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A deliciously spooky novel packed with illustrations - Stranger
Things for younger readers! 'Wildly imaginative and totally
terrifying' JEFF KINNEY, AUTHOR OF DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 'A
haunted-house version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' BRIAN
SELZNICK, AUTHOR OF THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET 'Overgrown with
fantastic ideas' THE NEW YORK TIMES Nothing seems out of place in
the town of Cowslip Grove. But kids have been going missing -
excpet no one even realizes it, because no one remembers them. Not
their friends. Not their teachers. Not even their families. But
Levi and Kat do remember, and only they can see why everyone is in
danger when night descends. Can they find the disappeared before
evil swallows the town whole? A spellbinding, original and lavishly
illustrated horror story for middle-grade readers Half-written,
half-graphic novel, and all spooky mystery! Two unlikely friends
face down their worst fears in order to stop their small town - and
themselves - from disappearing
A dazzlingly inventive tale of troubled legacies, desire and unsung
power, inspired by The Scarlet Letter. Glasgow, 1829: Isobel, a
young seamstress, and her husband Edward set sail for New England,
in flight from his mounting debts and addictions. But, arriving in
Salem, Massachusetts, Edward soon takes off again, and Isobel finds
herself penniless and alone. Then she meets Nathaniel, a fledgling
writer, and the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is
haunted by his ancestors, who sent innocent women to the gallows
during the Salem witch trials - while she is an unusually gifted
needleworker, troubled by her own strange talents. Nathaniel and
Isobel grow ever closer. Together, they are dark storyteller and
muse; enchanter and enchanted. But which is which?
Sex, Death, and Boarding School
When seventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor is transplanted from his
American high school to a British boarding school--the English,
hypertraditional, all-boys Harrow School--he finds his past
mistakes following him, with an added element of horror: visions of
a pale, white-haired boy from Harrow's past. Either Andrew is
losing his mind, or the house legend about his dormitory being
haunted is true.
When one of his schoolmates dies mysteriously of a severe
pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed and spurned by nearly all his
peers. In his loneliness and isolation, Andrew becomes obsessed
with Lord Byron's story and the poet's status not only as a
literary genius and infamous seducer but also as a student at the
very different Harrow of two centuries ago--a place rife with
violence, squalor, incurable diseases, and tormented love
affairs.
When frightening and tragic events from that long-ago past start
to recur in Harrow's present, and Andrew's haunting begins to seem
all too real, he is forced to solve a two-hundred-year-old mystery
that threatens the lives of his friends and his teachers--and, most
terrifyingly, his own.
An ever-increasing malice. A mind-numbing terror. The seeds of
horror are sown in this collection of Junji Ito's earliest works. A
vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the
end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war
never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And
a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world...
This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji
Ito's earliest works from when he burst onto the horror scene,
sowing fresh seeds of terror.
Nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. Mine has been a
life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to
live the life of a human being. Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the
terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the
joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his
dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he
spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death. Osamu Dazai's
immortal and supposedly autobiographical work of Japanese
literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito.
The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time
to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even more
delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof
that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.
An unwilling magnet for the supernatural and a ghost-hunting little
girl join forces to capture Japan's most terrifying and dangerous
spirits. After a dangerous encounter with a malevolent spirit,
Keitaro Gentoga wants nothing to do with the supernatural.
Unfortunately for this reluctant ghost magnet, he's stuck helping
Yayoi Hozuki, a strange young girl who's intent on capturing
Japan's most terrifying ghosts and ghouls. Hunting ghosts with
Yayoi might give Keitaro a chance to lift the curse afflicting him
and Eiko, but is he willing to dive back into the world of the
supernatural to do it? Of course, that question might not even
matter when a cursed videotape causes his chance at a peaceful
university orientation to go up in flames.
Tower of Fear is a lost horror film starring Karloff and Lugosi. A
film historian who locates a copy dies while fleeing something that
terrified him. His friend Sandy Allan vows to prove he found the
film. She learns how haunted the production was and the survivors
of it still are. It contains a secret about Redfield, a titled
family that owns a favourite British food, Staff o' Life. The
Redfield land has uncanny guardians, and one follows Sandy home. To
maintain its fertility Redfield demands a sacrifice, and a band of
new age travellers is about to set up camp there... FLAME TREE
PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree
Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror
and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery /
thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors
and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original
voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com
and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.
Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through
US cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are
rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food
chain. This is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle
for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make
decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse
to walk as one of them.
Copenhagen is a mysterious city where strange and sinister things
often happen. Menacing and at times darkly humorous there are
echoes of Roald Dahl and Daphne du Maurier in these stories, many
of which have been specially commissioned for BBC Radio 4. From the
commuter who bitterly regrets falling asleep on a late-night train
in Last Train to Helsingor, to the mushroom hunter prepared to kill
to guard her secret in The Chanterelles of Ostvig. Here, the land
of 'hygge' becomes one of twilight and shadows, as canny antique
dealers and property sharks get their comeuppance at the hands of
old ladies in Conning Mrs Vinterberg, and ghosts go off-script in
The Wailing Girl. Deliciously dark and chilling, this is Nordic
Noir at its finest.
"This book is no joke. Get ready to not sleep tonight. Awakened
does exactly what it advertises. Scary amazing fun." -- Brad
Meltzer, bestselling author of The Escape Artist. "Awakened hits
the high notes of Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's Relic and
Scott Snyder's The Wake [...] but its scope actually extends much
further." -- Kirkus *** The star of truTV's hit show Impractical
Jokers-alongside veteran sci-fi and horror writer Darren
Wearmouth-delivers a chilling and wickedly fun supernatural novel
in the vein of The Strain, in which a beautiful new subway line in
New York City unearths an ancient dark horror that threatens the
city's utter destruction and the balance of civilization itself.
After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally
ready, an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning
communities across the Hudson River. The shining jewel of this
state-of-the-art line is a breathtaking visitors' pavilion beneath
the river. Major dignitaries, including New York City's Mayor and
the President of the United States, are in attendance for the
inaugural run, as the first train slowly pulls in. Under the
station's bright ceiling lights, the shiny silver cars gleam. But
as the train comes closer into view, a far different scene becomes
visible. All the train's cars are empty. All the cars' interiors
are drenched in blood. As chaos descends, all those in the pavilion
scramble to get out. But the horror is only beginning. High levels
of deadly methane fill the tunnels. The structure begins to flood.
For those who don't drown, choke or spark an explosion, another
terrifying danger awaits-the thing that killed all those people on
the train. It's out there...and it's coming. There's something
living beneath New York City, and it's not happy we've woken it up.
A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the
roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice
for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods near
St. Ives, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed
the crime. Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and
Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich
folklore and traditions of the region in a journey through mines,
local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the
railway and tourism. With stories by Gothic luminaries such as Bram
Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe, this new collection also features
chilling yarns of the haunted peninsula from a host of
underappreciated writers from the past two centuries.
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