Ghost Occult

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore—old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth. And she soon suspects the proprietors are hiding something. Then she meets the mysterious mother and young boy who live in the grounds—and together they begin to unpick the secrets of this place.

“Jennifer, what’s the matter? Open the door, Jennifer.” I was shouting. She tried to crawl out of bed but before she could get herself together the entire bed had begun to rise with her on it. Then with a thunderous crash it shattered on the floor. Her hand fell against something coarse and wet. It felt like hair! No, a face! She grasped the object and brought it up to her eyes, and she froze in terror! Her body trembled, and tears rolled down her cheeks as she held Henry Kagan’s decapitated head by its blood-soaked hair, his gruesome face with the nose bone collapsed and the ...

When the dead come calling, there’s no ignoring the message. A gut-wrenching ghost horror short story with a twisted ending that sticks with you. The young and determined David Grimsley is an oddball in his primary school class. He has fallen head over heels for the lovely, breathtaking Madeline, and would give the world to have her look his way. And when he discovers that a mobile phone is his only key to the iron wrought gates of her heart, he leaps at it with full determination. Only he cannot afford it. Instead, young David is forced to source the phone from the most vile of places he...

Sasha Berry Wyndham once thought she had measured the peril of Rose Falls. But after the macabre masquerade of the grand ball, she learns the estate's legacy is a darkness that eclipses her wildest fears. The Well of Souls has stirred from its slumbers, its whispers now a haunting chorus, demanding retribution for the Wyndhams' ancestral sins. As Sasha ventures further into the shadows of her family's past, the ghost of Sabine Wyndham beckons with enigmas and revelations, each more harrowing than the last, tracing the curse that has ensnared their lineage through the ages. Scheherazade, the...

True Ghost Stories and Hauntings, Volume IV is the fourth in the extremely popular series of books featuring true ghost stories and hauntings by Simon B. Murik, who is the son of a long line of mediums and sensitives. Many of the stories come from his own experiences while others have been contributed by family members and those who have shared their paranormal experiences.

SOME HOUSES NEED US… Fifteen years after she swore never to set foot in Ashwell again, Althea Gardner is brought back to her hometown by the suicide of her high school best friend, Claire Appleton. Beatrix, Claire’s grief-stricken mother and now the last surviving member of the Appleton clan, begs Althea to stay with her at Appleton Hill. Nursing her own broken heart, Althea ends up as a guest in this vast and isolated property filled with the shadows of people that no longer walk this earth. As the days go by, the locals’ suspicions about Claire’s death create doubts in Althea’s ...

There are many tools and devices that can be used for ghost hunting. For those just starting out or for those interested in paranormal investigation, this book lists some of the more commonly used tools. As a former paranormal investigator, the author describes each tool and explains in detail - how they are used and why. Many of the instructions also come with details of real-life examples of the tools being used during an investigation and descriptions of what the tools look like.

It was the dead thing they found hanging from a tree that changed the trip beyond recognition. When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. A shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives.

In a world where the boundaries between history and the supernatural blur, Malcolm Renwick finds himself thrust into a web of forbidden rituals, mysterious war prophecies, and ancient cults worshipping the dark entity Mog-Athoth. As the echoes of a long-forgotten conflict reverberate from Sailor's Creek to Sarajevo, Malcolm grapples with the haunting legacies of his family and the dangerous forces vying to reshape reality. With war on the horizon and dark powers awakening, every choice carries the weight of history, and the truth can only be uncovered when blood and destiny collide.

Scholars and book collectors across the country have long pondered the intended fate of the infamous collection of rare occult books left to rot in the Church of Starry Wisdom in Providence, Rhode Island, after the Starry Wisdom cult dispersed to parts unknown in the late 19th century. The recent shocking discovery of a previously unknown book auction catalogue issued in 1877 offers insight into the myriad mysteries of the cult.

Belief in ghosts is surprisingly common worldwide. Mysterious glowing orbs, unexplained chills, things that literally go bump in the night: signs of paranormal activity have reportedly surged during the pandemic. As have specialist investigators, organized ghost hunts, eerie podcasts, TV shows and reports of everyday hauntings. Sharing the details of some well-known and particularly mysterious hauntings together with some less-well-known tales and personal stories, Theresa explores these ghostly encounters through four categories of hauntings: residual, poltergeist, inhuman and intelligent.

More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall. But as Sully and Dez close in, Lowell makes one last desperate strike—one that threatens everything the brothers and their loved ones hold dear.

There are things in this world that should frighten everyone. Things that go bump in the night. Things that lurk in the shadows. Things that prey upon the innocent and the unsuspecting. Dare to go with actress, magician, and paranormal investigator, GG Michaels as she confronts cults, demons, and ghosts, risking everything to drive back evil—wherever it manifests. Lock your windows and doors, turn on all the lights—or all of them off, and enjoy this collection of 5 stories that combine horror, intrigue, and adventure, featuring the exploits of paranormal investigator, Guenevere Grace ...

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 ...

The holiday season is in full swing, and the only thing Zoey wants to do is get to know her new boyfriend better. But when a ghost shows up at her loft with the name of her killer on her lips, Zoey knows she’s being pulled into another mystery. This one is more puzzling than the last. According to police, the woman died of natural causes, but people who were nearby claim to have heard the victim screaming for help before she died. When a second body turns up, killed in the same manner, Zoey knows Bridgeport has another killer on its hands.

Patrick Lahm is down on his luck. Late for his book signing, out of gas, and stuck in a storm. He hitches a ride to the Kurtain Motel, where he is forced to spend the night. The small motel seems harmless enough at first, but as the night drags on, Patrick and the other guests slowly begin to realize there is a lot more to their temporary lodging than meets the eye. Something evil is at work at the Kurtain Motel; something that creeps into the deepest, darkest corners of your mind and tugs at the chords of sanity until they finally break.

A Death in Manhattan -a glistening feather lies near the body. A Native American rights activist arrives in San Diego-a gleaming feather waits on the hotel bureau. A brutal murder discovered in Las Vegas-a brilliant feather is found at the scene. Chato Del-Klinne, drifting ex-professor, cannot let the Las Vegas murder go unsolved: the victim is a good friend. The shining feather will lead Chato and his beautiful girlfriend Sunny into unimaginable horror - horror that may encompass the entire world....

In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer", William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation.

They boarded the ship to hunt a legend. They didn’t know they were sailing straight into it. When renowned oceanographer Dr. Evelyn Sato assembles a team to investigate a rash of terrifying deep-sea sightings, she’s armed with sonar data, eyewitness reports, and one burning obsession: to find the creature that split a cargo freighter in half off the coast of Greenland—and vanished without a trace. With time running out, her crew rents the only available vessel in Boston Harbor: a rusted, haunted relic called the Oblivion. The ship has no record, no recent history, and no survivors ...

People throughout the ages have claimed to have mysterious and blood-chilling encounters with unexplained forces, such as Mothman, demons, ghosts, and extraterrestrials. Ann Gaiman has compiled an anthology of over 25 of the creepiest real-life short stories on the most shocking and mysterious supernatural events that have taken place - all based on eyewitness accounts telling their encounters with the supernatural.