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Lisa Morton
From Bram Stoker Award(R) winner Lisa Morton comes this collection of 35 new short nightmares!
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An eerie history of our conversations with the dead.
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An eye-popping, entertaining visual history of zombie films written by six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lisa Morton
On one magical night of the year–when the breeze is scented with dead leaves and pumpkin, when the days have grown shorter and winter’s first touch prickles your skin–the barrier…
Fourteen original tales of supernatural suspense.
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In nineteenth-century Victorian England, a young widow finds that she has inherited more than her late husband’s property: The Furnavals serve as the ancestral keepers of supernatural portals scattered around…
Gathers together some useful works on the history of Halloween. Ranging from pre-Christian Celtic myths to early 20th century articles, this book includes poems, short stories, sections from 19th and…
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Tsui Hark, one of China’s most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he has directed, produced, written, or acted in dozens of film, some of…
Major entries include Samhain, witches, skeletons, the Day of the Dead, the jack-o’-lantern, and trick-or-treating. Hundreds of entries cover Halloween history and mythology, fortune-telling lore, harvest legends, and 20th century…
What exactly is a ghost? Are poltergeists, wraiths and revenants technically ghosts? How does ‘ghost’ relate to ‘soul’? And how many different kinds of ghost are there? Ghosts: A Supernatural…
Ghosts: A Haunted History is a broad-ranging, clear-eyed survey of the ghost. Lisa Morton covers the early history of ghosts in folklore, literature and history as well as modern examples…
Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism, when Victorians were entranced by mediums and…
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The first history of the misunderstood festival Halloween, and its current global popularity.
“When Lisa Morton, author of The Halloween Encyclopedia, is called in to consult on the recent discovery of a fifteen-hundred-year-old Celtic manuscript, she’s at first excited about the light this…
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Carson Morton
Master conman Eduardo de Valfierno plans to steal Da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa and sell six exact copies of it to six American Robber Barons. At first, Valfierno’s plan goes…
A Blumhouse Books/Anchor Books original –Verso.
Wesley Christman
An initial publication of a Veteran serving in the USAF from 1955-1958. Entered college with hopes of becoming a architect. However, drop out of college after one year having family…
Lisa Morton,Kent Adamson
Studies the career and life of Ann Savage, whose performance in Detour earned her a place in Time Magazine ‘s list of the top 10 greatest movie villains. This biography…
Lisa Morton,Eric J Guignard
The DoubleDown series continues with two novellas that cast mid-twentieth-century America in a dark light. In Smog, tomboy Joey thinks she’s got the perfect life: It’s 1965 and she lives…
Following their acclaimed Ghost Stories and Weird Women, award-winning anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton present a new eclectic anthology of ghosty tales certain to haunt the reader long…
Following the success of Weird Women: Volume 1, acclaimed anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers, including George…
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From two acclaimed experts in the genre, a brand-new volume of supernatural stories showcasing the forgotten female horror writers from 1852-1923.
A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers-including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton-presented with…
Alberto Monnar
Britney would see her mother moving her mouth, but the advice went in one ear, and out the other until one day her world is turned inside out.
The Cal Wild Chronicles continues with THE BURDEN OF INDIGO, the story that started it all. In 1981 Gene O'Neill published a five thousand word short story in The Twilight…
Mike Dubisch, Lisa Morton, Kathe Koja
In a display of sheer badassery, Forbidden Futures Magazine presents "All Female Action" - an issue that will leave you breathless and craving more! Editor LISA MORTON sets the tone…
Lisa Morton, Lucy A Snyder, Kate Maruyama
When the Halloween Beyond stores appear across America, they intertwine the lives of three visitors in a web of mystery and magic.
THE TALKING-BOARD by Lisa Morton: Can ancient magic…
Joshua Millican, Richard Elfman
If you're a loner, beware.
Abused and misunderstood, beware.
Proud and lustful, beware.
Dregs and druggies and transgressive artists, beware.
If you're on your own, you might end up in…
Ramsey Campbell,John Palisano,Lisa Morton
THE MOST DEFINITIVE GUIDE INTO THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF BEING A HORROR WRITER SINCE STEPHEN KING’S ‘ON WRITING’…
We have assembled some of the very best in the business…
K a Opperman
A collection of Halloween verse by poet K. A. Opperman, with a preface by Halloween expert and award-wining author Lisa Morton, an introduction by the author, and 15 full-page illustrations…
Rocky Wood,Lisa Morton,Greg Chapman
The graphic novel digs deeper into the issues with graphics and dialogue that bring the witch-hunts to life –Digital Journal –Provided by publisher.
John Langan,Lisa Morton
In this anthology of weird fiction, twenty-two authors share their harrowing visions of worlds shaped by the Yellow Sign, in stories and poems inspired by Robert W. Chambers’s foundational works…
Lisa Morton,John Palisano,Kate Jonez
Five authors, five anthologies, each written to a theme. In book 3 of this groundbreaking series, Strange Tales of the Macabre, this edition’s theme is POST-APOCALYPTIC!Military factions, monsters, environmental disasters…
Politics casts a long, cold shadow over every aspect of our lives. These tales find horror on the campaign trail, in the voting booth, the school room, the internet, and…
Lisa Morton,Ben Monroe,Kevin J Anderson
A collection of terrifying tales set in the very near future… or perhaps it’s already here? It’s an infected apocalypse and we’re all (alone) in it together! 100% of proceeds…
Lisa Morton,Carolyn Haines,R B Chesterton
Looking for a little fright to go with your fa-la-la? Three thrilling horror writers-Lisa Morton, Carolyn Haines (aka R.B. Chesterton), and Laura Benedict-bring you three short, sharp tales of terror…
Eric J Guignard, Leslie S Klinger
FANTASMAGORIANA DELUXE is an anthology of Gothic ghost stories that, for the first time, combines and translates into English all stories from both TALES OF THE DEAD and FANTASMAGORIANA (the…
Eric J Guignard, Leslie S Klinger, Lisa Morton
Arthur C Morton
What child can resist opening a present under the tree before Christmas morning? Well, a little boy named Jon faces an even more herculean challenge. Can he resist opening the…
Jane Yolen, Harry Turtledove, Premee Mohamed, Lisa Morton
What happens when technology and ai reinvent the way we do things. This anthology examines this much talked about topic with respect to detective work and how technology can both…
Wendy Morton, Nicole Dawson, Lisa Taffe
This exciting new text has been specifically developed for Ageing specialization ofthe new CHC33021 Certificate III in Individual Support. It is theonly text on the market written at this level…
Nicole Dawson, Keith Bourke, Wendy Morton, Lisa Taffe
This exciting new text has been specifically developed for the Disability specialisation of the new CHC33021 Certificate III in Individual Support. As the only text on the market written at…
Ben H Winters,Lisa Morton,Others,Denise Hamilton
The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes.
Alex Espinoza,Ben H Winters,Lisa Morton,Others
