Fear at Phantom Ship Lake


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Murder at Phantom Ship Lake tells the story of tragic events at a mountain retreat near Mt. Lassen. Professor Jim Talbot has assembled a small group of writers for a conference and includes Shannon, his young bride, as well as Viv, his former wife and a conference director. Carolyn Walker arrives and soon learns that each of those present has a good reason to detest Jim. The body of one of the attendees is found in Phantom Ship Lake, and suspicion falls on other participants. Missing on the trail for two days, a badly hurt Jim Talbot is found by a search party and taken to a hospital where another trial awaits him.




Death at Arbours


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Death at Arbours tells the story of Emily Clayton who spent her childhood in an orphanage in London where for undisclosed reasons, she was never adopted. When Emily's marriage takes her to the United States, she remains there when her young husband dies mysteriously. After years of indecision, she finally returns to England to seek her parentage. Her search leads to a wealthy but reclusive London family who invites her to their country estate, Arbours, where she finds the answers to her quest but nearly loses her life.




Fear at Phantom Ship Lake


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Murder at Phantom Ship Lake tells the story of tragic events at a mountain retreat near Mt. Lassen. Professor Jim Talbot has assembled a small group of writers for a conference and includes Shannon, his young bride, as well as Viv, his former wife and a conference director. Carolyn Walker arrives and soon learns that each of those present has a good reason to detest Jim. The body of one of the attendees is found in Phantom Ship Lake, and suspicion falls on other participants. Missing on the trail for two days, a badly hurt Jim Talbot is found by a search party and taken to a hospital where another trial awaits him.




Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals


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In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived




The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings


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Watch out! Here comes another mammoth book to thrill you and chill you and to frighten you to within an inch of your life! It comes bumping out of the night ... from John Robert Colombo, the master of the macabre! This new compendium delivers excitement and delight to everyone who finds the unknown and the inexplicable fascinating, baffling, and frightening. The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings offers readers true, first-person accounts of the appearances (and the disappearances!) of ghosts and spirits as well as considerations and discussions of their effects on observers. Some told-as-true tales are reprinted from newspapers and periodicals of the past, but the majority of the stories, which come from every region in Canada, are based on eyewitness reports of the present that are appearing here for the first time and are based on the compiler's ongoing research. So whether you believe in ghosts, spirits, spooks, spectres, or poltergeists, or not, after reading these narratives contributed by Canadians from all walks of life, you definitely won't be indifferent to them.




The Gothic Literature and History of New England


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The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the history, nature and future of the Gothic mode in the region, from the witch trials through the Black Lives Matter Movement. Texts include Cotton Mather and other Puritan divines who collected folklore of the supernatural; the Frontier Gothic of Indian captivity narratives; the canonical authors of the American Renaissance such as Melville and Hawthorne; the women's ghost story tradition and the Domestic Gothic from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Shirley Jackson; H. P. Lovecraft; Stephen King; and writers of the current generation who respond to racial and gender issues. The work brings to the surface the religious intolerance, racism and misogyny inherent in the New England Gothic, and how these nightmares continue to haunt literature and popular culture—films, television and more.




Michigan Legends


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A collection of stories drawn from Michigan’s rich folk heritage




The Bay View Magazine


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Grail Of Stars


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With evil cousin Mordred dead, Rhianna and her friends set out to find the final magical Light - the elusive Grail of Stars - so they can harness its power to help return her father's soul to its body. When the ghost of Sir Galahad guides Rhianna to the Grail Castle, she faces a series of dangerous tests and uncovers a shocking secret about Merlin. But when Mordred is sighted at the Lonely Tor and her best friend, Avalonian prince Elphin, goes missing, Rhianna finds herself fighting for more than just the Grail. The final book in an epic series set in the Dark Ages.




Our Pacific Coast


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