As Christmas approaches, reluctant psychic Billie Culpepper receives an unwelcome surprise in the form of an eviction notice. Her shock at being evicted is quickly replaced by surprise when her beau suggests they finally buy a house together. Billie agrees to go house hunting only to find that every home has history, and trying to find a house that doesn't have old ghosts proves tricky for someone who can see the dead. Detective Mockler faces a challenge of his own when he's put in charge of a newly formed cold case unit to clear the backlog of old homicides. He dives into the new job eagerly only to hit an unexpected snag that could prove troubling to both himself and his psychic girlfriend. When the search for a house proves futile, Billie stumbles across her dream home; a quaint fixer-upper with vintage charm and a lack of ghosts. But nothing is ever simple when it comes to the paranormal and the new home-owners find themselves under assault from a violent presence that can elude Billie's psychic abilities. Meanwhile, John Gantry, the occult expert/con man, faces his own terrifying ordeal when he learns that his family is coming to visit for the holidays.

John Gantry's remains have vanished from the morgue, leaving Detective Mockler with another unsolved case on his hands. Kaitlin, suffering from post traumatic stress, is haunted by visions of her former ghost-hunting friends. The mysterious Half-Boy continues his restless wandering and reluctant psychic. Billie Culpepper, just wants the ghosts to stop. Having laid her lost mother to rest, Billie is ready to start a new chapter in her life with Ray Mockler but the ghosts of the past refuse to rest in peace. When her ability to speak to the dead threatens her last chance at happiness, Billie decides to shut out the ghosts and quit the spookshow forever.

Reluctant psychic Billie Culpepper is baffled when she discovers an old arrest charge against her late mother, issued just days before she disappeared. When no further details are found, Billie turns to her occult allies for a glimpse into her mother's troubled past. 1994 As a single mom in a small town, Mary Agnes Culpepper is spinning a lot of plates at once. She waits tables at a local bar while establishing her career as a spiritual medium, and struggles to provide a stable home for her daughter. This proves to be difficult when something sinister slithers through one's family tree. When 8-year-old Billie begins to see people no one else can, Mary fears her only child has inherited the family curse. Her fears are doubled when her daughter is left injured from a malevolent force that visits her in the night. Adding to Mary's worries is a new client that she suspects is being abused by her violent partner and the unexpected return of Billie's father. Frank Riddel has a habit of disrupting Mary's life and now he's back once again. Claiming to be a changed man, he wants them to be a family again, but Mary suspects an ulterior motive behind his sudden return. It isn't long before the spinning plates fall one by one, and the fate of Mary Agnes Culpepper, spiritualist and medium, takes its last, inevitable turn.

This novel of Vietnam Naval Intelligence is so authentic and revealing it required clearance by the National Security Agency. For Intelligence Officer Craig Nostrum, love for Vietnam is haunted by the constant destruction he sees around him. Then he decides to avenge the loss--and to stand up for what he has left.

Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, a hardcover archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine. This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like Bernie Wrightson and Neal Adams reached new artistic heights with their fascinating explorations of classic and modern horror stories. *Brilliant, classic Creepy stories from 1964-1966 raised from the dead after twenty-five years. *Featuring work by such comics luminaries as Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, and Frank Frazetta. * Archive editions of Creepy will be the cornerstone of any comic-book library. *Volume One reprints the first five terrifying issues of the magazine's original run, reprinted in the original magazine size!

Gather your wooden stakes, silver bullets, and the skeletons in your closet, and prepare for a descent into horror and science-fiction history with Creepy Archives Volume 1! Reanimated in all its gruesome glory in a value-priced paperback format, and in its original magazine size, this terrifying tome presents some of the finest work by comics legends Archie Goodwin, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, Alex Toth, Joe Orlando, Gray Morrow, and more. Collects Creepy magazine issues #1–#5 and includes original letters pages, text features, and ads.

This veinchilling second volume showcases work by some of the best artists to ever work in the comics medium, including Alex Toth, Gray Morrow, Reed Crandall, John Severin, and others. Each archive volume of Creepy is packed with stories (usually up to eight short stories were featured in every issue!) running the gamut of gruesome subject matter, from reimagined horror classics such as The Cask of Amontillado, to spectacularly mindtwisting shorts such as The Thing in the Pit, or the macabre maritime yarn Drink Deep. * This volume collects Creepy #610. "Since the stock is much finer than the authentic newsprint, visually, these pages are better than the originals, with moodly, dark blacks that punctuate the shock endings." Publishers Weekly

‘He’s the seventh son of a seventh son. His name is Thomas J. Ward and he’s my gift to the County. When he’s old enough we’ll send you word. Train him well. He’ll be the best apprentice you’ve ever had and he’ll also be your last.’ These were the words of Tom's Mam to the county Spook some years ago. As Tom, the Spook and their allies prepare to battle with the Fiend on a huge scale, to finally enact their revenge, it now remains to be seen whether Mam's declaration will come true.

Is it magic...or are spirits at work? Your audience won't know for sure when you perform these spooky tricks! They'll wonder warily just how you managed to read their minds, knot that haunted handkerchief, pull a vampire from the empty box, and produce a ghostly message on a slate. Have no fear--with these sequence drawings and zany cartoons, it's easy to master the sleight of hand and patter you need to become a wizard!