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A mysterious murder leads detective Leon Hunter on an investigation into the dark underworld of New Orleans Voodoo.

Catherine Lim’s free-wheeling imagination cheerfully dispenses with all constraints to tell stories of that other world. Written with an exaggerated sense of earnestness and caution, the eighteen tales in this collection elicit in the reader the very goosebumps of terror she had herself experienced as a child listening to such tales. As an adult, these goosebumps persist for her. However, they no longer arise from fear, but from a sense of awe and mystery that she feels when she considers this large existential question: Despite our extensive scientific knowledge today, what do we know of the supernatural? What can we know of the supernatural? Catherine’s deep and abiding sense of mystery is reflected in the pronouncement by one of her characters in the last story in this collection: “I don't know, I don't know. I wish I did.”

More haunting tales of Ghosts, Aliens, Science Fiction, Western, Zombies, Headless Ghosts, Haunted Graveyards, Urban Legends, Curses and Vampires.

It was on a 'dark and stormy night', during the summer of 1816 that an eccentic group of English literati gathered at the Villa Diodati. The atmosphere at the Villa was charged by the violent streaks of lightening that licked at the mountain tops and split a black sky. As the wind outside whipped up the surface of lake Leman into a cauldron of waves the occupants of the Villa; Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Dr John Polidori, Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont, whipped themselves into a gothic frenzy with recitals of haunting poetry and ghost stories. The stories that they read came from a book, originally written in German, that had recently been translated into French. The book that they read from was called Fantasmagoriana. Fantasmagoriana has a unique place in literary history. This is the first full translation of the stories that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Dr John Polidori's The Vampyre.

What do you do when you are dead and do not know you died? What is it like over there on the other side in that place some people call heaven? Is it another world where you go and start over and begin again? Some people call it heaven or hell, which ever place you might end up at. Do you believe in reincarnation or a place where you go and wait to be judged called Purgatory? These are some never-ending, unanswered questions that we will never know the truth, until we get there. It is anybody's guess what the real truth is. All we can do is use our imagination and hope we are right. I have taken a wild guess and used my imagination to write some short stories on what it would be like to die and not know it. Where I would end up at, and what do I do now that I am dead? I think Karma has a say in what happens to you now that you are dead. Karma might decide where you go and how long you must stay there. Everybody loves a good ghost story and I think I have some excellent stories you will enjoy. Weather they make you happy, sad, or mad, they will get you thinking and feel some, much needed emotions, "what if" or "is it really true"? The same questions have been asked, a zillion time over, and maybe, it will get you thinking about what is really over there on the other side. Man, oh man, a lot of people are in for a shocking surprise or a big letdown! The End of the Road, Hard Fall From grace, The Legend of Curtis Low, and Blue Blood Hunt Club are four of the horror stories in this book I Know you will like.