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  Horror Stories For Halloween

  Tony Walker

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  Fifteen Ways To Die, Then Fifteen Ways To Rise From The GraveDoppelgängers, werewolves and little tiny diamond grubs that eat their way through your shirt. They're all here, and not always looking like you'd expect them to.Fifteen horror stories for Halloween guaranteed to make you look over your shoulder and avoid dark alleys.Written to horrify, terrify and at times amuse. New tales from Tony Walker of the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast.Set variously in sun-soaked California, stylish Paris, Arabia, Austria and rainy Cumbria, these stories offer different routes to terror.If you have already read Cumbrian Ghost Stories or London Horror Stories, you will also enjoy Horror Stories for Halloween. If you haven't make this volume your starting place.

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  The Hill of Dreams

  Arthur Machen

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  Generally by now thought to be Machen's greatest work, the novel, published in 1907, recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Later it describes Lucian's attempts to make a living as an author in London, enduring poverty and suffering in the pursuit of art.

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  The Dancing Floor

  Barbara Michaels

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  From the New York Times-bestselling author, a novel of a daring woman, a seductive English garden, and rumors of witchcraft . . .  
   
  For years, Heather Tradescant had dreamed of the journey she and her father would take to England—a pilgrimage to the great gardens of history. Now that her father is dead, Heather is determined to fulfill his dreams. Unfortunately, her request to see the fabled seventeenth-century garden of Troytan House is denied by the wealthy new owner.  
   
  Though unwelcome, she braves the walls of briars and reaches the Victorian manor house beyond. She senses a strange frisson of evil lurking, tainting the manor’s peaceful beauty. Only then does Heather begin to wonder if it is simply stories of long-vanished witchcraft that haunt Troytan House or if there is some more modern horror, nearer at hand, and far, far more dangerous . . .  
   
  In The Dancing Floor, the author of such acclaimed novels of suspense as Vanish with the Rose and House of Stone provides a chilling tale to keep you reading until the last page. 
   
  “An enigmatic cat, a missing child, a clay figure pierced with thorns, and the continuing role of the Pendle Witches are but a few of the puzzles that trouble Heather in this well-crafted mystery.” —Booklist 
   
  “The intrigue just won’t quit.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “Everything a romance reader can ask for.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Camp Pleasant

  Richard Matheson

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  This tale of summer camp horror and mystery by the author of I Am Legend is “a deeply engaging story with a clear writing style that is a pleasure to read” (Publishers Weekly).   Camp Pleasant is a place of natural beauty and campfire singalongs. But when Matt Harper arrives there to work as a counselor, he discovers it is also a place of unrelenting abuse and brutality. The new camp director “Big Ed” Nolan is such a bully that the bucolic paradise feels more like a miniature Third Reich . . . until someone finally has enough and kills Big Ed.   The suspects include a troubled young camper, a counselor who quit in the face of homophobic humiliation, and Big Ed’s own wife, Ellen. “[This] minimalist plot would be inadequate in other hands, but Matheson—author of Somewhere in Time and Hell House as well as classic Twilight Zone teleplays—has such a command of his craft that this book is a pure pleasure . . .The simple style recalls Hemingway” (Publishers Weekly).

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  The House Surgeon

  Rudyard Kipling

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  On an evening after Easter Day, I sat at a table in a homeward bound steamer's smoking-room, where half a dozen of us told ghost stories. As our party broke up a man, playing Patience in the next alcove, said to me: "I didn't quite catch the end of that last story about the Curse on the family's first-born." "It turned out to be drains," I explained. "As soon as new ones were put into the house the Curse was lifted, I believe. I never knew the people myself." "Ah! I've had my drains up twice; I'm on gravel too." "You don't mean to say you've a ghost in your house? Why didn't you join our party?"
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  A Passion for Haunted Fashion

  Rose Pressey

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  When Cookie Chanel moonlights as a costume designer for a local theater, murder takes center stage.... 
  Folks say the Sugar Creek Theater is haunted. But that doesn't scare off Cookie Chanel, owner of Georgia's chicest vintage clothing store, It's Vintage Y'All - especially since Cookie talks to the ghost of her grandmother every day through her cat Wind Song. 
  Still, after she agrees to be in charge of costumes for a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she's surprised to find the specter of a young woman in the theater, keeping watch over a trunk of 1950s dresses. And when Cookie's best friend, Heather, is found standing over a stabbed actor, she has two mysteries to solve. 
  This is not a dress rehearsal. A desperate killer is waiting in the wings. If Cookie doesn't tread the boards lightly, it'll be curtains for her as well....

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