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'Shockingly real, twisty and dark' - INDEPENDENT'Tense, thrilling and darkly comedic' - HEAT'The feminist update to Rosemary's Baby we all needed' - ANDREA BARTZI wanted this baby so badly.But she may be the death of me...Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her public life as an actress with a gruelling IVF regime, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Medicines are lost. Appointments are moved. She's sure she's being followed. And when she finally does get pregnant, someone steals the precious ultrasound photograph of her baby. But despite everything she's gone through, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her.Then her doctors tell her she's lost the baby. Despite her grief, Anna ignores them - because she can still feel the baby moving, can see the toll it's taking on her body. Isolated in a remote snowbound town, Anna is sure that whoever has been following her is closing in on her and her unborn child. As her symptoms become more terrifying, she can't help but wonder what exactly is growing inside her. And why no-one will listen when she says that something is horribly wrong...'A timely, terrifying, heartfelt thriller' - CHRIS WHITAKER'Perfectly terrifying & terrifyingly perfect' - JANICE HALLETT'A thrilling, visceral read' - HEATHER DARWENT

Includes a new, previously unpublished novella - 6-Thirteen The city of Hell. That's what Hell is now, an endless metropolis bristling with black skyscrapers, raging in eternal horror. The moon is black and the sky is blood red. Screams rip down the streets and through alleys. The people trudge down sidewalks on their way to work or to stores, just like in other cities. There's only one difference. In this city the people are all dead. But two living humans have discovered the greatest of all occult secrets. They have the ability to enter this city of the damned, with powers beyond those of even a fallen angel. One plans to foil an unspeakably diabolical plot. The other plans to set it in motion - and bring all the evils of Hell to the land of the living.

Courtney is delighted when her tiny friend Fiona returns from the fairy realm, appearing at the base of a Cypress tree. When her Ragdoll cat, Pixie, emerges from her own portal--aka the cat door--the three set off for a busy day. Busier than usual, since Courtney has rented a small plot of land at the Flower Farm, where she hopes to grow her own supplies for her fairy-garden business. Plus, the annual Summer Blooms Festival is coming up, and Courtney has booked a booth... But the murder of Courtney's friend, Genevieve, casts a pall over the festival. Ever since Genevieve sold her floral business, she'd been building a career as an influencer. She was perennially opinionated--but in her new role she'd become surprisingly vicious, dissing local entrepreneurs with nasty posts and unwarranted bad reviews. That's landed a couple of Courtney's other friends on the suspect list--including Flower Farm owner Daphne Flores. And when a second victim is discovered, seeds of doubt about Daphne's innocence sprout in Courtney's mind. With only a germ of a clue, Courtney will have to overturn every rock to get the dirt on the real killer...

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies... a powerful, relevant novel of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant becoming.Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach is her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life.But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers. Creatures that called sailors to their doom. That dragged them down and drowned them. That feasted on their flesh. The creature that she's always longed to become: the mermaid.Ren aches to be in the water. She dreams of the scent of chlorine, the feel of it on her skin. And she will do anything she can to make a life for herself where she can be free. No matter the pain. No matter what anyone else thinks. No matter how much blood she has to spill.

Jacinda Brown keeps to her safe existence doing investigative research, avoiding people and places with people. ¿ To most, it appears she has a normal life; blending completely undetected in her lonely continuation.¿ She doesn't investigate people; she can't get that close. Through her hand she can feel emotions, thoughts. ¿ With a touch she can see what has been. ¿ Unfortunately fate tosses her into a situation where her carefully guarded secret and her own conscience are at war when she finds herself working with detectives to find a killer. ¿ Jacinda clashes with the very strongly grounded detective, Reid Merritt, destiny has forced her to work with. ¿ At some point he begins to matter, making her decision harder. Will he look at her with abhorrence, like she's some sort of freak when she's through? What will be the price, this time, for the ability she doesn't want?

"How long have things been coming apart in this way?" - The Lure of Silence"Generally speaking the dead do not return," pronounced Antonin Artaud. But the dead are permitted to visit those who welcome them. Their spectral, machine-made voices echo in deep tunnels under London. Voices without hosts. Without agency. They make their oracular pronouncements even when nobody is listening on the vast empty platforms of the Elizabeth Line. They have their codes and their secret meanings.Four stories starting everywhere and finishing in madness. Four acknowledged guides. Four tricksters. Four inspirations. Algernon Blackwood. Arthur Machen. J. G. Ballard. H. P. Lovecraft. They are known as "Agents of Oblivion". And sometimes, in brighter light, as oblivious angels . . .As host, as oracle, Iain Sinclair moves through this quartet of tales, through a spectral London that once was, or might never have been.

