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H.P. Lovecraft considered The Willows to be "the finest supernatural tale in English literature", and its appeal is obvious. In his tale of an adventurous duo who embark on a seemingly innocuous river trip down the Danube, Blackwood personifies the desolate willows to be ominous, alive, and menacing. The river itself brims with human passions, and the elemental winds and heavenly forces all combine to create a sense of a supernatural intelligence orchestrating it all.

Years after the Salem witch trials one witch remains. She just doesn’t know it...yet. Growing up, Lydia Montrose knew she was descended from the legendary witches of Salem but was warned to never show the world what she could do and so slowly forgot her legacy. But Willow Hall has awoken something inside her.... 1821: having fled family scandal in Boston, Willow Hall seems an idyllic refuge from the world, especially when Lydia meets the previous owner of the house, John Barrett. But a subtle menace haunts the grounds of Willow Hall, with strange voices and ghostly apparitions in the night....

Everly Dupree is having a bad day. The kick you in the teeth, set your pants on fire, make you question everything kind of bad day. At the end of it, her marriage is over, she’s essentially homeless, and finds herself in a moving van headed back to her hometown of Mooselick River, Maine. At least, she tells herself, things can’t get any worse.

Kat Canton sees too much—even while she sees nothing at all. Used to being both blind and psychic, she does the best she can with the cards she has been dealt. Even if those cards are of the Tarot variety.

Now, in the midst of a helping a best friend solve a mystery, Ammie will be given an impossible choice, and a task that will stretch her aura-reading capabilities past their limits.

Algernon Blackwood, a journalist and broadcast narrator, was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. The title story, "The Touch of Pan", explores the lingering presence of myth in everyday life. In "The Glamour of the Snow", Blackwood winds a tale about a man's infatuation with a supernatural winter beauty. In "The Attic", the ghost of an usurer haunts the old Chateaux and, on the anniversary of a young boy's death, the boy's cat brings the family together. "The Willows" follows two campers who are on a canoe trip down the Danube.

In this sequel to Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, 16-year-old McKenna Brady returns home to Weeping Willow, Wisconsin, after being sent to reform school. McKenna still believes that Violet, the new girl who arrived in her town earlier that fall, cast an evil spell on her friends which resulted in two of them dying exactly how Violet predicted they would. Although McKenna has missed her mom and boyfriend, Trey, while she's been off at school, she doesn't mind the punishment she's been issued.

After her husband is killed by a drunk driver, Kelly Harris and her son, TJ, move to Ohio to a sprawling Victorian house left to her husband by his grandmother. Dealing with her overwhelming grief is a struggle for Kelly, as she adjusts to life in her new town. Within a short time, however, life takes an unexpected turn when the Alexa unit in her son’s bedroom starts to cry, and a little girl’s voice comes out of it asking for help.

When Jennifer Murphy inherits her grandparent’s old Victorian home, she believes her life will now be perfect. Quickly she realizes the house has other plans. The more Jenny learns, the more Jenny doesn’t understand as she is drawn into the ever-changing terror that surrounds her new home. The longer she stays in the house, the more menacing it becomes, and when the house begins playing tricks on her, she decides she needs to fight back. Will she make it out of Willow's Dawn alive? Or will she be trapped forever?

When five-year-old Winnie finds a little bird that is hurt, she wants to take it in and take care of it. Her mother is reluctant. She is terrified of birds. As she rightfully should be.

Tired of living in a rental and having very bad neighbors, John and Carol decide to purchase an older two-story home outside of town. Everything is going well with the unpacking, setting up the house that just became their home, and their toddler daughter, Elizabeth, being there is the icing on the cake for them. Shortly after they move in, Carol sees the first ghost. Then another. Then a third. While the two little girls she saw, in the beginning, were sweet and loved to spend time with her daughter and her, the third was more terrifying. Bordering on pure evil.

While rifling through her deceased father's belongings, a young woman named Taija Ford discovered a maze of files filled with journal entries and old letters that mention various claims of hauntings and alleged demonic possession. The oldest dating back to 1881. This particular file asserts a girl named Sarah Beth Hawkins was attacked by an unseen entity.