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In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect - a rich, eccentric 23-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion.

Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants - the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming - until one of them mysteriously disappears.... Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982.

In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more is going on at Portis House—its plaster is crumbling, its plumbing makes eerie noises, and strange breaths of cold waft through the empty rooms.

July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them.

1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide.

Is there something wrong with Ginette Cox? It’s what everyone seems to think. When a doctor suggests that what she might need is less excitement, she packs up and moves from New York City to a house in suburban NY: 19 Howard Ave. The town offers Ginette little in the way of entertainment in 1959, but at least she has interesting neighbors. Whether it’s the little girl with her doll or the couple and their mother-in-law, Ginette watches them from her window and makes up names and stories for them.

Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies—so to leave at the beginning of the term is next to impossible. But after her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, she must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, unsettling incidents—a book left in a cold stove, a gate swinging open on its own—escalate into terrifying events that convince Jillian an angry spirit is trying to enter the house.

England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to Wych Elm House, the family's estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband's origins...and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths' past is just the beginning.

Un lugar oscuro donde las chicas problemáticas, las hijas de madres solteras o las que han cometido un desliz... desaparecen. ¿Logrará Fiona Sheridan descubrir el misterio que envuelve Idlewild Hall? Vermont, 1950. Existe un lugar para jóvenes a las que nadie quiere: las que dan problemas, las hijas ilegítimas, las que son más atractivas de lo que les conviene.

London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter made her fortune helping the bereaved contact loved ones killed during the Great War. Now she's been murdered at one of her own séances, after leaving a message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter. Ellie doesn't contact the dead—at least, not anymore. She specializes in miraculously finding lost items. Still, she can't refuse the final request of the only other true psychic she has known. Now Ellie must delve into Gloria's secrets and plunge back into the world of hucksters, lowlifes, and fakes.

Vermont 1950. Idlewild Hall ist ein Ort für Mädchen, die keinen anderen Platz in der Gesellschaft haben. Abends erzählen sich die Schülerinnen Schauergeschichten von der "schwarzen Mary". Doch als eines Nachts eine von ihnen unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt, wird der Schrecken real. 2014 ist das Internat eine Ruine, aber die Journalistin Fiona Sheridan kann nicht von Idlewild Hall lassen: Hier wurde vor 20 Jahren ihre Schwester ermordet.

Una mujer que odiaba a los hombres en vida... y que siguió haciéndolo después de muerta. Pero ¿por qué? ¿Podrá desvelarse el secreto tantos años después? La vida solitaria e insípida de Sarah Piper cambia cuando la agencia de trabajo temporal con la que colabora la envía a ayudar a un cazador de fantasmas. Alistair Gellis -rico, atractivo y destrozado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial y también obsesionado con los fantasmas- ha sido contratado para investigar el espíritu de la joven de diecinueve años Maddy Clare, que mantiene embrujado el granero en el que se suicidó.

Upstate, Nueva York, 1982. En toda ciudad de dimensiones modestas como Fell, en el estado de Nueva York, existe un motel como este, el Sun Down. Hay gente que se aloja en él cuando va de paso, es gente de fuera que se dirige a otro lugar, un lugar mejor. Pero otros son gente de la localidad; gente que acude allí para guardar sus más oscuros secretos. Viv Delaney trabaja en el Sun Down como recepcionista de noche, pues necesita dinero para mudarse a la ciudad de Nueva York.

London, 1922: Überraschend wird die junge Sarah Piper beauftragt, den Geisterjäger Alistair Gellis bei seiner Arbeit zu unterstützen. Gellis untersucht derzeit einen höchst mysteriösen Fall: Maddy Clare, ein 19-jähriges Dienstmädchen, erhängte sich in einer Scheune. Angeblich sucht die Tote jetzt die Lebenden heim … Anfangs glaubt Sarah nicht an den Spuk. Doch schon bald muss sie feststellen, dass Geister tatsächlich existieren–und tödlicher sind als in ihren schlimmsten Albträumen!