"When a group of kids explore a deserted, haunted plantation they befriend a young ghost and together uncover the dark secret of his past that led to his mysterious death"--
With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending ...
Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still...
In this sensational collection of supernatural short stories, Sophie Hannah takes the comforting scenes of everyday life and imbues them with a frisson of fear, then a gust of terror.
From the author of The Exhibition of Persephone Q, a chilling fable about the necessity--and impossibility--of productivity, art, and love in an age governed by capitalist logic.
—What other way do you think there is, man? —Well, there must be more than one of them. —Get them others for you some other time. —So what's the story about that other job? —What about it? —I talked to my foreman. That's your what about ...
A haunting tale of love and loss, The Visitors retells the legendary story of Carter and Carnarvon’s hunt and their historical discovery, witnessed through the eyes of a vulnerable child whose fate becomes entangled in their dramatic ...
The island has always seemed such a safe place, such a friendly community.
This charming and highly original story reveals what happens at a vacation cottage once the summer visitors have left for the winter. With fewer than two dozen words, the story is told primarily in pictures.
The only thing missing is a project of her own. So she has poured heart and soul into converting their stone barn into a beautiful holiday rental. Things take a dark turn when visitors Mike and Nadia come to stay.
A comprehensive album of incidents where people have claimed to have direct contact with aliens includes descriptions of encounters, detailed drawings, reliability ratings, expert evaluations and narratives of each sighting.