Ghost Anthology

A captivating collection of short stories that explores the intersection of love, loss, and the afterlife through the lens of LGBTQ+ experiences. Each story features a unique protagonist who navigates their identity, longing, and relationships, all while encountering ghostly figures from the past.

Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic clichés and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting. Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times.

Dale and Deloris Justen have searched for weeks for the perfect place for a long delayed honeymoon. When the messages start showing up in Deloris' business emails, the one she uses only for her book sales under the name of Deloris Blue, she wondered if the last name had something to do with the fantastic offers and coupons for the Bonnie Blue Lakeside Lodge. She never considered for a second the final decision to go there was anyone's but her own.

Travel to the year 1967, when San Francisco became the place for young people to explore their sexuality, find freedom and transcend. What Willow never expected was to experience a ghostly presence that haunted her dreams and terrorized her waking hours. Will she discover what the stranger wants from her before it's too late? Over 18 recommendation due to mature content concerning references to drug use and its culture.

When a photographic retoucher is commissioned to fix the abnormalities on a Great War portrait, he finds his own past and that of the subject beginning to connect. Are his personal nightmares returning, or is it something more? A short ghost story in the M.R. James tradition, "The Last Photograph of John Buckley" is a dark tale of past crimes and unfinished business.

Each of these nine flash-fiction stories offers a little taste of magic coupled with meditation. Philosophical and inventive, in turn, Knox examines the human condition through modern myth, broaching topics such as generational divides and similarities, enchantments mistaken for madness, and anxiety induced from overactive imaginations. Short enough to consume in moments, each of tiny stories unfurls and unfolds, introducing us to new worlds in unexpected ways that will offer pause and perspective, perhaps even a brief reprieve.

Ellis Parker Butler is known for his humor and he doesn’t disappoint in this tale. Imagine a cat who intentionally snuffs out each of his nine lives. Imagine the trauma and “paroxysms” endured by the family that watches the cat with such personal disrespect for limited second chances. While Butler tries to present this as a factual account there are many word pictures that will amuse, entertain, and allow you to relate to a melancholy cat.

In this creepy anthology you will hear real-life stories of those that did not heed that warning and went on to use one anyway...and let's just say none of them turned out well.

Whether it's fighting off a horde of zombies from a stately home, a brief visit to Hell, a solitary existence in the aftermath of the apocalypse, a frightening ride home from work during the early hours, or a bar fight, its all here in bite-size chunks. Six short stories of horror, terror, and violence.

Six classic ghost stories from six classic authors, narrated by Phillip J Mather: "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf"; "The Image of the Lost Soul" by H H Munro [Saki]; "A Ghost" by Guy de Maupassant; "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe; "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain; "The Trial for Murder" by Charles Dickens.

Jackie Baumgardner leads the effort to save the Lion's Head lighthouse, a treasured historical site in Lion's Head, New Hampshire, from being torn down. Jackie made his most earnest plea to not displace their local ghost by tearing down the lighthouse. The ghost of Captain John McLain, a Scottish seaman, was so grateful, he wanted to return the kindness. This is the story of Jackie Baumgardner's relationship with the ghost of Captain John McLain.

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.

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.

Deliciosa colección de cuentos escalofriantes para los amantes del misterio. Una de las más destacadas damas de la literatura victoriana, Rhoda Broughton, nos presenta unas historias capaces de poner la piel de gallina al lector más avezado. Incluye los títulos: "La verdad, toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad", "El hombre de la nariz", "Bajo la capa", "¡Atiende! Era un sueño" y "El pobre y apuesto Bobby".

"El almacén y otros cuentos inquietantes" es la recopilación de cuentos que cualquier fanático del género de terror, el gore y el suspense disfrutará leyendo. En estos doce relatos de inspiración cinéfila encontramos historias fantásticas, con zombis al estilo de The Walking Dead, vampiros que homenajean al Drácula de Bram Stoker, animales domésticos aterradores que recuerdan a los de "Cementerio de animales" de Stephen King y situaciones parecidas a las que podemos encontrar en películas como Amanecer de los muertos.

Six amusing and endearing stories which will make you laugh and cry, and awaken your memories of another day. The perfect book for a day on the beach while basking in balmy ocean breezes, or a mountain vacation ensconced in a cozy cabin. This is a work of fiction, but like the fiction of Hemingway and many others, it is partly autobiographical. Themes of joy, and guilt, and great adventures, and just plain fun are embodied, and as the metaphors sing, you are carried off to another place.

Unabridged, 2 hours Read by Scarlet Chase Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators...

En todas las culturas encontramos leyendas, cuentos y rituales sobre el mundo de los espíritus. Todas esas historias ancestrales nos hablan de lo mismo: ese mundo no está tan alejado del nuestro. Hay fechas especiales, lugares y objetos que nos permiten apartar ese fino velo que nos separa de los que están muertos, de los que vagan, de los que esperan... Este audiolibro no es un audiolibro cualquiera.

Los Angeles, 1985. Never was the motto sex, drugs, and rock n' roll more apt than the scene on the legendary Sunset Strip with the arrival of the underground Hollywood glam bands. While Mick Freeman, a record executive with a major label, works tirelessly to sign five toxic rockers whom he believes might flip the entire music world on its head, his wife, Jade, spends her days bored and alone at home, struggling with a midlife crisis that threatens to topple their 20-year marriage.

What is a lineshack? It's a small cabin used by ranch hands, a place of refuge during storms. Sometimes the only place within miles, a place that can mean the difference between life and death, especially when a winter storm is about to bare down on you. This winter is no different...except that this time there's three murderous brothers, the sheriff, and a group lost skiers who may just need the same lonely building. Then from out of no where surfaces another, a man out of time, out of place.... Who will survive this New Years Eve.