Paintings that accuse the guilty, swamp nasties, ghostly babies and grave robbers populate this collection of creepy tales just perfect for a midnight read.

On Saturday, August 8, 1936, a magic show came to town and brought misery with it. Many years later, August 8th is to fall on Saturday once again, and a flyer appears mysteriously, announcing a magic show... Don't miss the sequel -- evil touches the Endicott family again in Painted Devil.

Something is wrong in Chestnut. The smell of death from the slaughterhouse hangs over the community like the rumours of its terrible past. Nathaniel is new in town -- can he and his friends face down the malevolent forces at large in Chestnut?

Sarah is pleased at the prospect of playing a fortuneteller at the school fair, but when real visions appear in the crystal ball, and begin to come true, others accuse her of being a witch. Soon Sarah starts to dream vividly of the Salem witch trials... and to fear for her own safety.

Rachel is not happy when her newly orphaned cousin Julia comes to live with her family. Something sinister seems to hide behind her lovely exterior. From the moment she enters the house, she begins to take over, to take Rachel's place -- just what does she want, and what will she do to get it?

Beelzebub Preposteror is a sorcerer in trouble. If he doesn't complete his requisite number of dastardly deeds before midnight on New Year's Eve, his life will be forfeit. Will Preposteror's poisonous punch prevent his premature passing or will a frolicksome feline and a feeble fowl foil his fell and fiendish fancy?

Kinny is delighted about her summer job with the Stratford Theatre Festival's production of Macbeth, but things quickly turn sour. There is an ugly mood among the cast, made worse by a mysterious death. Then Kinny herself begins to behave strangely as an old mirror shows her visions of the past, of the real Macbeth, and of three sinister women... Can anyone prevent the tragedy of the play from spilling over into real life?

Nicholas and his family have just moved to a new house -- right next to the graveyard. Soon his nights are haunted by the ghost of a young boy. The house seems to be full of secrets. Can Nicholas unearth the past before it reaches out to swallow him?

An apprentice clockmaker desperate for inspiration, a writer whose story has a mind of its own, a murderous mechanical knight, and a mysterious stranger offering a dark bargain -- these are just a few of the players in this gothic spree.

Danny and his guardian move to a very old and isolated cottage in the woods. Ill at ease in his new home, Danny is disturbed by chanting and laughter in the night and obsessed by the ancient list of names and dates carved on the cellar door. What murky secrets await discovery in the cellar?

Seventeen tales of black magic old and new to set you a-shiver, including stories by Stephen King, Robert Bloch and Nathanial Hawthorne.

Selwyn may have hated Farold -- but he didn't kill him. Wrongly accused of murder, Selwyn is sealed in the tomb with the rotting corpse of his supposed victim. When a witch raises Farold from the dead, our hero must work with his enemy to find the real killer.

A lonely, tumbledown cottage -- a place steeped in mystery. The owner, Yaxley, vanished several years before. When a former resident does return, it is not Yaxley, but his cat, a wicked beast bent on revenge.