Elizabeth loves her job at the Manitoba Legislature building in Winnipeg, Manitoba. However, being marooned at work on the eve of the winter solstice due to a blizzard was not on her list of holiday events. The legislature building is full of mysterious symbols, hidden in plain sight. From the Bison to the Pool of the Black Star, there is more to the symbols than Elizabeth ever imagined. To her surprise she encounters another soul in the building with her. A mysterious man who says his name is Septimus. Together they must thwart a once every hundred year threat to the honesty and morality of those who pass through the doors of the legislature. Sacred Geometry, sacred numbers and a message only the Sphynx on the roof can supply.
Editorial Review, JD Shipton
Behind the seemingly banal stone colonnades, walls, and statues of what would normally be considered one of the least exciting buildings in town (The Manitoba Legislature), lie centuries of tradition, ages of myth and legend, and a very animated cast of specters, ghouls, and demigods. How would you react if you happened upon such a cast after work in a building you thought you knew? This book is a reminder that what we might perceive at the surface often gives us but a shallow reflection of what really is.
Stories and legends of a medicine woman banished from her village for being accused of being a witch are told around the campfires. Tales of the wonderous gifts of plants with healing medicine in the mountains near her village make a young woman determined to find the elusive herbs and the medicine woman with the knowledge of their use. Go’diah needs the witch’s wisdom to help her dying grandfather before he is driven mad by his dreams. An ancient curse lies over her village. With the blessing of her elders, she sets off with her dog, Midnight. To find what she seeks, Go’diah must first make her own way through the mountains and undertake spirit journeys of both visions and nightmares to find her own answers. She must travel the old mountain trails which, the tales say, can make you lose yourself or your mind. Go’diah will discover what she never expected to find……
Hamish McKenzie stood welded to the spot as fifty million volts coursed through his body. He was dead before he hit the ground. Dealanch was never wrong. Lightning stalks the first-born of three generations of the McKenzie clan from Scotland to Ottawa to Saskatchewan as each successive son looks over their shoulder knowing it was not a question of if, but when the paranormal would strike.
Dancing Mary isn’t just a story about tragic love. It’s a journey into the eerie unknown, where the boundaries between the living and the dead are paper-thin. Because, you see, some souls don’t rest easily. Mary’s spirit, broken by the injustice of her untimely death, lingers in the cold, dark corners of the forest where she once danced. The settlers who lived to tell the tale spoke of her ghost—dancing in the moonlight, her presence as haunting as the winds that whip through the trees.
Cummings, a man of ill repute with a notorious temper, crossed paths with a beautiful Native girl who caught the attention of many of the settlers. Her name was Mary, and her beauty was as captivating as it was dangerous, drawing the gaze of men in a place where nothing came easily.
The settlers whispered, and the jealousy of Lawrence Cummings simmered beneath the surface. It wasn’t long before his emotions boiled over in a fit of rage. One fateful night, under the dim light of a flickering candle, Lawrence took the life of the girl who had captivated so many hearts. In his jealousy, he silenced her forever, but in doing so, he ignited something darker and far more sinister than he could have ever anticipated.
Darkness is often the playground of the supernatural … the eerily unexplained.
Yeo House is a haunted country home in Eastern Canada’s beautiful province of Prince Edward Island. The stately seaside mansion of a shipbuilding magnate and his family in the 1800’s, it was given new life in the twenty-first century. During renovations something unusual was found hidden in the walls — a small toy dog on wheels. Now freed from his wall prison, it seems he’s still being played with by the ghost of the child who once owned him.
When four year-old Della Sayer and her parents visit the historic Yeo mansion to see the famous Wheelie, the little girl makes a strange and powerful connection with the antique toy. It is an unsettling paranormal knowing, a kindred ethereal awareness….
Life for the Sayers will never be the same again.
He ran.
From Italy to New Ireland is a long way – but a lot shorter if Old Italy follows you. Hunts you.
He ran.
He knew they were coming. The girl – and the Other. The Bruxa. And he knew something else. He was going to die – again.
He ran.
