Ghost Spider

M.R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic in his time but today is remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered among the finest in the genre. The seven stories in this Volume One are: "A School Story", "Rats", "A Warning to the Curious", "Two Doctors", "The Haunted Doll's House", "Casting the Runes", "There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard".

For the first time, the full origin story of Gin Blanco's transformation into the fearsome assassin known as the Spider - book 10 in the red-hot Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series. In a prequel tale, Gin Blanco goes through her paces on the way to become the most feared assassin in the Ashland. Her mentor, Fletcher Lane, is not going to go easy on her - if she’s going to become a fearsome killer, she has to learn to use her elemental Stone and Ice powers alongside old-fashioned human street smarts.

Patience is a super skill! Spidey will have to learn a thing or two about patience before they can stop an evil super scientist from pulling off a heist.

Spidey is in for a surprise when he responds to a call for help from Hulk and Ms. Marvel. It will take fast foot work and quick thinking if Spidey and his friends hope to get the squirrely situation under control.

A gripping blend of psychological suspense and historical true crime, this riveting novel—inspired by a sensational real-life murder from the 1800s—by critically acclaimed author Emily Arsenault delivers a heart-stopping mystery linking two young mothers from different centuries. Frances...

Summer 1918 and stylish lady detective Miss Isabel Hewitt is approached by a nervous young woman, Miss Rosalind Rafferty. She claims she is being terrorised by a ghost and is in fear of her life. She lives in a cottage on her late fiancé' Captain Reuben Gifford's family estate in Hickory Green Hertfordshire. Her maid, Margery died a couple of weeks before after being bitten by an unknown creature. The doctor attending said it was natural causes but Rosalind is not convinced. The maid's mother has asked for a second opinion.

Bloomsbury presents The Firefly Crown by Yxavel Magno Diño read by Jensen Olaya An unlucky sorcerer must learn to wield her insect magic in this charming middle grade fantasy that’s perfect for fans of Impossible Creatures and Witchlings. In the empire, magic determines your fate. But Yumi is...

He’s got a chip on his shoulder, steel bolts in his leg, and a mummy case that just turned into murder. When wise-cracking PI Jim Knighthorse is hired by an eccentric souvenir-shop owner to investigate the death of a young historian, it seems open and shut. The kid was found in the desert, out of gas, ruled an accident. Case closed. Except Knighthorse doesn’t do 'closed.' Because the dead historian was investigating “Sylvester,” a hundred-year-old mummified cowboy on display in the back of the shop—and the more Jim digs, the more he suspects both murders are connected, separated ...

Oscar Wilde's classic comic ghost story was the first of his short stories to be published, in February 1887. It relates the experiences of Mr. Hiram B. Otis, an American minister, and his family when they move into Canterville Chase, an ancient pile haunted by the previous owner's dead ancestor, Sir Simon. Of course, Mr. Otis declares, "There is no such thing, sir, as a ghost", and all of Sir Simon's hauntings have no effect on the skeptical American family, with the exception of the daughter, Virginia, despite his most strenuous efforts.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was born in Dublin, Ireland and is acknowledged as an influential writer in the genre of gothic and supernatural fiction of the 19th century. Many of his short stories were originally published in various magazines. Here are six of them: “The White Cat of Drumgonnial”, “Dickon the Devil”, “The Drunkard's Dream”, “The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts”, “The Vision of Tom Chuff”, and “An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House”.

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? Donald Trump has called the ongoing interest in the details about Epstein’s web of clients and enablers a “hoax.” But in this book, a Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist delivers the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life and death...

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic Lucia novels. In his own day, it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. This collection of 10 stories exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of ghostly and macabre tales.

Some deaths refuse to stay quiet. Pepper Alderson is not your typical witch. She runs critter control for the magical set, pixies in the air ducts, goblins in the disposal, gnomes in the garden. But ever since she solved a murder with the help of a cowardly tarantula, a stranger kind of call has started coming in. When a grieving widow hires her to settle the ghost rattling the clocks in her kitchen, Pepper expects a draft and a guilty conscience. What she finds is a murdered man who will not rest until someone proves he did not simply fall down his own back steps. With her spectacularly ...

Some houses don't want visitors. This one has been waiting forty years for them. Pepper Alderson handles the pests other witches won't touch. But when long-dead Grimsby Manor starts lighting its own windows at night, and a ghost-hunting TV crew rolls into Mossy Creek to film it, the county calls the one woman who can tell a real haunting from a rigged one. Then the crew's researcher dies in the locked ballroom, alone, with no footprints in the dust but her own, and everyone agrees the house did it. Pepper doesn't. Something in that manor is furious, and grieving, and forty years old, but it...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER A serial killer is spinning a sinister web and Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer are caught dead center. This pulse-pounding descent into the chilling world of The Spider is another shocking thriller in the Killer Instinct series. Three years ago, Detective...

Control of the land under the Northern Sky rests in the balance as two fierce races collide in the sequel to The Wolf, a thrilling and savagely visceral epic fantasy from Leo Carew, an author who "will remind readers of George R. R. Martin, David Gemmell, or . . . Joe Abercrombie." (Booklist)...

What if fear wasn’t something to avoid—but something to embrace? Every October, the world transforms. Shadows grow longer, houses glow with jack-o’-lanterns, and millions willingly line up for thrills designed to make their hearts race. But why do we chase terror? And why does Halloween, more than any other night, awaken our craving for the dark? In The Fear Equation, bestselling-style storyteller Raven Blackwood pulls back the mask on Halloween’s hidden psychology, weaving together folklore, neuroscience, and cultural history. What you’re about to discover is that fear is not ...

Nineteen of Japan's most haunting yokai, illustrated in stunning full color. From the masked Aka Manto who corners victims in modern restrooms to the beautiful Jorogumo whose human face hides a spider's deadly intent, Japanese folklore is filled with creatures that are equal parts terrifying and unforgettable. This volume is your illustrated field guide to nineteen of them. Yokai Illustrated Volume 2 is the next chapter in the series, a vivid encyclopedia of demons, ghosts, and spirits drawn in a style that honors the classic tradition of Japanese yokai art. Every entry pairs original ...

Giant arachnids, killer snowmen, ravenous sharks, ghostly motorcades, and the mother of all lobsters—it’s all in here, including a new Samantha Moon story! Included in this collection: Vampire Widow (A Samantha Moon Short Story) When Samantha’s daughter hears a psychic distress call from the Mojave Desert, mother and daughter set out on a midnight rescue mission. But nothing prepares them for what they find: a dying giant spider goddess and her unborn brood, buried alive beneath the desert sands. Now, with time running out, Samantha must overcome her fear—and her claustrophobia—to...

Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threatening text about a gun with nine white bullets - one of which is waiting for Detective Joona Linna. But time passed and the threat faded. Until now. A sack with a decomposed body is found tied to a tree in the forest. A milky white...