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The Haunting of Alma Fielding

The Haunting of Alma Fielding
  • Author(s): Kate Summerscale
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research – begins to investigate. In...

The Haunting of Aveline Jones

The Haunting of Aveline Jones
  • Author(s): Phil Hickes
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it once belonged to Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to...

The Haunting of Brynn Wilder

The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
  • Author(s): Wendy Webb
  • Location(s): Lake Superior
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds...

The Haunting of Kulah

The Haunting of Kulah
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1940s and present day

1946: far out in the Atlantic a boatload of men returning from war are shipwrecked within sight of their homes on the remote Scottish island of Kulah – and the wailing of the women could be heard across the...

The Haunting of L.

The Haunting of L.
  • Author(s): Howard Norman
  • Location(s): Churchill, Halifax NS
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist Vienna Linn, in the remote town of Churchill, Manitoba. Across Canada, Linn has been arranging and photographing gruesome accidents for the private...

The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth

The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth
  • Author(s): Sam Pope, Camilla Montemaggi (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Oxford, North London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A psychological horror that will grip you from the first page, and haunt you long after you’ve finished the last. Nobody believes Lindy when she says she doesn’t pull her hair out on purpose. Nobody believes Lindy when she...

The Haunting on West 10th Street

The Haunting on West 10th Street
  • Author(s): Helen Phifer
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Detective Maria Miller walks up creaking stairs into the attic of the old brownstone she senses this isn’t an ordinary crime scene. The brutality of the murder is enough to shock even an experienced detective like Maria. But...

The Haven

The Haven
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SOME LEGENDS NEVER DIE… Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, she can’t walk through the streets of Dublin without bumping into a horde of fans, all of whom want their picture taken with...

The Healer

The Healer
  • Author(s): Amber Hayward
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Fiction

From the sweltering slums of Rio de Janeiro to the isolated plantations of Brazil, The Healer tells the story of Manoel, a curandero, who inherits an incredible healing power, and the people whose lives he changes forever. But little...

The Healer’s Secret

The Healer’s Secret
  • Author(s): Helen Pryke
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present day, 1930s

All families have secrets. The Innocenti have a secret worse than most. Jennifer’s life isn’t going as she planned. Fired from her job and on the brink of divorce at thirty-one, her only salvation lies at the bottom of...

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