Barbara Michaels

An anthropology student working in a store in Virginia touches a haunted quilt and comes under its spell. As a result she falls in love with the owner's husband and is ready to kill to get him. By the author of Shattered Silk.

A series of disturbing and increasingly threatening events turn Karen's dream of opening an antique clothing store into a nightmare.

Hosting what was supposed to be a harmless seance to entertain her visiting niece, Sara, in her elegant Georgetown home, Ruth Bennett comes face to face with an unwelcome spirit who reveals a dark history of lust, treachery, violence, and murder that now plagues the modern-day inhabitants of the haunted house.

A divorcee buys a haunted house in the back country of Virginia and is drawn into the superstitions, fears and hatreds of the neighbors.

When young professor of English Karen Holloway happens on a privately printed volume of verse dating from the early nineteenth century, it's all in a day's work. But when a battered manuscript bearing the same mysterious attribution, "Ismene," turns up, Karen realizes that it is an important discovery that could be the making of her academic career. Karen immerses herself in a headlong search for the true identity of the unknown author, tracking the...

Joanne McMullen's fears for her sister's sanity have brought her to remote King's Island, Maine. Mary's grief over the loss of her child is threatening to send her over the edge-and her insistence that she has heard an eerie, childlike wailing in the woods fuels Joanne's anxiety. And now Mary's taken to disappearing at midnight in search of the source of the heartrending moans. But it's not just her sister's encroaching madness that is chilling Joanne's...

The most famous crime specialists, including Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Dr. Nandor Fodor, meet at an exclusive club to try to solve two cases of ghostly terror involving a haunted family in the backwoods of Tennessee and a newly married widow, plagued by a demon in a small Connecticut town.

Recovering from a breakdown that followed the sudden death of her young husband, Bart, Kathy Malone journeys to Florence to visit his family and finds herself haunted by memories and misunderstandings.

Caring for her somewhat sinister Grandmother Carr while on vacation at the former family "plantation" in Virginia, medical student Julie Newcomb becomes involved in a mystery when the gruesome remains of a young woman and her infant are discovered.

A beautifully authentic, handsomely appointed Victorian house-turned-country inn, with its own private graveyard includes among its residents and guests an obnoxious psychic, surprising lovers, and an apparently genuine ghost.