This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780307588371 Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

Laura has fled the city for the countryside with her partner, Monique, and their cat. There, she becomes obsessed with a vulnerable young neighbour, Dougal. The couple buy part of a farm building for a bargain price and begin work to convert it into holiday homes but the seller's nephew, Dougal, tells them disturbing tales about "Wiley," who he believes is watching him. Laura comes to realize that there might be more to "Wiley," but also believes the nephew is being fed terrifying tales by his aunt in order to control and exploit him. Locals warn Laura and Monique to leave alone a windowless shed at the edge of the building because "nothing does well" there. What Laura and Monique don't realize is that making their dream of an idyllic countryside home come true might take more than either of them could bargain for.

All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz's first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic. Is it possible to die -- and not know it? What if a person is buried too soon? What happens to a thief foolish enough to rob a corpse, or to a murderer whose victim returns from the grave? Read about these terrifying predicaments as well as what happens when practical jokes produce gruesome consequences and initiations go awry. Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozen scary stories -- and even a scary song -- all just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark. If You Dare!

Can we speak with the spirits of the dead? Is it possible to know the future? Are our dreams harbingers of things to come? Do auspicious omens and cautionary portents affect our lives? Edited by Ross E. Lockhart, Tales from a Talking Board examines these questions--and more--with tales of auguries, divination, and fortune telling, through devices like Ouija boards, tarot cards, and stranger things. So dim the lights, place your hands upon the planchette, and ask the spirits to guide you as we present fourteen stories of the strange and supernatural by Matthew M. Bartlett, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Carson, Kristi DeMeester, Orrin Grey, Scott R. Jones, David James Keaton, Anya Martin, J. M. McDermott, S.P. Miskowski, Amber-Rose Reed, Tiffany Scandal, David Templeton, and Wendy N. Wagner.

Im Spätherbst 1902 war es - da saß ich im Park der Militärakademie in Wiener Neustadt unter uralten Kastanien und las in einem Buch. So sehr war ich in die Lektüre vertieft, daß ich kaum bemerkte, wie der einzige Nicht-Offizier unter unseren Professoren, der gelehrte und gütige Akademiepfarrer Horacek sich zu mir gesellte. Er nahm mir den Band aus der Hand, betrachtete den Umschlag und schüttelte den Kopf. -Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke?- fragte er nachdenklich. Hier und dort blätterte er dann auf, überflog ein paar Verse, schaute sinnend ins Weite und nickte schließlich. So ist aus dem Zögling Rene Rilke also ein Dichter geworden.

Im Spätherbst 1902 war es - da saß ich im Park der Militärakademie in Wiener Neustadt unter uralten Kastanien und las in einem Buch. So sehr war ich in die Lektüre vertieft, daß ich kaum bemerkte, wie der einzige Nicht-Offizier unter unseren Professoren, der gelehrte und gütige Akademiepfarrer Horacek sich zu mir gesellte. Er nahm mir den Band aus der Hand, betrachtete den Umschlag und schüttelte den Kopf. -Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke?- fragte er nachdenklich. Hier und dort blätterte er dann auf, überflog ein paar Verse, schaute sinnend ins Weite und nickte schließlich. So ist aus dem Zögling Rene Rilke also ein Dichter geworden.