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Vitus Adamson has a second chance at life now that he's no longer a zombie. But after killing his brother, Jamie, Vitus lands in prison on murder charges. Jamie's death exposes secret government projects so deep in the black they cannot be seen - without Vitus, that is. Sprung from jail, the government hires Vitus to clean up Jamie's messes, but tracking down his brother's homemade monsters gone rogue is easier said than done. The first of them is a convicted killer assumed to be safely behind bars.

Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.

„Ich warte auf dich!" Diese Worte stehen auf dem blutverschmierten Zettel, den Susi neben einem rätselhaften Videoband findet. Der Film zeigt sie als Kind, während ihres Urlaubs in dem Dorf im Wald. Die fröhliche Stimmung in dem Video trügt, denn ihr Vater trägt ein dunkles Geheimnis in sich, das ihn mit dem Dorf verbindet. In ihrer Erinnerung reist Susi zurück zu jenem Ort, an dem ein wahrgewordener Albtraum begann. Verfolgt von unerklärlichen Erscheinungen und Gestalten, kommt Susi dem Rätsel des Dorfes immer weiter auf die Spur und deckt den ganzen Schrecken auf, der sich dort verbirgt.

“Evans is so good at nail-biting narrative.” —WashingtonPost “[A]crackling literary mystery. . . . Harrow itself contains Shirley Jackson levelsof gloomy passages and dark secrets. Smart, scary, sexy, and gorgeously writtento boot.” —Booklist (starredreview) Joe Hill’s Horns meets...

"Marley was dead to begin with...." These chillingly familiar words begin the classic Christmas tale of remorse and redemption in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Now R. William Bennett rewinds the story and focuses the spotlight on Scrooge’s miserly business partner, Jacob T. Marley, who was allowed to return as a ghost to warn Scrooge away from his ill-fated path. Why was Marley allowed to return? And why hadn't he been given the same chance as Ebenezer Scrooge? Or had he?

It has been just six months since David Herrick lost his beloved wife, Jessica. The grief is still an open wound. So when he receives an invitation to a reunion of long-lost friends, David’s first impulse is to refuse. After all, two decades have passed since he was in the same youth group...

Author of the popular Dorsetville novels, Katherine Valentine begins a new series that combines inspirational elements and suspense. The haunted rectory of Saint Francis Xavier keeps driving priests away. Enter the dashing Father Rich Melo. With a little help from the church rug hookers, he intends to exorcise his parish of demons.

In Drawn, a mysterious little boy has begun appearing in the paintings of an artist who can't remember ever actually seeing him. A partially blind, disfigured agoraphobic who suffers crippling panic attacks if he even tries to leave his apartment is forced out by an unseen entity. A lonely widower begins to suffer terrifying nightmares that his long-missing, presumed-dead son is still alive and in mortal danger. A young runaway realizes that a man he thought was his traveling companion is actually his captor...and a predator.

This critically acclaimed holiday staple about a bitter old man visited by three ghosts in London at Christmas has never been out of print. The work on which this somewhat wry production is based, and that has been adapted often for film, stage, and opera, is a story of redemption, moral concience, and charity. But it is also what its subtitle plainly states: a ghost story.

Der alte Hofrat Franz Arbogast erzählt einer Tafelrunde von seinem Leben – dem Leben eines Osterkindes, da er Schlag zwölf Uhr mittags an einem Ostersonntag geboren wurde. - Als junger Goldschmied schickt ihn sein Meister nach Frankfurt wegen des Schmucks für die bevorstehende Hochzeit des Königs mit einer Prinzessin von Astern. Auf dem Weg dorthin stiehlt man ihm die 400 mitgegebenen Dukaten und er gerät durch einen verstellten Wegweiser in das "graue Schlößlein". Nun bricht das Phantastische über ihn: seine totgeglaubte Verlobte begegnet ihm als Josephe und berichtet von der Irmelsage.

Ein amerikanischer Gesandter bezieht mit seiner Familie ein altes Schloss in England, in dessen Gemäuern ein Gespenst sein Unwesen treiben soll. Die Familie ist sich einig: Gespenster gibt es nicht! Und doch kommt es schon bald zu rätselhaften und aufregenden Begegnungen zwischen dem altehrwürdigen Gespenst und den neuen Bewohnern des Schlosses.