The cooperative game Ghost Stories often has players on the edge of their seats with uncertainty over whether their monks will be able to protect a village against the many aspects of Wu-Feng that threaten it With Ghost Stories Black Secret the players will face an even more powerful dilemma Wu-Feng himself Yes the player count for Black Secret is 2-5 (instead of 1-4) as one player will take on the role of Wu-Feng & harass the monks in a more direct manner than they&ve experienced previously Wu-Feng now chooses where the incoming ghosts will be placed on the individual monk boards Instead of placing the ghost on the board Wu-Feng can use that ghost to power colored spells matching the color of the ghost or to bring new figures in play that scour the catacombs underneath the village; these figures are searching for the remains of Wu-Feng by digging in the dirt located there & should they find the three icons required the shadow of Wu-Feng descends on the village to fight directly with the monks To aid the monks in their fight against this more devious incarnation of Wu-Feng they have access to blood mantras special abilities that come in different levels to adjust for the difficulty of play With the level 2 mantra for example when a monk loses a life the Qi token is placed on the mantra When two tokens are on the mantra one monk of the players& choice gains a Qi With the level 4 mantra all tiles will be de-haunted when it triggers Players 2-5 Suggested ages 12 Playing time 90 minutes ...

Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries 416 pages ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play BBC Ghost Stories The Stalls of Barchester A Warning to the Curious Two films by Lawrence Gordon Clark As a Christmas treat in the late 1960s & 70s the BBC produced adaptations of ghost stories based on the works of M R James the Cambridge academic & author of some of the most spine-tingling tales in the English language which were broadcast to terrified viewers in the dead of winter This was a tradition that was briefly revived by the BBC between 2007 & 2010 These adaptations which have a subtlety & style all of their own have been a major influence on many contemporary British horror filmmakers & have come to be some of the much sought after British TV titles by their legions of eager fans The Stalls of Barchester (1971) While cataloguing the collection of Barchester Cathedral library Dr Black stumbles across an intriguing box of papers belonging to former Archdeacon Haynes In it he discovers a hidden history of blood guilt & macabre supernatural revenge With its superb cast & beautiful choral accompaniment by Norwich Cathedral choir Lawrence Gordon Clark s (Harry s Game) evocative adaptation of James short story inspired the BBC&s popular 1970s series A Ghost Story for Christmas A Warning to the Curious (1972) The second of Clark&s M R James adaptations for the BBC features Peter Vaughan (Straw Dogs Our Friends in the North) as a doomed amateur archaeologist who pays a terrible price for his curiosity about an ancient Saxon legend Special features Introduction to The Stalls of Barchester by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012 10 mins) Introduction to A Warning to the Curious by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012 12 mins) Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee & The Stalls of Barchester& by M R James (Eleanor Yule 2000 30 mins) Christopher Lee recreates M R James famous soirees at which the antiquary would read his tales of the supernatural to eager undergraduates Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee &A Warning to the Curious& by M R James (Eleanor Yule 2000 30 mins) dramatic reconstruction of one of the author&s Christmas readings ...

Track Listings Disc 1 1 Always In My Head (Live At The Royal Albert Hall London) 2 Magic (Live At The Enmore Theatre Sydney) 3 Ink (Live At Le Casino De Paris Paris) 4 True Love (Live At The Enmore Theatre Sydney) 5 Midnight (Live At The Royal Albert Hall London) 6 Another&s Arms (Live At The Beacon Theatre New York) 7 Oceans (Live At E-Werk Cologne) 8 A Sky Full Of Stars (Live At The Royal Albert Hall London) 9 O (Live At Royce Hall Los Angeles) Disc 2 1 Always In My Head 2 Magic 3 Ink 4 True Love 5 Midnight 6 Another&s Arms 7 Oceans 8 A Sky Full Of Stars 9 O 10 Midnight 11 Magic (Extended Director&s Cut) 12 A Sky Full Of Stars 13 True Love 14 Ink (Live At The Royal Albert Hall) 15 All Your Friends (Visual) 16 Ghost Story (Visual) 17 Always In My Head (Artwork Animation) 18 Always In My Head (Alternate Live Take) 19 Oceans (Alternate Live Take) 20 Magic (Making Of) 21 Ghost Stories (Making Of) 22 Credits ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics At first you saw only a mass of coarse matted black hair; presently it was seen that this covered a body of fearful thinness almost a skeleton but with the muscles standing out like wires' MR James' ghost stories are brimming with delicate horror They take place in the quiet corners of churches & between the dusty shelves of esteemed college libraries But when Professor Parkin discovers a whistle in a Templar ruin or Sir Richard Fell inherits a country manor with a horrifying history malevolent forces are unleashed Something half-glimpsed something not of this world is preparing to disturb the silence Having terrified generations since its first publication in 1904 Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is a collection that will haunt the reader's imagination long after the lights have gone out ...

This release from the spine-tingling GHOST STORIES FROM THE BBC series features one film scripted by Andrew Davies (PRIDE & PREJUDICE) from a Charles Dickens story THE SIGNALMAN (1976) Plus the two original stories STIGMA (1977) & THE ICE HOUSE (1978) ...

In White Moon the players will have to protect & save the villagers Their appearance in the game has new conditions of defeat if twelve villagers are killed the players lose the game The villagers can be killed in different ways (killed by a ghost Devourers etc) Discover also new ghosts & incarnations of Wu-Feng To face all these terrible new enemies a new ally will come & help Su-Ling Each time a villager is killed a malediction dice is rolled or a village tile is haunted the players can activate Su-Ling She will neutralize the bad effects Age range 12 & up Number of players 1 to 4 Play time 90 Manufacturer Asmodee Editions 24 villagers tiles 1 refugee board 1 burial place board 8 artifacts 10 ghost cards 6 Wu-Feng incarnation cards 4 moon crystals 1 Kung-Fu school tile 4 fi gurine receptacles 4 corner tiles 1 portal fi gurine 1 Su-Ling fi gurine 1 Su-Ling help card ...

Mark Gatiss (Sherlock Doctor Who Game of Thrones) selects & introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story
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It began shortly after the party at which one of their members Edward Wanderley had died
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Tananarive Due a winner of the American Book Award & an Essence & Los Angeles Times bestselling author brings you her debut short fiction collection! The title novella Ghost Summer won a Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society (originally published in The Ancestors) This collection

Includes:: Patient Zero The Lake The Knowing Herd Immunity & many other stories by Tananarive Due

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