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- This tale of a tormented musical genius moves across time and place, from 19th-century New Orleans to the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1990s. It traces three charismatic figures, bound to one another by a passionate commitment to music as a…
- Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
- A high-school English teacher chronicles her suspicions about the murder of a colleague before discovering a sinister message in her own diary.
- Philip, orphaned at an early age is raised by Ambrose, an older cousin. When Ambrose takes a trip to Florence, he falls in love, marries..and suddenly dies. In no time at all, the new widow turns up..Philip's cousin Rachel.
- A twisty novel features a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a sinister game.
- After the suicide of her mother, Constance Langton moves into creepy Wraxford Hall, which she inherited from a distant cousin, despite the warnings of those who know the horrifying history of the place.
- When their friend returns ill and haggard from a two-year absence with no memory of what happened, a circle of women, trapped inside a hotel by bad weather, become targeted by malevolent otherworldly phenomena.
- Aiming to firmly position Sheridan Le Fanu alongside other canonical horror writers published by the British Library, this anthology focuses on some of his lesser-known stories, exploring eight thoroughly Gothic tales of murderous…
- Plagued by a series of strange events in the old Tudor mansion they inherited, the estranged family of the Governor of Dartmoor Prison decides to leave once and for all until their young son goes missing.
- Two stories that blend together the psychological and the supernatural while examining the violence and depravity of the human condition.
- After their mother's death, Lee and his sister escape their horrible stepfather by fleeing to their grandmother's farm, where Lee hopes to discover the truth behind his haunting visions. (YA)
- Returning home to Lost Lake where she lost her mother to cancer 30 years earlier, newly widowed Kris Barlow, determined to take a stand against grief along with her young daughter, is soon plunged into a nightmare when she is haunted by…
- While traveling to their honeymoon canoeing trip in the Okefenokee Swamp, Titus wakes up in the middle of the road with his new wife missing after encountering a narrow road with a rickety old bridge with stone pilings.
- In Edwardian Suffolk , a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens : a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive…
- Helen, an English translator working in Prague, disregards an obscure local monster legend before a friend's disappearance reveals that Helen is being watched.
- When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn't suffer. But Isabella's parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella's... condition, and when Ms Valdez arrives at the estate, having forced herself…
- Presents an anthology of works from the master of mystery and the macabre, including such pieces as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Masque of the Red Death," and a selection of poems.
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