Occult Thriller

The appearance of a strange plant on the Taskers' farm sends Neville and me straight to the Federal Bureau of Magic database, where we discover that deadly demons are snatching bodies all over town. Meanwhile, with the Day of Darkness looming on the calendar, family tensions abound, and I'm reminded, once again, that I'm the white sheep of this black magic family. Can I put a stop to the Stepford invasion before it's too late, or will the demons take up residence in their hosts—permanently?

Hours after throwing a third birthday party for their twins Kathy and Kelly in their Connecticut home, Margaret and Steve Frawley return home from a dinner in New York to discover the police in the house, their daughters missing, and an eight million dollar ransom note. The Frawleys meet the kidnapper's demands, but the abandoned car they're led to contains only Kelly, the body of the driver, and a suicide note, saying he had inadvertently killed Kathy and dumped her body in the ocean.

More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her past: from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends; from her old neighborhood; from the eerie Woodsman plantation rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves; from the terrifying memory of a ghost she saw that terrible day when a dare-gone-wrong almost got Jesse—the boy she secretly loved—arrested for murder. But now Mira is back to attend Celine's wedding at the plantation.

In the heart of Geneva, a powerful figure is found dead in a locked office, his face a mask of terror and ecstasy—a grim reminder that not all secrets stay buried. As the investigation unfolds, a cryptic symbol—a seven-headed serpent—repeatedly emerges at the scene of this impossible "suicide," hinting at a dark, insidious force at work. Enter Sir Tavish Stewart, a former army colonel turned antiquarian, seeking refuge in the quiet dusty corners of his shop. But when Dame Cynthia Sinclair, head of British Secret Intelligence, arrives with a fresh puzzle wrapped in a high body count, ...

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other's thoughts, but they couldn't be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins' father in a most unfortunate accident.

If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.

Father Patrick returns home afterwards, to take on an exorcism of a young girl with the aid of Father Michael a young priest who has been in training with Father Patrick as his mentor. Afterwards Father Patrick recieves a call to head for the Ozark mountains to investigate ritual sacrifices that have been found to be taking place back in the timber near the township of Salem Hills. The young bodies of teenage girls have been discovered in a corn field buried between the rolls of field corn. Who is responsible for these horrific murders? That is what Father Patrick, along with Father Michael...

Ritual death. Young life. Can the one woman from the outside curb the bloodletting liturgy? Dakota Jones lives and breathes the strange. Unorthodox and willing to follow clues no matter where they lead, the forthright detective is relentless in her pursuit of the truth. So when a member of a remote society off Tasmania’s coast washes ashore dead under suspicious circumstances, the determined detective goes undercover to bring the victim justice. Delving deep into the isolated culture only to find it more of an unwelcoming cult, Dakota discovers the body belonged to an intended sacrifice ...

Basada en un hecho real, ocurrido en la década de los cuarenta del siglo pasado, la protagonista es una niña de apenas once años que sufre terribles transformaciones, sobre todo en su comportamiento. Ni médicos ni científicos ni psicólogos son capaces de hallar la causa de tal estado y paulatinamente todo se va decantando hacia la hipótesis de que la niña está poseída por el demonio.

Rory Morris isn’t thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby’s father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she’d put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into Ian, an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she’s attacked.

In the heart of modern Paris, beneath the flickering gaslight of Rue Saint-Cyprien, there stands a building that refuses to die. Old stones breathe faintly there—exhaling dust and memory. Number 14 had once been a boarding house, then a sanatorium, then abandoned for years. Now, it was a quaint but eerie apartment building, the kind gentrifiers eyed and exorcists avoided. And on the top floor, under a rotting wooden attic, was the scene of the most bizarre murder Paris had seen in over a century. The survivors would speak of strange lights that flared without bulbs, of voices rising in ...

One phone call, five words, and I’m back in the town I swore I’d never return to. Going home was never part of the plan, but when my dad calls because he needs help to solve a murder, I can’t say no. Running into the three men I thought I would spend my entire life with has me questioning why I ever picked up the phone.

A strange evil lurks within the rambling building; to some it appears as an innocent child but Queenie and Sybil see the truth, that it is pure evil. They soon realise that it has a sinister motive in befriending a little girl, to steal her soul. Using their knowledge of the occult and with the help of the child's aunt they begin to uncover the truth surrounding the old Victorian building and the significance of a murder that happened 150 years previously. The Haunting of Stoke Water is the third in The Psychic Sisters series. #1 The Lavender Witch #2 The Cunning Man #4 The Doll #5 From The...

Without the threat of the Witch’s bloody harvest, the family elders have fallen into chaos. Internal squabbling has left them blind to this new enemy in their midst. Local legends have barely begun to fade when a group of tourists go missing. Some say the Witch has returned. But Basheba, Mina, and the others believe it could be something even worse. As the survivors dig deeper, they discover that one of their own may have been corrupted by an ancient evil - a power greater than anything they have faced before. But is the Bell Witch behind all this?

When a mutilated body shows up in their seaside town of Noquitt, Maine, the Blackmoore sisters realize that an ancient relic they'd been trying to locate has been hidden right in their own hometown the whole time.

Often, we come across strange tales or legends about the unbelievable, the supernatural realm, this is a journey beginning with a college professor who is told about a curse object, a legend that soon becomes an obsession of his that leads not only him, but his friends, into a confrontation with evil unlike anything they have ever experienced. You won't want to miss out on this fourth book of the adventure Parts 12 thru 16 that continues the Journey into a supernatural nightmare that draws you in as well. So, let's continue in book 5 of this journey now shall we? Come along as a Creature ...

After having left New Orleans, Jonas Black Root returns to find a changed city, Something strange was in the air, something dark, and mysterious, something evil. Returning he soon finds new faces, and old friends gone. Why did they leave, what could have happened to make them vacate the city having been born and raised here? Jonas was determined to find out the answers, he would search the town, the Bayou for answers. What he soon discovers, answers the those questions and more. Maybe those friends hadn't left the city at all, maybe something evil has them in it's grasp. He was determined ...

When a woman is murdered behind the library, Chief Fox realizes the victim was more than she seemed and enlists the aid of Chipping Cheddar’s resident Federal Bureau of Magic agent, Eden Fury. The woman’s death also triggers the arrival of Alcina, a powerful supernatural hellbent on uncovering the killer’s identity and bringing them to justice. Alcina views Eden as her polar opposite on the supernatural scale of good and evil and doesn’t trust her to conduct a proper investigation, no matter what her badge says.

Come along and join this thrilling adventure as a college professor teaching a class on legends and superstitions one day comes across a legend from Germany about a cursed object known as the Wolf strap. It is told to bestow on it's owner the power to shape shift into a Devil Wolf along with the gift of Immortality as well. So what's the catch you may ask? Well You must be willing to meet with the Devil himself at a crossroads late at night and sign over your very soul in exchange for the magic belt and it's gifts. Professor Devine's interest in the legend soon puts him in danger along with...

When the ghost of a murder victim appears in Last Chance Books, middle-aged bookstore owner, Willa Chance, must find the ghost's killer or risk being haunted with its unwanted advice forever. Too bad the ghost suffers from amnesia and only has a few scant clues as to the identity of the killer. That's okay, though, because Willa has a pretty good idea who did it...until her investigation turns up additional suspects with curious motives.