Ghost Humor

The author of The Last Word novel series returns with a collection of short stories not set in that fictional bookselling world. The nineteen stories span multiple genres, from contemporary fiction to historical to horror to autobiographical, so there’s something for everyone. This collection will rekindle your love of the short story.

Horrid Henry slugs it out with brother Perfect Peter over who uses the remote control, then he stays in a haunted house and gets a nasty shock. He finds out where the X is going to be on the map in the school treasure hunt, and finally makes a memorable appearance as a TV star.

HD Schenk is a maker—an inventor, someone who builds cool stuff. He's got a plan for the summer: He'll build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. Then everyone will know who he is and what he can do. To earn enough money for the parts he'll need, HD has promised to clear out his uncle's overflowing basement. No big deal, right? But there's more in that basement than HD bargained for. On his first trip down there, a voice only he can hear starts talking to him. About...sauerkraut?

HALLOWEEN AT THE FARM unleashes hijinks, horror, happiness and heavenly memories. Dried cornstalks beneath a full yellow moon. Glowing jack o’lanterns. The smell of wood smoke trailing crisp autumn air. Witches riding broomsticks. Ghosts and skeletons dangling from trees. Mischief and mayhem. Pumpkins, pranks, phantoms, goblins, ghouls and other specters in the night. The often tranquil farm bursts alive with adventure, fun, fear and sometimes even a wandering devil each October. Revisit the “good old days” on the farm where those lucky enough to have lived in the country recall: 1. A...

Another beautiful collection of Poems & Short Stories from Award Winning Author Robert E. Kearns (1st Place 2019 Pencraft Awards for Hy Brasil: Island of Eternity) With Poems & Short Stories volume 2, Kearns gives us a further edition of his thought provoking poetry along with several of his highly entertaining short stories. If prose and poetry are your thing, this is the book for you.

Welcome to the seaside town of New Shrimpton, where magic is in the air, shrimp can be scooped up by the barrel, and a murderer hides in plain sight… Alice Munroe is the only PI in town, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a little help. For one, she can speak to animals and plants… though her cat, the extravagantly grumpy Mr. Ploppers, sometimes makes her wish she couldn’t. Still, when that’s not enough, she has a few other magical tricks up her sleeve. Things go sideways, however, when she’s hired to investigate a death that everyone has written off as natural. Save for ...

The night after her father's funeral, Claire meets Lucas in a bar. Lucas doesn't know it, but it's not a chance meeting. One thoughtless mistyped email has put him in the crosshairs of an extremely put-out serial killer. But before they make eye contact, before Claire lets him buy her a drink, even before she takes him home and carves him up into little pieces, something about that night is very wrong. Because someone is watching Claire. Someone who is about to discover her murderous little hobby.

Bei Freddy und Flo ist es immer aufregend – denn sie wohnen in einem Spukhaus! Mit einer Hexe, einem Vampir und einem Werwolf. Jetzt läuten die Hochzeitsglocken: Vampir Vigor und Elfe Bettina wollen heiraten! Doch dann wird der Vampir verhaftet. Angeblich hat er ein magisches Amulett gestohlen. Ein Amulett, das einen Vampir in einen Menschen verwandeln kann! Ist Vigor wirklich ein Dieb? Freddy und Flo wollen es nicht glauben und ermitteln ... Maria Kling und Marc-Uwe Kling sind zurück – mit einem neuen komisch- gruftigen Krimihörbuch um die Geschwister Freddy und Flo.

In their second adventure, Jack, his best friend Nancy and Stoop (a grumpy, 200-year-old monster hunter) head up to Scotland after reports of some mysterious monsters causing chaos in an ancient abbey. And maybe they’ll even get a glimpse of Nessie! But when they get there they find some obstacles in their path – whether that’s the fog goblins, disgruntled ghosts, some very odd loch monsters and even a rival monster hunting agency.

At long last, all of Bridget Sway's dreams are about to come true! She is in a department store. Shopping. Yes. Shopping! She has new makeup. New shoes. And, most importantly, is finally about to get some new underwear. But, instead of finding a frilly knicker and bra set, she finds the body of a dead medium. A familiar dead medium.

It's just another day at the office for world-famous superhero Doctor Extraordinary as he battles his arch-nemesis Captain Chaos in yet another epic showdown. Unfortunately, this one doesn't quite go to plan, and they both get blown up inside a giant robot. Dr Ex's number one fan, 12-year-old Sonny Nelson, is devastated. A world without heroes is totally rubbish! But things take an even more extraordinary turn when Doctor Ex returns as a ghost and only Sonny can see him.

