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"Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great-grandmother Irina, a Russian Revolutionary, has approached him...
3) Ghost roast
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Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she is drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts.
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"All Sam wants this summer is to watch baseball, play video games, and read his favorite supernatural series. Too bad his cousin, Alex, is visiting from San Francisco, and now Sam's stuck playing tour guide to a kid he hardly knows... a kid who'd choose sailing camp over stealing bases any day. Then Sam and Alex find themselves swept up in an epic pirate adventure through the historic streets of Boston. With the help of a three-hundred-year-old ghost-pirate,...
5) Ferris
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"It was the summer before Emma Phineas Wilkey (who everyone called Ferris) went into the fifth grade. It was the summer that the ghost appeared to Charisse, the summer that Ferris's sister, Pinky Wilkey, devoted herself to becoming an outlaw, and the summer that Uncle Ted left Aunt Shirley and moved into the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. When a ghost shows up at the threshold to Ferris's grandmother Charisse's room, Ferris worries...
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We live in a rational age in which science and modern technology have removed doubt and ignorance. We no longer fear the dark, we no longer need to use superstitious symbols to protect our houses and families. We know what is happening in the world and are in contact with friends and family who might live miles away. Ours is a rational world… or is it?
These short ghost stories are not set in remote Scottish castles or haunted Victorian houses....
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Brothers haunted by more than addiction...a childhood game gone too far...a car accident on a lonely stretch of road...a science class project that yields unnerving data...a late night ghost hunt at a lake...an odd farmhouse in the middle of nowhere...a ghost with an agenda...a legend develops a twist...a child performs a rite for the dead...the birth of a small town ghost story...overnight security guards who aren't alone in their patrols...a woman...
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Gret Brown is a paranormal skeptic. She and her sister Heidi are investigating the Jayne House on Halloween, a project months in the making. And then plans change.Much to her displeasure, Gret finds herself joined by ghost hunters, one of whom is Scott Spence, her old school rival, and two psychics of dubious abilities. Gret either has to try to investigate the Jayne House with everyone else or forfeit a night that she desperately needs in order to...
9) The Seance
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A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there ... Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost.
Desperate to coax her mother back...
10) Thereafter
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Clarissa Brimsley is long dead, but she still has work to do. Her job is to understand fully the effect her brief life had on those left behind.Clarissa can visit the past. She can watch the present unfold. She knows exactly what her subjects think. She has perfect understanding of all the dead who occupy this netherworld with her. But the future is as unknown to her as to anyone else. She has no ability to communicate with the living, or to alter...
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This is a story about the group of curious adventurers who went into a mysterious Tower which is rumoured to hide legends of Tower ghosts.This group were led by a retired historian and professor to uncover the hidden truths about this rumours.Although they were curious in their adventures, the journey was chilling to face but the brave professor encouraged them to finish what they have started.
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The appeal of working at the Lake Shores Country Club, as a night watchman, was too tempting for Chris Wilkerson to pass up. Lured by the reward of a full-time salary and an abundance of idle time to direct towards his studies, the college sophomore wasted little time in applying for the position. Having already been an employee of the club, as a waiter, he had the inside track in landing the job.Almost immediately, Chris' optimisms come to fruition....
13) Which was Which?
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Two identical men are seen hundreds of miles apart. One is innocent if somewhat arrogant, whilst the other is a demonic killer, but which is which?
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Hildie is the mistress of Runecraft. Come meet her in Belgium and experience the magic of the Runes, Sleipnir, and Odin. This is a historical and supernatural mystery, a short story that was originally published at Fiction365. If you like quiet little mystery stories with a flavor of the past, and a dash of the spirit world, Hildie will bring you there."Richly atmospheric and hauntingly imaginative. Hildie at the Ghost Shore is a polished gem of a...
15) Guitar
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The idea for this story actually happened on Christmas Eve in 1968. Three of my girlfriends and I were riding around in my 1954 Ford, I called her Beulah, and as we made our fifth trip around the Dairy Delite, we began talking about the old house in Matthews. Linda D. shouted from the backseat above the Turtles singing "It Ain't Me Babe" on KTSA AM Radio. I couldn't afford the new FM radios yet, but no matter, it sounded good playing from the twenty...
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Mary Shelley is haunted. Haunted beyond cemeteries and tombstones. Love and madness rattle her every day. Scandal and drama steal her sleep. And finally it is the stab of her own impending death that drives her to conjure the dead.Inside the ruins of Castle Frankenstein in Darmstadt, Germany, a ghost resides within the painting Casa Magni by artist Francesco Bagnara. Art collector Robert Beauclerk purchases the Casa Magni and discovers a letter hidden...
17) The Sniper
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Read WW1 ghost story 'The Sniper' for free. This tale is the first part of The Cold, Black Sea: Ghost Stories anthology (Rated 9/10 in Daily Record Book Club).
18) The Favour
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When a friend asks Percy to do him a favour, he could never have envisaged the consequences. An unusual romantic ghost story set in the late 1800's.
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BRONZE MEDAL WINNER, Readers' Favorite International Book Award, 2014.GOTHIC READERS BOOK CLUB CHOICE AWARD WINNER, 2013.A cemetery. A lost child. An ancient secret. Do you believe in ghosts? In Old Willow Cemetery, Elias Hatch protects the secret power buried inside his cemetery, and he knows five-year-old Henry Brooke has managed to get inside the locked gates. Who let him inside? Where is he now? Antonia Brooke and her husband Adam frantically...
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Brothers Jared and Justin Woodlow, known as Big and Little to just about everyone, are cleaning up the family cabin for sale, an activity created by their parents to help enforce Jared's latest attempt at sobriety, something alcoholic Jared resents and hopeful Justin appreciates. While Justin craves to have his older brother back to his "old self", Jared struggles with the reality of functioning without booze.Jared finds his sobriety taking a turn...
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