Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people So why have they kept silent about the terrors of their Civil War & the rule of General Franco? This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer Giles Tremlett to embark on a journey around Spain & its history He found the ghosts of Spain everywhere almost always arguing Who caused the Civil War? Why do Basque terrorists kill? Why do Catalans hate Madrid? Did the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dream of a return to Spain's Moorish past? Tremlett's curiosity led him down some strange & colourful byroads & brought him unexpected insights into the Spanish character ...

Storyteller James Cameron & a team of experts using state-of-the-art technology takes us on a journey to the resting place of the ill-fated ship the Titanic where nearly one thousand five hundred people lost their lives almost a hundred years ago ...

On 11 March 2011 a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan Ghosts of the Tsunami is a classic of literary non-fiction a heart-breaking & intimate account of an epic tragedy told through the personal accounts of those who lived through it 304 pages Parry Richard Lloyd ...

Book 4 of the Jason Thanou Time Travel series & sequel to Pirates of the Timestream Special operations officer Jason Thanou of the Temporal Regulatory Authority must once again plunge into Earth&s blood-drenched past to combat the plots of the Transhumanist underground to subvert that past & create a secret history leading up to the fulfillment of their mad dream of transforming humanity into a race of gods & monsters The transhumanists are attempting to use the chaos of the American Civil War to escape the Observer Effect the immutable law that recorded history cannot be changed If any should attempt it time has a way of dealing with those transgressors in a very brutal very final fashion Now it is the last days of the Confederacy & the Fall of Richmond looms In the Shenandoah Valley in the region later known as Mosby&s Confederacy insurgency brews & the time travelers must join the raiders to prevent a transhumanist trap from dooming the mission from the start ...

IN the Victorian era sensational ghost stories were headline news Spine-chilling reports of two-headed phantoms murdered knights & spectral locomotives filled the pages of the press Spirits communicated with the living at dark seances forced terrified families to flee their homes & caused superstitious workers to down their tools at the haunted mines This book contains more than fifty hair-raising
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A lost hat a free lunch a bullied schoolgirl a piano that plays itself an old man's secret a downtrodden wife's revenge
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The BBC broadcast &GHOSTWATCH& on the 31st of October 1992 It seemed to be a live broadcast which was a cross between Crimewatch & the movie Poltergeist The programme terrified Britain & caused outrage in the press It&s legacy lives on cited as an inspiration for & The Blair Witch Project& & Derren Brown&s && The Seance& GHOSTWATCH is regarded as a classic of the genre & remains as relevant as terrifying & as inspirational today Sarah Greene & Craig Charles report from a reputedly haunted North London council house for the outside broadcast whilst Michael Parkinson & Mike Smith stay in the warmth & &safety& of a BBC studio The Early family are allegedly being harrassed by the ghost & Pipes&- so named as his banging & crashing were initially attributed to bad plumbing After a deliberately slow start the crescendo sees children speaking in tongues Sarah Greene sent to her doom & Michael Parkinson possessed by an evil spirit Although pure fiction the masterly combination of great scripting intuitive direction & perfect casting made the supernatural pastiche appear frighteningly real Despite being part of BBC Drama&s Screen One series the presence of Michael Parkinson convinced thousands of people it was real The drama caused an uproar & was banned from repeat transmission for over a decade ...

Winner of the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize A magnificent achievement & an engrossing experience David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree & a late night New York DJset at the fugitive edges of Asia & Europe Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause & effect ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play IN 1994 ANDREI CHIKATILO WAS EXECUTED FOR TORTURE MURDER & CANNIBALISM TONIGHT HE RETURNS GHOUL is based on the horrifying real life story of the Soviet Unions most violent serial killer Andrei Chikatilo Three Americans travel to Ukraine to film a documentary about the cannibalism epidemic that swept through the country during the famine of 1932 After being lured deep into a Ukraine forest to interview one of the last known survivors they quickly find themselves trapped in a supernatural hunting ground ...

Something stranger than usual haunts Full Moon Hollow Paranormal Capital of the World Adults either can’t see it can’t remember it or go crazy from it So when a zombie outbreak threatens the town only a group of misfit scouts can save it! Collects the fan-favorite miniseries Be prepared Be very prepared Steve Bryant on Steve Bryant -- " As an illustrator I&ve created artwork for everything from greeting cards to theme park design to roleplaying games & comics In that time the highlight has been my work on Athena Voltaire which earned an Eisner Award nomination in 2005 & was included in St Martin&s " The Year&s Best Graphic Novels Comics & Manga" (2004 edition) I was also nominated for the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award in 2007 for my work on the series ...