Showing results for "Specters" in Literature & Fiction

Just when she thought she'd seen everything... Detective Lieutenant Anita McElone is one of Harbor Haven's finest. She's also a hard-boiled ghost skeptic. So when she shows up on the doorstep of Alison Kerby's Haunted Guesthouse to ask for supernatural help in solving the murder of her former partner, it's hard to tell which woman is more flabbergasted. But McElone is dead serious, so Alison promises to help in any way she can - even asking her resident ghosts, Paul and Maxie, for help with the case.

When shadow warrior and former Tier One Navy SEAL John Dempsey goes undercover to meet with a Vory arms dealer, he thinks he’s laying the groundwork to penetrate the Russian criminal underground. Instead, he walks into a trap orchestrated by Zeta, the secret Russian task force behind a recent assassination attempt on the US President. For Dempsey and his team, the only way out is to lay waste to the Russians, putting a target on Ember’s back.

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord. The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they...

Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots, and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return from. At least, this time, the Earth is safe, right? Not so much.

In 1921, Marian Arnold, the heiress to a brewing baron’s empire, seeks solace in the glass butterfly house on her family’s Wisconsin estate as Prohibition and the deaths of her parents cast a long shadow over her shrinking world. When Marian’s sanctuary is invaded by nightmarish visions, she grapples with the line between hallucinations of things to come and malevolent forces at play in the present. With dead butterflies as the killer’s ominous signature, murders unfold at a steady pace. Marian, fearful she might be next, enlists the help of her childhood friend Felix.

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord. The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they...

In October of 1929, a witless vampire and a pompous detective set out to prove their intelligence by solving a bloodsucking murder in the hamlet of Nightstar, NY. It's a mysterious mystery that's not really about the mystery. Written + Directed by Max Werkmeister Music by Sean Kelly + Brendan Kelly, Courtesy of MPress Records Starring Henry Kiely, Ryan M. Sero, Brenda Holiday, Alison Taylor, Don McDonald, Wolf Reigns, Autumn Harrison, Reginald West, Josiah Robinson, Susan Abbey, John Stokes, Megan Therese Rippey, Frances Broudie Oldridge, Robert J. Harrower, Ryan McGrady, and Alexandra Landau

At 16, Sadie Young had a brush with death, and as a result she became more sensitive to the supernatural. Rather than embrace this gift, she spent years running from it, and from the darkness that once preyed upon her. Now 25 and working as a librarian, Sadie is called upon by a desperate family friend to look into a strange series of events. A teenaged girl has entered a reputedly haunted house in town and has gone mad. Committed, the girl attempts suicide and claims to be terrorized at all hours by a horrific specter known as "Mother Maggot".

Trata de la trágica historia de amor entre Guillermo Grant y Enid. El mejor amigo de Guillermo, Duncan Wyoming, el emergente actor de cine, se había casado con Enid, una hermosa mujer de quien Guillermo se enamora perdidamente. Debido a que ella estaba casada con Duncan, se dedica a amarla en silencio. Despues de una muerta extraña de ambos, Enid y Guillermo se reencuentran, ahora como fantasmas invisibles para el mundo vivo, yendo al teatro cada noche para ver todos los estrenos del cine