Barbara Michaels Books In Order

Georgetown Books In Publication Order

  1. Ammie, Come Home (1968)
  2. Shattered Silk (1986)
  3. Stitches in Time (1995)

Someone in the House Books In Publication Order

  1. Someone in the House (1981)
  2. Black Rainbow (1982)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Master of Blacktower (1966)
  2. Sons of the Wolf (1967)
  3. Prince of Darkness (1969)
  4. The Dark on the Other Side (1970)
  5. The Crying Child (1971)
  6. Greygallows (1972)
  7. Witch (1973)
  8. House of Many Shadows (1974)
  9. The Sea King’s Daughter (1975)
  10. Patriot’s Dream (1976)
  11. Wings of the Falcon (As: Elizabeth Peters) (1977)
  12. Wait for What Will Come (1978)
  13. The Walker in Shadows (As: Elizabeth Peters) (1979)
  14. The Wizard’s Daughter (1980)
  15. Here I Stay (1983)
  16. The Grey Beginning (1984)
  17. Be Buried in the Rain (1985)
  18. Search the Shadows (1987)
  19. Smoke and Mirrors (1989)
  20. Into the Darkness (1990)
  21. Vanish with the Rose (1992)
  22. Houses of Stone (1993)
  23. The Dancing Floor (1997)
  24. Other Worlds (1999)

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Barbara Michaels Books Overview

Ammie, Come Home

For the guests at Ruth Bennet’s fashionable Georgetwon home, the seance was just a playful diversion…
until Ruth’s niece Sara spoke in a deep guttural voice not her own…
and the game became frighteningly real.. The New York Times calls Miss Michaels a specialist, saying, ‘When the seances get going and the ghosts walk and talk, even the nonbelievers take notice.’ Previously published in 1969 by Fawcett.

Shattered Silk

Karen Nevitt has brought new life to old, abandoned things. Her vintage clothing collection, nestled away in Washington, D.C.’s picturesque Georgetown, features exquisite designer originals from decades past. But there is something deadly sewn into the lace and delicate fabrics she has clues to a forgotten mystery that is pulling Karen into a dark and terrifying place. A secret once locked away in old trunks and dusty attics is crying out for justice, and only she can make things right. But a killer still lurking in the shadows has decided that the truth must remain hidden…
and Karen Nevitt must die.

Stitches in Time

When an antique bridal quilt appears under mysterious circumstances at the vintage clothing shop where Rachel Grant works, she is fascinated. She has never been able to resist handmade textiles from the past, for she believes that through the ages, women wove protective magic into their fabrics in order to mark the important events of their lives: birth, marriage, and death. But there is more than good in the quilt’s magic power. Day by day Rachel sees and feels the power growing, as she senses the quilt influencing her thoughts and actions. Much as Rachel’s logical mind longs to deny the supernatural, the aura of evil coming from the quilt is terrifyingly real, and it seems to carry a sinister legacy into the lives of the people Rachel loves.

Someone in the House

An English Gothic mansion, transported stone by stone to the isolated Pennsylvania hills, Grayhaven Manor calls to Anne and Kevin. Here is the ideal summer retreat a perfect location from which to write the book they have long planned together. But there are distractions in the halls and shadows of the looming architectural wonder luring them from their work for they are not alone. Something lives on here from Grayhaven’s shocking past something beautiful, powerful, and eerily seductive unlocking the doors of human desire, of fear…
and unearthly passion.

Black Rainbow

Megan O’Neill sees it hanging in the sky above the towers of Grayhaven Manor a beautiful yet sinister Black Rainbow, a warning to the estate’s new governess to stay away. Yet the warmth and kindness of the Mandeville family banish her fears and her hypnotic obsession for her handsome, mysterious new employer blinds her to the darkness within. But desire always has its price. And the shocking secrets enclosed in Grayhaven’s walls threaten to pull Megan into the terrifying shadows, never to emerge again.

The Master of Blacktower

Damaris Gordon shuddered at the thought of working for the cruel and bitter Master of Blacktower but her father’s death left her no choice. Suddenly her fate her life itself was in the black silk gloved hands of Gavin Hamilton, a man scarred and tortured by an unspoken past, whose mocking laughter echoes through his ancient Scottish estate. Damaris has heard the whispers that accuse Gavin Hamilton of his wife’s death and his young daughter’s crippling injury. But the pain and sadness barely hidden behind his blazing dark stare touch Damaris deeply and a courageous heart is luring her to the estate’s topmost tower in search of his dangerous secrets.

