From private residences to inns and restaurants, battlefields to museums and libraries, graveyards to churches, Encyclopedia of Haunted Places offers supernatural tourists a guide to points of interest through the eyes of the world’s leading ghost hunters.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author

This sensational work of true crime exposes a long-running scandal that ruined thousands of young lives. From 2003 to 2008, two Pennsylvania judges made a deal with a private detention facility: in exchange for providing the facility with a steady stream of inmates, some as young as 11 years old, they would be paid millions of dollars.

“A harrowing tale, lucidly told.” —The New York Times Book Review

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year

An anthology featuring all-original tales of gaslamp fantasy from bestselling and award-winning authors. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes.

While a majority of research can agree on five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper, it’s impossible to say just how many were slain by his hand. Two experts on the case look back on unsolved murders of the era which hold strong resemblance to the gruesome Ripper slayings.

“When it comes to the meticulous details of a murder, the minute-by-minute examination of a crime and its policing, Messrs. Begg and Bennett are the very best in the true-crime genre.”—Judith Flanders, Wall Street Journal

This book traces the history of poisoning in the 19th century. Poison was so enthralling in the Victorian age that it seemed to define the time, as poisoners went up against both scientific and legal authorities. Author Linda Stratmann distinguishes between poison fact and fiction, while also diving into how the motivations behind this murder-method evolved alongside marriage and child protection laws.

Compiled by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow, these original stories of the supernatural employ H. P. Lovecraft’s trademark terror of the cosmic unknown.

“The power of this anthology shows in that it’s not only a must for Lovecraft fans, but for any fan of solid, mature, and mind-boggling weird fiction, courtesy of one of the finest editors in the industry.” —New York Journal of Books

Discover the fascinating true crime stories that lay within the majestic landscapes of the United States' national parks, including the National Forest Serial Killer Gary Michael Hilton, the vanlife tragedy of Gabby Petito, murders in Yosemite, and more.