Paranormal Mystery Thriller Adventure

Jason's parents have been hired to work at a historic lighthouse along the California coast. The lighthouse is built along steep cliffs, surrounded by fog, and far from the nearest town. The last caretakers left in a hurry, and it doesn't take long to see why. Several accidents and the discovery of a hidden diary convince Jason the lighthouse is cursed. Will The Atlas of Cursed Places provide some answers before someone gets hurt...or worse?

Every year Zack and his family spend a week at a Pacific island getaway. The ocean is beautiful, the town is quaint, and the people are easygoing. It's a great place to relax. So why do the locals seem so tense this year? There's definitely trouble in paradise when a tourist goes missing. Local legend has it that the locale is cursed since nuclear testing there in the 1950s. It sounds like fiction, but is it?

A class field trip to a bog dredges up long-buried drama between Jasmine and her friends. But she's too busy admiring jewelry from her mysterious new boyfriend to pay attention to a little thing like the discovery of a mummified bog body. So what if the bog doubles as a cursed gateway to the undead? No big deal! She might laugh off rumors of a curse, but Jasmine's former best friends are pretty sure she's in the thick of some real danger.

The Sanford's Folly movie set has been abandoned since burning to the ground in the 1980s. Rumor has it the place is cursed after a film shoot gone terribly wrong. But that's not enough to scare Alex and his buddies away. After all, they live on an air force base. There's plenty of real-life stuff that's scarier than some fake Western town, right?

Maddy's detective mother vanishes while investigating a mysterious disappearance near Pike's Cave. Legend has it that the cave is inhabited by an evil spirit with the power to possess people. Are both disappearances tied to the cave? According to The Atlas of Cursed Places, Maddy and her boyfriend are running out of time to save her mother from the dark power that lurks there.

A spring break mountain-climbing trip could be a chance for Kendal to connect with her distant father. A little adventure and time together seem like a good idea, but there's one problem: The mountain might be cursed. Soon a father-daughter getaway turns dangerous, and they might not make it to the summit. That's the thing about bonding - you have to be alive to do it.

In this short novel, slightly psychic detective Will Castleton and his girlfriend Samantha are visiting Will's hometown of Green River, Michigan. But going home can bring you face to face with the ghosts of the past - as well as old enemies of a more physical nature. And then Will has a vision that someone will die before the night is over... It's not just angels who look homeward...

"The Longest Summer” is a captivating tale of love, resilience, and the indomitable human spirit. Through Max's relentless search, listeners are taken on an emotional rollercoaster, delving into themes of loss, identity, and the profound impact of solitude. As he grapples with the unknown, Max's journey becomes an exploration of his own humanity, forcing him to confront his deepest fears and find strength amidst overwhelming uncertainty.

Someone is trying to kill Charles Hawthorne, one of the richest men in Maine. And they're using magic to do it. He suspects the members of his own family and hires me to check them out. I soon discover that Charles Hawthorne has a dark secret lurking in his past, a secret that may have come back to haunt him. With an ancient wizard bugging me to chase down the Midnight Cabal and two Shadow Watch agents who want to question me about my father, things are going to get crazy.

In Curse of the Coins, when a professor and his team of college students explore the basement of an old burned-out church, they discover artifacts, including a leather pouch filled with silver Roman coins from the time of Jesus Christ - there are 30 of them. It soon becomes clear that bad things happen to anyone who handles the coins - or separates one coin from the others.

Fortune hunter Billy Newman is not a man of great strength or physical courage. Like a young Johnny Depp, he gets by on his wit, wiles and good looks. And he’s had quite a good run—striking gold in the Philippines and buying his very own island in the South Seas. . . . But there’s trouble in paradise, and Billy’s in the thick of it. The island’s crops are failing. The island’s people are dying. And the island’s owner—Billy—is taking the heat. Why? Because he’s angered the 75-foot-tall big-boss god of the island.

Saxon & Associates' vacation in the hills of West Virginia is interrrupted by first a disappearance and then a series of strange deaths heralded by a bizarre, keening sound that haunts the lonely night. The resolution of the case only brings more disturbing news, as they discover an old enemy has unexpectedly returned from the dead.

Seren is going nowhere in her life. She knows that and she’s not trying to fight against it. At just 22-years-old she’s already accepted that a crappy boyfriend and a low paying bar job are the best she’s going to get. That is, until she comes home one day to find a purple haired girl in her bed with her boyfriend at her side. Seren realizes that things are about to fall apart, but she can hardly focus on that because she’s being followed by a woman in a red dress. When they finally meet face to face the woman reveals secrets about Seren’s past.

Tiger has lost almost everything. Her village. Her community. Her father. But her brother, Tarren, who has been kidnapped by the deadheads that razed her village, still lives. With only the loyal but enigmatic old man, Sai, to guide her into the nightmare-jungle that was once North America, Tiger must face her greatest fears in a race to save her brother before he is lobotomized, even while the world around her is bled dry by Those That Watch.

Penniless, homeless, and virtually lifeless, the vagrant “Doughface” Jack is about to discover that where medical marvels meet the mysteries of the human mind, amazing things happen. The Tramp acquires a capability beyond his imagination and without equal on Earth. Riding the rails, Jack runs afoul of a local sheriff and ends up with a crushed skull. He’s as good as dead until a savvy country doctor performs a bit of medical magic.

Chance Jameson, an almost-13-year-old orphan, discovers he is a natural-born leader when Oak Hill Orphanage is faced with a terrible crisis. Miss May, the much-loved orphanage director, dies in a freak accident, leaving the orphanage in the hands of the greedy, ruthless Whipley twins. Their only goal is to use the orphans as a slave labor force. Much to his surprise, Chance finds that he can see and communicate with the ghost of Miss May.

Zusammen mit den Tempelrittern betritt Robert Craven erneut das unheimliche Haus in Amsterdam, um das Kristallhirn, welches das mörderische Labyrinth erschaffen hat, zu zerstören. Das Vorhaben scheitert und das Hirn wird entwendet. Bei dem Versuch, es zurück zu bekommen, merkt Robert plötzlich, dass ihm ein scheinbar unüberwindlicher Gegner auf den Fersen ist. Das ist das letzte Abenteuer aus der Welt von Wolfgang Hohlbeins Hexer-Zyklus.

Ein riesiger Mottenschwarm belagert Andara House. Alles, was die scheinbar harmlosen Tiere berühren, zerfällt in Sekunden zu Staub. Als Robert Craven versucht, das Rätsel um die Herkunft der mysteriösen Insekten zu lüften, stößt er auf eine Spur, die ihn zu jemandem führt, den er bisher zu kennen glaubte: zu seinem Freund H. P. Lovecraft.

Als Robert Craven nach einer Panne im Haus des mysteriösen Mister Boldwinn unterkommt, ahnt er nicht, dass er in eine sorgfältig vorbereitete Falle tappt, die ihm einer der Großen Alten gestellt hat. Er stellt sich dem Kampf - und muss einen hohen Preis dafür bezahlen.

Das Wesen richtete sich mühsam auf, von einem unheiligen Zauber geweckt. Jahrtausende hatte der Gigant geschlafen; hier unten, auf dem finsteren, sandigen Grund des Meeres. Mit noch schwerfälligen, doch ungeheuer kraftvollen Bewegungen strebte er nun dem Licht entgegen. Schon spürte er die Nähe seines Opfers. Und wenige Augenblicke später sah er die dunkle Silhouette des Schiffes über sich.