Exploring the full potential of his psychic talents when a gateway opens between Earth and a menacing world, Ryerson Biergarten seeks to keep humans and ghosts in their proper dimensions while searching for a particular man's killer. Reprint.

Harry Briggs led a fairly normal life. He had a good job, a nice house, and a beautiful wife named Barbara, with whom he was very much in love. Then he died. that's when Harry's story really began. That's when he found himself in a strange little town called Silver Lake. In Silver Lake, nothing is normal. In Silver Lake Harry has become a detective, tough and silent, hot on the trail of a missing woman and a violent madman. But the twon itself is an enigma. It's a shadowy twilight town, filled with ghostly figures that seem to be playing according to someone else's rules. Harry has unwittingly brought other things with him to this eerie realm. Things like uncertainty, fear...and death.

Homecoming. Now once again, after so many centuries, they stood upon the island. Manhattan Island. The place which, before the buildings had been put up to cut the sky apart and before the subways sliced through the earth, had been the place of their birth. The place where they had first sprung up. The place that had nourished them, and given them pleasure, before men had found them and driven them away. But they had survived. Survived to this moment. And now they ahd returned to reclaim the island that had given them the sterngth of life and the power of death...and soon every man, woman and child on the island would know it.

A new novella from T.M. Wright! "T.M. Wright is a rare and blazing talent." --Stephen King "T.M. Wright is more than a master of quiet horror -- he is a one-man definition of the term." --Ramsey Campbell It is said that if ghosts were real, they'd be everywhere-at shopping malls, parking lots, in the parlor, the bathroom, on the sidewalks and boulevards (after all, how many people have lived and died throughout human history?). But maybe, just maybe, they are everywhere-on your lap at this very moment, in the walk-in closet, in the grand oak tree just outside your window, in the shower, the cellar-mumbling, grinning, stumbling about, screaming--but only a chosen few of the living have been blessed with the awful gift of being able to see them, hear them, interact with them, tormented by them. That's the awful gift that Abner W. Cray opened two decades ago, and it's a gift that, even today, keeps on giving: it possesses him, seduces him, makes his life (if it can be called a life) much, much more than a nightmare because, he knows, he's not asleep--he is mortally and eternally awake. And that is the spider on his tongue.

David and Anne Case were linked as only twins can be, always aware of each other's thoughts and feelings.  Now Anne is dead - murdered - and David cannot accept the fact that she is gone. Determined to contact Anne, to discover from her shade the name of her killer, David takes an experimental drug and crosses the boundary between life and death.  But the "other side" is a mysterious and confusing place and Anne is not easily found. Anne's murderer knows of David's search...and that its success will be his destruction.  David Case must never re-cross the border to the world of the living.

Jack Erthmun does not believe that the dead actually speak to him, but in their own way they tell him so much. Jack is a New York City police detective with his own very peculiar ways of solving homicides, and those ways are beginning to frighten his colleagues. He gets results, but at what cost? What's happening to Jack Erthmun? This may be Jack's last case. He's assigned to a series of unspeakable killings, gruesome murders with details that make even seasoned detectives queasy. As he delves deeper into the facts of the case, facts that make it seem no human killer can be involved, Jack begins to get more and more erratic. Is it the case that's affecting Jack? Or is it something else, something no one even dares to consider? This is the fifth book in the series beginning with the novel STRANGE SEED - written over a period of several years by horror master T. M. Wright. Strange Seed is available now in most eBook formats, as well as the rest of the series, and the first book is also available in unabridged audio. You can find more of T. M. Wrights work, including the bestselling novel A Manhattan Ghost Story (Also in unabridged audio), the Biergarten Series, and many more. Search T. M. Wright for more of this author's work. For more horror, mystery, fantasy and sciecnce fiction, search CROSSROAD PRESS.