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  The Bone Diver - A gothic tale...

  Angie Spoto

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  "A highly effective slice of folklore-inspired fantasy" THE HERALDA gothic tale of family, the legend of the selkies - shapeshifting mythological creatures - and a young woman who is offered an impossible choice.The only daughter in a family of Scottish seal-hunters, Kier Sealgair is becoming a burden. She cannot kill, and the family are facing hard times now that her father is ailing.On the neighbouring cliffs stands Erskine Manor, home to a mysterious and wealthy family. Servants arrive in town to buy supplies, but the family is never seen, and waves of rumour spread in the struggling small-town community.Then, one day, after a chance encounter, Lady Erskine finds Kier and offers her a bargain that could save Kier's father and change the town's impending fate. But questions remain. Who lives in the five towers of the manor? Is the Lord of the house alive? And are the children of the manor even human, or are the tales of spine-toothed monsters who roam the grounds true?A period gothic tale of legends, secrets and monsters in the deep, weaving myth and folklore, The Bone Diver is perfect for fans of Jenni Fagan, Sarah Waters and Sarah Perry."Wonderfully gothic, damp and hopeful" JODIE MATTHEWS"A captivating, powerful tale" LORRAINE WILSON"Dark, dreamy and deliciously atmospheric" C.E. MCGILL

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  Wicked Lil Dreamz - Haunting of...

  Lizabeth Mars

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  welcome to kentucky, meet the halloways, delilah had always wanted to be a big sister, but when fate was not so kind, it had something else in store for delilah, years later when jane halloway moved back to her childhood home with son jack after a bitter divorce, there she found more secrets and lies from her family about a sibling she never new to exsist, but how could you help make that sibling known if they haunted you and one of your own?

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  Graveyard The - A Short Story...

  Thomas Mann

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  At the end of our days we will most likely lie for eternity in the cemetery or graveyard.  Many of these, now wreathed in time, have a romance and overgrown beauty as nature keeps and shelters the dead.  These acres may be the final resting place for those who have passed but for those who visit peace may not be as easy to find.  Grief may still pull at the heart, memories continue to overwhelm, or, even those drawn simply by its history, may encounter different feelings or experiences once inside these cities of the dead.  
   
  For our varied and talented authors, a major theme, or indeed character of the stories in this volume is that very location, and how they weave it into their narratives is both fascinating, enlightening and a wonderfully distinct way of telling classic short stories.

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  Vampirismus or Aurelia - An...

  E T A Hoffmann

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  Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave. 
   
  His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by. 
   
  At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to the art that now surrounded him.  Two years later he was in Berlin attempting a career as a composer with an operetta called ‘Die Maske’.  His gift for drawing caricatures and sharing them often got him into trouble that was easier to avoid. 
   
  The years of Napoleon ravaging Europe were bad for Hoffman; he moved often and took on works as varied as theatre management and music critic.  In this his talents were now more evident.  His works on Beethoven where highly regarded by the master himself. 
   
  His literary breakthrough came in 1809, with ‘Ritter Gluck’, about a man who believes he has met the composer 20 years after his death.  However the various jobs and the wars continued and plagued any career advancement despite his constant travel for opportunities, often through dangerous territories. 
   
  In the wake of Napoleon’s defeat in 1814, Hoffmann returned to Berlin where his opera ‘Undine’ was performed by the Berlin Theatre.  Life was now more settled and many of his most famous works were written at his time. 
   
  From 1819, Hoffmann was struggling with both legal disputes and ill health.  Alcohol abuse and syphilis were physically weakening him and from 1822 paralysis set in.  His last works were dictated to his wife or to a secretary as all around him society descended into an anti-liberal agenda, stifling dissent with threats of legal action and even treason.  The ailing Hoffman was among them. 
   
  E T A Hoffmann died on the 25th June 1822 in Berlin of syphilis.  He was 46.

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  The Purcell Papers

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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  Le Fanu's earliest work, the Irish tales: a hanging in Tipperary, a house on Aungier Street with a room nobody keeps, Schalken the painter and what he saw in the vault, and the first version of the story that became Carmilla. He was known in Dublin as the Invisible Prince for the seclusion of his last years, writing at night in bed; these were published anonymously in the 1830s and 40s, and the Ireland in them is not picturesque.

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  Girl in the Woods

  Lovelyn Bettison

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  Something sinister lurks in the woods. When it finds its way into their home, Stephanie and Will call on Suncoast Paranormal to save them. Now Adam and Cheryl must hurry to help a friend whose life is being threatened by an unknown entity. 
  Stephanie thought she was buying the American dream when she purchased a beautiful home with her fiancé, Will. But before they could unpack their boxes, they knew the land around their new house held a dark secret. 
  By the time Cheryl and Adam arrive on the scene, the haunting has already escalated. The ghost takes hold of Stephanie, and she vanishes into the woods. They frantically search for her, hoping she's still alive. If she is, will she even be the same Stephanie they know when they find her? 
  Will Adam and Cheryl be able to banish the terrifying ghosts from the home? What secrets linger in the shadows of the trees? Will Stephanie and Will survive knowing the truth? 
  Girl in the Woods is the fourth book in the Suncoast Paranormal Series.

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