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Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1977: Beatrice Bird is a Ph.D. psychologist who has fled her home, her partner, and her practice in San Francisco for a remote and sparsely populated island. She sees as few people as she possibly can, not by choice but from necessity. Normally, Beatriceis plagued by ghosts, manifestations of the emotional baggage people carry with them, but on the island, she's free from their grief and sadness. Then she meets Anne Iredale, a thirty-two-year-old...
Author
Series
Edinburgh nights volume 3
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Everyone's favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers' biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery--a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. One of the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll. Caught between Qozmos, the high wizard of Ethiopian magic; the larger-than-life Lord Sashvindu Samarasinghe; England's Sorcerer Royal;...
Author
Publisher
Gallery/Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The author of the acclaimed novel The Brief History of the Dead now gives us one hundred funny, poignant, scary, and thought-provoking ghost stories that explore all aspects of the afterlife. A spirit who appears in a law firm reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, a man haunted by the trees cut down to build his house, nefarious specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows in which they live, and parakeets that serve as...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village séance that threatens the bounds...
Author
Series
Stitch in time volume 3
Publisher
K.L.A. Fricke Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In Thorne Manor there is one locked door. Behind it lies a portal to the twenty-first century, and nothing is going to stop Miranda Hastings from stepping through. After all, she is a Victorian writer of risqué pirate adventures--traveling to the future would be the greatest adventure of them all. When Miranda goes through, though, she lands in Georgian England . . . and in the path of Nicolas Dupuis, a privateer accused of piracy. Sheltered by locals,...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago a single block, deep in the suburbs, slipped into its own dimension, locked behind an inaccessible veil. Everyone was lost save for three girls who had returned to college the night before. Talitha, now 40, has never recovered from the trauma of that day, but when a researcher entices her back to try to make contact with her little sister, Talitha stops running from Brett, Grace, and their shared past in order to finally move forward...
Author
Series
Vintage magic mystery volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Madeira Cutler receives a dawn delivery, a gown she designed in fashion school for a Broadway Star, now a dear friend. A cryptic note reads: "Mad, sweetie, if you have this, and not from my hand, I{u2019}m dead." Dominique DeLong died on stage in front of hundreds of people. How and at who's hand?"--Author's website.
Author
Series
Vintage magic mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
With all the stress of opening her new vintage clothing store (housed in the renovated old town morgue), Madeira Cutler feels like a bag of bones--until she discovers the real deal, unearthed by a snooping intruder, in one of the old body drawers. And the bones are as vintage as Maddie's stock (Classic Mod--so 60's!), or so says Maddie's sexy resident ghost, Dante Underhill. Could the break-in have something to do with the local playhouse and its...
Author
Series
Vintage magic mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
With years of experience working for a top New York designer, Madeira Cutler has learned to appreciate the clean line, rich texture, and elegant draping of a finely crafted garment. It's not until Maddie goes home to Mystick Falls, Connecticut, for her sister's wedding, however, that she discovers her understanding of fashion goes much deeper. Before the accessory shopping and fittings can begin, the festivities hit a snag when Maddie finds her sister's...
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