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.

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.

Eight Legged Deadly Sin A season after Sharkantula devastated Shark World, the park reopens with a new feature attraction's arrival, a feisty sloth. As Peyton and Stephanie help Trey, the newest park staff member, prep the sloth for its release in the forest exhibit alongside the existing female sloth, the genetically modified tarantula that created the Sharkantula pays a visit. While the new sloth gains comfort in its surroundings, the gates open to thousands of visitors anxious to check out the Dolphantula show and get a peek at the majestic animals. However, not everyone is excited as a group of bible-thumping activists have devious plans in mind. As the day progresses, the day's extreme heat casts its toll on the visitors and forces the park's closure, leaving a small number of park staff to close the place down, unaware that the activists have remained behind to kill the Dolphantulas. All are oblivious of the new beast that lurks in the shadows, the SLOTHANTULA!

Large Print Edition. Presented together for the first time, two suspenseful horror short stories by Angela J. Maher. Arachnight: Brian Archer is old, tired and alone. Taking advantage of his care facilityOs inadequate staffing levels, he finds enough of his old spark to sneak out for a clandestine midnight feast. The added vigour he feels after a decent meal is addictive, and soon it becomes difficult to hide his true, monstrous nature. Tasmanian Devils: Kat hates camping with a passion but agrees to head off into TasmaniaOs wilderness with her husband in an effort to save their marriage. Matt, a fan of truly roughing it, chooses to pitch their tent away from the designated areas, well off the established walking tracks. As darkness descends, the night creatures make their presence known, and not all of them are friendly.

Over the past five or six weeks,after the dead started coming out of the graves on Deadman's Bluff,the Smith family, who fled the initial onslaught of the undead in Springdale,Ohio,are still journeying the country-side, looking for any place that they could stay to hide from the hordes of undead who are now rampaging all across the country and the world.They find it in the farm of Edward and Claire Dowerton,who take them into their home and treat them like family,but the Smith family knows that even there, Ed and Claire's farm is only a temporary refuge and they eventually are forced to flee, once again, for their very lives to find another "safe haven", from the rampaging "Zombie Apocalypse".

Detective Nick McCallister investigates a rash of suicides-three on the south end and three on the west end, his own son Justin among them. Something evil is happening in the city. McCallister comes face to face with that evil when Satan's personal assistant Nathan appears in his living room late one night and asks if he's ready for the truth. While an escape from reality is actually what he wants, McCallister knows Nathan must be stopped-but he has no idea how to proceed.

McCallister is already being sucked downward by the emotional undercurrent from a failing marriage, Justin's suicide, and the investigation of his own police force over the grim murder of a local African American civil rights activist.

He's drawn into the ugliest corners of a truth he never could have imagined, a world where the myths of civilization are exposed, the Inquisition analyzed, and the Holy Bible rewritten. McCallister is challenged to determine what is truly good and what is truly evil after he realizes his son and his wife have made their own informed and untimely decisions.

Humberto Paez takes us to Grove Hill. It is a slow, calm place, frozen in the past and dwarfed by its neighboring cities. But a fireball sent down from the heavens releases a terrifying environmental hazard. And as two serial killers are set loose in this sleepy town, the rest is a tale of suspense and horror that will leave you sleepless night after night.

The Novelist Durtal is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century child murderer, sadist, necrophile, and practitioner of all the black arts - Gilles de Rais. Through his contacts in Paris Durtal finds out that Satanism is not simply a thing of the past but alive in turn of the century France. He embarks on an investigation of the occult underworld with the help of his lover Madame Chantelouve. Durtal's preoccupation with Gilles de Rais's lascivious brutalities begets in him the urge to find out if similar satanic practices are still performed; so he persuades Madame Chantelouve to take him to the house of a notorious renegade priest named Canon Docre. Together they witness there the celebration of a Black Mass, and few finer descriptions of this obscene ritual have ever been written. French Victorian Gothic as its best.

Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in six weeks at the end of 1843, during a particularly intense time of creativity. He was having financial difficulties and was determined to have the manuscript ready for publication for the Christmas market. This book contains an original size clear copy Dickens' one and only manuscript, written by his hand, with his revisions and corrections evident on every page. The revisions show how Dickens made the verbs become more active, the number of words became fewer, achieving greater immediacy and vividness. This manuscript was handed to the printer in this form and was published on 19th December 1843. This edition has each of the 66 pages of the original manuscript copied onto the left hand page and the corresponding words typed on the right hand page. The book also contains the eight original illustrations by John Leech, the four color illustrations are on the cover of the book.

A stunning collection from a mistress of the chilling
Aficionados of supernatural fiction are aware that its golden age was during the later Victorian and Edwardian eras. There was a huge public appetite for spine chilling tales and many magazines published their ideal form-the short story. This created opportunities for many writers to produce supernatural fiction. Among the huge number of stories published, some were exceptionally good and these came from the pens of those who became recognised masters of the form. Popular authors were often incredibly prolific and an individual writer's canon of supernatural fiction could be substantial. Almost every commercially minded writer wrote some supernatural fiction and many of the finest exponents of the craft were women. While Mrs. J. H. Riddell had much in common with her peers, she was highly regarded by some of the genres severest critics including the 'grand-master' himself, M. R. James. Charlotte Cowan was born in Ireland in 1832, the daughter of the High Sheriff of Antrim. She moved to London in 1855 and shortly thereafter married the civil engineer Joseph Hadley Riddell. As was often the practice at the time she subsequently wrote under her formal married name. Besides her career as a writer she was also a publisher, being part owner of the highly regarded literary periodical 'The St. Jame's Magazine.' This comprehensive Leonaur collection of Charlotte Riddell's strange stories comprises three substantial volumes to captivate both enthusiasts and collectors. In volume one readers will discover two novels, the well known 'The Haunted River' and 'The Haunted House at Latchford.' Also included are three novelettes, 'Nut Bush Farm, ' 'A Terrible Vengeance' and 'Old Mrs. Jones' plus two short stories, 'Hertford O'Donnell's Warning' and 'Forewarned, Forearmed.'
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.