Doctor Who: Ghost Stories #5


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Grant's powers are failing him, and he, the Doctor, Lucy, and Jennifer are trapped on a world completely controlled by the brains of the Harmony Shoal! Can a superhero without superpowers survive on a world where all but a small few are out to get them?! And can they live long enough to retrieve the next crystal in their quest?




Doctor Who: Ghost Stories (complete collection)


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When we last saw Grant, Lucy, and Jennifer in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, they were settling down together as a family – and Grant’s superhero costume was safely stored away. But that wasn’t the end of the story! Now, the Doctor is swooping back into their lives – because the alien gem that gifted Grant his powers has counterparts all over the universe. It’s up to the Doctor, Grant, Lucy and Jennifer to track them all down – to prevent cosmic disaster! Writer George Mann (Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen) teams with artists Ivan Rodriguez, Pasquale Qualano, and Dennis Calero to bring you all-new superhero adventures with the Twelfth Doctor! Collects Doctor Who: Ghost Stories #1-8 “A fun mash-up of two great genres” – Capeless Crusader “Great superhero action” – Geek Girl Project “If you’re a Doctor Who fan, it’s a must-buy.” – Graphic Policy




Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor: Ghost Stories


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Don't miss the brand-new superheroic adventures of the Twelfth Doctor, Grant, and Lucy, as they soar from the rooftops of New York City to the far corners of the universe! When we last saw Grant and Lucy, they were settling down together with Lucy's daughter, and Grant's superheroic costume was being stored away. But that wasn't the end of the story! Soon, the Doctor is swooping back into their lives - because it turns out the alien gemstone that gifted Grant his powers of flight, super-strength, and super-speed has siblings all over the universe. It's up to the Doctor, Grant, Lucy, and their daughter to track them down to prevent disaster - from a post-apocalyptic New York, to a world taken over by the forces of the Harmony Shoal, to a boneship in the depths of space... and more! But is there something the Doctor isn't telling Grant...? Will the journey's end require Grant to give up his powers in order to save the universe? There's only one way to find out! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it's a police box VWORP-VWORP-ing through the temporal vortex, with a caped superhero swooping alongside! Collects Doctor Who: Ghost Stories #1-4




The Doctor to the Dead


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A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina. You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true. . . . So begins “Crook-Neck Dick,” one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. John Bennett’s interpretations of the legends shared with him by African-descended Charlestonians have entertained generations. Among them are tales of ghosts, conjuring, superhuman feats, and supernatural powers; accounts of ingenuity, humor, terror, mystery, and solidarity will enchant folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story. Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides an introduction. “A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . old tales of death, mystery, bizarre incredibilities, diabolic influence, demanding ghosts, buried treasure, enchantments, miracles, visitations, and the dead that are not dead.” —Kirkus Reviews




Doctor Who: Paper Moon


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A brand new series of adventures for the Doctor and her TARDIS team! The Doctor and her friends find themselves in terrible danger in a psychic forest, and discover a threat as old as time itself, in the first of four linked adventures for Team TARDIS. Written in the form of a diary, with entries from Ryan, Graham and Yaz, and illustrated throughout, this new series is perfect for young fans of Doctor Who.




Doctor Who Omnibus


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All 16 issues plus the 2010 annual and A Fairytale Life are collected in this Doctor Who Omnibus. Includes the final comic book tales of the 10th Doctor plus a stand alone tale starring the 11th Doctor that's not to be missed!




The Kingmaker


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Dr. Who encounters one of the most notorious characters from the past, as he journeys through time to solve the great Historical Mysteries. Not surprisingly the Doctor becomes mixed up with Richard the third himself, as he tries to unravel the perplexing problem of who exactly killed the Princes in the Tower.




Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories


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Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.




Ghost Stories


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A collection of 10 books with gripping stories of horror, terror, ghosts, supernatural elements, and all things scary! Each book in this collection compiles together some of the best and spookiest stories that keep haunting the readers long after they have kept the book aside. The stories are classic, timeless and hair-raising, and set in dark streets and haunted houses. The weird tales of ghosts, skeletons and dark powers will surely make the readers sit up and look around. The books include horror stories written by famous authors such as Charles Dickens, M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe and several others.




The Random House Book of Ghost Stories


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Seventeen ghost stories from England are cozy or comic rather than spooky.