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Discover the stories inspired by some of the greatest songs of all time. Dark fiction that will keep you turning the pages as you read stories influenced by songs like Satisfaction, Angie Baby, She Loves You, Maggie Mae, The Hotel California and more. Dark stories inspired by dark lyrics that tell the tales hidden behind the popular melodies that are so familiar to us all. Ten different authors bring you their literary visions provoked by their favorite song lyrics to create a chilling read you will not soon forget. Experience the insanity of a young woman who seeks refuge from reality in ...

Housesitting an art-filled mansion with good friend and co-worker Nick Borja sounds ideal to Michael Penfield. This will be his first taste of independence and self-sufficiency. Nick, child of a large extended family, agrees. But things at the genteel old house aren’t all that they seem, and it isn’t long before Michael is disturbed by a mysterious unseen caller who visits in the night. And Nick himself begins to change, shifting from the funny and good-natured art student they all know to someone aloof, sharp, and dismal. Then the Poet’s Corner Bookstore begins to have disturbances ...

Staff ghost story night happens every Thursday at the Poet's Corner Bookstore, but this Thursday will change Cassie's life in ways she could never have imagined. When Michael Penfield walks into the store as the new hire, Cassie is surprised to see her friend from childhood. But Michael has changed since she last saw him, from his completely serious demeanor to the scar that mars his face and neck. Cassie, still reeling from the death of her boyfriend, Daniel, has concerns of her own. That night, Michael tells a true ghost story from the earlier years he shared with Cassie, and both of them...

When best friend Jake Holdridge was still a big part of Philip Corts’s life, Philip grew used to a certain type of madness also being a big part of his life. Now three years after a life-changing episode that affected both friends, Philip finds himself dealing with more Jake-related madness than he could ever have seen coming, from kidnappings and killers, to bodyguards, one hostile girlfriend, and for Philip—a frightening new aspect to his innate psychic ability that will change his life once more, and possibly even cause his death.

When asked by a former colleague to help her daughter, a young girl being haunted by a frightening ghost, Mary has no idea that the mystery she stumbles into will quickly become entangled with the case that has just landed on Bradley Alden’s desk: an assortment of bones in an unmarked grave. Feeling at a loss now that Mike has moved on, Mary nevertheless works diligently to uncover the story behind a ghost—or two— who are terrified to talk to the police, even an ex-cop like Mary. Luckily, Bradley is right beside her when the story she seeks somehow leads back to a scattering of bones.

Cassie Valentine’s serenity has been disturbed. Best friend Nick Borja has found a full-time job, the first on his career path, and will no longer be working at The Poet’s Corner Bookstore. Equally worrisome is the unexpected appearance of a beautiful, blonde young woman who comes to the bookstore with a message for Cassie’s boyfriend, Michael Penfield, and the announcement that she is his girlfriend. Michael is not as reassuring about the situation as Cassie would have liked, but Michael is dealing with his own personal issues due to a tragic anniversary that he doesn’t discuss ...

What if Leslie Wilder had never come into the Poet’s Corner Bookstore? And what if Michael Penfield hadn’t been the one standing at the sales counter that day? Michael wondered idly if that would have changed what happened, but he didn’t have time to wonder for long. Leslie Wilder’s appearance seemed to trigger a cascade of worrisome supernatural occurrences in his and girlfriend Cassie Valentine’s lives. First Cassie hears someone—or something—knocking at the bottom of her staircase. And then she experiences a trance-out that she can’t remember. Michael dreams about Cassie ...

When Nick Borja asks his psychic friend, Cassie Valentine, for her opinion on a haunted bed and breakfast, Cassie is left with a slew of questions: Who haunts the mansion, and why? What happened in the small back room that makes it the crux of the haunting? Why has Aaron Jacoby, the caretaker’s young son, become so ill after moving to the premises? Most of all, why is her boyfriend, Michael Penfield, suddenly acting like an alien changeling? Answers won’t be easy to find. Because although both Cassie and Michael are receiving messages, as young Aaron Jacoby says, Dead voices are hard to...

After a dangerous and horrifying confrontation with an evil, life-stealing spirit, Cassie Valentine is more than ready to leave behind all things paranormal. She swears off the Poet’s Corner ghost story nights and tells bewildered boyfriend Michael Penfield that she wants nothing more to do with their “dead drama.” But a chance encounter with Mark Hemmler and his friend Trudy Herrera, plus a new series of messages asking her for help, won’t allow Cassie to leave her supernatural abilities behind. Why does Trudy hear a woman weeping in her apartment? Why is she being followed by the ...

Like any other young couple, Cassie Valentine and Michael Penfield have some relationship issues to work through: insecurity, past loves, past losses. And then there's the dead people. But even as they are trying to figure out their relationship status, Cassie's godfather and their mutual boss, Steve Crawford, starts to make headway on finding the man he believes murdered his entire family when Steve was just a child.Cassie and Michael are inevitably brought into the ongoing investigation. Meanwhile, the sad spirit of a little boy, probably killed by the same murderer that Steve is pursuing...

Cassie Valentine was happy with her life. Boyfriend Michael Penfield has agreed to help her explore some of the places listed in the notebooks of Gus Valentine, Cassie’s father and a gifted psychic. Additionally, her mother has asked for assistance in planning her upcoming wedding. Life could not be better. But then Cassie befriends a vulnerable young girl who seems desperately in need of that friendship. And Steve Crawford, boss and owner of The Poet’s Corner Bookstore, seeks help trying to solve the mystery of the cold spots that now plague his store. In short order, Cassie and ...

AJ Podalak knows he made a mistake the night he went to the cemetery with his friends and watched as two of them tried to contact the spirit world with a Quija board. Now each of them is in serious condition in the hospital, having been picked off one by one by a vengeful spirit, and AJ is the last of the group still walking around. Can he turn the tables and hunt down this spirit with the help of a famous ghost hunter's daughter, or is it already too late?

For clarity of content, the author suggests reading the Bridgeton Park Cemetery books before reading this novella. Ghost story night brings a blast from Cassie Valentine’s past that Michael Penfield is unprepared to deal with, but deal with it he must as a story of a friend’s haunting leads to one family’s tragedy from the past. Cassie is keen to help out a friend and drags Michael, willing or no, into the process…

Cassie Valentine is excited to see what her mother, Lori, and her new husband Richard Carlton, have brought back from their six-week honeymoon in the British Isles and Ireland. The couple’s souvenirs include special gifts from Richard to her and Michael Penfield that seem to acknowledge the paranormal abilities the two of them have. And while those presents were a welcome and unexpected surprise, Cassie is definitely not prepared for the other surprise that has come back with the newlywed couple. Shortly after their arrival, Cassie and Richard both begin to notice something different in ...

Philip Corts has a special gift that his best friend, Jake Holdridge won't let him ignore - Philip can "track" lost objects, people and even past lives with his mind. But not all trackings have happy endings, and Philip vows to lay his gift to rest. Now after an absence of nearly three years, a desperate Jake is back with a request that triggers the worst of Philip's nightmares: Would he track for Jake, just this one last time? Philip already has enough to worry about with his first year of college, a scholarship contest deadline and an absentee girlfriend. Is their friendship worth it? ...