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1) Chimera
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Have you ever wondered what might happen if you sold your soul to the devil?"Chimera" is a short story by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison. It first appeared in SURREAL SOUTH '09, edited by Pinckney Benedict and Laura Benedict (Press 53, 2009).
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A haunting and powerful novel by acclaimed author Dennis McFarland about a vacationing couple that comes face to face with ghosts, both literal and figurative When their daughter leaves for college, newly minted empty nesters Cookson and Ellen Selway decide to escape the eerie quiet of their home and take a trip to London. But not long after arriving, it becomes apparent that the Selways have traded one unsettling locale for another. Like Cookson,...
3) Domain
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When comic book artist Kendell Coffin trades a calm life in Nebraska for his dream home in California, his tortured memories follow him. He struggles to leave his mark on a world saturated with entertainers, hoping others remember him for great things. Yet, work is work, and he accepts any jobs which come his way; no matter how small. As he puts behind failures and lost love, he realizes it might be something other than his past that haunts him.
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When Jessie's brother dies, something takes hold of her in this chilling supernatural story of guilt, possession, and obsession Jessie wakes up knowing exactly what she needs to do. Gazing at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, she begins cutting off her beautiful locks, leaving herself with a short, boyish cut-just like her brother's. Jason died in a car crash, and since the funeral, Jessie hasn't been the same. Now, wearing her brother's clothes,...
5) Kehua!
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Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, redemption, and remorse, takes you first to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen window, something startling shimmers on the very edges of perception. Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua-a whole multiplying flock of Maori spirits (all will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within. Scarlet-a long-legged,...
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Do you believe in ghosts?When tenacious writer Laney Stonewater ropes firefighter Lucas Moore into staying overnight at the supposedly haunted Cattleman's Crossing Inn, both of them will get more than they bargained for. The inn was the site of a blaze that killed a man 20 years ago and left Lucas with a strange burn mark on his arm and memories he'd rather forget. Along with a psychic, the victim's widow, and an amateur ghost hunter, Laney and Lucas...
7) The Visit
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A mother receives an unexpected visit from her Marine Corps son. She had not expected him back yet from his deployment in Afghanistan. Could he really be here, talking with her, and having coffee with her?
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Their laughter grows louder,Their little feet patter.Don't make them angryOr your world will shatter.There's no where to go.Chills run down your spine.No where to run,And no where to hide.To them it's a game,And you're the next pawn.Play it correctly,You'll make it till dawn.One mistakeAnd it all ends.Don't mess up.Or you'll meet their friend.
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A wealthy man is shocked to discover that he's dead-and worse yet, he must find out who it was that killed him . . .
Adam Albury, a successful architect, finds himself at a funeral in his local church. Scanning the aisles and seeing his family and friends dressed somberly in black, he's shocked to learn the service is for him. Adam, now no more than a hovering spirit, is even more astonished to hear his death was ruled a suicide.
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His drive to preserve their beauty for eternity cannot be controlled Derrick, now David, tried to suppress the bad place within himself-the part that wanted to punish the girls who had shunned him. He knew he was good at his work-his actual photography-and he tried to make that more important than the darkness inside. But it was no use. His mission was to immortalize the beauty of young women-and nothing would stop him. Senior Vicki Valentine is...
11) The Gallery
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When a high schooler gets a job in the art department of a nearby university, she begins to suspect that the campus is haunted by a ghost-and maybe even a serial killer LaDonna Martindale hopes that her new job at the local college will help to inspire her own painting. But every night, in the art school basement, she sorts canvases for the upcoming gallery showing. And every night, she feels the same strange, comforting presence of someone in the...
12) The First Church
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Brian Roy is a ghost hunter extraordinaire. His latest adventure involves headless Japanese soldiers wreaking havoc in a New Hampshire church. The stats are grisly. Two boys blinded. Another boy shot. Cops killed. The bodies keep piling up and the ghosts' thirst for vengeance is as insatiable as their thirst for saké!The phantom soldiers cut a swath of murder through the congregation until all that's left of Brian's local allies are Jim Bogue and...
13) Body & Soul
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Though mountain search-and-rescue worker Jesse Copeland is used to risking herself to save others, she must tap into all her reserves of bravery to solve the most haunting mystery of her life: her mother's puzzling death. Little does Jesse know her investigation will make her the target of two men: a present-day threat and a centuries-old hero ...
Two hundred years ago, David Ventris, or Lord Ashthorpe, knew Jesse as a woman he had passionately...
15) Curse of the Nun
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Based on the major motion picture! Anna Winter, a damaged young woman recovering from a troubled past, moves out of their rental house into a beautiful new home with her husband. But she can't help but feel unworthy of the wonderful life she has now. The day she moves out, the spirit of a deranged nun stuck in purgatory wants Anna's spirit to stay in the house with her. With her husband, Anna must do everything in her power to escape the home before...
16) Freshly Dead
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A deadly romantic comedy. Meet Mitzi, Molly, and Marla-three sisters, southern-fried born-and-bred, and the ghosts who love them.Do dead guys still want it? Find out the answer in this southern-fried comedy with a smattering of romance, a side of mystery, and three crazy sisters....All Mitzi Winston wants is enough money to pay this month's mortgage payment. That's the only reason she even considers the phone sex job. Ever since her husband's disappearance,...
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Take Cover, a Storm is Coming!
In the shape of thirteen stories, dark and menacing, lightning strikes many times. A genie visits a junkie to grant him his every wish. A young boy hears voices in his family's new home. A man wakes to a kindly old woman, or is she? A woman and her grandmother are on edge after a series of grisly murders. Contestants on a game show vie for the ultimate prize, freedom. A trip home to visit his parents puts a son face...
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A couple's move to an old West Virginia house stirs up a haunting hundred-year-old mystery . . .
June 23, 1923: Local Couple Disappears Under Suspicious Circumstances
Thanks to a new job opportunity, and with their children now grown, Mary and her husband, Rick, have moved from Indiana into a one-hundred-year-old home in West Virginia. But while adjusting to such a big change in her life, she has no idea that she is about to encounter the...
19) Phantom Hotel
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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While on a cross-country road trip, Patrick and his family stop in Ravens Pass. They check in to the only hotel in town. But what they can't see is the place is absolutely packed . . . with ghosts! And if the family doesn't manage to leave by sunrise, they'll be joining the ghouls for a never-ending stay. Packed with creepy black-and-white illustrations and spooky frights, this thrilling Return to Ravens Pass tale will chill young readers to the bone....
20) The Mill
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It is the year 1968 in the small town of Huckster, Illinois, and there are some strange goings on at the abandoned mill just outside of town. Thirty-two years ago a young mill hand, Marty, who worked at the Faversham mill, got caught with more than his hands in the owner's daughter's cookie jar. Finding himself without a job and girlfriend the very next day, Marty decides to leave town with a goodbye gift for the owner. He decides to burn the place...
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