Showing results for "Séances" in Literature & Fiction

Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance; perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life. So begins this brilliant and gripping novel, a dark mystery set in late-Victorian England.

From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume. ‘From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream – such a scream as Raoul had never heard. It died away with a horrible kind of gurgle...

Privatdetektivin Nicolette Borelli glaubt nicht an Geister. Daher zögert sie nicht, den Auftrag anzunehmen, den angeblichen Spiritisten Horace Bainbridge als Schwindler zu entlarven. Es dauert jedoch nicht lange, bis ihr skeptisches Weltbild Risse bekommt und sie von etwas verfolgt wird, das nicht von dieser Welt stammt.

Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work, created on the basis of the author's life observations, is Mephistopheles' Patter "Do not invoke him!"

From the author of the sensational bestseller, The Lost Apothecary, comes a spellbinding gothic whodunit introducing two enigmatic women who set out to solve a most unusual mystery. May mercy be upon the man who finds himself the enemy of a vengeful medium... 1873. At an abandoned château on...

“Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.”—Tana French, New York Times Bestselling Author From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha...

In 1842, two sisters drunkenly debate their future, their family chocolate business has failed and so they decide to open a séance parlour. The locals are shocked but soon their shop is crammed with people wanting to contact the dead. Despite their change in fortune, a rift forms between the sisters, as young sister Judy gets her novel published, finds a man and proves to be more capable of contacting spirits than Maggie. Spurred on by jealousy, Maggie tries harder, and soon even the Queen is consulting her.

When an unusual picture called a spirit photograph, which some Victorian spiritualists claimed was a photograph of the dead, sells at auction, Flynn Keirnan is determined to discover the story behind it. She soon learns the ghostly figures in the picture were the subjects of a sensational murder trial in 1875 Chicago. Flynn tracks the story through many sources, including the trial transcript, a journal kept by one of the victims, and notes from a jailhouse interview with the husband conducted by feminist firebrand Victoria Woodhull for her radical newspaper.

Ellie has an ailing sister to care for and working as a ghost hunter who doesn't believe in ghosts helps cover the bills. On her latest job, though, she may be in for some genuine scares. The skeptical, reserved, and very rich Nicholas Hartford III has flown her all the way to his family's ancestral estate in England - supposedly haunted by a phantom named Xavier. Something is causing the flashes of light, mysterious accidents and other apparent pranks in the chilly, eerie castle. His mother is sure that Xavier is real, and he's willing to employ Ellie if she can get to the bottom of it.

Bram Stoker portrayed Dracula as a terrifying creature of the night: heartless, soulless, preying on the pure and innocent. Fred Saberhagen, bestselling coauthor of the official movie tie-in for Bram Stoker's Dracula, shows another side to Dracula as the vampire is summoned by Dr. Watson to rescue Sherlock Holmes.

London, 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Tim Badger is determined to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, Sherlock Holmes, by opening his own consulting detective agency with his partner, Benjamin Watson. The intrepid duo are ready to make a name for themselves . . . if only they had clients! Their luck changes when Sherlock recommends his protégés to Thomas Brent. Brent is eager to find out who killed his master, Horace Quinn, during a séance. What was Quinn desperately trying to find out from his deceased business partner, Stephen Latimer, before he was stabbed?

Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz. Beryl’s aircraft is not the only disruption of village peace. Miss Dinsdale, a psychic medium, has started holding séances.

La frontière entre la fiction et la réalité n'a jamais été si mince...En 1967, l’avant-première du film Derrière le voile vire au cauchemar. Des spectateurs sont pris de vomissement, de pulsions violentes l’incident fait état d’une cinquantaine de blessé et de trois morts dont le producteur Auguste Schenck. Après tout cela le film n'est jamais sorti.Avec le temps il est devenu culte même si encore aujourd’hui personne n’ose en parler ou même l’évoquer. Deux auteurs d’un podcast sur les films maudit décident aujourd’hui de mener l’enquête. Entre révélations ...

Weihnachtszeit am Bodensee: die Schüler und Lehrer des Internats Schloss Güstrow sind fast vollständig ausgeflogen...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. A medium agrees to perform one last seance before retiring. But even she could not have anticipated the chain of events that it...

Zach, Izzy et Boris regardent un film au cours d’une ultime séance avant d’en débattre ensemble. L’un des chroniqueurs connaît déjà le film, les deux autres le découvrent… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Programmation La chroniqueÀ chaque émission, un chroniqueur nous livre sa chronique personnelle avec au choix :La caverne de ZachZach dépoussière pour nous sa collection de DVD et Blu-Ray et fait honneur au support ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house-call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into...

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