The odyssey of Lord Samuel Kainz continues. Hunted by Death, cursed by life, forged by ambition, he knows neither surrender nor defeat. He has no qualms about annihilating anyone or anything that stands between him and his goal. The fate that awaits him is to cancel himself in the oblivion of the afterlife, like all living beings on this earth, but the same will that saved him will lead him far beyond human possibilities. He will sacrifice his life...

A young hiker is out one day and ventures upon the old Witch's house nestled in the darkest part of the forest. She is dead, but the house seems to call to the young man, who brazenly enters. Once inside, he finds an old book and begins reading as the story of the Witch unfolds before him. All she ever wanted was to love and be treated like the rest of the town. The animosity of the townspeople, however, changed her whole life and she was forced to...

Zoey Sanders is spending her senior year at a mysterious castle in Scotland that she believes is haunted. The mystery deepens and she has strong speculations that spirits are inhabiting her body at night when she dreams. As she tries to figure out what is going on, two students fall into a deep coma. Something sinister is happening and Zoey is determined to figure this mystery out. She also vows to save the castle spirits that desperately need her...

Ian Ashtons Großvater, Lord Ashton, liegt im Sterben. Seit dem Tod seiner Eltern ist Ian ihm sehr verbunden und wacht daher an seinem Sterbebett. Im Fieberwahn spricht Lord Ashton immer wieder von Ians vor Jahren im Moor verschollenen Schwester Celice. Zudem nimmt er Ian das Versprechen ab, das Gemälde im Treppenaufgang von Ashton Manor nie aus den Augen zu lassen. Keine leichte Aufgabe für Ian, der das Bild seit Jahren meidet, denn die Augen...

A young journalist eagerly heads out on a voyage to see his old friend-an ardent chemist with a top-secret discovery to disclose-but soon finds out it may be better for everyone if he had remained in the dark."...Her story-telling capacity is engaging and sure, and, while her voice is clearly her own, fans of Gothic fiction will detect murmuring echoes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe." --Karl Yambert

"You will be mine, little darling: for death is my life." When fate draws together the lives of two young women, their mutual attraction quickly flourishes into a bond which threatens the boundaries of social etiquette in 1860s Styria. As their relationship continues to develop further, they remain oblivious to the growing horror which surrounds them, as throughout the province other young women are dying in mysterious circumstances. Meanwhile,...

The year is 1816, in Northamptonshire. A red, spiderwebbed haze covers the sun. Temperatures drop, fields flood and freeze, grain rots on the stem. The people are starving, and even the wealthy and titled are affected by shortages. Sickness spreads as a red fungus overtakes fields, seals over windows, and infiltrates cellars. On the way back from the Napoleonic Wars in France, Marcus, the younger son of the Earl of Penderbrook, returns to find his...

Maggie came with her sister Rebecca to Heather House, to recover from the drowning deaths of their two husbands. They thought a few months in the country would be wonderful therapy. But the house seems to be haunted by the ghost of its one-time owner, Heather Lambert, who (it is said) waits in the tower room for the return of her errant husband. And when Maggie discovers the portrait of Heather hidden in the cellar, the woman from the past seems to...

London 1860 Midnight Gunn is no ordinary detective- born during a solar eclipse as Halley's Comet blazed a trail through the sky- his supernatural birthright is both a help and a hindrance when solving crimes. Detective Inspector Arthur Gredge, of Scotland Yard, is the only one who knows Gunn's secret. When the body of a young aristocrat is discovered in a backstreet alley, Gredge enlists Gunn's help in a race to discover the identity of the notorious...

Readers of Eve Chase and Kate Morton will devour this bewitchingly atmospheric, melancholy modern ghost story set in the lush hills of England's Lake District. There, a solitary woman's quiet life spent in her crumbling ancestral manor house with the company of a child's ghost is dramatically interrupted when her estranged sister returns to share a horrific story of cruelty and desperation from decades earlier...
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