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The redcoat forces of King George II have defeated the Highland rebels led by Bonnie Prince Charlie. Now Government troops are free to plunder and punish the locals. To avoid court martial, Captain Shawwood is ordered to lead a band of troops and map-makers to chart the most isolated and mysterious landscape of the Highlands – the mighty Rannoch Moor. But the Moor is home to more than just bog and heather, it's a place of shadows and secrets. Before long, their expedition comes face to face with uncanny forces far greater than anything they have fought before.

It begins with a ghost story around a campfire. Teenagers out on a walking trip, trying to act brave in front of each other. But as the walk gets underway and the boys begin to fall out, odd things start to happen. Noises in the night. A severed rabbit’s foot outside someone’s tent. Soon, the boys begin to disappear. As panic sets in and a storm approaches, the remaining boys must band together to face a darkness not even the local ghost stories could help them predict.  

In this sweeping romantic fantasy from bestselling author Jessica Khoury, a young witch caught in a twisted bargain with the fae must disguise herself as a governess and uncover the gateway to the realm of faerie in order to save her dying magic and escape the clutches of her controlling fae handler—even as she finds herself falling for her new employer, an enigmatic young Scottish laird and the owner of a crumbling estate brimming with secrets.

When John Simpson hears of a bizarre animal attack in his old home town of High Moor, it stirs memories of a long forgotten horror. John knows the truth. A werewolf stalks the town once more, and on the night of the next full moon, the killing will begin again. He should know. He survived a werewolf attack in 1986, during the worst year of his life. It's 1986 and the town is gripped in terror after the mutilated corpse of a young boy is found in the woods.

The people of High Moor are united in horror at the latest tragedy to befall their small town. As dawn breaks, the town is left to count the cost and mourn its dead, while breathing a collective sigh of relief. John Simpson, the apparent perpetrator of the horrific murders, is in police custody. The nightmare is over. Isn't it? Detective Inspector Phil Fletcher and his partner, Constable Olivia Garner, have started to uncover some unsettling evidence during their investigations of John Simpson's past - evidence that supports his impossible claims: that he is a werewolf....

The war has begun...As the humans make their move against the werewolf threat in their midst, and civil war threatens to break the pack apart, John and Marie struggle to free the only person who can unite the werewolf factions against their common enemy: Marie's brother, Michael. However, their efforts may be for nothing. As tensions mount, the Moonborn prepare to combat the human aggression with an assault of their own; an attack that could spell doom for both man and werewolf alike.

Mallon de Wolfe, formidable, apuesto y con un fragmento de hielo donde debería estar su corazón, regresa a Dartmoor. Un lugar vasto, árido y peligroso. Un lugar donde los secretos se niegan a permanecer enterrados. Mallon ha prometido conquistar las traiciones de su juventud, pero se enfrenta a un nuevo peligro a medida que crece su atracción por la misteriosa Condesa Rosseline. ¿Podrán ambos escapar del dominio venenoso de su pasado?

Prof. Ewart Masters spends his convalescence, following a car accident, at the home of his nephew Jason Masters, pursuing his studies of ancient civilizations, during which he makes startling discoveries about the hidden city beneath the Yorkshire moors. His search to unravel the mystery of the green figurines, his efforts to assess the implications of Robert Krug's manuscript, lead ultimately to Devil's Pool and the surviving world of Lh'yib, culminating in a series of dream-like adventures as he wanders through the nightmare corridors of his new environment.

Satan’s final judgement on Victoria sums up a shocking novel, set in Venice at the end of the 15th century, that tracks the path of its heroine from abused victim to fully fledged criminal. Her conscious embodiment of vice seems to know no limits. Depicting unfettered desire and gratuitous cruelty, and challenging taboos of race and class, this tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder has Dacre moving beyond the limits of contemporaneous gothic heroes into a truly hellish zone of her own.

As soon as Simone set foot on the path through the heather, her spirits began to rise. The red grouse were nesting, but the cries of curlew and lapwing, and the piping of meadow pipits and the trilling of skylarks punctuated the perfect stillness.

As soon as Simone set foot on the path through the heather, her spirits began to rise.

