Indian Ghost

An exceptional collection of first-hand accounts of ghost encounters of American Indians written by an American Indian! Personal experiences of horrific hauntings and spirit sightings throughout the southwest states of Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Mexico. Each short story offers the reader a journey of exploration into the spiritually scared and privileged world known only to Native Americans.

Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood. Some of the creatures in this book might only have a message for you, but some are the stuff of nightmares. These 32 short stories - from tales passed down for generations to accounts that could have happened yesterday - are collected from the thriving tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America. Prepare for stories of witches and walking dolls, hungry skeletons, la llorona, and deer woman, and other supernatural beings ready to chill you to the bone.

A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood.

Luther Standing Bear was seemingly everywhere in the course of his extraordinary life. He met Chief Crazy Horse on the eve of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, was enrolled in the first class at the government-run Carlisle Indian Industrial School, witnessed the Ghost Dance movement, toured the US and Europe with showman Buffalo Bill, and devoted his later years to Indian rights. His firsthand accounts of those experiences—and his reflections on Sioux culture, customs, and traditions—combine to make this narrative a landmark of Native American literature.

Father John O'Malley discovers a frozen body on the Arapaho Reservation, a corpse that later disappears. O'Malley and Vicky Holden draw upon ancient traditions to stop the murderer.

From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product.

From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.

“Powerful. Clever. A solid ... choice for both girls and boys.” —Publishers Weekly Fifteen-year-old Tess O'Brien can't take her overprotective father one moment longer. When the adventure of a lifetime literally lands at her feet, she can't resist it or Cain, the Ojibwe bad boy who just wants her gone. As she flees into the woodlands on his mysterious Indian quest, Tess soon discovers her past holds mysteries of its own. Featuring strong female lead

When Charlotte Jane Matheson hangs the ancient Dream Catcher on the wall over her bed, she has weird dreams. Stirred by her dreams, she travels to the small community of Yellow Creek, Tennessee, determined to find out their meaning. While there, she meets an old Cherokee Indian, a dog that suddenly appears out of the dark woods, and a good-looking farmer-wannabe. Then, her dreams stop, but unexplained visions draw her into the past through a circle of light. The phenomenal images of her mother, who’s been missing for over a decade, has to mean something when she’s led to a cave beyond ...

Protection at Nightfall Chelsea works at a salon in Bear Canyon Valley. She gets butterflies when Grant's around. But she's got her own baggage. She’s got a secret she’s running away from. Plus, she thinks that Grant would be better off with the local, stunning, curvy, widowed-way-too-early Mae Forester. Grizzly bear shifter Grant Waters wants one woman--Curvy Chelsea O'Reilly. He's wanted her since they met. Except he's worried his secret may be too much for her. It may be what sets her running. Shadow of Seduction Kane Ortiz is a mountain-sized bear shifter who wants to avoid a group ...

Another standalone book in the Shifters Forever Worlds! Twin bear shifters Tyler and Sean O’Reardon need a little help. They’ve got guardianship of a set of twin toddler girls who are hybrid elemental shifters. No biggie, right? Wrong. The twin girls are throwing tantrums that come in the form of tornadoes and earthquakes. Order of Elementals agents Camden and Eden Brazos—also twin hybrid elemental shifters—are assigned to Bear Canyon Valley’s mountain range to save the set of toddler twins. So, what’s the problem? No one told Camden and Eden they were expected to be nannies. ...

Exile Rachel Kane’s recovering from a broken heart. And she’s broke. She’s flat out broke and homeless since she found her boyfriend in her best friend’s arms in the home that he and Rachel shared. A home he owned, so of course, she’s out on her ear now. She’s got an invitation to take an opportunity that takes her out of state and pays for her living expenses. Maybe some clouds do have silver linings. She’ll take that offer to go to Nevada and study mustangs. Luke Everhart’s got one thing on his mind. Being left the hell alone. He’s been exiled from his pack—and ...

