Ash is James Herbert’s last and most controversial novel. It will make you wonder what is fact and what is fiction.Fear will let you in. Terror will keep you there.David Ash, ghost hunter and parapsychologist, arrives at Comraich Castle – a desolate, ancient place with a dark heart – to investigate a series of disturbing events. An incorporeal power has been ignited by a long-ago curse, fed and now unleashed by the evil of...

Alabama's capital has roots all over the state. It first emerged in St. Stephens in 1799, a small fort acquired from the Spanish atop a tall limestone bluff overlooking the Tombigbee River. Next came Huntsville in the Tennessee Valley, where the state constitution emerged. Cahawba was the capital to receive a visit from the Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving general of the American Revolution. In 1826, Tuscaloosa took the reins for twenty years before the final move to Montgomery. Di...

What happens when you lose your body?Jim True knows. He has returned from an out-of-body experience to find he has been brutally murdered and his body mutilated. No one can see him, no one can hear him, no one, except his killer, knows he still exists. Freed from his body, True embarks on a quest to find his killer and discover why and how he has managed to survive.As he closes in on his murderer, True discovers that even the very people he loved and trusted have betrayed h...

A special 50th anniversary edition of the classic bestselling horror novel The Rats.‘Splatterpunk deluxe. Not only great, gory fun but a prime example of what was once called "the British nasty." I loved it then, love it still‘– Stephen KingThe first victim was a former paper salesman drinking himself into oblivion down by the docks. Next a child and her beloved dog, then six drifters fighting over a bottle of gin -...

Young Alex Moretti is a budding superstar who drives for his father, Andy, a motorsport legend and now expanding team owner. The team hit pay dirt when landing a lucrative multi-year sponsorship with Unibank, a major banking institution based in Charlotte, North Carolina..Just when Moretti Motorsport was advancing toward super team status and entering Formula 1, the sponsor relationship explodes when young Alex is involved in a serious car accident, injuring the bank CEO's ...

Indy 500 champion Alex Moretti set the sporting world abuzz when he proposed marriage to Amanda Cook right on the victory podium, following a tumultuous trial clearing him of statutory rape, a charge that was made at the behest of Amanda's vindictive father.Substituting for his brother, Tony, who was recovering from a serious racing accident, Alex makes an impressive debut in Formula 1 when Amanda and her sister, Allison, are suddenly kidnapped in front of a popular Paris bistro. F...

Can a ghost haunt a ghost?Can the dead reach out and touch the living?Can ancient evil be made manifest?These are the questions that confront paranormal investigator David Ash in James Herbert's The Ghosts of Sleath, when Ash is sent to the picturesque village of Sleath in the Chiltern Hills to look into mysterious reports of mass hauntings. What he discovers is a terrified community gripped by horrors and terrorized by ghosts from the ancient villag...

Meet the cynical paranormal investigator David Ash in James Herbert's Haunted, the first chilling novel in the David Ash trilogy.Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook.Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying and maleficent games.Three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past.Three nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed,...

From the Master of Horror, James Herbert's Others, private investigator Nicholas Dismas is hired to track down a missing baby stolen away at birth, he finds himself immersed in a grim underworld of lies and deceit. His investigations ultimately lead him to a mysteriously located place with the seemingly innocent name of Perfect Rest, a nursing home where the elderly can live out their days in peace . . .But appearances can be deceptive and Dismas discovers the shadowy pres...

Child Advocacy Centres (CACs), also known as Child & Youth Advocacy Centres (CYACs), Children’s Houses, and Barnahus, are a child-focused trauma-informed approach to improving the multidisciplinary response to abuse and violence in the lives of children and youth. Contemporary and Innovative Practices in Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Models brings an international perspective to contemporary and innovative CAC practices around the world. It provides a range of perspectives offering valua...

Remember the faery stories you were told as a child? Tales of tiny, magical, winged beings and elves, wicked witches and goblins. Demons . . .What if one day you found out they were true? What if, when you became an adult, you discovered they were all based on fact? What if you met the fantasy and it was all so very real?That's what happened to Thom Kindred. The wonders were revealed to him. But so were the horrors, for not far behind the Good, there always lurks the Bad. A...

The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall is a thoughtful and insightful exploration into the nature of mental peace and the cultivation of a serene, balanced life. Drawing from his experience as a physician and his deep understanding of human psychology, Hall addresses the common anxieties, stresses, and emotional disturbances that plague modern individuals. The book offers practical advice and gentle encouragement for those seeking to overcome worry, fear, and the pressures of daily living....