The Gallows Curse

Author : Karen Maitland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141956886

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The Gallows Curse by Karen Maitland Pdf

1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. As the terrors that soon begin to plague Elena's sleep grow darker, in desperation she visits the cunning woman, who has been waiting for just such an opportunity to fulfil an ancient curse conjured at the gallows. Elena, haunted by this curse and threatened with death for a crime she didn't commit, flees the village ... only to find her nightmare has barely begun. For treachery lurks in every shadow as King John's brutal reign makes enemies of brothers, murderers of virgins and sinners of us all.

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Headline
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780755378265

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CRYPT: The Gallows Curse by Andrew Hammond Pdf

Meet Jud Lester: Star agent with CRYPT, the Covert Response Youth Paranormal Team. When a crime is committed and the police are at a loss, CRYPT is called in to figure out whether something paranormal is at work. Jud is their star agent. Jud, unwillingly paired with new recruit Bex, has just landed his biggest case yet ... people have been disappearing in mysterious circumstances while others are viciously attacked - yet there are no suspects and a complete lack of hard evidence. The only thing that links each attack is the fact that survivors all claim that the culprits were 17th century highwaymen. Can Jud and Bex work out what has caused the spirits of these dangerous men to return to the streets of London before they wreak more death and destruction? A fantastic blend of teenage spies, horror and ghost-busting for fans of Cherub and Young Bond.

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Headline Book Pub Limited
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0755378210

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The Gallows Curse by Andrew Hammond Pdf

Meet Jud Lester: Star agent with CRYPT, the Covert Response Youth Paranormal Team. When a crime is committed and the police are at a loss, CRYPT is called in to figure out whether something paranormal is at work. Jud is their star agent. Jud, unwillingly paired with new recruit Bex, has just landed his biggest case yet ... people have been disappearing in mysterious circumstances while others are viciously attacked - yet there are no suspects and a complete lack of hard evidence. The only thing that links each attack is the fact that survivors all claim that the culprits were 17th century highwaymen. Can Jud and Bex work out what has caused the spirits of these dangerous men to return to the streets of London before they wreak more death and destruction? A fantastic blend of teenage spies, horror and ghost-busting for fans of Cherub and Young Bond.

Author : Meg Kassel
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781633758155

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Black Bird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel Pdf

"A pleasingly original contribution to the paranormal-romance genre.” —Kirkus Reviews A simple but forgotten truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full. Angie Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not human. What's more, she knows something most don't. That the secrets her town holds could kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a harbinger of death. Each book in the Black Bird of the Gallows series is STANDALONE: * Cleaner of Bones (Prequel) * Black Bird of the Gallows * Keeper of the Bees

Author : John Townsend
Publisher : The Salariya Book Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781912233328

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Graverobbers And Gallows by John Townsend Pdf

Cephas Catchpole is a young orphan in 19th century England, apprenticed as a chimney sweep to a cruel master. When he is mistaken for dead after an accidental fall and buried alive, he is rescued from his fate by two unwitting body snatchers. Against his will, Cephas finds himself drawn into the criminals’ shady underworld and begins to uncover a murderous conspiracy involving medical malpractice, his mysterious parentage and the dreaded speckled monster itself – smallpox. This is a gripping and atmospheric Dickensian tale in two volumes for young readers, filled with suspense, humour and more twists than a hangman’s noose.

Author : Lois Duncan
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440227250

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Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan Pdf

Named an ALA Quick Pick, an exciting thriller by the author of the best-seller I Know What You Did Last Summer features a seventeen-year-old girl who becomes a clairvoyant and is branded a witch, in a repeat of the Salem witch trials. Reprint. AB.

Author : Darcy Coates
Publisher : Black Owl Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates Pdf

It's time to come home... The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Their wine wins awards. Their business prospers. Their family thrives. People whisper that the curse has awakened once more. The sprawling old house has long been perched on top of a hill overlooking the nearby town, jealously guarding the estate's secrets. It's been more than a decade since Margot Hull last saw her childhood home. She was young enough when she was sent away that she barely remembers its dark passageways and secret corners. But now she's returned to bury her parents and reconnect with the winery that is her family's legacy―and the bloody truth of exactly what lies buried beneath the crumbling estate. Alone in the sprawling, dilapidated building, Margot is forced to come face to face with the horrors of the past―and realize that she may be the next victim of a house that never rests...

