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What do readers say about Printer's Devil Court?
creepy but not ghoulish longish short story ghoulish frankenstein-esque tones gothic in toneIdeally spooky Halloween reading...
A chilling ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black.
One murky November evening after a satisfying meal in their Fleet Street lodgings, a conversation between four medical students takes a curious turn and H... More details on Printer's Devil Court
It was a murky November evening with a fog off the river and a fuzzy halo round every street lamp, when the conversation, which had such a hideous outcome, took place. We had all four of us returned t...
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What do readers say about Sweetheart, Sweetheart?
straight up horror near perfect ghost story english, understated and creepy fabulous haunted house storyDavid Warwick, an Englishman living in New York, has a sudden premonition that his twin brother, Colin, is in danger. He returns to England and learns the shocking truth: both Colin and his young bride Helen have died ghastly deaths - deaths that no ... More details on Sweetheart, Sweetheart
As I lie here in the short-cropped grass with my eyes just half open a butterfly alights on the carved angel’s head. It stays only a few seconds—its wings opening and closing—then takes off, flutterin...
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What do readers say about Naming the Bones?
deeply scottish novel beautifully written and constructed the minimal record playful rather than pedanticKnee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here?
His quiet life in university libraries researching the lives of writers seems a world ... More details on Naming the Bones
MURRAY WATSON SLIT the seal on the cardboard box in front of him and started to sort through the remnants of a life. He lifted a handful of papers and carefully splayed them across the desk. Pages of ...
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What do readers say about Wild Fell?
dull and prosaic the audiobook narrator a ghost story flash fictionThe crumbling summerhouse called Wild Fell, soaring above the desolate shores of Blackmore Island, has weathered the violence of the seasons for more than a century. Built for his family by a 19th-century politician of impeccable rectitude, the house... More details on Wild Fell
I want to tell you a ghost story. It’s not a ghost story like any ghost story you’ve ever heard. It’s my ghost story, and it’s true. It happened here in the house on Blackmore Island called Wild Fell,...
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What do readers say about The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral?
a child-at-peril book darkly spooky novella malevolent gargoylesSoon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins work on one of the spires of Muncaster's medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire's gargoyle.... More details on The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
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What do readers say about Wakenhyrst?
a gothic story super suspense novel a gothic mystery an old-fashioned gothic tale1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family - a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. But a... More details on Wakenhyrst
Maud had only been there three times before. It lay behind not one but two pairs of double doors, so that Father could work undisturbed. When you opened the first pair, you were trapped in a nasty sha...
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What do readers say about The Seance?
victorian mystery/ghost story atmospheric, creepy story highly atmospheric and disturbing a slightly creepy mysteryA haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never li... More details on The Seance
If my sister Alma had lived, I should never have begun the séances. She died of scarlatina, soon after her second birthday, when I was five years old. I remember only fragments from the time before sh...
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What do readers say about I Remember You?
very readable and fluent nordic noir ghost thriller creepy and atmospheric ghost horror thrillerInternational superstar Yrsa Sigurdardottir has captivated the attention of readers around the world with her mystery series featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir. Now, with I Remember You, Yrsa will stun readers once again with this out-of-this-wo... More details on I Remember You
“I don’t know who could have done this, but I doubt it was kids or teenagers. Although it’s certainly possible.” Freyr stuck his hands in his pockets and stared at the destruction in front of him once...
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What do readers say about Cast A Cold Eye?
a ghost story believable and suspenseful the irish famine far too stereotypicalJack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine. The quiet, picturesque village seems just the place to spend a few months writing, but beneath its placid exter... More details on Cast A Cold Eye
They sat there, four old men, as old as the dirt-floored cottage, a stone and thatch-roofed shebeen, and the rock-scattered hill it stood on, their shallow breath making thin white puffs before their ...
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What do readers say about Thin Air?
claustrophobic creeping dread powerful and atmospheric attention to historical detail historical mountaineering thrillerThe Himalayas, 1935. Kangchenjunga. The sacred mountain. Biggest killer of them all. Five Englishmen set out to conquer it. But courage can only take them so far.
And the higher they climb, the darker it gets.... More details on Thin Air
‘Ah there you are, Dr Pearce!’ Charles Tennant’s daughter comes striding across the lawn with two springer spaniels at her heels. ‘This dreadful fog, you won’t get your view of the mountain now, what ...
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