Eleanor and Anna are eight-year-old twins with an awful secret. When Roger returns from the North Sea Jazz Festival in the company of the lovely Belgian woman he has met there, he meets them. The dysfunction present in the family is evident almost immediately. As the angers and jealousies unfold, so ... more »

Rain stands to inherit vast family wealth, when tragedy strikes. As she descends into despair, a stranger appears whose generosity does not seem to come with strings attached. When Rain opens her heart to the future, her past comes back to haunt her -- with family secrets as dark and forbidding as storm ... more »

Product Info Eane has become a god. Now he discovers that everyone has the capacity. The Masters must stop him, and defend their secret at all costs. more »

They were nameless and lost in the dark tunnels of an endless maze. They were not sure if it was all a dream, or they had been condemned to this existence for sins they had forgotten. Then it seemed that their rescue could be at hand. [Author Warning: A few readers have found the vision rendered by this ... more »

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town, to meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days - found myself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this state of mind ... more »

An American novelist living in a wine village in Germany makes a deal with the government to restore a small medieval church for use as an office. The church has local historical significance because it is the only surviving structure of a village that was purged by fire after being decimated by the ... more »

Everyone came out to the event of the season. A brilliant publicity strategy of whispers and hearsay had made it all possible. The bohemian Southside had passed it around like a cigarette, a scrap of Left Bank revolution literature, a Huxley essay, soup can wrapper acid a la Warhol. These are the circumstances ... more »

A strange phenomenon, a purple sky, has blighted the township for miles around. It is the darkest, coldest time in a bleak winter. Snow falls heavily, and the last survivor is a man in an abandoned farm house surrounded by the walking dead. Those neighbors who survived, and their dogs and other animals ... more »

If we could only get used to the idea that ghosts are perfectly harmless creatures, who are powerless to affect our well-being unless we assist them by giving way to our fears, we should enjoy the supernatural exceedingly, it seems to me. Coleridge, I think it was, was once asked by a lady if he believed ... more »

I, Vampire's scarifying tales aren't the stuff of midnight reading. But in the five years since this anthology was first published in book form, each has become a modern classic in the horror genre. Here are personal accounts of what it means to be a vampire, first-person interviews that bring their ... more »

Deep in untrammeled countryside is a secret grove, a place of magic, power, and yearning. The branches exult a song unsullied by anything dark or wicked. It is Natalie's Grove. Mason, one of the few modern decent men left, finds himself caught between Becky, despairing, abandoned, and pregnant, and Natalie ... more »

What's an out-of-work nature photographer who's spent 30 years in the field studying the secret lives of animals to do when he's sent back home in disgrace? Study the young, single life in his new environment, at least that's what Don Harmon does. Trouble is, he's interested in capturing the moment, ... more »