There are many ways to die at the Circus of the dead. You're invited to witness them all.

The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a small-time hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can’t leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws...

Katie MacDonald, who possesses the rare ability to sense the presence of ghosts, receives whispered warnings of danger from a spectral friend as she investigates charges that David Beckett murdered his fiancée.

Presents a selection of tales about haunted houses, ghastly deeds, wailing specters, and other terrifying phenomena.

Washington, D.C. is said to be home to many ghosts. But only one of them has four paws, black fur, and glowing red eyes. Is there really a Demon Cat running around the U.S. Capitol Building? In this book, you'll hear a ghostly tale so eerie, your fur may stand on end!

A bear in the castle-could it be? According to local lore, a spirit in the shape of a bear has taken up residence at the Tower of London. One guard even claimed that the beast attacked him. Is it real, or just a story? In this book, you'll get all the details on the Ghost Bear of the Tower of London.

"From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning pioneer of "ironic gothic" (Washington Post) comes a wry and spooky set of ghost stories, replete with original illustrations. Since her acclaimed novel A Carnivore's Inquiry, Sabina Murray has been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores...

William Rook is an occultist living in a haunted brownstone in upstate New York. There he has encountered many marvelous and confusing occurrences: an ever-shifting bloodstain on his study floor; his own cynical doppelgänger; a three-winged pigeon; and, most importantly, June, the ghost living in his bedroom. June is everything William has hoped to find--by turns playful and serious, petulant and flirtatious. But she is also secretive and sad, trapped...

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

A bone-chilling trio of supernatural tales by fiction master Charles Dickens In "The Haunted House," a new homeowner discovers he is sharing his bed with the skeleton of the house's former master. In "The Trial for Murder," a revengeful ghost haunts a juror serving at his killer's trial. In "The Signal-Man," an apparition warns a man of impending disaster. These strange and frightening occurrences unfold in grim and gripping detail in this collection...