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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916, belongs to
Twain's "dark" period. At the time of composition, Twain had
suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional
losses. In his chilling tale, a stranger named Satan visits an old
Austrian town to convince the religious faithful that there is no
God, and "nothing exists; all is a dream."
Bill and Erica Smith of the Smith-&-Smith Paranormal
Investigation Agency are back, and they are as busy as ever as the
winter of 2026-27 proves especially busy. At first, in January of
2027, they are asked to investigate hauntings in the famed Museum
of Modern Art in which they confront the spirit of a 16th Century
tyrant who has eyes on taking over the body of their young son;
Oscar. Then, in February of 2027 they are called to investigate the
hauntings in a ritzy mansion in Connecticut and they discover that
this case has eerie parallels to their favorite ghost movie and its
sequels that they both liked growing up in the 1980's and they find
out that this case is more than they bargained for.
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In Me
(Hardcover)
Esox Black
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R955
Discovery Miles 9 550
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on
Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a
genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a
recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then
unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls
house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window, ordinary
things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the
original master of suspense.
Evie Barnum is in charge of her brother's museum, a place teeming
with scientific specimens and wonders, including Jeffrey, the
Lizard Man. When an old friend shows up and begs for her help, but
is then found dead in front of the exhibit of the Feejee Mermaid,
suspicion for the murder falls on Jeffrey, and Evie becomes
determined to solve the mystery of her friend's murder.
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