Books like The midnight disease by Alice Flaherty

Oliver Sacks explores the many faces of hallucination, weaving patient stories and his own psychedelic encounters to reveal how these visions illuminate brain function, culture, and the human experience.

When Adam Lightfoot, Marquis of Ravenskeep, summons the Devil to save his son, he unwittingly bargains with the rakish Lord Appleby and draws in the Irish healer Caitlin O'Brian, whose sight and resolve pull them into a perilous love that may transform miracles into reality.

Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence," agreed Cynthia Ozick, "sometimes every syllable." E. B. White said he admired anyone who "has the guts to write anything at all."An author who has taught writing for more than thirty years, Ralph Keyes assures readers that anxiety is felt by writers at every level and can be harnessed to produce honest and disciplined work., Keyes offers specifics on how to make the best use of writers' workshops and conferences and how to handle criticism of works in progress; he also exposes the most common "false fear busters" (needing new equipment, a better setting, a new agent). Throughout, he includes the comments of many accomplished writers--Pat Conroy, Amy Tan, Rita Dove, Isabel Allende, and others--on how they transcended their own anxieties to produce great works.

A five‑hundred‑year‑old ghost, who can see stars, returns to the castle she was killed in when a handsome young astronomer purchases it.