Author : Peter McLean
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529411324

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Priest of Gallows by Peter McLean Pdf

Gangster, soldier, priest. Queen's Man. Governor. 'If you haven't yet picked up this riveting and unique series, I highly recommend you do' Fantasy Book Critic Tomas Piety has everything he ever wanted. In public he's a wealthy, highly respected businessman, happily married to a beautiful woman and governor of his home city of Ellinburg. In private, he's no longer a gang lord, head of the Pious Men, but one of the Queen's Men, invisible and officially non-existent, working in secret to protect his country. The queen's sudden death sees him summoned him back to the capital - where he discovers his boss, Dieter Vogel, Provost Marshal of the Queen's Men, is busy tightening his stranglehold on the country. Just as he once fought for his Pious Men, Tomas must now bend all his wit and hard-won wisdom to protect his queen - even when he can't always tell if he's on the right side. Tomas has started to ask himself, what is the price of power? And more importantly, is it one he is willing to pay? 'If you like your fantasy with a side of dark and gritty, you won't want to miss this' CHRISTINA HENRY, bestselling author of The Girl in Red on Priest of Lies

Author : Karen Maitland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141956893

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The Falcons of Fire and Ice by Karen Maitland Pdf

The Falcons of Fire and Ice by Karen Maitland, author of the hugely popular Company of Liars, is a powerful historical thriller which takes you right back to the darkest corners of the 16th century. Intelligently written and meticulously researched, it is a real treat for all fans of CJ Sansom and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. 'A tour de force: dark and woven with the supernatural' Daily Mail 1564, Lisbon. The Inquisition displays its power and ruthlessly spreads fear. Heretics are tortured and burned. Any who oppose the Church's will realize that silence is preferable to a slow and agonizing death. Isabela, daughter of the Falconer at the Royal Court, is about to be caught in the Church's terrifying schemes. The slaughter of two of the King's precious white falcons sees her father arrested and imprisoned. As punishment he and his family will be killed unless the birds are replaced. Isabela, young and headstrong, decides that only she can save her father. These birds are impossibly rare, and she will have to travel far and into strange lands to find them to clear her father's name. It is a journey that will take her into a dark and dangerous world filled with menacing people driven by fearful beliefs. And, unfortunately for Isabela, the Church has sent a companion to ensure she never returns . . . Step back in time with Karen Maitland's Dark Tales and discover a world full of imagination in The Falcons of Fire and Ice - 'a thrilling horrible vision of the Dark Ages' Metro Karen Maitland travelled and worked in many parts of the United Kingdom before finally settling in the beautiful medieval city of Lincoln. She is the author of The White Room, Company of Liars, The Owl Killersand The Gallows Curse. The latter three titles are available as Penguin paperbacks.

Author : Karen Maitland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141900018

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Company of Liars by Karen Maitland Pdf

The year is 1348 and the first plague victim has reached English shores. Panic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that something far more deadly is -in fact - travelling with them. The ill-assorted company - a scarred trader in holy relics, a conjurer, two musicians, a healer and a deformed storyteller - are all concealing secrets and lies. And at their heart is the strange, cold child - Narigorm - who reads the runes. But as law and order breaks down across the country and the battle for survival becomes ever more fierce, Narigorm mercilessly compels each of her fellow travellers to reveal the truth ... and each in turn is driven to a cruel and unnatural death.

Author : Meg Kassel
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781640634060

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Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel Pdf

"Beauty and the beast like you've never imagined!" —New York Times bestselling author Pintip Dunn KEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly, and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways. Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can’t stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows harbingers of death, so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight. But Essie doesn’t see a monster when she looks at Dresden. Essie is fascinated and delighted by his changing features. Risking his own life, he holds back his bees and spares her. What starts out as a simple act of mercy ends up unraveling Dresden’s solitary life and Essie’s tormented one. Their impossible romance might even be powerful enough to unravel a centuries-old curse. Each book in the Black Bird of the Gallows series is STANDALONE: * Cleaner of Bones (Prequel) * Black Bird of the Gallows * Keeper of the Bees

Author : Meg Kassel
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781640631694

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Cleaner of Bones by Meg Kassel Pdf

Reece Fernandez didn’t come to this town to finish high school. He hadn’t planned to stay. Changed against his will into a harbinger of death many years before, Reece has only known a nomadic existence, chasing disasters where mass death occurs and feeding on the energy. But after meeting his new neighbor, he can’t imagine leaving. Angie Dovage changes everything. Feelings he thought had died complicate his predictable but gruesome existence, making him want to share his secrets with her. Making him yearn for a different life. Reece is desperate to protect Angie from an impending natural disaster that will decimate her town, and from a sinister creature who sees her as the key to breaking his own tortured curse. But one hard lesson Reece has learned: becoming a harbinger of death was easer than unbecoming one... Each book in the Black Bird of the Gallows series is STANDALONE: * Cleaner of Bones (Prequel) * Black Bird of the Gallows * Keeper of the Bees

Author : Marc Drogin
Publisher : Totowa, N.J. : Allanheld, Osmun ; Montclair, N.J. : A. Schram
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000005978304

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Anathema! by Marc Drogin Pdf

Author : Jim Throne
Publisher : Booklocker.Com Incorporated
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1621412695

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The Curse of the Gallows by Jim Throne Pdf

For half a millennium, the strange writings and drawings of an elaborate codex have defied the world's greatest cryptologists. Now it and a companion codex have been stolen from Yale University. As Detective Lincoln Barnes searches for international agents who may have decoded them, those who know the documents' secrets are murdered and his life is threatened.

Author : John Dickson Carr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Judges
ISBN : OCLC:1097591567

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The Lost Gallows by John Dickson Carr Pdf