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Just two weeks to go before the Cherringham Charity Christmas Concert. Choir rehearsals are in full swing. Then the worst thing happens: Kirsty Kimball, one of the singers, is found dead from a severe allergic reaction to one of the home-made rehearsal cakes. Jack is pulled in to help bolster the depleted choir – and soon he's convinced that Kirsty's death was no accident. Sarah ag…
From the authors of the best-selling series CHERRINGHAM <br/> Harry and Kat take the sleeper train to the Scottish Highlands for a New Year&#39;s weekend, guests of an American movie mogul who&#39;s bought himself a &#39;real live castle&#39;. But when a massive blizzard leaves them isolated, it soon becomes clear that the other guests who&#39;ve made it through the snow all ha…
On the edge of Cherringham lies St. Francis&#39; Convent, home of the Sisters of St. Francis, a small Catholic teaching order. Here a handful of nuns worship, contemplate, and pray. And here one Easter the beloved local priest Father Byrne meets his unexpected demise. The circumstances of the death are suspicious, and soon Jack and Sarah are on the case: what secrets did Father Byrne take to t…
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu gave life to the modern ghost story style and inspired the genre's most famous contributor, M. R. James. Gathered together for the first time are Le Fanu's complete ghost stories in 30 extraordinary recordings. In the journals of Doctor Hesselius is an account set in the London of the 18th Century. The Honourable Elijah Harbottle, Chief Justice of the Court of Com…
1st of 37 Emma Lathen Best Sellers. Banking on Death. Simply Media. The Sloan receives a request for an advance against a trust that does not permit it. John Putnam Thatcher gets involved by one heir, Arthur Schneider, President of Schneider Manufacturing, and grandson of the founder who left a trust for his grandchildren upon the death of all of their parents. The last parent is about to die from…
When the penniless FitzHenrys, proprietors of the rundown Combe Castle Heritage Site, find themselves victims of a threatening campaign to oust them from their ancestral home, Jack and Sarah are called in to track down the culprit. But nothing is what it seems at this castle – from the curious and unnerving waxwork displays of the &#39;Odditorium&#39; to the in-laws and neighbours who can&…
Cherringham is devastated. Otto Brendl, the likeable old man who had hosted the classic Punch-and-Judy show for the kids each summer, died suddenly of a heart attack. But while the memorial service is being planned, Jack becomes suspicious that Otto wasn&#39;t just the friendly man next door. Maybe there&#39;s more behind the heart attack? Soon Jack and Sarah are on the trail of a particul…
Cherringham – a quiet town in the Cotswolds. Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems – until one morning a woman&#39;s body is found in the river. A terrible accident, according to the police. But is this true? Sarah believes there must be more to it. In Jack, a former NYPD homicide detective, she finds a partner who is willing to start investigating with her. They soon find out that things…
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. The story's narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in …
It is a winter's evening in the historic university town of Cambridge at the end of the nineteenth century. In college rooms, a group of friends gathers. A fire flickers in the grate and, silently, Montague Rhodes James places a lighted candle by his chair, shuffles his papers, and begins to read… So the classic ghost stories of M. R. James were presented to the world. Now, in this definitive…
Murder in paradise. In beautiful Tuscany, life seemed like a golden paradise with the picturesque rolling hills, the luscious food and wine, and the warmth of the local people. Then they found the body… Hilary Wright finds Ettore Fagiolo, a flamboyant local real estate agent, floating in Nigel and Robin Proctor's ugly, pink swimming pool. When the magistrate in charge of the case declares Ett…
John Sinclair – A new audio drama series: blockbuster cinema for your ears only: a breathtaking mixture of gothic horror and fast-paced action paired with an audio-rich atmosphere. Produced internationally in London and Los Angeles with Andrew Wincott as John Sinclair, Anthony Skordi, Emma Tate, Dan Mersh, Charlotte Moore, Nico Lennon and many others. John Sinclair: Hell's best entertainment …
В старинном замке на юге Швеции заканчивается работа над серией телепрограмм для проекта «Летний дворец». В последнюю ночь, накануне национального праздника Янов день, творческий коллектив отмечает завершение съемок. После бурной вечеринки в передвижной телестудии находят убитой ведущую программы Мишель Карлссон. Гибель любимицы публики, звезды телеэфира вызывает громкий общественный резонанс. Реп…
Three dark short stories inspired by Dante's Inferno, linked by a book of human skin passed down through generations. <br/> Sins of the Flesh: When the mutilated corpse of a wealthy author is discovered, the police officer sent to investigate finds a curious diary amongst the occult objects at the scene. Will he uncover the author's secret at the ruined chapel, and is he willing to pay t…
Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this new series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. <br/> <br/> <br/> Harold Wilson, police sergeant in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry, loathes Alfie McAlister. Alfie is handsome, popular, a self-made multimillionaire – and worst of all, he and his friends Liz and Marge are much better than the police at catching v…