Ghost Thriller

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.

The luxurious Lathrop Grand Hotel is a Savannah institution that has entertained guests for more than a century and a half, offering some of the finest accommodations in the city. Famously haunted, the hotel draws tourists from around the world eager to encounter its numerous ghosts. The hotel is also known for being honeycombed with hidden doors and secret passages, enabling staff to appear and disappear quickly as they attend to the hotel's guests.

The discovery of lost letters between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, describing historical events that never happened, sends shockwaves through the academic world. Meanwhile, a citywide surveillance program is coming to New York, on a groundswell of dirty money and dead bodies. To hard-nosed Brooklyn reporter Nell Bluth, the two mysteries couldn't be more different - until she finds the missing link. A secret war is raging on the streets of New York. It's a battle to control the narrative of history itself, and the winner rewrites the world.

London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group.

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.

The cozy little town of Pine Deep buried the horrors of its past a long time ago. Thirty years have gone by since the darkness descended and the Black Harvest began, a time when a serial killer sheared a bloody swath through the quiet Pennsylvania village. The evil that once coursed through Pine Deep has been replaced by cheerful tourists getting ready to enjoy the country’s largest Halloween celebration in what is now called “The Spookiest Town in America.”

This omnibus edition includes books five and six in the bestselling World's Scariest Places series. Mountain of the Dead – The greatest unsolved mystery of the 20th century—until now. On the night of February 1, 1959, in the remote Siberian wilderness, nine Russian hikers slashed open their tent from the inside and fled into a brutal blizzard. By morning, all were dead, several having suffered horrific, violent deaths. The mystery behind their demise, known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident, has perplexed investigators for decades. Now, an American true-crime writer sets out to retrace their...

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?

The Complete Six Book Hocus Pocus Witch Mystery Series Join Celestial Meadow as she battles against magical and mundane forces to help solve murders in her quaint town. She's a witch with a knack at candle making, but she can also brew up some kick ass spells when need be. Her friend Dakota, male witch in training, has a harder time with his spells, but he's trying. And shapeshifter detective, Nikoli, brings the power as well as the gentle when it comes Celestial. This Box Set Includes these books: Spooks and Spells Freaks and Felons Crooks and Crystals Graves and Goons Brooms and Brains ...

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....

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."

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.

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.

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, ...

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.

"Absolutely loved this book even though it kept me awake at night." Amazon Reviewer A dead woman. A family secret. A psychic awakening. Claire had her life perfectly planned: a wonderful fiancé, a thriving career, and twin brothers who adored her. But in an instant, everything is ripped away. Thrown into a strange new reality, Claire must navigate her fears and find the strength to rebuild her life. Can love and hope guide her through the darkness? Will she be able to protect her family from the malevolent forces that threaten to destroy them, both in this world and beyond? What fate ...

New year, same old problems. It's a brand-new year, but the ghosts of Everly Dupree’s past continue to rear their ugly heads. When her ex-husband goes missing, his new girlfriend comes knocking on Everly’s door, and when his attorney turns up dead, she has to decide whether any of them deserve her help. They don’t, but with the FBI still looking in her direction, Everly decides she doesn't have a choice. The deeper she gets into this latest ghostly mystery, the more Everly realizes none of the people in her former life were what they seemed. Worse, one of them wants her dead.

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.

Still on the trail of the glowing ghosts, Shane Ryan and Xander Ventura stumble upon a restricted atomic testing ground, where they uncover a horrifying secret. Something sinister lurks beneath the bomb-blasted sands. Something unlike anything they have encountered before....

Blood. Whiskey. Pink. A voice. Someone who loved her. Someone she loved. A killer. And death. So much death. Convinced that her chaotic flashes of memory are real Amy keeps pushing forward despite what it’s doing to her. But the further she goes, the more her memories reveal a dark past that isn't finished with her yet...