Ghost Anthology

My father’s assigning a bodyguard to me. I wonder how long it’ll take before I get rid of him. True, it’s hard work, being a member of the Grieve family. We’re all necromancers, and the public’s never exactly appreciated the art. My father’s getting into power, and says I need protection. So he summons a big, hulking werewolf bodyguard out of nowhere. The kind that can make even the bravest soul scared. Trouble is… My bodyguard hates me. I see it in his eyes, and his expression. He finds my magic abhorrent. He finds me abhorrent. Either my bodyguard will do his job properly…...

Have you been looking for a way to bring the family together during stormy nights? Have you been looking for something to listen to by the campfire on your next vacation? This book is full of thrilling tales that were made to keep children invested in the story. As your kids listen to these stories, their vocabulary will grow. Many of these chapters also reinforce the morals that you have already taught your little ones.

There's no end to the things that terrify Homer Feltz: tinfoil, fast food, his shopaholic Aunt Mandy. Only his father, manager of a disastrously bad major-league team, seems to understand him, and offers him any refuge from a world quickly becoming too big, too grown-up, and too crowded with everyday horrors for Homer to manage.

Sixteen thrilling and chilling stories by some of the greatest writers of horror and the supernatural, including Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce, R.L.Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant and John Polidori, who is held to be the creator of the first vampire tale. An audio treat for Halloween or any other night when the moon is high, these stories are rich in imagination, humor, and characterization.

I don’t care if I’m a princess, I refuse to marry out of obligation. My father always said I could marry whom I chose. Now he says I have to marry his friend. Hurt and angry, I left the palace to elope with my lover. Then I stumbled upon an unbelievably handsome stranger. He not only saved me from danger, He saved me from myself. I had never heard of shifters before him, But now I am completely in love with one. Author's Note: This is a steamy stand alone romance with an HEA. It is intended for 18+

A teenage girl’s unnatural obsession with an ancient coin leads to bloodshed. Supernatural evil bides its time, as it lurks within the gears of an old grandfather clock. And a new bride discovers her mother-in-law is willing to go to terrifying lengths to build the perfect family....

Las ficciones tragicómicas reunidas en este libro tienen un común denominador: la irrupción de una voluntad avasalladora en las vidas de hombres y mujeres vulnerables que renacen o se desmoronan bajo el influjo de sus fantasmas. ¿En qué se transforman los seres proclives a dejarse invadir, ya sea en la entrega amorosa, en la idolatría, o en la sumisión a un artífice traicionero? Siete cuentos de humor negro relatan ese apocalipsis íntimo desde el ojo de la tormenta.

Of Two Hearts Two women. Two supernatural encounters. Two unforgettable love stories. In Of Two Hearts, acclaimed author Brian Jackson brings together two emotionally charged, paranormal romance novellas for the first time in one hauntingly beautiful volume. With signature warmth, wit, and a dash of the otherworldly, Jackson invites readers on a journey into the mysterious depths of love, loss, and redemption—where the heart may be broken, but never beyond repair. In Spirit of the Heart, Julia Wilcox, a modern-day writer seeking solace and inspiration, retreats to a long-abandoned ...

My friend surprised me with a new man. A dragon shifter. She hired him for me as a surprise. A strong, alpha dragon, looking for a mate. How exactly could I say no to such a generous offer? I live in a small town. There’s not much happening here. Kieran’s handsome, nice, and quite a catch. I’m with him, and it’s going great. Right until the point where I get pregnant with his shifter baby. I’ve no idea how to break it to him, but the man has to know he’ll be a father. There’s also the fact his family doesn't want him out here. His brother’s trying to get him to return to ...

Nolan Lerner is guilty. His past is a thing choked with secrets, blood � and sunflowers. Only Nolan knows what really happened that summer in 1977, when his younger brother, an idiot savant named Morris, built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors inside, doors leading into other worlds.

This bundle includes Basil and the Lost Colony, Basil and the Big Cheese Cook-Off, Basil and the Royal Dare, and Basil and the Library Ghost.

She’s to travel to an unknown land. Hopefully, she lives long enough to make it back, too… Evelyn’s calling is in the skies. She’s an air witch of considerable strength, used to sailing ships across long distances. Her renown is such so that she’s taken by rich clients, willing to pay obscene amounts to have her on their planned trip. A trip that happens to be right to a cursed land. Where no one in their right mind would go. Janus Ruthe, on the other hand, is the one pumping money into the trip. He’ll do anything to solve the issues of illness ravaging the Six Isles. He’ll ...

First published in 1917 by Alfred A. Knopf, this collection of Algernon Blackwood's short stories includes some of his most beloved classics.

A horror parapsychology book set during the 19th to 20th centuries. Enter a realm of suspense and fear where supernatural encounters are tangible, and the spectral world intersects with our own time and again. "Haunting and Horror" uncovers chilling narratives of ghostly phenomena, historic investigations, and paranormal accounts that span continents and centuries. Each story within it, from the haunted alleys of London to the spectral-charged homes in Georgia, paints a vivid picture of otherworldly visitors. Discover how an innate **fear of darkness** shared by humans and animals alike, ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton was most well known for her novels that illuminated privileged life in the 19th century, such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. In addition to her award-winning novels, she also wrote poetry and short stories. Collected here are some of her best works of short fiction, including: "The Eyes", a famous ghost story; "The Daunt Diana", which tells about the love of art; "The Moving Finger", an eerie story about a man clinging to his wife's memory; and "The Debt", a story of loyalty.

A Gift of Ghosts: Akira has secrets. But so does the town of Tassamara. A Gift of Thought: Sylvie Blair swore she’d never go back to Tassamara. She was wrong. The Spirits of Christmas: Akira's plans are simple: Write wedding invitations, bake Christmas cookies, and eat red meat. (The last surprises her, too.) But when Rose, the ghost who haunts her house, asks for a favor, Akira can't say no. A Gift of Time: Natalya thought she knew everything. Time is proving her wrong.

The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver's fifth collection of 'strange' stories are as varied and unusual as ever, though, as in previous volumes, the theatre forms the milieu of a number of his tales. But the theatres are not just English ones, in the provinces and the West End: one is on the Black Sea; another in post-colonial Kenya. Themes are equally varied, but underlying all is a deep sense of the spiritual under-currents just below the surface of everyday existence, and the precariousness of 'normality'.

William Stuart presents 16 tales of terror that will leave you wondering what may be lurking nearby. A mad professor delivers deadly punishments to his captive pupils. A children’s game sets an entire mythology in motion. A talented girl’s drawings win her a set of pencils that bring her creations to life. An old investigator comes out of retirement to face down one final ghost from his past. You catch a shadow in your peripheral vision…is there something moving in that window? A ghost? A killer? Or is it just A Trick of the Light?

Governed by Whimsy: The Anthology is a collection of short stories set in Forthright's Amaranthine universe. Before the Emergence, the clans were nothing more than whispers and mysteries and legends and lore. But every so often - in out-of-the-way places or shockingly close to home - an unsuspecting person stumbled into a fateful encounter with someone who was decidedly other.

A mother and her daughter come to the remote Orkneys to grieve and find themselves instead dealing with a ghostly Viking legend. A Dark Ages king doesn’t realise his wife carries another man’s child and she is desperate for him not to find out. A young woman, who has spent her whole life hiding her supernatural strength, discovers on the eve of her wedding that she is Odin’s daughter. Sir Percival’s sister finds herself trapped in a castle of bloodletting sorcerers with only her sexuality as a weapon.