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Giving a ride to a teenage girl hitchhiking in the middle of nowhere can be a bad idea, especially if they slip into the back seat unseen - because they're a lost and troubled spirit condemned to wander the lonely roads forever. Teenagers like Rachael can be obsessive, angry, and unreasonable, and they'll fall in love in a heartbeat. Being dead doesn't make any difference. Darren and Jean Madden should never have opened the car doors that night when their station wagon mysteriously broke down.

When dreams turn to nightmares. It was just an old bed, bought for the spare room. Except that a hundred years earlier a witch called Rose slept in it. Now Rose's unhappy spirit comes as part of the deal. An angry ghost comes with the bed. That's not what you'd call a bargain.

Jacob Good was a man who could expect to see many ghosts. Angry spirits - and the wraiths of men and women filled with hate for Jacob - paraded their soured souls in front of him, surrounding Jacob with their rage. After all, Jacob had killed a lot of people. Now, a frightening, tragic ghost is taunting Jacob as he's about to retire, making his life a nightmare, and demanding that Jacob make sure the last guilty murderer doesn't miss his appointment with Jacob's noose.

A voyage of the Damned. The annual blessing of the fishing fleet is more than a ceremony, it provides God's protection from the demons of the sea. But Captain John Boston has no time for God and holy sanctions. The church has betrayed him, with the local priest refusing to protect his sister from a violent husband, and Boston's wife is seriously ill. he trawler hasn't had much luck this season and people are whispering that God has indeed turned his gaze from John Boston too, because he didn't accept the priest's traditional blessing.

Simon Hall went to his class reunion to catch up with his first sweetheart, his best friend, and anyone else who might remember Simon. On the night, no one else except Simon got to talk with Edward Bitter, the social outcast, the class pariah. That's because Bitter is dead - he was killed several years earlier. Nobody told Simon he was talking to a spectre. Why would a ghost come to a class reunion? What dreadful secrets are the classmates keeping? Should Simon be scared after this one strange encounter with the paranormal?

When someone returns from the dead, it's never going to be good - no matter who it is. No one warned Linda that something dreadful was listening, waiting for the chance, feeding off her grief, when she unwittingly wished aloud that her husband Brian was still alive. She never meant that he should escape his grave. Now, to put things right, Linda has to play a frightening game with the mysterious, disturbing undertaker, James Bracken.

Emerging from the winter storm, it appeared to be a sanctuary, shelter from the freezing blizzard and the ravages of a desperate, final battle. But instead, the beckoning gates of the mysterious abbey are the entrance to a different kind of hell. The frightening shadows and maze of confusing hallways and rooms conceal things much more terrifying than the enemy beyond the walls. Sergeant Muller and his German Army platoon have witnessed countless horrors since the start of the war, but they still don't believe in ghosts. That's all about to change.

Look inside the mind of a psychopathic killer—the worst kind. James never believes he is anything but normal. A man who falls in love with beautiful young women, just like everyone else. He's the perfect lover, a successful professional, wealthy, and living his dream. He doesn't care that the women he loves disappear, never to be seen again. He's careful to hide all traces and cover his tracks. No one would ever suspect James lives another life behind his kindly, benevolent persona.

A collection of G.M. Hague's first three "Paranormal Tales" novellas, this brings together classic horror and traditional ghost stories into a full-length book that will keep you awake long into the night and leaving the lights on.