Sons of the Wolf

Ada and Harriet don’t know what to expect when they meet their new guardian, Mr. Wolfson. Here is a strangely magnetic, darkly amusing man confined to a wheelchair and flanked by a pair of fierce, dangerous dogs an enigmatic benefactor, at once welcoming and intimidating. Even more unsettling to the girls are Wolfson’s two sons, Julian and Francis. One of them is warm and good natured, the other is pure malevolence. But young Harriet is about to discover a frightening truth: that evil runs rampant throughout their mysterious new home, Abbey Manor, and the surrounding moors especially when the moon comes out…

Prince of Darkness

A stranger has come to Middleburg, Maryland, a visitor from abroad with a mysterious purpose. But this quaint, affluent community has dark secrets of its own. And when the interloper, Peter Stewart, becomes involved with the bewitching, seductive ward of noted local author Kate More, the townfolk fear the chilling past they are hiding will no longer be safe. For Middleburg has a colonial history of malevolent sorceries and obscene sacrifice. And when the terrible pot is stirred, murder may be the least of the evils to emerge from the unholy brew.

The Dark on the Other Side

The house talked; Linda Randolph could hear it. The objects in it talked, too, but the house’s voice was loudest. Linda was afraid that, as her husband suggested, she was losing her mind. Either that, or her husband was involved with dark, brutal forces beyond the limits of human sanity. Reissue.

The Crying Child

Joanne McMullen’s fears for her sister’s sanity have brought her to remote King’s Island, Maine. Mary’s grief over the loss of her child is threatening to send her over the edge and her insistence that she has heard an eerie, childlike wailing in the woods fuels Joanne’s anxiety. And now Mary’s taken to disappearing at midnight in search of the source of the heartrending moans. But it’s not just her sister’s encroaching madness that is chilling Joanne’s blood it’s her own. Because suddenly, impossibly, she also hears The Crying Child.

Greygallows

Lucy Cartwright placed her life and future into the hands of the dashing Baron Clare, despite the rumors of his dark, unsavory past. Trusting his kind words and gentle manner, she agreed to be his wife and followed the enigmatic lord to Greygallows, his sprawling country estate. But mystery, deception, betrayal, and danger surround the magnificent manor a ghostly secret charges the atmosphere and terror reigns in its shadowed hallways. Lucy entered Greygallows willingly…
and now she may never leave.

Witch

For Ellen March, the secluded old house nestled in the pine woods is more than the dream home she’s long been searching for. It’s an escape, a chance to start over, to forget the pain of her failed marriage and enjoy the restful pace of small town living. Here, too, is a golden opportunity to get to know Norman McKay, her handsome and worldly new neighbor. But after dark in Ellen’s ‘perfect’ house, strange visions invade her restless mind: silent strangers moving through the twilight shadows, the ghostly figure of a woman and a spectral white cat. Ellen came here hoping to bury the past, but something terrifying has taken its place. Her safe haven has become her prison…
and there is no escape.

House of Many Shadows

Meg Rittenhouse fears she is losing her mind. The doctors tell her the strange and disturbing hallucinations she’s been experiencing ever since her accident are all in her head, and that, with a little rest, the haunting visions will vanish. But accepting an invitation to stay with her cousin in the country may be the worst decision Meg has ever made. Here, in a remote old house miles from anywhere, the terrible sights and sounds have gotten even worse. Suddenly eerie black shapes dance in the shadows mocking Meg, haunting her…
threatening her. And the presence of kind, considerate Andy Brenner, the caretaker, both reassures her and terrifies her because Andy also sees these dark specters…

The Sea King’s Daughter

Since Sandy Frederick first set foot on the volcanic Greek isle of Thera, this breathtaking place of ancient myth and mystery has haunted her dreams. Joining her estranged, obsessed father on a dive to find astonishing secrets from the ocean’s floor, she cannot shake the feeling that she was meant to be here; that some ancient, inscrutable power is calling to her. But there are others who have been eagerly waiting for her arrival to drag her into a tangled and terrifying web of secrets, dark superstition, betrayal, blood, and death. And suddenly Sandy’s heritage and her destiny could be her doom.

Patriot’s Dream

Jan Wilde’s much needed vacation in Williamsburg, Virginia, is anything but restful. Here in this historic restored colonial village, her sleep is invaded by strangers from two centuries in the past. They seem so close, so real and when Jan awakens in the morning, their lives and loves and the secret they share shadow her very existence. The only way Jan can ever be free is to seek the truth…
in her dreams.

