Casa editrice: ALI MURTAZA
Friends Ella and Madge have taken up residence in a long-deserted house that has a reputation for supernatural activity. After a series of strange run-ins with locals, the women are inclined to believe that the home may indeed be haunted. But is a ghost really the cause of their problems — or is it something else entirely?
John Davys Beresford (1873 – 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres."Reparation" is a strange short story. Angus, a young engineer returning to England from Cape Town, is offered a first class passage by an ailing acquaintance on the pretext that he needs a secretary during the voyage. Once they set sail it becomes clear that there is in fact no secretarial work to be done and he is puzzled as to why he has been taken on. One evening he is called to his employer's cabin. He old man is dying. On his deathbed, he entrusts Angus with a bag of uncut diamonds and instructions to give them to a young woman, Sarah Browning, who had once been his mistress, and with who he suspects he may have had a child. The old man dies. Angus does his best to find Sarah Browning, but finds that she has already left the address he had been given. But every time he attempts to abandon the quest, strange - and sometimes sinister - events occur which set him back on the track of the elusive woman.Mostra libro
Essence best-selling author Kiki Swinson pens addictive tales that sizzle with the passion and drama of her characters’ lives. A criminal lawyer working in Miami, Yoshi skips town when the pressure cooker of her job threatens to turn deadly. But after landing in Norfolk, Virginia, Yoshi quickly realizes she better watch her back when she witnesses a drug dealer committing murder. “Kiki captures the heat of the streets.”—Wahida Clark, New York Times bestselling authorMostra libro
An old poet finds himself separated by many miles from his dying wife and is reflecting over their life together in his sadness and misery. Theirs was a story of two people from different stations of life - he, poor and she, rich. He worked hard to make a name for himself and, having done so, he returns to her to find out that she had loved him all these years and was waiting for him as well. The poet is so distraught that with it having taken so long for them to be together, it seems even more unfair for them to be separated at the end. Finding out that his love has passed away, he immediately decides to follow after her to the Castle of the King of Death.Mostra libro
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. "All Souls' " is a creepy hallowe'en story about a woman who lives with her servants in a remote house in Conneticut. One weekend at the end of October she has an accident and breaks her ankle... and then follows the most terrifying and mysterious thirty-six hours of her life.Mostra libro
Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual.Master of horror Algernon Blackwood brings this chilling tale of a woman, her ghost, and the surprising love between them.Mostra libro
The ancient goddess Lamashtu has been reborn, and blood will be spilled.Temperance has reached her sweet sixteen, and it isn't exactly what she pictured. The mystery of her mother's disappearance is about to be resolved, but not in the way anyone would have hoped, except for the creatures of the night.Temperance must fight against the very natures of the two creatures stirring within her, transforming her to take her rightful place as the eater of souls. No one has survived such transformation before, but it must be done in order to save herself from the very mother that she has grown to near womanhood without and the master to whom all dark creatures bow. The fight against nature and time will take its toll, determining if Temperance truly is the ancient goddess, Lamashtu, reborn. She could die, or become the most powerful denizen of the night. Even in success, will the vampire spawns and all other dark creatures accept the rise of a new master?Mostra libro
