Sam Rockwell is a fledgling private investigator specializing in Returns, or, recently deceased ghosts with unfinished business. After his no-nonsense father is murdered and comes back, Sam takes the case hoping for a big break and a chance to win the heart of his Girl Friday. Short on experience and long on the swagger of the dog-eared pulp fiction he keeps in his desk, Rockwell sets out to find his father's killer. But not everything is as it seems when he finds himself caught up in a deadly game of Cold War intrigue in this witty throwback to the Golden Age of Hollywood noire.
. . . 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