Robert Louis Stevenson's short story The Body-Snatcher (1884) is the tale of MacFarlane and Fettes, a pair of "resurrection men," or body-snatchers - unsavory types who secretly disinter fresh corpses from graveyards to sell as anatomy subjects. This grim little tale is based on reality, as in Edinburgh - Stevenson's home town - body-snatching was so common they built high walls and guard towers around the graveyards. Sometimes, for want of a corpse, an even less scrupulous body-snatcher might j...
Something sinister has befallen Florida's Meridian Cove in the wake of several unusually active hurricane seasons. An unexplainable rash of suicides and disappearances has swept over the town, like the immensely powerful hurricane that is set to ravage the coastline in mere days. A bizarre series of events heralding the impending storm confront police chief Kevin Handley with a mystery so sinister, so profoundly evil, the likes of which have never before been seen by mankind. Through fate, Handl...
H.P. Lovecraft, aside from devising his own works in his Cthulhu Mythos cycle, also collaborated in his day with many younger writers of the uncanny and eerie. Available for the first time in paperback, this collection features stories to which the master of horror added his own ingenious touch.
Child of Time (Time Hunter, #11) (Time Hunter S., #11)
by George Mann and David J. Howe
The Phantom 'rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling
Ghost Masters, Volume 2
by Washington Peattie Elia Irving, Charles Blackwood Algernon Dickens, and Rudyard Kepner Kipling
Terror in the Shadows Vol. 8 (Terror in the Shadows, #8)
by Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, and Sara Clancy
To his mother, Joey seems an ordinary six-year-old boy - special to her, but to no one else. To the Servants of Twilight, however, he is an evil presence who must be destroyed - an Anti-Christ who must die. The terrifying ordeal for Joey and his mother begins in the supermarket car park where an old woman accosts them and pursues them with her terrible threats. Christine's world is turned into a nightmare of terror. Only her love for her child, and the support of the one man who believes her, gi...
Southern Ghosts is a ghostly tale of terror that the author experienced as a young boy. He came face to face with the darker side of the unkown and found that the dreams and secret things of the night are not all just our mind playing tricks. This story is definately a nail-biter and will make you wonder if what was in your dreams, may actually be in your house, lurking in the dark. Southern Ghosts is a true story based on actual events that happened to the author and his family in a small rural...
Supernatural Tales Of The Native American Indians (Tales of the Native American Indians, #4)
by G W Mullins
Vampire "Unleashed" (Vampire "Untitled" Trilogy, #3)
by Lee McGeorge
A reprint of the original English translation of Chamisso's romantic novella Peter Schlemihls wundersame Reise, which includes engravings by the 19th-century cartoonist, Cruickshank. Koepke's introduction provides a historical context, information on the translation, and updates critical theory.
