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1962, and on Christmas Day at precisely 6pm, a mysterious old man by the name of Silas Finn, calls on the new owners of an ancestral home in Devon and asks which they'd prefer to hear—a story or a song. Ten-year old Enys Quiller is adamant they must have a story, just as Cousin Beatrice instructed.

What exactly lies beyond the treacherous and previously impassable Canadian glacier? From the collection In Search of the Unknown comes a chilling tale of the things nature can do when nobody’s watching.

Sebastian vågner op på hospitalet. Han er klar over, at noget er helt galt. Men har han virkelig slået Per ihjel i skoven, som politiet og formiddagspressen tror? Og hvad betyder de islandske ord, der kører som en konstant hvisken i hans hoved? I forsøget på at bevise sin uskyld og komme til bunds i sagen, bliver Sebastian og Naja viklet ind i et urgammelt opgør mellem en magtfuld dæmon og en nådesløs hævner, som kalder sig Glam.

Bas Salieri, studioso dell'Occulto, si ritrova a Bologna con il cuore a brandelli e nessun progetto per il futuro. Ad accoglierlo sotto i portici c'è Mario Ghiddi, amico di lunga data e grande esperto di cinema gotico italiano, che per svagarlo lo accompagna a un evento della Bologna underground: un'asta semisegreta in cui verrà battuto il dipinto di un tormentato inquisitore del XVI secolo. Il quadro fa gola a molti, in primis a Verbena Vardi, unica discendente dell'ultima, presunta strega condannata dall'inquisitore.

Fiction ? Réalité ? Qu’en est-il exactement de ce mystérieux manuscrit retrouvé dans la forêt tropicale du Pérou ? Son contenu est-il si redoutable que l’Eglise s’acharne à le détruire et, avec lui, ceux qui l’ont approché ? Le héros de ce roman d’aventure—et de cette recherche spirituelle—va reconstituer, au fil des rencontres, les neuf révélations que recèle ce livre, révélations qui lui ouvrent la porte d’une vie meilleure et lui apportent l’espoir d’un troisième millénaire où les hommes sauront concilier contrainte quotidienne et spiritualité.

Mitten im strömenden Regen findet die Hexe Miranda eines Abends ein schneeweißes Kätzchen. Sie hebt es auf und nimmt es mit nach drinnen, ohne zu ahnen, womit sie es wirklich zu tun hat. Bald beginnt sie zu ahnen, dass etwas in der Welt der Magie schiefgelaufen ist. Zusammen mit dem Zauberer Nexus bemüht sie sich, herauszufinden, was - und vor allem wer - hinter den geheimnisvollen Ereignissen steckt.

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers and listeners of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales's original publication run.

Essie has always seen herself as someone defined by her ambitions, a cold and independent woman, whose only soft spot is her husband. She never imagined herself as a mother, but then she finds out she’s pregnant. As her difficult pregnancy transforms her body and life into something foreign to her, her husband spends the nights pacing in the attic, and the house begins to whisper.

The Rook family run a little business: ghost hunting. And things have picked up recently. Something's wrong. It's been getting noticeably worse since, ooh, 2016? Bad spirits are abroad, and right now they're particularly common around Coldbay Island, which isn't even abroad, it's only 20 miles from Skegness. The Rooks' 'quick call out' to the island picks loose a thread that begins to unravel the whole place, and the world beyond. Is this the apocalypse? This might be the apocalypse. Who knew it would kick off in an off-season seaside resort off the Lincolnshire coast?

È notte quando la carrozza si ferma davanti ai cancelli di Villa Turner, la nebbia avvolge la casa e i segreti dei suoi abitanti. Judith non conosce i dettagli dell'incarico che Edgar Turner vuole affidarle, ma anche dopo aver appreso la verità acconsente ad accudire la misteriosa ragazza che ha bussato alla sua porta. Per permettere a Gwen di recuperare le forze, lei e Peter si sono isolati. Quando il loro nascondiglio viene scoperto, sono costretti ad abbandonarlo e a fuggire tra le montagne.

The Summer I Believed in God and Johnny B. Good by Pamela Jekel is the story of a woman searching for her father. Raised by her grandparents, Lacey Wickham was told that her mother had a nervous breakdown shortly after her birth and was institutionalized. Now at twenty-seven, a psychologist with her own relationship issues, Lacey visits her aunts to discover if they know who her father might be. Two sisters who fled the family home in their teens, the aunts run a thriving spiritualist business in Cassadaga, Florida, specializing in tarot readings, séances, and spells.

C'è qualcosa di spietato e sadico in tutto ciò che sollecita i nostri punti deboli, come se ci fosse la determinazione di un destino, la precisa volontà di risvegliare i demoni invisibili che si nascondono in fondo all'anima. Stefano, ultimo discendente dell'antica famiglia aristocratica degli Orsini Gianotti, dirige con successo e da lungo tempo la Fulgor, la fabbrica di lampadine fondata dal celebrato nonno Umberto negli anni Venti del Novecento. Ha una moglie, Carola, e una figlia sedicenne, Aurora, venuta al mondo come un miracolo, dopo anni di tentativi disperati e infruttuosi.

Dirk Aarns ist ein hingebungsvoller Familienvater und erfolgreich in seinem Job bei einer großen Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. Und eigentlich ginge es ihm gut in seiner sorgsam angelegten vorstädtischen Welt aus dem Gartenkatalog - wären da nicht die quälenden Schlafprobleme, die seit Wochen seinen Alltag aus Bilanzen, Kaffee und Rushhour trüben. Doch die Alpträume von tragischen Unfällen und brutalen Morden, die ihm die Nächte rauben, erweisen sich bald als tatsächliche Vorhersagen bevorstehender Ereignisse.

This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment.

Edward Clarke was staring out of the window of his bookshop, a cigarette held delicately between his long, thin fingers, his unshaven chin slightly upraised.

Tonya matched her pace to that of the sedately departing steam train. She opened the last door of the last carriage with the nonchalance of a seasoned commuter and stepped aboard.

Good weather is returning to Anchor Point. Jay has been coaxed by his mother into giving his cousin, Jenny the Jinx, a summer job. Robbie doesn't want her around after she set fire to her school. He is afraid the same thing will happen at the cafe. The renovations have begun on the bed and breakfast building. The first day of work, a skeleton is found concealed in one of the walls. Who is he and how did he get he there? Roland knows but refuses to tell anyone anything. Could the resident ghost be a murderer? Jay won't give up until he finds the answers.

"Mrs. Taylor?" The greeting came from a woman sitting in a ponderous wingback chair by the front door. Because of the paperwork on her lap she could not immediately stand.

The past doesn't always stay where it should. It is as though somebody, or something, is forever trying to bring it painfully into the present. Flavian Bennett is trying to leave his past behind when he goes to work in his father's bookshop in Paris. But a curious customer, Reginald Hopper, is desperate to resurrect his own murky origins. Hopper believes that a rare and mysterious book, The Dark Return of Time, may be the key to what happened before he arrived in Paris. In this quiet thriller by R.B. Russell, the futures - and pasts - of these two men will soon cross.

I awoke this morning in what appeared to be a strange house and I lay between unfamiliar sheets trying to remember exactly where I might be. I was not especially worried at first.