Valencia Arceneaux is Lézare's free-spirited sister. She's a white tigress shifter with a mind of her own, the one who always marches to a beat of her own creation, the hell with shifter society's expectations, the hell with her brother Lézare's. She attracts men like sugar attracts ants. She doesn't fall in love. Except... She's late to the ball. She's ready to face her brother's wrath because attendance is expected. Ha. As if expectations ever mattered to Valencia. She gets out of her car, ready to face Lézare and instead sees this wolf shifter. Hunky, handsome, and fierce. But they ...

Back at ShifterFest. That’s right. Spring Break meets Lollapalooza in Twilight. With hot wolf shifters. Hailey Wynne thought going to a place where there were werewolves—called shifters—to help out her friend Bliss would be a ball. It would have been, too, if a little Shih Tzu called Godzilla’s emergency hadn’t pulled her away. Now, on her way back to Seattle to save Godzilla, she’s found herself with a hunk of a man who barely fits in her hatchback. Shifter Risk Brighton was pretty damned sure he’d lost his mind when he volunteered to leave the Shifterfest festivities and ...

Braden Cartwright’s a polar bear shifter that fights demons. Except the demons he’s fighting are within him. He’s headed to Bear Canyon Valley to catch up with his nephew Bain, and hopefully to catch a break from his demons. Dakotah Lopez wonders if she jumped from the frying pan in to the fire. She ran away from Deep Hollow to escape the evil shifters but now finds herself in Bear Canyon Valley, a place that is teeming with shifters. As if matters weren’t complicated enough, she’s pregnant with the child of an extremely dangerous shifter. Griz, Mae, Doc, Tanner, Teague and Joe ...

Moscow resident Hawke, Terrence Hawke, is a polar bear shifter on a mission. He’s the witch hunter. His mission is to kill all witches in retaliation for the death of his sister at the hands of rogue witches. He and Vengeance are given a new assignment to capture a witch for trial with the Shifter Council. Sounds like it’s right up his alley—being paid to capture and turn over an enemy, right? Witch Alannah Autumn’s sister left for Moscow to serve in an apprenticeship and now she’s gone missing. Alannah packs her bags and with the help of Mikhail Romanoff, she’s off to Moscow to...

Glory Aleman is bound to her duties, and bound by ancient law. She’s pledged to a shifter of another family to keep old bloodlines alive. Dane Forester has been anything but bound. He’s a freewheeling, sexy, successful, movie star who uses every role and every woman to escape and forget the heartbreak he left in Bitter Falls. Great, right? Sure, right up until a will-reading brings him back to Bitter Falls, and back to that which he never really escaped. Again, no problem, right? Oh-so-very wrong. Glory’s bound to another man, slated to become his in less than a month. This was the ...

He's Theo, head of security for Lézare Arceneaux. He's also Theodoros Ricoletti, son of an Italian lion shifter and his Greek servant woman, raised by the servants in secret until the lion shifter learned he had a son. Theodoros Ricoletti, stolen by his lion shifter father from his servant woman mother, reared by governesses and nannies, sent off to a boarding school, only to run away and join a group of roving shifters. He's only loved one woman, ever. A beautiful,dark-skinned, glowing-eyed barefooted beauty from the bayou. She betrayed him by casting a spell on him to make him fall in ...

The last time he saw her he promised to spank her curvy derriere. This time, he may do a lot more than that! Curvalicious Natalya thought she'd never have to grow up. And then she met Lézare. The man who makes her want to be the woman she's never been. Except his family hates her, and as far as she knows, he does too. So the only option she has is to go to the Shifter Masquerade Ball in disguise. Lézare desires Natalya. There's something about this spunky, sassy, mouthy, pouty curvy girl.

Polar bear shifter Bain Kozlov became an honorary family member of the Romanoff clan. But he feels honor bound to fulfill the blood debt his dead brother Vey left behind. And that same honor is keeping him from pursuing the curvy woman he hasn’t been able to get out of his mind. Panther shifter Carina Araya has held a secret since she was sixteen. Cleaning out her grandparents’ home has brought that secret to light—except the facts that Carina held to be true seem to be all lies. She can’t go forward with her life until she knows the truth. And part of that going forward is Bain. ...