Wings of the Falcon (As: Elizabeth Peters)

The death of her English father left Francesca alone and unprotected, with nowhere to turn but to the noble Italian family of her late mother. Adrift in a strange land, surrounded by cold and suspicious relatives who had disowned her mother on her wedding day, Francesca is determined to make the best of a bad situation. But nothing could have prepared her for the nest of dark secrets and oppressive cruelty she has been cast into. And her fate now rests in the hands of a mysterious horseman known as the Falcon, whose appearance will speed her salvation…
or hasten her doom.

Wait for What Will Come

The last of an ancient Cornish clan, Carla Tregellas has inherited her historic ancestral home: a massive mansion looming high up on the jagged cliffs of Cornwall. From the moment Carla takes possession of the grand manor she feels right at home, warmly welcomed by everyone except the strange and secretive housekeeper, Mrs. Pendennis, who warns the new owner of the tragic, inevitable fate that will surely befall her if she does not depart at once. But Carla cannot leave, for the unseen bonds of a dark family curse are beginning to tighten…
and a demon lover waits.

The Walker in Shadows (As: Elizabeth Peters)

The house next door to Pat Robbins eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college aged son, Mark has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark’s heart on first glance. But something is not right something old and secret lurking in the shadows that fresh paint and new furnishings cannot mask or exorcise. There is evil alive in the heart of the house next door and it means to feed on the fears of two families…
and drag Kathy Friedrichs with it into peril.

The Wizard’s Daughter

A penniless yet strikingly beautiful orphan, Marianne Ransom’s indomitable spirit has enabled her to survive a cruel life on the backstreets of Victorian London. But it is her gift of second sight that carries her into the world of money and privilege a power brought on by a strange twist of fate. In the opulent home of a wealthy duchess, Marianne is being called upon to summon her late father a noted mystic from the grave. But Marianne’s exceptional abilities have become a perilous trap. And suddenly knowing too much could prove fatal.

Here I Stay

Andrea Torgesen is certain that hard work is exactly what her younger brother Jim needs to help him recover from the trauma of a serious car accident and turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn seems to be the perfect project. But unearthly voices and eerie visions haunt Jim from almost the first instant he sets foot in the dreary old house. And his strange obsession with a long neglected graveyard is most troubling to his concerned sibling. There is evil in this place where the unthinkable is possible a terrifying force that Andrea and Jim must confront…
or forfeit their lives.

The Grey Beginning

Along with the truth came danger. Hoping that a trip to her late husband’s childhood home will help her come to terms with his recent death, Kathy Malone travels to the rolling hills of Tuscany. But there, instead of solace, Kathy finds a lonely boy named Pietro, uncanny hints about her late husband, and the stately Contessa Morandini, whose chilly reception warms only when she mistakenly assumes Kathy is pregnant with the next heir of the Morandini line. Despite or perhaps because of the Contessa’s efforts to keep Kathy and Pietro apart, Kathy befriends the young boy. Their games lead her through the villa’s maze of dark hallways, where she begins to discover hints of a startling truth. As the pieces of a sinister and murderous plan fall into place, Kathy realizes she has stumbled onto a dangerous obsession…
one that was meant to stay hidden forever.

Be Buried in the Rain

The Past Holds Terrors…
There are secrets buried at Maidenwood dark secrets that span generations. Medical student Julie Newcomb, who once spent four miserable childhood years at this rundown Virginia plantation, would rather not resurrect ancient memories, or face her own fears. That Can’t Be Forgotten Yet Julie cannot refuse her relatives’ plea that she spend her summer caring for the bedridden but still malevolent family patriarch. Reluctantly, Julie agrees, praying that life at Maidenwood will not be as bleak as before. From the first, though, Julie finds Maidenwood a haunted place, not merely echoing with grim reminders, but filled with dark secrets that will become part of her life even today.

Search the Shadows

Haskell Maloney was cruelly orphaned when she was just a baby. Now, twenty two years later, she receives confirmation of the bitter truth she always suspected: the fallen war hero whose name she shares was not her father. Her quest for answers and a personal history brings Haskell to the famed Oriental Institute in Chicago, a city in which her mother lived and thrived before her strange, untimely death. But by rummaging around in the darkness, Haskell’s exposing much more than she bargained for. And now she’s racing against the clock to discover who she really is…
and why someone is suddenly determined to kill her.

