Ghost House Mystery

The monsters of this world maybe closer than you think. Behind closed doors, many of us indulge in horror films and violent graphic novels, but unknown sadism and dangers are closer than we think. And if you truly dig deep, you just might find puzzles that will unlock secrets within your own family tree. In, Monsters and Mysteries Around the Corner, follow author and researcher, Connor Flynn as he takes you on a journey across the country in pursuit of the monsters and mysteries that lurk in the shadows, hide just around the corner, and live in the dark recesses of our own minds. So, buckle...

The world thinks that Jacob Shepherd can speak to the dead. He can’t. For years, he has gotten by through deception and intuition. When hired to clear a country estate of angry spirits, Jacob sees it as a great opportunity for a much-needed getaway with his six-year old daughter Grace. But relaxation turns to terror as Jacob and Grace are pulled into a web of lies, betrayal, murder, and very angry ghosts.

Anna. A horror author who crashes funerals. Harper. A hunky, offbeat mortician. Megan. A barista who sees dead people. In While the Cat’s Away (Dearly Departed Book 2), Anna Calvert is a rising young horror author who has a secret obsession with funerals. However, Anna thinks the paranormal world is pure fiction until she becomes close to a psychic who sees dead people and a hunky funeral director who knows more about the afterlife than she ever imagined. Now, Anna has a stalker. But who is he? And will this threat from a human pale in comparison to a malevolent spirit that has ...

When one man's scheme to create the Greatest Freak Show on Earth leads to an insane obsession that can only end in devastating tragedy. The ghoulish proprietor of a Victorian arcade specifically designed to showcase the myriad of freaks, outcasts, and oddities that abound in old London town is a man driven by his own dark desires. Rodney Thompson is an emotionless, sadistic person who craves glory above all else - at least until the beautiful Violet wafts into his world. From the very day when Violet first takes a dainty step inside the arcade, Rodney is determined to make her his own. A ...

Joey’s a mechanic. One night, she receives a call from her best friend, asking for his car to be picked up from the infamous body dumping grounds of Baltimore: Leakin' Park. When she arrives, there’s little more around than a stalled-out car and a couple of ravens, so she leaves only with the car. Back at the body shop, it doesn’t take long for the smell of rot to permeate the trunk. Inside? A corpse. The cops say her friend did it. His absence is his guilt, but Joey knows better. She will find her missing friend, and she will prove his innocence.

When Jillian Cooper purchased one of Pomme Valley's historic properties, Highland House, little did she know a violent murder happened there over 70 years ago. Tasking Zack and the dogs with disproving the rumors that Dame Highland's ghost walked the halls, guarding her long hidden treasure, Jillian moves forward with her plans to turn the historic house into a bed-and-breakfast.

A newlywed couple purchase a much desired haunted house with disastrous results, a young woman may lose her job and mind on the way to Alaska, and a group of high school girls attempt immortality in a last resort to save a friend. Connell takes on patriarchy and culture with a singular voice that will make you think, laugh, and shiver long after you finish listening.

In this romantic mystery, twenty-eight-year-old Misty Sumner, aspiring writer and librarian of St. Mary's School, abandons her dream of becoming a writer one day, quitting the writer's group that meets at the library Tuesday nights in favor of joining the sisters who raised her. Growing up an orphan at St. Mary's, love and belonging are worth more to Misty than her dream of one day becoming a best-selling novelist. Since sweet romance is not in the cards for Misty, she will become a nun. But in order to do that, she must prove her good intentions and convince her priest that she is serious....

Misty Dawn, a former Hollywood psychic to the stars, knows the dark and sometimes glamorous streets of Los Angeles are full of secrets, broken promises, and dashed hopes. When a young woman comes to her door because she’s lost her engagement ring and is afraid to tell her fiancé (the son of one of the world’s biggest cosmetics empires), Misty senses it’s no accident. Together Misty Dawn and her psychic charge, Wilson Thorne, must not only sneak behind the walls of the Conroy Estate (aka The House That Vanity Built), but go beyond the veil where the luminaries have laid plans to seek ...

Thirteen-year-old Britney Danison longs to be back home in Vermont after her family moves to Willowild, Louisiana. In this lonely, creepy place, she misses her old friends, her old school, and her old house, especially after she hears about the famous phantom that haunts the swamp. When she sees the ghost and odd things start happening, she and her new friend, Zack, familiar with the bayou all his life, are determined to uncover the truth. Who or what is the phantom? Is it dangerous? Why does the Phantom of Willowild seem particularly interested in Britney? The answers lie hidden deep in ...