Both his lives, they’d been there. The witch who was going to kill him. The girl who couldn’t be stopped. So he ran. Through every wood, and across a thousand-thousand waves.
But nobody can run forever.
There should have been thunder. There should have been lightning tearing the skies and the very heavens weeping. There should have been portents and comets and demons of fire riding skeletal horses of ice-white bone. But there wasn’t. Just a man, running through the forest – and Hell’s Gate waiting.
It is 1937 and Pearl Owens Beckwith is now a widow and living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her husband Andrew died a year ago and she has finished her mourning period. She visits his grave and tells him she is finally going to return to Dawson City, something they had planned to do together before his heart attack. Pearl makes the trip by train and a ship north, just as she had in 1897, and arrives in Dawson in July.
Paul Gamon has lived in Dawson City since its establishment at the beginning of the Klondike Gold Rush. Rather than stake a gold claim, he earned money by supplying residents and businesses with wood for their stoves. He remained in Dawson after the gold rush ended and slowly built up a property management business. When he begins renovations on the Palace Grand Theatre strange things being to happen: tools are moved; lights are turned on; footsteps are heard.
He fell in love with Pearl when he first met her in 1897 and remained friends with her after she married. Will the paranormal happenings in the theatre bring them together in an attempt to solve who is behind the phenomena?
A small place in Newfoundland’s Conception Bay abounds in stories that make it among the most haunted spots of the Americas. Bell Island’s fog-shrouded coast, dense spruce forests, abandoned iron mines and boggy depths are home to sea monsters and mermaids, enchanted moose, ghostly women in white, lost Vikings, found original peoples, pirates, lighthouses and shipwrecks.
Come join imaginative explorations of places where the dead often mingle with the living, from mysterious Mummers at Christmas, to the vengeful spirit of the Swamp Hag, to the romantic fairy godmother exploits of three long-ago drowned friends. You might even discover what really caused the famous Bell Island Boom.
In 1890, folks from a sleepy town in Northern Ontario agreed that Jimmy McQuat was an eccentric, backwoods hermit. After all, he lived by himself in a small shack on a nearby lake. But what the townspeople didn’t know was that a curse haunted him. From the time he was a teen, McQuat (pronounced muh-KOO-wat) believed that all his misfortunes were the result of a curse. Determined to overcome this scourge, McQuat built what became known as the White Otter Lake Castle. There, he embraced a solitary life. Perhaps too solitary. His body was found in the lake – without head and without arms.
Fast forward to 2020. The town is preparing to accept Canada’s nuclear waste and dispose of it in a deep underground bunker. But whispers of unusual and unexplained events surround the project. Within the 500 metre-deep ‘test’ holes bored through the bedrock, tales of a man shrieking and sounds of water thrashing are repeated by engineers and subterranean workers.
Could it be the ghost of McQuat, clamoring for justice after his untimely death? Or something more ominous – the mythical Ojibwe creature that is said to live below Lake Huron and Lake Superior?
The brave and curious souls of the town band together to reveal the true nature of the unexplained events. But who will believe them?
Private Detective EM Montgomery has solved plenty of cases, but none quite like this. A woman is missing, last seen near the old gravesite where the wind carries a lone voice from the past. As Em follows the trail, she discovers a decades-old mystery, a hidden truth, and an eight-year-old ghost who won’t rest until justice is served. The deeper she digs, the more Em realizes that some mysteries refuse to stay buried. But will the spirit of Catherine McIntosh lead Em to the answers she seeks—or into a deadly trap?
If something can be awakened after ninety million years of stasis, is it something that should be roused? What if you knew it travelled a couple hundred light years to get here in the first place? What happens when Rig 47 comes knocking with 80,000lbs of drill stem and diamond bit on an unknowable hypogean relic?
Metamorphosis: “Any profound change in form, structure or character.” When her sailor father dies, young Pe’lagie is left, orphaned and penniless on the streets of the port city of La Rochelle. To escape prostitution, she dresses as a boy. As a bullied servant boy, she arrives in Quebec at a time when the city is in the midst of a werewolf scare. Many believe the wicked Loup Garou has come to the colony from France, but the truth will be even stranger.