Colonial Ghosts

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

'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...

“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 maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the secrets of its enigmatic owner. I...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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....

Bloomsbury presents Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein, read by Don Warrington. _____________________________ * A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 * * WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 * ‘A shimmering slice of Trinidadian gothic’ THE TIMES ‘An...

The master of psychological realism returns with eleven tales of passion, deception, and moral complexity This second volume of Prosper Mérimée's finest work reveals the full range of his storytelling genius—from drawing room intrigue to high seas horror, from Roman ghost stories to Parisian scandal. In Tamango, witness the harrowing tale of a slave ship rebellion that becomes a devastating study of freedom's price. The Double Mistake and Arsène Guillot explore the treacherous waters of society romance, where misunderstandings and class prejudices destroy lives with surgical precision....

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.

It is 1914, and the storm clouds of war are building on the horizon. In Sydney, Josiah Steele is the new head of the family and grappling with his two very different sons - David, upstanding, decent and heir to the family enterprises; and Benjamin, wayward, restless and a magnet for trouble. To...

From Bestselling Author D.K. GREY presents… WHISPERED SECRETS The chilling finale to the Hale Mansion SECRETS series. A fast-paced YA psychological–supernatural thriller where hidden truths, supernatural forces, spiritual warfare, and generational trauma converge. Now a college freshman, Amber Hale returns with her parents to the Cartwright Mansion—built atop cursed ground and saturated with generations of silence, suffering, and secrets. As she steps into being a young woman, Amber stands at a pivotal threshold—coming of age at eighteen, with her emotional depth expanding, her ...

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.

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...