Sixteen-year-old Kate Mansfield and her blind brother Neil live in a manor on the edge of the Brent Prior moors. It is a dreary place populated by the dispirited and the disillusioned, where the young nurture desperate dreams of escape. And Kate is no different. But her plans to run away to the city are crushed one very ordinary morning when the quiet in Brent Prior is shattered by an inexplicable act of violence. In the wake of the tragedy, Kate's beloved father is stricken by a strange illness, and she and her brother fall under the care of the manor's caretaker and maid.

Beim Hüten ihrer Schafe folgt Nel einer magischen Melodie und lernt den Moorgeist Agil kennen. Er schwärmt für ihr Flötenspiel, krönt sie mit einem Blätterkranz und lädt sie zu einer opulenten Gesellschaft ins nahegelegene Moor ein. Doch was wie ein neckisches Spiel anmutet, entwickelt sich bald zu einem grotesken Gelage. Denn dieser geisterhafte Witzbold plant für das Fest ein aufwendiges Bankett – bei dem Nel als Hauptgericht auf der Speisekarte steht ...

After Ralph accidentally runs over a deer, he decides to take the animal home and ends up serving prime venison to his wife that evening. Soon, his thirst for blood becomes something different, and his life slowly spirals out of control. As the body count rises, a local schoolteacher and a young woman become involved in the mystery. But, is Ralph really the Beast of Bodmin?

Patrick Conroy, a young American student of medicine in Dublin, decides to take a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city and spend a month in the quietude of the wild and beautiful Glencree Valley, County Wicklow. However, surrounded by local legends and myths, he is soon dragged into an ancient mystery that has haunted the village of Ballymoor for centuries. Set on the background of the tumultuous years preceding the War of Independence, and colored by Irish folklore.

"Du musst kommen. Deine Mutter ist verschwunden!“ Mit diesen Worten wird Frederike Feldmanns schönes Leben auf den Kopf gestellt. Vor sieben Jahren hatte Freddi ihrer Familie den Rücken gekehrt. Nun bringt ihr schlechtes Gewissen sie dazu, nach Hause zu fahren und sich um ihre kleinen Geschwister zu kümmern. Als sie zu Hause ankommt, übertrifft die Realität ihre schlimmsten Erwartungen. Vor ihrem Verschwinden hatte ihre Mutter immer wieder vor dem Monster gewarnt, das nachts im Moor herumirren soll.

It’s 1962, and Violet Romero, a young woman searching for peace after a horrible tragedy, finds herself in an unexpected place—managing funerals at Berwick, an antebellum mansion-turned-mortuary in Lexington, Kentucky. Her employer, Henry Pendleton, a botany-obsessed mortician, seems harmless, but Violet believes that he is hiding something. Following her instincts, Violet discovers a hidden room in Berwick that offers a glimpse into the mansion’s dark past. Violet soon understands that a reckoning is coming to Henry’s life, and she is caught in the rising tide of revenge.

Ein alter Fluch läge auf dem Moor, so heißt es. Die Mondgöttin würde über die Landschaft wachen, so heißt es. Niemand dürfe das Moor entweihen, so heißt es. Und doch versucht ein reicher Amerikaner, es trocken zu legen ... Und das Unheil nimmt seinen Lauf.

Das Mond-Moor (The Moon-Bog) ist eine im Jahr 1921 von Lovecraft verfasste Kurzgeschichte. Ursprünglich geplant und verfasst als mündlicher Vortrag für ein Treffen von Amateur-Journalisten in Boston am 10.03.1921 wurde sie im Juni 1926 in Weird Tales veröffentlicht. Ein ungenannter Erzähler beschreibt das Schicksal seines alten Freundes Denys Barry. Dieser war in Amerika reich geworden und hatte dort den Erzähler kennengelernt, später kehrte Barry jedoch wieder nach Irland zurück und kaufte im Dorf seiner Heimat das Schloss seiner Vorfahren.

Where Are You? is a sequel to the novel Chapel on the Moor, and follows the lives of the two main protagonists a half century later in a quest to discover what, if anything, might remain of the Chapel. In the first novel, two young adults, Merritt Geary and Frank Dole, met by accident on the occasion of the renovation and dedication of a long-abandoned rural chapel built 100 years earlier by Merritt’s great grandfather. At the end of the story, the chapel suffered complete destruction in a colossal storm, and the two parted ways after a brief but intense summer romance.