Bøger af Roger Clarke

She bent behind Erica and squeezed a generous portion between the bound girl's cheeks. The cold against her stinging skin made her start, but it soon warmed up as Grace's hand smoothed and spread the lubricant. Then the fingers were gone, leaving Erica with a strange feeling of loss. The mutinous daughter of a Member of Parliament, Erica discovers she's the 51st girl to be snatched away and held captive at The Complex, a correctional institution run by and for those who are above the law - the country's ruling elite. Erica is punished and trained until her will is broken, until she's sexually subservient to the members, and sometimes other inmates, the outside world always denied her. Escape is her only focus, and one of the house Mistresses decides to help her achieve revenge, but there is a price to pay for her help...

A natural history of the supernatural from Roger Clarke, lifelong investigator into England's creepiest real-life ghost stories'Is there anybody out there?' No matter how rationally we order our lives, few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. The subject of whether ghosts exist has fascinated some of the finest minds in history and it remains a subject of overwhelming interest today. This is the first comprehensive, authoritative and readable history of the evolution of the ghost in the west, examining as every good natural history should, the behaviour of the subject in its preferred environment: the stories we tell each other. What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do they fascinate us? What exactly did the haunted see? What did they believe? And what proof is there? Taking us through the key hauntings that have obsessed the world from the poltergeist of Cock Lane through the true events that inspired The Turn of the Screw and the dark events of Borley Rectory right up to the present day, Roger Clarke unfolds a story of class conflict, charlatans and true believers. His surprising castlist ranges from Samuel Johnson to John Wesley, and from Harry Houdini to Adolf Hitler. Inspired by a childhood spent in two haunted houses, Roger Clarke has spent much of his life trying to see a ghost. Written as grippingly as the best ghost fiction, A Natural History of Ghosts takes us on an unforgettable hunt through the most haunted places of the last five hundred years and our longing to believe.