In this sweet romance Third Time's the Charm, the third book in the Fredericksburg County Series, Deputy Sheriff Jon Cavanagh has everything he’s ever wanted, a great job, two growing boys, and a woman who adores his body, everything except his estranged wife. He’s joined SLED, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, bought a new home, and begun a new life with his two sons. As a SLED agent, Jon's new job is to work in tandem with other law enforcement agencies, in this case, his old boss, Alec Harmon. SLED agent Jon Cavanagh said goodbye to love a long time ago. The last thing he ...

Ran McGhie's world has been turned upside down. A young, lonely and frustrated writer, and suffering from mental health problems, he discovers that his long-dead mother was related to one of Glasgow's oldest merchant families. Not only that, but Ran has inherited Newton Hall, a vast mansion that belonged to his great-uncle, who appears to have been watching from afar as his estranged great-nephew has grown up.

When a body is discovered in a mine shaft, high in the mountains above Quandary, Sheriff Breckenridge "Breck" Dyer and Deputy Jenny O'Hara follow the evidence to a cryptocurrency conference at the ski resort. It’s a strange mix of high rollers, hipsters, CEOs, and tech gurus from all over, but the investigation hits a snag when their main suspect disappears—and the only witness won’t talk. Complicating matters, Breck is under investigation himself in an election year, and he has to prove to both the district attorney and the people of Quandary that he isn’t a corrupt cop.

Shannon O’Reilly is a teenager with a problem - she can see her ancestors’ ghosts, and they want her to solve their 100-year old murder mystery. Annabelle and Lily Edmonson have been waiting a long time for someone to see them so that they can tell their story of betrayal, and finally reveal their true killer. When Shannon begins researching the murders at the local library, someone takes notice. She begins receiving threatening notes and photographs taken of her without her knowledge. An explosion at her home takes away what she holds most dear - her parents. A secret society steps in ...

When Odette Stevenson rents a hunting lodge in Raven Valley, she discovers it's haunted by the spirits of a murder-suicide from 25 years ago. With her allies, she attempts to uncover the truth in order to put the spirits to rest. But the secrets of Raven Valley run deep, and the price of revealing them may be their lives.

Mikey and his friends thought they had successfully freed the ghosts of the children in the garden, but they were mistaken. Now faced with a new mystery, Mikey and his friends must enter a haunted mansion, uncover its secrets, and finally bring the killer to justice once and for all in this final book of the Children series. Can Mikey trust a ghost to solve a mystery one last time?

This classic collection of macabre tales, one of 10 such anthologies by Algernon Blackwood, was first published in 1916. It includes, "The Empty House", "A Haunted Island", "A Case of Eavesdropping", "Keeping His Promise", "With Intent to Steal", "The Wood of the Dead", "Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House", "A Suspicious Gift", "The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York", and "Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp".

When her life as a New York City attorney becomes an unbearable moral burden, Lois Golden packs up her teenage daughter Janet and heads to rural Vermont to fulfill her childhood dream of owning a small-town inn. However, this inn holds a wealth of dark secrets, full of deceit, death, and horrifying experiments that have left an undeniable mark of evil. When a vengeful spirit emerges, forcing all within the inn to experience their greatest fears, will Lois be able to fight back and salvage her dream from the nightmare it has become?

A run-of-the-mill haunted house is one thing. A murderous soldier on horseback is quite another. Artful Doyle and Darrish Fox, the only two members of the newly-minted "Ghost Division" at the Bureau, are sent to investigate an isolated manor reported to be haunted. But when they lose their way in the woods, and then meet with a terrifying horseman, they find themselves driven straight into the dark unknown... “The Road to Davisham Manor” is the third book in Alydia-Rackham’s fast-paced “Bureau of Investigative Time-Travel” series. If you like steampunk intrigue, immersive plunges ...

When Roumoult Cranston drives to Newburgh to attend a family reunion, a hired assassin awaits him. He survives the attack, but this is only the beginning and the NYPD suspect a malicious murderer is hiring assassins to kill Roumoult. Despite the warnings of his father and the NYPD, Roumoult takes matters into his own hands and discovers a crypt hiding a deadly secret. A secret that links him to the killer, a secret that he would take to his grave. But that’s not all. Roumoult and the killer are descendants of powerful men. Men with murderous intent. Men who would stop at nothing. Roumoult...