Frank Barnes, a former professor and senator from West Virginia, is running for president of the United States. Tired of the corruption and illegal acts perpetrated by the current president, he’s determined to make a difference. Behind in the polls, Frank hasn’t a ghost of a chance of winning, until a real ghost - the ghost of Theodore Roosevelt makes a startling appearance. A book bought for Frank’s birthday, Alice in Wonderland, came from Teddy’s personal library and his ghost is attached to that book.

In a town surrounded by deadly mist, and filled with oddities, two young siblings become orphans. And that's the best thing that's happened to them all day. Howard Howard was a Wrecker (a brute and bully by profession) who was brutal and bullish to his children - Aubrey and Aubrey's sister. Howard Howard deserved to be turned into mince, and thanks to a mysterious duo called The Grinders, that's exactly what happened to Howard Howard.

WHEN A VAMPIRE MEETS THE SEXY GHOST OF JEROME BONAPARTE AT NIAGARA FALLS... WILL SHE BE SWEPT AWAY BY HIS MANLY NAVIGATIONAL SKILLS? Follow our heroine's latest amazing adventures as she's taken over the falls in more ways than one. This is a short, erotic tale that doesn't take itself seriously. Or maybe it does. It's all in how you interpret "taken." Ahem. For mature (18+ years old) readers. This book contains scenes of explicit sex, Niagara Falls trivia, and intimate ghostly encounters in a boat. Yes, darling, it's about 2,400 words of juicy, paranormal erotica to inspire you. Or make ...

In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life after the wildness of their Paris days. Witness to this tumultuous arrival is Blanca, the ghost of a teenage girl who has been at the monastery for over three hundred years. Blanca’s was a life cut short and she is outraged. Having lived in a world full, according to her mother, of ‘beautiful men’, she has found that in death it is the women she falls for.

Bernadette Maxwell and her ghostly grandmother, Ruby, are on the case as they take on murder, mayhem and mischief in this boxset containing a wild ride of humor, trouble and hijinks. The Guest is a Goner: When a body is found upstairs in Bernie’s Bed and Breakfast, the sheriff is convinced she’s responsible for the murder. Bernie and Ruby must work together to find the real killer before Bernie’s thrown in prison for a crime she didn’t commit. The Tourist is Toast: When Bernie and her ghostly grandmother, Ruby, witness the killing of a tourist from a far, they find themselves ...

Did he die because of money, love or revenge? When a man is found dead in a hotel room, Bernie’s friend, Darla, becomes one of the main suspects. With her fragile mental health on the line, she begs Bernie to find the real killer to save her from spiraling into a dark episode. Bernie and Deputy Adam Gallagher have been an item for months, but when she questions him about the murder, she finds him unwilling to give her the information she needs to ease Darla’s concerns. To find the true killer, Bernie is forced to make a decision that could ruin her relationship with Adam… if she’s ...

Love thy neighbor… or kill them? When the house across the street sells and Sylvia moves in, Bernie’s quiet neighborhood is turned upside down. Demanding, rude and determined to have things her way, Sylvia threatens to have Bernie’s bed and breakfast shut down while also making life difficult for the other neighbors. Just as the residents come together to fight the offending newcomer, she’s found murdered. The suspect list is long, but since Bernie has the most to lose, the Sheriff has her in his sights. Can Bernie and her ghostly grandmother, Ruby, solve the killing before she’s ...

Three thousand years ago, King David wrote The Book of Psalms—hymns in praise of God that became famous worldwide. Now, with humanity on the verge of a self-generated catastrophe, God (with the help of another David) has decided to return, and reverse, the favor. God has collected a cornucopia of insults of the human race in the form of prose, poetry, and parody. From topics as diverse as COVID-19, Trump, racism, abortion, meth, math, and on a lighter note, the platypus, God provides a 21st-century spin on life’s many problems. And he’s not alone.

Struck down by shingles, Cleo Byng postpones her wedding and heads north to recuperate at her infuriating Cousin Henry's house in the wintry Eyotshire village of Hazard. She's not sure what to expect, and Haphazard House turns out to be a dilapidated Elizabethan pile with few amenities and a doom-laden housekeeper, not to mention a strange pair who have been in residence for rather more than the usual life span and have a keen interest in modern technology.