Kelly Link

"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...

"Here is the whisper in the night, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won't let you sleep, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you'd checked the lock on the door before it got really, really dark"-- "Praise for Joan Aiken's stories: "Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising. should be cherished."--Publishers Weekly "Darkly whimsical stories. Aiken writes with surpassing spirit and alertness, her elegant...

In this companion volume to "Gothic! ten original dark tales" discover why we fear the undead.

Follow Jem and see - against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival - Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can be saved one they've traded away their heart. Not even Brother Zachariah....