R. L. McCallum

After several strange balls of light invade the night sky over the small mountain town of Fulton, Montana, a series of missing person reports follow....

The time is the American Civil War. The place is Louisville, Kentucky, where a notable physician and professor at a medical school becomes in need of cadavers for student studies....

Philip Whitney, a luckless young man who strangely becomes attracted to his family's genealogy, discovers that his American roots began in Salem, Massachusetts....

A writer is visited by a strange man with an even stranger story. The man claims to have ridden an old excursion train on November first, Samhain, when the dead walk abroad....

Danial Sawyer, a young blacksmith, was considered by the townsfolk of Emerson, Pennsylvania, to be a malingerer and a teller of tall tales who was frequently daydreaming....

A schizophrenic writer, who has just been released from a mental institution, returns to his childhood home, which he had inherited from his father....

A travel writer in need of a story decides to visit Yorkshire, where he wants to visit villages with haunted houses and to interview people who have ghost stories....

Fanatically attracted to antique lamps, Gerard Archer stops at a yard sale when he sees a vintage lamp with a very unique base, which has been crafted from silver and gold. Asking the seller how much he wants for the artifact, the man shockingly replies that a five-pound note will send it up the...

After frequently feeding a feral rat that had risen from the sewer and began living in a hole in the wall of his closet, Winston discovered that his friendship with the rodent was not the best of ideas....

In this sequel to Hawthorne Cottage, Professor Alexander Greystone accompanies Constable James Kingsley to Suffolk, England, where the rampaging ghost of a long dead witch is terrorizing the village of Mollbury.... Prompted by urgent letters from his brother, who resides in Shalsham Forest, near...

After 50 years of declining invitations to attend his high school reunions, Bill Wilder, a retired garage mechanic who lives in Huntington....

One of the most glorious paths through a child's wonderland is down the aisle of a candy store, a dream world of confectionery delights that entice youthful exuberance....

The cemetery is not a place where children should play, but that is where Penelope Piatt found Amelia and Billy, a sister and brother who poverty had carelessly displaced....

While taking a holiday from the unwholesome atmosphere of Victorian London, Alexander Greystone, a professor of medieval studies and a bachelor who is frequently visited by the dead, finds that the quaint little cottage that he has rented in Hampshire has a very dark secret. Upon his arrival at...

England 1888 After forfeiting his wife to the company of other men, Sir James Addison, a notable English poet and gentleman, begins descending into a demented melancholy that prompts him to move from his elaborate estate in Oxfordshire to the London's seedy borough of Soho. Soon after his...

After his surreptitious return from India with his young wife, Antonia, who had contracted leprosy, Doctor Rupert Whitaker (a colonel in the British Army) locks her away in a bedroom at his estate in Devon....