The Ultimate Halloween

In the grand tradition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice, The Ultimate Halloween gathers together a collection of new and old, unique and terrifying fantasy and horror stories centering around the holiday known as All Hallows Eve. Here you'll find Al Sarrantonio's 'Pumpkin Head', William F. Nolan's 'The Halloween Man', and a bevy of other spine-tingling works.

Halloween Magic

At a masquerade Halloween Ball, two people with mistaken identifies find love in the most magical of ways while trying to find a runaway black cat called Midnight.

Halloween

In his first picture book, comedian and best selling author Jerry Seinfeld takes readers on a wild ride through his hilarious vision of Halloween. From the first costume to the inevitable quest for more candy, Seinfeld's tale resonates with vivid experiences of a night every kid loves. Kids will identify with the distinct Seinfeld rules of Halloween - from what constitutes a good costume to what is acceptable trick-or-treat candy.

Halloween Hill

When Kim and Brent West bought an old house built in the late 1800's, they never dreamed it would lead to old ghosts that still haunted the house, and that their lives would be in jeopardy on Halloween night.

Scary Holidays

Here is a collection of stories for those of you who shudder at the thought of gulping down one more of Aunt Ida's "famous" cookies, who dread facing another interminable discourse from Uncle Earl about pig farm economics. If the first few notes of "Away in a Manger" cause you to grab something sharp and look around frantically for an eye to stab it in this book was written for you.Scary Holiday Tales to Make You Scream has it all from the creepiest Halloween moments to the most blood red Christmas parties imaginable. In fact, many of our modern celebrations have long, gory histories. The greeting card industry doesn't have an inkling about the ancient rituals that continue to cast their shadow over today's holidays.

The Scary Video

Claire is thrilled when the grown-ups don't notice her staying up late, but now she can't get the scary images from their video out of her head... This deceptively simple, open-ended story will give children plenty to think and talk about. It has been developed in conjunction with the Citizenship Foundation.

The Horror Reader

Horror has been one of the most spectacular and controversial genres in both cinema and fiction - its wild excesses relished by some, vilified by many others. Often defiantly marginal, it nevertheless inhabits the very fabric of everyday life, providing us with ways of imagining and classifying our world; what is evil and what is good; what is monstrous and what is 'normal'; what can be seen and what should remain hidden.

19th Century Horror

Martin H. Greenberg presents classic tales of horror, from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce to Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin; from The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes by Rudyard Kipling to The Story of the Brazilian Cat by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and more!

Morbid Fascinations: An Anthology of Horror

Eight chilling tales of terror, including one from New York Times bestselling author Vonda N. McIntyre

Ghostly Encounters: True Stories of America's Haunted Inns and Hotels

When Frances Kermeen purchased the old Southern mansion in Louisiana, she was sure it would make the perfect quiet period hotel. But after seeing a candelabra floating up the stairs, hearing voices coming from a stilled gramophone, and learning about an irate foreman who stalks the grounds a century after his death, she soon discovered that The Myrtles was 'America's Most Haunted House'. And when The Myrtles became front-page news across the country, her business boomed.

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

A tale of ghostly terror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed Countess characterize and distinguish this powerful Collins novelette.

Fingerprints #2: Haunted

Free excerpts are available for this ebook: Download Free Excerpt for Adobe Reader Download Free Excerpt for Microsoft Reader This power that I have - this ability to reach inside people's minds and know their thoughts... Anthony says it's a gift. But ever since this gift started, my life has been in danger. And now someone I care about is in trouble because of me. I have to help him - if I can find him. Free excerpt available for this ebook - click more.

Witches

Martin H. Greenberg presents classic tales of horror, from The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep by Charles de Lint to Rag-Tags and Crumbled Leaves by Jean Rabe; from In the Forest of Sorrows by John Helfers to The Strangeness of the Day by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; and more!

God of the Witches

A classic of anthropology, this celebrated study traces worship of the "horned god" from prehistoric to pre-Christian to the medieval period; and it remains a seminal and controversial cornerstone of modern paganism.

Frankenstein

True to the original, here is the story of a young doctor whose obsession with death leads him to create a life. But his 'creature,' crafted from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist, is a hideous mockery of humanity. And when the creature realizes he will never be accepted by men, he seeks revenge on Dr. Frankenstein and his family.

Ghosts

Martin H. Greenberg presents classic ghost tales, from The Bachelor by Peter Crowther to Three Wishes Before a Fire by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; from Dead Man's Shoes by Charles de Lint to Different Kinds of Dead by Ed Gorman; and more!

Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts

The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Deeanne Westbrook here analyzes Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation and considers his adaptation of biblical narrative forms.

The Cold Embrace and Other Classic Ghost Stories

A new collection of classic ghost stories, some well known and some long forgotten, by the masters of the genre, including Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker and Henry James.

Vikram and the Vampire

This story turns chiefly on a great king named Vikram, the King Arthur of the East, who in pursuance of his promise to a Jogi or Magician, brings to him the Baital (Vampire), who is hanging on a tree. The difficulties King Vikram and his son have in bringing the Vampire into the presence of the Jogi are truly laughable;This book also inspired the "Golden Asse" of Apuleius, Boccacio's "Decamerone," the "Pentamerone," and all that class of facetious fictitious literature.

A Female Vampire

Melody Chalis survives each vampiric night by feeding off of the blood of her lovers until one night when she is confronted by Eric, the elder vampire. She can either join him, or face a horrible death by the sun

Reading the Vampire

Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination. Reading the Vampire examines this creature in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings.

The Vampire King

Ordinarily the new-year brings renewed hope and promise of better things to come. However, nineteen ninety-eight had scarce begun when a mysterious curtain of evil descended onto the shoulders of a modern metropolis. Detective Ken Basten, one of LA's finest, knew at once this case was like no other. When he replaced his murdered colleague his instincts told him a pagan cult must be connected to this hideous crime. His instincts were right; though he had no idea of the evil that a satanic worshiper had unleashed upon the city. His investigation will take him down winding, confusing turns to discover the answers he seeks.

Never Cross a Vampire

The Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbor, Nazi Germany is marching through Russia, and two Hollywood lights are watching their stars dim. It's January 1942. Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian actor who, years before, had chillingly introduced millions of Americans to the noble Count Dracula and is now struggling hard for a comeback, has just received his latest death threat - a hat box containing a small bat with a tiny stake impaled through the heart. Private eye Toby Peters, with no client on the books and a stomach that cries out for tacos and the occasional beer, agrees to give the job a try.