad For Good', a new novel that will chill you to the core Praise for Neil Bailey’s ...

In 1988 a famous record producer took his own life and a woman vanished after attending a party at Crow’s Cottage. When the cottage’s owner passes away decades later, the property falls into the hands of his nephew, who finds a strange box hidden there. It is a replica of an infamous occult device called the Mephisto Arcane. In the wake of its discovery come sightings of an apparition. The crew of the paranormal TV show Where the Dead Walk are invited to investigate the haunting. They are about to find the past guards its secrets jealously.

High in the mountains of Western Canada sits Revelstoke: a paranormal window area unlike any other. From hauntings to UFOs to sightings of Sasquatch and more, author Brennan Storr first brought the supernatural history of his remote hometown to light in 2016 and now, in this expanded second edition, A Strange Little Place: The Paranormal Secrets of Revelstoke, British Columbia, goes even further: learn about one home’s resident ghosts, who so resented a rowdy intruder they caused them physical harm, or the mysterious intelligence which seems to occupy a lush river valley.

In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic slave trade. In this outstanding example of vivid, committed and empathetic historical analysis, C. L. R. James illuminates these epoch-making events.

What will it take to catch a killer? DI Jo Wolfe’s life is turned upside down the day she falls from her horse and is left in a coma for six long months. Once awake, she is unnerved to find that she is psychic and can hear the dead when she touches them. Can she get used to her new ability and work out how to use it to help solve crimes? Jo’s partner, DS Byrd, doesn’t believe in the supernatural and so when innocent girls start to die and Jo gets messages from them, he is torn. However, there is no time to lose, for when Jo is kidnapped by the evil perpetrator, supernatural or ...

This box set includes the complete Ghosts of Southampton series, Books 0, 1, and 2! Meg and Charlie meet on Titanic, but their lives were intertwined long before they ever stepped foot on the doomed ship. Follow their story from the very beginning.Prelude: A Prequel Book 0 An arranged marriage, an abusive family, a dream of freedom in America just out of reach.... After Meg Westmoreland’s father mysteriously dies when she’s a small child, her life quickly spirals out of control. Her mother is mean and manipulative, her uncle abusive in a way Meg won’t even speak of. Getting away from ...

High above Chichester, clinging to the wall of the Cathedral, sits a gargoyle. Watching... . The new paranormal mystery series from Amazon bestselling crime and thriller writer, Wendy Cartmell. Perfect for fans of horror suspense from John Connolly, Stephen King, Stephen Leather, C J Tudor, Iain Rob Wright and John Bowen. A man calling himself The Watcher is terrorising young women in Chichester. He pays for sex with them and hoping to get them pregnant, he refuses to take precautions and viciously assaults them. The only flaw in his plan is that all the pregnant women have abortions. Or do...