Innocence dies so easily. Evil lives again... and again... and again. One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child...

Karen Spellman returns to the countryside of her childhood, Pleasant Valley, to marry her high school sweetheart unaware that something sinister waits.

The seventeenth-century house at Black Creek Crossing in Roundtree (Massachusetts?) is a hard sell. Since the original owner's wife and daughter were burned for witchcraft, it has seldom been occupied long, and those who occupy it usually die in it, mysteriously and violently. Curious, 13 year olds Angel and Seth devote themselves to contacting whatever restless soul haunts the dark recesses of BLack Creek Crossing and unwittingly unleashing a vengeful...

An overpowering force with evil intentions slowly takes over the children attending the secluded school sitting atop the cliffs and known as the Academy.

Deep in the shadows lurks something as big as life ... and as real as death.

This international bestseller is both an attack on our weakness for ideologies and a manual for humanist action.

One hundred years ago, in the beautiful village of Secret Cove, Maine, on the night of the annual August Moon Ball, a shy and lovely servant girl committed an act so unspeakably violent that its legacy still lives. Now, the blood-drenched past of this small town is about to come to life once more--just in time for this year's August Moon Ball.