Ghost Thriller

Pen has just received an extremely rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works. Rumor has it a secret code, trapped within the books' leather-bound pages leads, to buried treasure. Well, it looks like they got the buried part right because, as Pen sells off the valuable volumes, everyone who buys - dies. Once these books go missing from their owners' cold hands, Pen will need resident ghost and hard-boiled P.I. Jack Shepard to help crack the case. The police are skeptical that the deaths involved foul play - so it's up to them to unravel these shocking endings.

Funland Amusement Park was a very popular theme park until one sunny afternoon, three teens died tragically on three different rides. The park closed and was vacant for five years until Blake Maxwell and his wife Myrna purchased it. Had they known what was in store for them, they would have reconsidered.

This is a complete trilogy series Detective Mary is dealing with a sudden loss of financial security, a rundown house with a strange looking kitty, a ghost in the mirror of said home, and a murder case where the victim appears to have been ripped apart by a werewolf. And that's just on a Monday. Follow Mary as she deals with odd murders, a strange government agency where the attire is black trench coats and cowboy hats, and a kitty who is trying to tell her secrets. The Complete Trilogy contains these books: Bound for Magic Strange Brew Wandering Eye

The Movie Town Theater is holding its first ever Film Noir Festival, with Pen handling book sales for the guest speakers, including screen actress Hedda Geist. The legendary femme fatale has been out of the spotlight for decades. Unfortunately, the moment she steps back into it, she's nearly killed. Then other guests start to die, and Penelope wants to know why her little town's Film Noir weekend has taken a truly dark turn.

Mary is a quiet middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things. Fired from her job in New York, she moves back to her hometown hoping to reconnect with her past and inner self. What she finds instead are visions of terrifying mutilated specters that come with increasing regularity.

Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the third volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This volume is made up of eight novella length stories. It includes Wellman's "Judge Pursivant" and "Sergeant Jaeger" stories, as well as a lost classic from Strange Stories (1939).

Vick "The Reaper" Harwood is an esteemed sniper with a record kill count - 33 kills in 90 days - when he is knocked out under mortar attack in Afghanistan. He wakes up back in the United States with little memory of what happened, his spotter and gun both unrecovered from the battlefield. Harwood has resigned himself to slowly picking up the pieces of his life. But when a series of assassinations start occurring in the area, Harwood can't explain why he just happens to be nearby for each killing - or how a sniper rifle that matches the description of the one he lost seems to be involved.

An unsolved case in a small town that has gone too far. Ophelia Miller returns to her hometown to work at the historic Belle Caverns, unaware of the dark secrets lurking beneath its surface. When the beloved owner, Ben, mysteriously passes away, Ophelia inherits the caverns, igniting the wrath of his estranged children. As she uncovers the eerie past of the caverns, she must navigate the tangled web of small-town secrets and malevolent forces that threaten her newfound legacy."

An Arrow to the Heart is No Loving Matter In the vibrant heart of New Orleans' French Quarter, Helga presides over a quaint antique shop, her haven of mystical enchantment. As a witch with eyes that blaze silver when her powers surge, she is no stranger to the supernatural. Yet, she finds herself beleaguered by the mischievous company of three resident ghosts, who revel in her attention while she tends to her arcane business. However, the real trouble begins when she stumbles upon a lifeless body, pierced through the heart with an arrow. As whispers of blame and suspicion circle around her,...

Wellman’s work will be remembered, and should be preserved because it combines the dark gothic tradition of the American pulps with a detailed snapshot of regional history and culture. This mixture is shown through the lens of the American modernist tradition, revealing something that is larger than the sum of its parts.

The dreams started after a night with friends in a haunted house. The group of thrill seekers had poked, provoked, and begged to see evidence of the paranormal. When the night failed to spook them, they went back to their lives with only boring stories to tell. But not all got away that easy. Teasing the spirits might have been the worst thing Mallory and Ruth could've done. Soon, their nightmares turned into living terrors and nothing they did helped to calm the demons. Darkness had a way of finding them, even in the light. Was there a way to outrun what couldn’t be seen?

These shivery tales were collected from the oral tradition, from people all over the Southwest, and represent the rich cultural diversity of the region, from the Ozarks to the Rio Grande, California to the Big Thicket.

Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure didn't believe in ghosts - until she met the spirit of hard-boiled 1940s detective Jack Shepard. And when Pen's friend and mailman, Seymour Tarnish, gets into deep trouble, Pen not only believes in her ghost - she also thinks he can help....

After the events of The Import, Riker finds himself on the wrong side of his former employers, an elite mercenary group called QS-4. To escape with his life, Riker agrees to take on a job even they can’t touch: protecting a wealthy young man with political connections and possible ties to a terrorist organization. Riker quickly finds himself sucked into a world of fast cars, big money, and no consequences. But his client isn’t interested in making his job easy, and a chance encounter with a beautiful heiress makes things even more complicated.

If you love Insidious, the Conjuring, or Sinister, Dark is right up your alley Arinna seems to be trapped in a world full of darkness. While trying to escape her past, and the terrible thing she’s done, she finds herself looking the dark in the face time after time. Dean tried to teach Arinna about the darkness, about the marks that call to the dead, but she can’t seem to understand how these symbols keep finding her. Someone, or something, wants to get to her, and it’s becoming clear, they’ll stop at nothing until they do. She is faced with the realization of who she really is, ...

Hailey Arquette found the ultimate photo opportunity deep in the Texas bayou, a pair of playful panther cubs. Before she can capture the shot, she witnesses a different type of shoot that lands in the crosshairs of a vicious killer. FBI agent Trenton Briner has long known the coastal waters of Texas are ripe for the opportunity for smuggling. His current investigation leads him to a mouthy teen with an uncanny knack for landing in the thick of trouble at every turn. When another body turns up, the trio must untangle the mystery before the smugglers find their target.

With the arrival of six senior reading group members at the Merry Ghost Inn, the long-awaited grand opening week has finally begun for Melanie West and her grandmother Liza. All is well with the Oregon coast-side B&B until Melanie's dog, Max, finds the dead body of one of their guests.

For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past - and get away with murder. Peter Straub's classic best seller is a work of "superb horror" ( Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time - and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.

Nathan Stone was killed in action while serving as a covert CIA operative. Or so everyone thought. In reality he’s become a ghost, a black-ops asset with a new identity and controlled by a secret government organization. The Commission has one aim: to hunt down and assassinate anti-establishment enemies of the state. Its number-one target is Senator Brad Crichton, an ambitious politician with growing support. Stone is ready to take him out, but his plan is soon compromised....

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS' FAVORITE From the best selling and multi award winning author of "Gated" "Asylum" and "Abra-Cadaver" comes the third installment of the anthology series "After Darkness Falls". These are stories with a horrifying beat, a black heart and a vicious twist in the tale. Here are 10 more tales to read with the lights on. TALE #1 - "Ride Like the Wind" TALE #2 - "One Hell of a Knockout" TALE #3 - "Healing Hands" TALE #4 - "The Price of Fame" TALE #5 - "Return to Sender" TALE #6 - "Heist of a...