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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost stories. The House with the Brick Kiln is one of E. F. Benson's most sinister ghost stories, and tells the tale of the manor of Trevor Major. The narrator and his friend, Jack Singleton, rent it for a month one summer for the excellent dry fly fishing available nearby.

In the remote town of Firham-By-Sea, two holidaymakers are curious about the derelict Corner House and its mysterious owners. Upon investigation, they unveil the grim story of Mr and Mrs Labson.

Eine orientalische Familiensaga, die zu Herzen geht. Schaer kehrt nach Afghanistan zurück, um seine alte Mutter zu besuchen. Nach und nach fördert er ihre Geschichte zutage, die eng mit der Historie seines Landes verwoben ist. Der kostbare Teppich seiner Mutter dient ihm als Erinnerungsstütze. In seiner Mitte zeigt er den afghanischen Reiterwettkampf Buskaschi und liefert Schaer das Leitmotiv für seine Erzählung.

Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Guzman, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the Papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted against his will to serve as a Plague Doctor in the...

Die USA in den 1960er-Jahren: Harry Turner, ein geradezu fanatischer Verehrer des Horror-Autors H. P. Lovecraft, macht sich an die Verwirklichung eines gewaltigen Vorhabens. Auf seinem Grundstück soll ein Geisterhaus entstehen, und zwar das größte und unheimlichste, das Amerika je gesehen hat. Harrys komplette Familie arbeitet an dem Projekt mit, obwohl seine pragmatisch veranlagte Frau und seine beiden Töchter die Augen vor der gruseligen Wahrheit verschließen: Die Monster, die im Geisterhaus der Turners ihr Unwesen treiben, sind echt.

Sie brachen alle Regeln und folgten ihrem Herzen. Was danach passierte, wird das Ihre brechen - 1926, Janus Rock. Auf einer abgelegenen Insel im Westen Australiens arbeitet Tom Sherbourne als Leuchtturmwärter. Mit seiner Frau Isabel führt er ein erfülltes Leben fern des Trubels einer Welt im Umbruch. Nur eines trübt ihr Glück: Ein Kind bleibt ihnen verwehrt. Bis sie eines Morgens am Strand ein Ruderboot entdecken, in dem die Leiche eines Mannes liegt - und ein neugeborenes Baby.

Er kennt deine tiefsten Kindheitsängste. Ein rätselhafter Patient zieht den jungen Psychiater Parker H. in seinen Bann. Seit dem sechsten Lebensjahr wird der mittlerweile 30-jährige Mann, den alle nur "Joe" nennen, in der düsteren Nervenheilanstalt in Neuengland verwahrt. Er gilt als nicht therapierbar. Jeder, der mit ihm spricht, verliert den Verstand oder begeht Selbstmord. Allen Warnungen zum Trotz beschließt der ehrgeizige Parker, "Joe" in seiner Zelle zu besuchen.

Mit 69 Jahren war Ozzy Osbourne auf einer triumphalen Abschiedstournee, spielte vor ausverkauften Stadien und erhielt begeisterte Kritiken auf der ganzen Welt. Dann das Desaster. Innerhalb weniger Wochen musste er nach einem Krankenhausaufenthalt wegen einer Fingerinfektion seine Tournee – und sein gesamtes öffentliches Leben – aufgeben, da er vom Hals abwärts fast vollständig gelähmt war.

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic Lucia novels. In his own day, it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. This collection of 10 stories exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of ghostly and macabre tales.

Jackson, Mississippi, 1962: Die junge Skeeter ist frustriert. Nach dem Studium verbringt sie die Tage auf der elterlichen Baumwollfarm...

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic "Lucia" novels. In his own day it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. At the Farmhouse exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of supernatural and macabre tales.

They want to shut you up. But don’t let this be the End of Discussion. In this fresh and provocative new book, Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, dynamic Fox News and Townhall Media duo, expose how the Left exploits fake outrage to silence their political opponents—in public, on social...

The last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with poignant recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for racial reckoning, both then and now. New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “In this...

A third collection of 18 classic tales of the weird and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.

President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson's Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin, tracing the path from Moore's small-town upbringing in West Virginia to that fateful moment when she tried to assassinate the president.

Another collection of 16 classic tales of the macabre and supernatural by some of the best-known writers in these genres.

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic "Lucia" novels. In his own day it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. The Sanctuary exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of supernatural and macabre tales, this one being particularly disturbing.

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic Lucia novels. In his own day, it was his ghost stories that were his most popular works. "Mrs Amworth", with its theme of vampirism, exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of supernatural and macabre tales.

E. F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic Lucia novels. In his own day it was his ghost stories that were his most popular works. "Naboth's Vineyard" exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of supernatural and macabre tales.

At the Farmhouse by Edward Frederic Benson tells the story of a landscape painter, who after twenty years of hideous marriage to an abusive and drunken local woman who is rumoured to be a witch, sets off to murder her. In his pocket is a ball of strong twine with which he will strangle her, and a box of matches with which he will set light to the farmhouse to destroy the evidence of his crime. After that he will be free... What happens when he reaches the farmhouse is gruesome, uncanny and totally unexpected.