Mingling with the denizens of the underworld, taking their lives in their hands, and unknown even to their comrades at Scotland Yard, are the members of the Ghost Squad - an extra-legal organization answerable to one man only. The first Ghost operative detailed to discover the identity of the mastermind behind the buying and selling of official secrets is himself unmasked - and killed before he can report his findings to the squad. Detective-Inspector John Slade is his successor - but can he survive as he follows a tangled trail of treachery and murder?
. . . Somber, dark, and brooding, these intriguing stories suggest that love really can last beyond death and that poetic justice does exist. Each of these wonderful tales is full of the strength of Montgomery's own inner resources.
When seventeen-year-old Emma's antique-collector parents vanish and her brother's college roommate shows up to become her guardian, he takes her from San Francisco to Boston, where she discovers that she is a powerful "ghostkeeper," which ...
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Do you jump for your night-light when you hear a noise in bed?' If so, then it may be Too Dark to See.
It was getting dark when Dr. Davis finally came down the hill. “How's it going?” her husband asked. “Fantastic,” Holly's mother answered. “It looks like almost the entire skeleton. I just wish we'd found him sooner.
"How fast is fast?; Journey To Mars; All About Black Holes" ... Front Cover.
A collection of six tales of terror.
The great M.R. James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.'
Stories in the Dark: Tales of Terror by Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Barr and Barry Pain