Colonial Ghosts

What if the local legends were true? What if the whispers from the past never faded? In the quiet corners of New England, where history holds a grudge, some stories are best left untold. From a lonely Vermont trail where a mysterious lantern lures hikers to their doom, to a historic Salem house where a 17th-century diary is not a journal but a trap, this collection unearths the terrifying truths behind the region’s most unsettling folklore. Venture to a salt-scoured lighthouse on the coast of Maine where the dead keeper still stands watch, walk the silent grounds of a Harvard graveyard ...

In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber...

What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a landslide as staff old and new brought forth testimonies of their inexplicable supernatural encounters.

'Indispensable and timely' - Melissa Chan, Emmy-nominated international affairs correspondent 'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden Hand The gripping story of Taiwan's past and precarious present from one of...

BELGIUM’S COLONIAL REPORT CARD Congo, Extraction and the Ghosts of Empire Was the Congo one of the greatest crimes of empire? How did a small European nation create one of the most feared colonial systems in Africa? Why does the Democratic Republic of the Congo remain resource-rich yet deeply unstable today? In Belgium’s Colonial Report Card, Frederick Amakom delivers a powerful and deeply researched examination of Belgium’s colonial legacy in Central Africa — from the terror of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State to the political chaos, resource wars and neo-colonial struggles ...

“I loved this book. It’s beautiful. I thought about it so much after I read it.” —Sarah Jessica Parker “It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young...

A heart-racing thriller from the master of adventure. New novel Vendetta out soon. "Tony Park is a master storyteller. I love his work." Deon Meyer Africa, 1906: A young Australian adventurer is condemned to death. Sydney, the present: journalist Nick Eatwell has just lost his job, but his day...

In the heart of Eastham, where the winds whisper secrets of the past, Jedediah Truelock's gamble in a high-stakes card game sets in motion a legacy that will shape generations. What begins as a humble cabin transforms into the grand Truelock Manor, a beacon of ambition and turmoil. The saga unfolds through the lives of the Truelock family: Joseph, a seafaring soul with a dark disposition; Lawrence, a reckless patriarch shackled by his vices, leaving his wife Sonya to navigate the storm of their family's fortune; and Stephen, a gentle intellect trapped in a web of familial strife and desire....

Nestled deep in rural Mobile County, the Outlaw House once stood as a testament to forgotten grandeur, a sprawling Spanish Colonial Revival masterpiece. From its soaring arched doorways to its secret underground tunnel leading to a shimmering man-made lake, it was a beacon of progress—the first in its area to boast electricity and a telephone. But with its opulence came chilling whispers of mystery, madness, and unspeakable tragedy. Now, only charred bones and phantom memories remain of the Outlaw estate, ravaged by fire. Yet, the horror is far from over. When the Gulf Coast Paranormal ...

Paranormal Women’s Fiction from #1 Amazon bestseller, J.R. Rain, and New York Times bestseller, H.P. Mallory! Things seem always to go downhill whenever it comes to me and relationships… Even though I’m in a relationship with Roy, he’s been avoiding me lately, claiming he’s just been super busy with work. It’s an excuse I’ve heard many times before. I’m not really sure what’s going on between the two of us, but I’m worried he’s lost interest in me and the relationship. But as much as it pains me, I know I’ll survive. After all, I’ve survived my myriad breakups ...

Behind every picket fence lies a secret. Behind every closed door, a nightmare. Welcome to the towns you were never meant to find… Step into fifteen standalone tales of creepy small-town horror, where dusty roads, flickering streetlamps, and friendly smiles conceal something rotten just beneath the surface. Each story pulls you into a different forgotten place, and each place hides something that refuses to stay buried. 🌒 A farmhouse well that whispers promises of rain—at a terrible cost. 🌑 An abandoned train station where the dead still buy their tickets. 🌘 A colonial house ...

From Bestselling Author D.K. GREY presents... ECHOED SECRETS Book Three in the chilling Hale Mansion SECRETS series. A fast-paced YA psychological–supernatural thriller where hidden truths, supernatural forces, spiritual warfare, and the darker side of humanity collide. Nearly twelve years have passed since the events of INHERITED SECRETS, and six years since the haunting aftermath of DARKENED SECRETS. Amber Hale’s intuitive gifts and extrasensory perception (ESP) are intensifying as she steps into adolescence. The Hybrid Curse stirs once more—rooted in ancient forces, shaped by ...

Shoes for trapping evil spirits have been found throughout one of Massachusetts most haunted houses, from the ceilings to hidden spots in the chimneys. The commons in Boston is a paranormal hotbed with ghost-infested buildings at nearly every corner.

What if the Salem witch trials weren’t the beginning—but the consequence of a story Boston tried to forget? Before Salem’s hysteria seized New England, before the gallows rose on Gallows Hill, another tragedy unfolded in 1688 Boston. It began with a family, a frightened city, and a minister determined to prove the devil’s hand at work. That case—the Goodwin witchcraft affair—became the spark that set the world ablaze. The Devil in Boston: Unearthing the 1688 Witchcraft Case That Shaped the Salem Trials reveals the chilling true story of how one man’s faith, one family’s ...

An AudioFile Earphones Award winner Read by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King “A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle "...'My Monticello' is...

Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential - but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency - African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe's relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; and recalls an incident of racial profiling just 13 days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber.

Years ago, a mysterious coven of witchlords was defeated in their attempt to enslave the world of Nevermore. But now a remnant of that old foe is re-emerging at the same time a new one rises. Orphaned by the the Razhod, Syago obsesses over following in the footsteps of his legendary ancestral line. A legacy that could lift him out of peasant bondage and rescue his ailing family. However, he gets more than he bargained for when bloody unrest takes the realm. Yearning for the independence and fulfillment few women are allowed, Leyta immerses herself in the traumatizing study of dyne. She ...

Dare to unlock the soul of an ancient continent? Step into a world where the veil between myth and reality thins, where the whispers of the Dreamtime echo through sun-scorched landscapes and starlit nights. F.T. Weaver, your Engaging Cultural Guide, invites you on an unforgettable expedition into the heart of Australia's most captivating narratives in Folk Tales from Australia: Sacred Dreamings, Outback Legends, and Haunting Night Tales. This extraordinary collection weaves together nine powerful stories, a rich tapestry of: Sacred Dreamings: Journey with Mullyangah the Morning Star as it ...

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the colonial era’s stifling religion, and its dark and threatening woods.

A friendship between a young Native American and a colonial New England settler endangers them both in this “simply unforgettable” (Booklist, starred review) adventure story from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper. On the winter day Little Hawk is sent into the woods alone, he can take only a bow...