Historical Ghost Stories

Abigale Hall: a novel

Amid the terror of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Eliza and her little sister, Rebecca, have had their share of tragedy, having lost their mother to the Blitz and their father to suicide. Forced to leave London to work for the mysterious Mr. Brownwell at Abigale Hall, they soon learn that the worst is yet to come.

Little Sister Death

David Binder is a young successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer’s block until he remembers a ghost story that captivated him as a child. He sets out to explore the myth of Virginia Beale. But as his investigation takes him deeper, Binder finds himself obsessed with a force that’s as wicked as it is seductive.

The Loney

By Andrew Michael Hurley (Fic Hurl)

When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy.

Slade House

Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won’t want to leave. Later, you’ll find that you can’t.

The Taxidermist's Daughter

Joining her fellow English villagers in a misty churchyard on St. Mark’s Eve, a taxidermist’s daughter reflects on the mysterious downfall of her father’s once-famous museum, discovering the body of a stranger whose death unlocks dark memories.

By Gaslight: a novel

William Pinkerton descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a fabled con, Edward Shade. Adam Foole is a man without a past, haunted by a love affair ten years gone. When Adam receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns to London to find her. But, he learns of her fate and its connection to the man known as Shade. 

Fiercombe Manor

Two women, of very different eras, are united by the secrets hidden within the walls of an English manor house.

Lost Among the Living

In England, 1921, Jo Manders still mourns the loss of her husband, Alex, three years after he was shot down over Germany. There is much Jo never knew about her husband’s origins and the revelation of a mysterious death in the family’s past is just the beginning.

The Lost Girls

In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanished from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Sixty-four years later, Emily’s sister Lucy writes the story of that harrowing summer in a notebook that she bequeaths, along with the lake house and a hefty investment portfolio, to her grandniece, Justine.