Smoke and Mirrors

Joining the campaign of a charismatic congresswoman, young Erin Hartsock arrives in Washinton, D.C., filled with idealism and ambition. But her enthusiasm dissolves into terror when the campaign takes a malevolent turn. Someone…
something…
has begun threatening Erin and her colleagues. First come the strange fires, then a seemingly accidental death. As the election nears, Erin fears that she just may be a murderer’s next candidate.

Into the Darkness

Meg Venturi never expected the windfall she inherits when her grandfather dies. For some unknown reason the eccentric old millionaire has left her his profitable antique jewelry business. But there is a catch. Meg must share the business with an aloof, mysterious, and somewhat sinister young man called A. L. Riley. The town is whispering about her enigmatic new partner. Rumors spread about unspoken secrets, a dark and disturbing legacy…
and murder. Soon a series of troubling events has Meg looking uncomfortably over her shoulder. The longer she stays in this tiny New England village the clearer two very troubling truths become: that all that glitters is definitely not gold…
and that someone will stop at nothing to drive her away.

Vanish with the Rose

Fearing for the safety of her missing brother, lawyer Diana Reed will do anything to get to the truth. Taking a job as a landscape architect at the last place Brad was seen the sprawling estate where he worked as a caretaker she prowls the strange old house determined to unlock its secrets. But each mystery Diana uncovers is more unsettling than the last, as odd visions, scents, and sounds pervade an atmosphere of dread and barely suppressed violence. And in her zealous search for answers, she may have inadvertently opened a door to something frightening and deadly that can never be closed again.

Houses of Stone

It is a find of inestimable value for Karen Holloway. The battered manuscript she holds in her hand written in the nineteenth century and bearing the mysterious attribution ‘Ismene’ could prove a boon to the eager young English professor’s career. But Karen’s search for the author’s true identity is carrying her into the gray shadows of the past, to places fraught with danger and terror. For the deeper she delves into Ismene’s strange tale of gothic horror, the more she is haunted by the suspicion that the long dead author was writing the truth…
and that even now she is guiding Karen’s investigation, leading her to terrible secrets hidden behind the cold walls of Houses of Stone.

The Dancing Floor

For years, Heather Tradescant had dreamed of the journey she and her father would take to England a pilgrimage to the great gardens of history. Now that her father is dead, Heather is determined to fulfill his dreams. Unfortunately, her request to see the fabled 17th century garden of Troytan House is denied by the owner. Though unwelcome, she braves the walls of briars and reaches the Victorian manor house beyond. She senses a strange mission of evil lurking, tainting the manor’s peaceful beauty. Only then does Heather begin to wonder whether it is only stories of long vanished witchcraft that haunt Troytan House or whether there is some more modern horror, hearer at hand, and far, far more dangerous. Continuing in the classic tradition she established with such acclaimed novels of suspense as Stitches in Time, Vanish with the Rose, and House of Stone, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Michaels has penned a chilling tale that will keep you reading until the last page.

Other Worlds

One foggy evening, the most famous crime specialists in the world meet in an exclusive club, their minds on mystery. On the agenda, two tantalizing, unsolved cases of ghostly terror. New York Times bestselling author and unsurpassed mater of suspense Barbara Michaels delivers a fireside page turner in the grand tradition with her latest book, Other Worlds. The smoky room glows with a mix of cigars, brandy, and genius. Those present include Harry Houdini, king of illusion; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, father of the modern detective novel; Dr. Nandor Fodor, a psychoanalyst of international acclaim; and an elegant writer who can rival them all with her sleuthing talent. These maters of mystery put their minds to a pair of gripping storiesof families beset by poltergeistly pranks and bewitched by inexplicable horrors. Gripping puzzles, yes, but the terror is all too vicious and all too real. In the hallows of Tennessee, a family is threatened by a dire spirit whose predictions of despair and death come frighteningly true. In a small Connecticut town, a newly married widow and her children move into her second husband’s home to find their lives possessed by an unimaginable demon. For the gathering at the club, a brilliant battle of wits is at hand. Were these villains phantoms from beyond or evildoers of flesh and blood? Each expert has a theory. Which of them is correct? Whether writing as Barbara Michaels or Elizabeth Peters, this author is a master chef crafting richly atmospheric, suspense filled delights. Other Worlds is an up all nighter, guaranteed to still haunt in the morninga tale as chilling by daylight as it is by darkness.

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