Ghost States

Addie’s first Apple Festival is about to turn deadly... The Apple Festival kicks off the fall festival season in Stargaze, and that means colorful trees, cozy coats, apple cider, and fun! It also means an influx of tourists, including a stranger from Betty's past. It turns out the palm reader has a secret past, and it's coming back to haunt her. When a body turns up in Betty’s fortuneteller tent at the Apple Festival, she becomes the prime suspect in the killing. She claims she’s innocent, but her connection to the deceased only makes her appear more guilty. Addie is determined to ...

The holidays are coming to the town of Perfect, WA. But so is something else, a so-called tourist attraction of five haunted houses brought in from various places around the world, creating essentially a man-made ghost town.

When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she's already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelganger, reappears: in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of young medical students, including “you”.

A middle-aged woman feed slots at a secret back-room parlor. A new mother descends into a devastating postpartum depression, wracked with the fear that she is unable to protect her children. A daughter returns home to join the other women in her family waging spiritual combat with the ghosts of their past.

A man decides to answer a letter not addressed to him... with dire consequences. This is in the vein of the classic gothic suspense, fantasy and horror stories; with an added touch of existential, philosophical and political musings. The scene is Guir House in Virginia, the hero is Paul Henley from New York, and the hostess, Miss Dorothy; is either innocent or somehow part of Guir House's horrific past... Artist Bio Author: Charles Willing Beale (1845-1932), was an American writer known for an output of science fiction, horror and mystery.

At a time in antiquity when most of Europe was covered with forests and wandering tribes, Mexico had already developed complex civilizations, beginning with the Olmecs and followed by the Maya, a civilization with advanced knowledge of medicine, engineering and astronomy. The Maya calculated the precession of the equinoxes and cycles of the Pleiades, on which they based their year, since they believed they had come from that constellation.

The state of Delaware is filled with hundreds of haunted destinations. Wilmington is one of the oldest cities in the state, making it possibly one of the most haunted when you look at the deep history, unexplained phenomena, and multiple anomalies that the city has encountered. I was born in Delaware during the early 1960s, and even though I left the first state when I was nine, I can still recall many bizarre and unexplained instances that occured while I was living there. My family lived in a few haunted homes, one was a really old plantation house that was something straight out of a ...

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here, he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightful humorous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts, including "The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa", "The Exorcism That Failed", and more.

What if your dad were president of the United States? Some of the most famous people in the world would visit your house, and you'd have a new room to explore every day of the month. And you might meet some residents of the White House that nobody's heard of, like the family of bats living in the basement, an anteater named Agatha who lives in the garden shed, and a blue bear. Each season with these new friends would bring new adventures. Perhaps you'd solve a mystery with the help of a Secret Service agent. Or you could take a trip to the spooky Vampire State Building--and hope you live to...

From historian-in-residence at the Presidential Pet Museum, Andrew Hager, comes a fond, fascinating, and often surprising look at the dogs who were the best friends of the presidents, featuring unforgettable photographs.

Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow ist eine der bekanntesten Erzählungen der amerikanischen Literatur. Sie erzählt die Geschichte von Ichabod Crane, einem Schulmeister, der sich in die schöne Katrina Van Tassel verliebt und sich mit ihrem Verehrer Brom Bones anlegt. Doch in der Nacht von Halloween lauert ihm eine schreckliche Gestalt auf: der kopflose Reiter, der die Seelen der Lebenden raubt. Wird Ichabod ihm entkommen können? Oder wird er sein nächstes Opfer? Dieses Hörbuch präsentiert Ihnen die spannende und atmosphärische Geschichte in einer neuen Übersetzung, die dem Original von Washington Irving treu bleibt.

New York born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of "Life" and "Harper" magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. "Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" is a delightfully humorous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts.

Epidemic and deprivation were widespread among Native American tribes in the 19th century. The Ghost Dance asserted that Native Americans were God's chosen people, attempting to restore Native American pride, dignity, power, and autonomy.