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Christmas needn't only be about good cheer. The audiobook includes four festive tales of the supernatural, apocalyptic, and blood-sucking variety - an antidote for anyone who occasionally finds Christmas overly sentimental or commercialized and likes to escape to somewhere darker.

Diesmal entführt Andreas Gruber Sie mit seinen Horrorgeschichten in das Leipzig des Jahres 1840, nach New Orleans um 1908 und in das Wien des Jahres 1945. Wir treffen auf elektronische Spinnen, einen kriminellen Zahnarzt, einen verrückten Erfinder in einem Kellerlabor und ein ungewöhnliches Brüderpaar, das an einer seltenen Krankheit leidet.

The Ghosts of Grand Central is a collection of 13 stories. A weaving of tales filled with haunting ghosts, whimsical spirits, and imagination laced with historical details and interesting trivia.... The stories vary in time period from the 1800s to the present, from pure imagination to historically based fiction.

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here, he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightful humorous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts, including "The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa", "The Exorcism That Failed", and more.

In this imaginative fantasy story, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, a mysterious herd of phantom elephants rampages across Amboseli National Park. How can they be stopped? It falls to Professor Nicholas Falconer, an arrogant academic who specializes in psychical studies, to solve the case.  

Ever felt that awful rush of dread as you turn out the lights after a late-night horror film? Ever wondered if something is following you up the stairs when you go to bed? No? Well, you will after this....   

Gwen Walberg, literature teacher and self-professed geek, is thrilled to acquire a priceless antique book, but soon learns why it came so cheap. The book contains the ghost of Violetta, its former owner, who spices up her boring afterlife by playing matchmaker. Gwen is her new target - and if she won't cooperate, Violetta is prepared to throw a storm of dangerous tantrums. Rather than give up the treasured book, Gwen reluctantly surrenders, and learns Violetta has already chosen the man for her: Gwen's gorgeous gardener and friend, Paul Chang.

A lifetime ago, Richard was alone and adrift. It took his own suicide and a battle for his afterlife to turn things around. When he decided to haunt his own home he learned things worked differently in the phantom world and found himself hauled into court. Ghost Court.

Based on the short story "Red River County", this rewrite expands the original story concept into a short novella. Concentrating on character development and delving into the topics of race, race relations, childhood homosexuality, the supernatural, and paranormal activity - which is common in this region of Texas.

M.R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic in his time but today is remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered among the finest in the genre. The seven stories in this Volume One are: "A School Story", "Rats", "A Warning to the Curious", "Two Doctors", "The Haunted Doll's House", "Casting the Runes", "There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard".

It's Emmy and Daniel's first wedding anniversary. They're having dinner at Sky Cornerstone, one of the best restaurants in town. Some people recognize Emmy for being in charge of the biggest change in Sky Valley's police department, courtesy of the sacking of Lena McMahon, the woman who almost destroyed Emmy's life during the past year. In the middle of dinner, everyone in the restaurant is shocked by a scream coming from the powder room: a woman has died.

Jane Edwards had just recently lost her husband unexpectedly and thought it was his time to go anyway because he had a weak heart. She was sad just like any normal woman in her shoes would be, but as time passed by, she was able to cope with his passing the best that she could. Jane loved to paint, but because her husband was very ill, her passion was put on hold. As the nights wore on and Jane was keeping busy painting, something was lurking behind a door in the attic that had been locked for over a century.

The Ghost Patrol portrays the dilemma men face when they are put out to pasture. Don Dorgan was such a man. He was a cop, and he loved his beat. When he returns to his old beat, he becomes the Ghost Patrol.

From the former moderator of New Voices In Horror Magazine comes a new collection of stories that cover a wide variety of genres. A former Marine sniper uses the cover of a zombie virus outbreak to get in some good target practice; an old man with a glass eye uses his special powers to make a little boy's wishes come true; Edgar Allan Poe, still reeling from the death of his beloved Virginia, strikes a deal with a demon in order to see her one more time. Hear these stories and a lot more in The Ghosts in My Head.

M. R. James (Montague Rhodes James) was a noted British medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College. He is best remembered today for his ghost stories, which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. As a medieval scholar his output in that field was phenomenal and remains highly respected in scholarly circles.

New Year's Eve, 1922. A very special dinner party is being hosted by a dubious Sherlock Holmes collector. During the course of this mysterious evening, the host will demonstrate the peculiar mind-powers of Dr. Joseph Bell, the personality profiling prowess of the Great Detective himself, the esoteric attributes of a deck of cards rumored to have belonged to Jack the Ripper, the haunted finger rings of Arthur Conan Doyle's Cottingley Fairies, and much more!

The Ghost of Kaiser Rock is a mixture of ghost stories circulating around a small town named Butler. It fits in quite well with helloween. The story about a young boy's short journey down a darkened road in his country neighborhood finishes up the book, but it certainly doesn't end the suspense.

This classic storyteller, Mark Twain, shares the tale of an encounter with a ghost in a newly opened, but previously abandoned, apartment building. Was this ghost a menace or simply mischievous? Humor is most always a companion of a Twain tale and it visits even this story. Memorable and perfectly constructed.

In her classic ghost story "Kerfol", Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs no live dogs at Kerfol that day. In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl.

Classic spine-tingling tales to thrill you.