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Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they had died so many years before.

Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary Mantel After...

She came for magic. She stayed to solve a murder . . . Ghostalker Ropa Moyo and her rag-tag team of magicians are back in The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, the third audiobook in the spellbinding Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu. ’Alluring, shadowy Edinburgh with its hints of sophisticated...

From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come 12 never-before-published stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena. With returning characters from the Essex Witch Museum series and a weirdly wonderful tale for each day of Christmas, these spooky stories are the perfect companion for long, dark winter nights.

In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain due to double engine failure. The body count? Thirty-nine.

Charleston psychic Melanie Middleton discovers the past isn't finished revealing unsettling secrets in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series. With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a...

A group of friends are handed a free weekend away at an old cabin in the woods. What was supposed to be a weekend of fun and relaxation quickly spirals into a fight to stay alive. As each person comes face-to-face with the realization of what is really lurking in these woods, will they be able to save each other before it's too late? Or will they succumb to this nightmare and never get out?

Nick strebt nach Anerkennung in der Clique. Doch all seine Versuche werden vom Cliquenboss Sandro im Keim erstickt. Im Internet stößt er auf ein Ritual, mit dem er sich seines Rivalen entledigen könnte. Doch schon, als er das Wort wie verlangt auf die Tür schreibt, kommen ihm Zweifel. Was, wenn es nicht funktioniert. Oder noch schlimmer. Was, WENN es funktioniert? Sein Gewissen schreit immer lauter, aber Nicks Sehnsucht nach Beachtung ist so groß, dass er die warnende Stimme ignoriert.

At midnight on the deserted Mumbai Pune highway, Rajiv finds a girl in her wedding dress looking out for help. He offers her a ride in his car, but for some reason, the journey seems never-ending. Who is this girl and where did she come from?...

At the edges of everyday life, on geographical boundaries and in the margins of society, certainties and realities can wear thin. And if we find ourselves in such occult and outland territory late at night, we might glimpse phenomena out of the corner of our eye that cannot possibly be there. At such times even the past, apparently fixed and unchanging in memories and dreams, cannot be relied upon.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A family discovers that their new home hides dark secrets in this “beautifully written [and] deliciously creepy” (The Boston Globe) ghost story from the author of The Flight Attendant. “Boasts all the trappings of a classic Gothic horror story . . . That thump...

Elton Burlock's done his time. On the outside, he takes the only job he can find as the custodian of a local cemetery, but there are three black angels that won't let him rest. The first is a little girl who roams the night and two women, one a vision of beauty in white and the other a nightmare in black. When the killing starts, who can rock the restless dead back to sleep? There are no lullabies for the dead, and if he's going to live, Elton will have to give the little girl what she wants. Maybe then he can find peace for them both - in the grave or out.

This box set puts together Book 1 and 2 of the series - Interlopers and Pictures of Lily - in a single accessible volume.

At the edges of everyday life, on geographical boundaries and in the margins of society, certainties and realities can wear thin. And if we find ourselves in such occult and outland territory late at night, we might glimpse phenomena out of the corner of our eye that cannot possibly be there. At such times even the past, apparently fixed and unchanging in memories and dreams, cannot be relied upon. But what happens if we find ourselves passing beyond even these frayed perimeters of life? Can others follow us, or are we on our own?