Hereward Carrington was a respected investigator of psychic and supernatural phenomena who was well known for detecting fraud and for incorporating scientific methods into his research procedures. The fascinating volume True Ghost Stories collects a series of Carrington's spine-tingling accounts of cases in which he concluded that a supernatural force or element was at work.
Twisted stories about ghosts "The mental torture of a conscientious man, oppressed beyond endurance by an unintelligible responsibility involving life."-Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man A collection of three different stories, Gothic, grotesque, but with enduring charm: The Signal Man, The Haunted House and The Trial for Murder. The novels are the author’s brief but successful foray into the mystery and detective genres. This book has been professionally formatted for e-readers and contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. This book contains three short ghost stories (in the vein of A Christmas Carol) that originally appeared as Christmas tales. Both spooky and touching, they are the perfect little tales for the Christmas holiday season.
Twenty-four grotesque horror tales written by Ambrose Bierce, the nineteenth-century journalist known for his cynicism
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"Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories" features fifteen ghost and horror stories. Included in this collection are: "The Way of Ghosts", "Soldier Folk", "Some Haunted Houses" and "Mysterious Disappeances". Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, journalist, critic, poet, and Civil War veteran, best known for "The Devil's Dictionary" (1911). He dominated the horror genre as the preeminent innovator of supernatural storytelling in the period between the death of Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of H.P. Lovecraft. Bierce’s death was as mysterious as his strange stories; sometime around 1914 he left for Mexico, wanting to experience the Mexican Revolution firsthand, and was never to be seen again.
I was chosen Foreman of the Jury. On the second morning of the trial, after evidence had been taken for two hours (I heard the church clocks strike), happening to cast my eyes over my brother jurymen, I found an inexplicable difficulty in counting them. I counted them several times, yet always with the same difficulty. In short, I made them one too many. I touched the brother jurymen whose place was next me, and I whispered to him, "Oblige me by counting us." He looked surprised by the request, but turned his head and counted. "Why," says he, suddenly, "we are Thirt-; but no, it's not possible. No. We are twelve."
Stories tell of strange occurences that defy logical explanation.
Book Excerpt: --he is running in an opposite direction to the horse in many circuits--not on any footpaths. He wears a cap and grey clothes--light--has long coarse brown hair, which has not been cut for a long time--grey-blue eyes--treacherous looks--great dark brown beard--he is accustomed to work on the land. I believe he has cut his right hand. He has a scar or a streak between his thumb and forefinger. He is suspicious and a coward."'The murderer's home is a red wooden house, standing a little way back from the road. On the ground-floor is a room which leads into the kitchen, and from that again into the passage. There is also a larger room which does not communicate with the kitchen. The church of Wissefjerda is situated obliquely to your right when you are standing in the passage."'His motive was enmity; it seems as if he had bought something--taken something--a paper. He went away from home at daybreak, and the murder was committed in the evening.'"Miss Olsen was then awakened, and like all my subjects, she remembered perfectly what she had been seeing, which had made a very profound impression on her; she added several things which I did not write down."On November 6th...
Twenty-five real-life tales of hauntings and ghostly encounters across America, by the author of Houses of Horror and Ghost Hunter’s Strangest Cases. Hans Holzers Real Hauntings continues his account of true, authenticated case histories of haunting throughout the United States. From the restless shade of a sea captain on Cape Cod, to the remorseful parishioner at St. Mark’s in New York City who is unable to forget her extramarital affair, to the little girl ghost of Landsdowne, Pennsylvania, who can’t quite understand what happened to her world, Real Hauntings chronicles the fascinating and dramatic accounts of the true experiences that ordinary people have had with the world beyond our own. New Hampshire, Virginia, California, Louisiana, Minnesota—ghostly encounters can occur anywhere and to anyone. Among the many remarkable encounters in Real Hauntings is the story about the ghost of a young girl killed during a wild party in Hollywood; the testimony of tenants at an eighteen-century carriage house in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen regarding the several ghosts they have encountered; and the account of the piano-playing phantom in an old house in Arkansas. In all,...
Alguien tiene en el punto de mira a los practicantes de magia de Chicago, los miembros de la subclase sobrenatural que carecen del suficiente poder para convertirse en magos plenos. Varios han desaparecido. Otros parecen haberse suicidado. En el último caso, el culpable ha dejado una tarjeta de visita en el escenario del crimen, un mensaje para el mago detective Harry Dresden.Este se lanza a buscar al asesino, pero la investigación lo lleva hasta un culpable que no cree posible: Thomas, su propio hermano. Para limpiar su nombre, Dresden se implica en una disputa de poderes sobrenaturales que lo supera, se halla en una situación de inferioridad y peligrosamente susceptible a la tentación.
No existe una buena relación entre Harry Dresden, el único mago que se anuncia en el listín telefónico de Chicago, y el Consejo Blanco de magos, que lo considera un tipo impetuoso e indisciplinado. Sin embargo, el Consejo le ha enviado a indagar sobre ciertos rumores acerca de la presencia de magia negra en la ciudad. Cuando Harry empieza a investigar, se encuentra con otro problema en la forma de la hija tatuada y perforada de un viejo amigo: su novio es el único sospechoso de lo que parece ser un ataque sobrenatural propio de una película de terror. Además, entidades malévolas que se alimentan del miedo andan sueltas por Chicago..., pero todas esas cosas son casi normales en el día a día de este mago, su fiel perro y una calavera parlante llamada Bob.
This book is a perfect gift. It has a beautiful cover, over 10 pictures inside and a scary font. The book includes three ghost stories: The Signal-Man The Haunted-House The Trial For Murder
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Excerpt: ... implored him to come to me. "You have got a bad nightmare; wake up " But something in my voice roused him at last, and he came chuckling across the room, stopping to throw open two of the great shutters and let a burst of white light into the room. He climbed up on the bed and peered over jeeringly. With the first glance the laugh died, and he leaped the bed and bent over me. "My God, man, what is the matter with you? You are hurt " 76 "I don't know what is the matter; lift me up, get me away from here, and I'll tell you all I know." "But, old chap, you must be hurt awfully; the floor is covered with blood " He lifted my head and held me in his powerful arms. I looked down: a great red stain blotted the floor beside me. But, apart from the black bruise on my head, there was no sign of a wound on my body, nor stain of blood on my lips. In as few words as possible I told him the whole story. "Let's get out of this," he said when I had finished; "this is no place for us. Brigands I can stand, but
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