Family Horror

Thirteen years ago, Jori Trahan’s boyfriend vanished without a trace. Now, after moving back home to Alabama to care for her ailing grandmother and autistic brother, she comes face-to-face with the deadly mystery behind his disappearance. Jori has a rare form of synesthesia, meaning she can “hear” colors; to her, tones of voice are as unique as fingerprints. With the help of this ability and a sympathetic cop, Jori comes dangerously close to uncovering the truth. But those responsible will go to any length - including murder - to keep their dark secrets buried.

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future, and more particularly, for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement.

Granny’s dying, but Zoraida can save her with a magic crystal of smoky quartz. Too bad the crystal is in Scotland - in a haunted castle - guarded by mind-reading, psychopathic sorcerers. Getting inside Castle Logan is easy. Getting out - not so much. Before she can snatch the stone, Zoraida stumbles into a family feud, uncovers a wicked, ancient curse, and finds herself ensorcelled by not one, but two handsome Scottish witches. Zoraida and her best friend, Zhu, discover Granny hasn’t told them everything. Not by a long shot.

Once upon a time, there were Nazis...this story, however, has a happy ending and takes place in 1994. Born in Paris, Laura Rue celebrated her first birthday on the day the Nazis invaded the city. Most of her family escaped, and as an adult in New York, Laura teaches seventh graders about the environment. Shortly after her French grandfather dies, Laura's French grandmother, Simone, claims she is having repetitive dreams about an angel named Oleo, who insists that she and Laura must hire a captain to sail them around the world, so they can live happily ever after.

The blood of the tree is its sap. It has sustained Scott Belvedere's family for generations. It's the secret ingredient behind the family's intoxicating ale and bourbon, among other elixirs. But only when Scott inherits The Family Tree Inn, deep in the hills of Virginia, does he learn anything about his family, its symbiotic history, or the mammoth, ancient tree around which the inn is literally built.

This compendium contains all three novels of the Pittman Family Trilogy.

Salem, Massachusetts is the setting for a series of brutal, ritualistic murders that connect the present-day to the past.

"A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" is a Gothic short story by Sheridan Le Fanu focusing on a young woman who marries a Scottish landowner with a dark past. A short story whose haunting and semi-supernatural elements might have influenced Charlotte Bronts "Jane Eyre", Le Fanus tale combines a lot of elements horror, romance, thriller, and drama to create a compelling and sophisticated world from which there is no easy escape.

There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. . . . On the television news they heard gunfire and the sound of helicopter blades and bombs falling. The little girls hung on to the brink of a hugeness that they knew was there but had no way of discovering.The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip.

Has the nightmare finally run it's course? Not for Joe Ash. Deep inside he knows the incubus Karl Movick.

To Dance with the White Dog is Terry Kay's stunning fourth novel, a moving story about an old man's final rite of passage, about family ties and the universal experience of grieving for a lost love. At the heart of the book is a mysterious white dog that appears after Sam Peek's beloved wife has died, and that remains with him until just before his own death. Stray dog or ghost dog? To Sam Peek, the dog is a guardian angel who brings to him the healing power of comfort.

Die Fakten über Arthur Jermyn und seine Familie ist eine Kurzgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft, die im jahr 1921 erstmals veröffentlicht worden ist. Sie handelt über die englische Familie Jermyn und ihre Verbindungen zum Kongo. Im 18. Jahrhundert führte Sir Wade Jermyn Expeditionen und Forschungen im Kongo aus, in deren Folge er in seinem Buch Betrachtungen über die verschiedenen Teile Afrikas Theorien formulierte, nach denen im Kongo uralte weiße Hybridwesen – halb Mensch, halb Affe – in einer grauen, vergessenen Stadt lebten.

How can you sneak past a horde of the dead with a screaming baby? The day Charlie Macomber is born is the first day of the zombie apocalypse. When the hospital in Harrington, Indiana is overrun by reanimated corpses, Charlie's dad must carry his son through the walking dead to safety. But when zombies roam the earth, can anyplace be safe?

Two cousins, Garren hailing from the mountains of West Virginia, and Brodie from the flatlands of Southern Maryland, reunite the Dyer family at a hunting camp in the Potomac Highlands; the dark entity Laris doesn't care where they came from, because he knows them as the descendants of Moll Dyer, his old enemy. Three of the cousins' friends oppose the ancient evil: Anna, a hesitant Native American spiritualist, Lenore, a teenager just discovering her shape-shifting abilities, and Bridget, a teenage girl with too much to lose...and plenty to gain.

Armageddon began the day Red Dead entered the solar system. Fear leads to blame, blame leads to choosing sides - and both sides have bombs. Civil War in America turned into a worldwide conflict, leaving the world in a new dark age. Nothing has stirred about in the ravaged mountains for two years. Abrahams's heart is broken save the fading hope of bringing his lost children home. He sets out without a destination searching for signs of life. What he finds is something infected.

Asadi's world has ended with the murder of his wife, Taqiya. Yet, even as he buries her, a new tragedy occurs in the small town of Still Water. It seems the sheriff has returned and a member of the Guild has fallen at his hand. As the Guild reels from the blow, Asadi meets a strange being who will challenge the way he sees them. Is the creature telling lies? Or will Asadi learn the Guild is not all it seems?

In this third Suddenly Supernatural book, spirit-seeing Kat has pretty much overcome her fear of communicating with ghosts. But when she and best friend Jac visit the Whispering Pines Mountain House and Kat is challenged to help a deceased medium make her way back into the light, things get a little darker.

A freelance writer is invited to an elderly man's home to witness his telling of the family history to his sons. The patriarch's reason for requesting a stranger into his home as he shares his tale is a simple one. He wants the young man to write the true history of Family Dracul, to trace the lineage back to the very first member of a family cursed. But, the old man has another agenda. He wants to warn humanity; what happened in the past was nothing compared to what is to come.

Dylan Cylan is a unique kid. He's short, but is very popular. He's a baseball star, not to mention his step brother's a genius. But Dylan's genius brother is going to cause a problem with his new invention.

Vampir-Erzählung. Eine verhängnisvolle Reise: Der Marquis d'Urfé begibt sich im Jahre 1759 auf eine verhängnisvolle Dienstreise in den finsteren Osten Europas. Als er in einer Herberge übernachten muss, hindern ihn die Umstände daran, wieder aufzubrechen und er muss für einige Wochen dort ausharren...