Silent Night Haunted Night

Paranormal romance Silent Night, Haunted Night is A Christmas Carol, Nicki Styx-style, from Terri Garey, award-winning author of You’re The One That I Haunt. When a sexy spirit sets her sights on Nicki’s boyfriend Joe, the unwilling ghoulfriend to the dead will have to fight to ensure that this Christmas won’t be her last.

Although Nicole's parents were less than stellar and killed when she was a senior, they left her enough money for a great start in life.After building an educational consulting firm, Nicole needs a couple of weeks to decompress and get some of her new work projects started. In her childhood home, the hauntings that have happened since she was a child continue to escalate. To compound the complexity of contractors and projects, Michael Madigan, her first love, has returned, throwing her for one big loop.In the middle of a working vacation, a paranormal horror story throws Nicole into chaos. A nemesis appears and disappears out of the blue. Spirits rattle guests. Her sister's ex-boyfriend conjures more spirits during a seance.A spate of local murders leaves Nicole wondering what kind of fresh hell she's stumbled into, and she is pushed onto perilous footing when the person who killed her parents is unbelievably out to kill her next.

Mathews uses a limited definition of paranormal, and examines works set, for the most part, in a relatively realistic modern world inhabited by both humans and paranormal beings.

Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, co-edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween. In addition to stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween movies, and trick or treating in the future, Haunted Nights also offers terrifying and mind-bending explorations of related holidays like All Souls' Day, Dia de los Muertos, and Devil's Night. "With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfbane Seeds" by Seanan McGuire "Dirtmouth" by Stephen Graham Jones" "A Small Taste of the Old Countr" by Jonathan Maberry "Wick’s End" by Joanna Parypinski "The Seventeen Year Itch" by Garth Nix "A Flicker of Light on Devil’s Night" by Kate Jonez "Witch-Hazel" by Jeffrey Ford "Nos Galen Gaeaf" by Kelley Armstrong "We’re Never Inviting Amber Again" by S. P. Miskowski "Sisters" by Brian Evenson "All Through the Night" by Elise Forier Edie "A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds" by Eric J. Guignard "The Turn" by Paul Kane "Jack" by Pat Cadigan "Lost in the Dark" by John Langan "The First Lunar Halloween" by John R. Little

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; a comprehensive necrology of famous names; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and writer alike. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction. Praise for Stephen Jones: 'The best horror anthologist in the business is, of course, Stephen Jones, whose Mammoth Book of Best New Horror is one of the major bargains of this as of any other year.' Roz Kavaney 'An essential volume for horror readers.' Locus 'Stephen Jones . . . has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country.' Lisa Tuttle, The Times Books

The history of the Christmas hymn "Silent Night"--Its origins in the Austrian town of Obendorf.

Jake Eden is restless. He struggles with his paranormal powers and the feeling that there is an unexplained gap or emptiness-something missing-in his young life. This unexplained gap lls him with great sadness and anxiety and haunts him till a resolution is found. While Jake hopes to nd the cause of this emptiness, he and his friends have many encounters with exciting and challenging characters. The kids nd themselves on one adventure after another. On one of these adventures, Jake has a chance encounter with his deceased great-grandfather, who explains who Jake really is, telling him that Jake is destined for greatness. Jake's sadness and anxiety are lied, and the gaps in his life disappear, along with his questions, but not before Jake and his friends pass through a turbulent yet heroic journey around All Hallows Eve. Faly Colaizzi was born Rafaela Faly Burmeister in Chicago, Illinois, in October 1967. Her mother, father, and sister all reside in Chicago land. The author grew up with a love of horses and farmland and is inspired by music of all kinds. She has always had an unwavering love for castles around the world, and she travels to see them when she can. She has quite a wild imagination that never rests, and that makes the perfect basis for her wonderful tale, Haunted Nights at Drumheller Castle. The author graduated from Illinois State University in 1990 and has had a twenty-year career as a sales manager. She is married to Steve Colaizzi, is a working mother of two amazing boys, and is an auntie. She hopes this story, written as a classic Halloween tale, will live on in hearts all over the world."

In plenty of time for the holidays, here is a gathering of thirty tales of ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal happenings purported to have taken place on or around Christmas, or that are otherwise related to this holiday. By a long-time believer in the paranormal who in the introduction tells the story of her own Christmas ghost, Haunted Christmas includes stories such as: HAUNTED BETHLEHEM—Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is famous for haunted locales such as the Hotel Bethlehem, the first house built in the town, in 1741. There, guests have come to expect visits from several spirits. Predictably, things heat up at Christmas—after all, this is Bethlehem. THE DEATH COACH OF CHRISTMAS—One Christmas Eve in Ireland many years ago, young Nora Mahoney was returning from the bogs when an invisible something suddenly rushed past her with the sound of grinding wheels and thundering horses’ hooves. Had Nora encountered the “death coach” of Irish legend?

"All Hallow's Eve: Silent Night" is a prequel to my first book "All Hallow's Eve: Revised Edition." While the first one tells the story of a couple who moved into a haunted home that was previously the land of a halloween attraction, this one tells the story of how the house became haunted. In the mid 1990's, John and Alicia Winthrope live happily in the country with their six-year-old daughter, Emily. For awhile, they live as a happy family who is expecting another addition because Alicia is pregnant. But when John makes a deal with the devil, which he believes to be nonsense at first, Emily starts leaving a trail of tragedies everywhere she goes. Now, the couple fears that their lives may be in danger if they continue to live with this demonic presence that seems to be taking over their young daughter. As things in the Winthrope household become more tense as each day passes, John and Alicia try to figure out what they must do to save themselves and their unborn child from meeting a horrifying fate. As the days and nights pass and more people around Emily die, secrets are revealed that could harm the rest of the family. Will they save themselves before it is too late, or will John and Alicia also die because of Emily? To find out, read "All Hallow's Eve: Silent Night."