Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Torn by years in an abusive marriage an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin along a broken East US coastline Her story & motives for being there are unclear Arriving unprepared & packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either leaving or someone else arriving The cabin unused for years still holds memories providing hints of a shattered family ...

London 1926 Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend On the way she is hit by a bus & killed though miraculously the baby survives Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter
- a single father in a world without single fathers He hurries the baby home terrified that she'll be taken from him Racked with guilt & fear he stays away from prying eyes walking her through the streets at night under cover of darkness But one evening a strange man steps out of the shadows & addresses Henry by name The man says that he has lost his memory but that his name is Jack Henry is both afraid of & drawn to Jack & the more time they spend together the more Henry sees that this man has echoes of his dead wife His mannerisms some things he says & so Henry wonders has his wife returned to him? Has he conjured Jack himself from thin air? Or is he in the grip of a sophisticated con man? Who really sent himset in a postwar London where the Bright Young Things dance into dawn at garden parties hosted by generous old Monty The Haunting of Henry Twist is a novel about the limits & potential of love & of grief It is about the lengths we will go to hold on to what is precious to us what we will forgive of those we love & what we will sacrifice for the sake of our own happiness
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The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels & the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman & Stephen King The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear ' Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt author of The Goldfinch & The Secret History Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House Dr Montague an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora his lovely assistant; Luke the future inheritor of the estate; & Eleanor a friendless fragile young woman with a dark past As they begin to cope with horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding they cannot possibly know what lies ahead For Hill House is gathering its powers
- & soon it will choose one of them to make its own Adapted into a film The Haunting starring Liam Neeson Catherine Zeta-Jones & Owen Wilson The Haunting of Hill House is a powerful work of slow-burning psychological horror Shirley Jackson's was born in California in 1916 When her short story The Lottery was first published in the New Yorker in 1948 readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time Her first novel The Road Through the Wall was published in the same year & was followed by five more Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The Sundial The Haunting of Hill House & We Have Always Lived in the Castle widely seen as her masterpiece Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48 If you enjoyed The Haunting of Hill House you might like Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle also available in Penguin Modern Classics ' An amazing writer If you haven't read her you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman ' As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read' Stephen King ' The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie & unforgettable' A M Homes ' Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic inimitable writerswhose work exerts an enduring spell' Joyce Carol Oates
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Alone & penniless after his father is killed in a cotton mill accident fourteen-year-old William faces the rest of his childhood in a brutal workhouse Then his long-estranged uncle Seth sends for him & William thinks his fortunes are changing But arriving at Uncle Seth's grand house in North Wales Jessop Rise William encounters a ghostly figure It soon becomes clear that the place is haunted by more than just one ghost But who are the spectral creatures that prowl about the estate? What are they trying to tell William? & what is the dark secret that Uncle Seth has been keeping for so long? As William uncovers the clues he finds himself caught up in a dark & terrifying mystery ...

You don't know it exists but when you have nowhere else to turn the Haven will find you An adrenaline-fuelled adventure in a new series by top thriller writer Simon Lelic 304 pages Lelic Simon ...

Poppy Hooper doesn't want to be the queen of the witches But some problems can't be left behind Some love stories can't be forgotten Some friendships won't be broken And some enemies won't stay dead The battle for the throne isn't over yet Praise for The Hawkweed Prophecy'A gorgeous book which I highly recommend' Kiran Millwood Hargrave author of The Girl of Ink & Stars'A book of wicked beautiful magic' Kendare Blake author of Anna Dressed in Blood ' Get ready to be spellbound' Paige Mc Kenzie author of The Haunting of Sunshine Girl' Wildly delightful' Laini Taylor ...

A gorgeous bewitching story of two outcast girls whose lives are twisted by an ancient prophecy Who will be queen of the witches? The babies were born as the clock struck twelve A bat fell from the air mid-flight A silver salmon floated dead to the surface of the river Snails withered in their shells moths turned to dust on the night breeze & an owl ate its young The spell had been cast Poppy Hooper has managed to deceive her father into believing that there is nothing mysterious or unnatural about her He ignores the cats that find her wherever she goes the spiders that weave beautiful lacy patterns for her even her eyes
- one blue one green with an extra black dot orbiting the pupil Ember Hawkweed is a pitiful excuse for a witch When the other girls in her coven brew vile potions Ember makes soap & perfume Fair & pretty Ember is more like a chaff than a witch When the two girls meet Poppy discovers her powers & finds out the truth Bound by their unlikely friendship & the boy they both love the girls try & find their place in the world But the time of the prophecy draws nearer
- & the witches won't give up the throne without a fight

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Seventeen-year-old Alice & her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels But when Alice's grandmother the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales dies alone on her estate
- the Hazel Wood
- Alice learns how bad her luck can really get Her mother is stolen away
- by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOODTo retrieve her mother Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood then into the world where her grandmother's tales began


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One of the first films made in Britain by B-movie maestro Herman Cohen The Headless Ghost is an entertaining example of the teen-horror genre emerging with Cohen&s 1957 classic I Was a Teenage Werewolf Involving the adventures of three young thrillseekers investigating a haunted castle the film boasts an early role for New Zeal&-born Clive Revill & a sensational dance sequence featuring Josephine Blake; it is presented here in a br&-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio While holidaying in Britain exchange students Bill Ronnie & Ingrid visit Ambrose Castle the 14th-century home of the impoverished 12th Earl of Ambrose
- reputedly haunted by the Fourth Earl & Malcolm the Headless Ghost who lost his head leading a rebellion Ronnie who is to write a story based on the visit for his college paper persuades fellow-American Bill & the Danish Ingrid to hide with him in the castle & spend the night investigating Actors Richard Lyon Liliane Sottane David Rose Jack Allen & Clive Revill Director Peter Graham Scott Certificate PGYear 1959 Screen 2351 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 59 minutes (approx)

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