"When a fortieth birthday celebration leads to a ghostly visitor, four friends find themselves navigating surprising mysteries and spiritual hijinks, in this clever debut from Melissa Holtz. Alyssa Mann isn't adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom of a teenage daughter. But there's no way to avoid celebrating the big 4-0, so when her best friends drag her out for drinks and a tarot reading, she throws caution to the wind and decides to see what the spirits have to say. It's all fun and games, until she wakes up the next morning with a wicked hangover-and a ghost perched on the edge of her bed. Sheer panic sends her running to get help from Nick West, the (very attractive) detective who lives next door. When he finds no one inside, Alyssa has to accept that she really did see a ghost. As the dearly departed keep appearing, Alyssa and her friends do their best to learn how to control her newfound power. Trading insults with ghosts, tracking down family heirlooms, and getting closer to the skeptical but helpful Nick is more fun than Alyssa imagined. But when looking into one ghost's past reveals unexpected-and unwelcome-facts about Alyssa's late husband's death, she discovers she just may be in over her head"--

Yo-ho-ho, it's a pirate's life for one haunted family. If they live that long.When a family shares repetitive nightmares of a vengeful pirate after vacationing in Savannah, Georgia, they hire supernatural specialist Doctor Sarah Danger and her team to stop the destructive haunting. Doctor Danger has established herself as an expert in freeing people tormented by the supernatural. Traveling to the oldest city in Georgia, she and her team expect to quickly identify and disarm the pirate apparition terrorizing their clients. But in one of the most haunted cities in America, where ghosts cross between realms, Sarah uncovers a series of riddles needed to break the ghost's curse. As the haunting escalates, she must rely on her empath abilities to crack the case. Can she solve the riddles in time, or will she fall victim to the pirate ghost's curse herself?Don't miss out on the supernatural thriller of the Spirits in Savannah from the author of the Paranormal Talent Agency.

The Ancient Egyptians believed that a number of parts made up the human soul. These were: The Khet or physical essence (the belief in this led to the practice of mummification.The Sah or spiritual body.The Ren or the personal name.The Ba or the individual personality.The Ka or life force. This is the essential difference between the living and the dead.The Ib or the heart (the heart was regarded as a special part of the body).The Shut or silhouette (always present, although only visible as a shadow in light).The Akh or the intellect (pure intellect rather than the human mind).The Sehkem or form (the life force of the soul itself). If the Ka was strong enough to survive the physical death of the body, it would be the next best thing to everlasting life, wouldn't it? This happened to THE KA Of STEPHEN CHARLES. Did he experience everlasting life?

Meet Riel Brava. Attractive. Razor-sharp. Ambitious. And something much more. Riel, raised in Santa Barbara, California, has been transplanted to Nova Scotia where he is CEO of the Canadian Cannabis Corporation. It's business as usual until Riel finds his world hanging by a thread. Actually, several threads. It doesn't take the police long to determine all is not as it appears - and that includes Riel himself. Pulled into a world not of his making, Riel resists the hunt to catch a killer. Resistance is futile. Detective Lin Raynes draws the reluctant CEO into the investigation, and the seeds of an unexpected and unusual friendship are sown. Raynes and Riel concoct a scheme to draw a confession out of the killer, but that plan is never put into place. Instead, Riel finds himself on the butt end of a rifle in the ribs and a long drive to the middle of Nowhere, Nova Scotia. Why would someone want Norm dead, innocuous Norman Bedwell? A motive for murder is buried somewhere, and self-professed psychopath and cannabis production manager, Riel Brava, works with Detective Lin Raynes, aided by endless exotic coffee blends, to find it. As the noose tightens on an increasingly smaller number of suspects, who knew finding a murderer would be so simple? In the end, of course, it isn't. It is a chunderfuck. Oh, and, Riel has one helluva wife. Review Pour yourself a cup of Ethiopian yirgacheffe and savor this often humorous, fast-paced whodunit. - Rand Gaynor, author of New Old Stories

From Jordan Peele, the director of Get Out, comes an anthology of brand new stories showcasing the best Black talent from across contemporary horror writing.

Magic. Murder. Mayhem. Alice's life just got a lot more complicated... Grieving the loss of her mother, Alice Lovell is thrilled to learn she has one last living relative in the enchanting town of Widdershins. But Great Aunt Mara and her sassy black cat, Hades, are nothing like she expects. Within 24 hours of arriving in Widdershins, Alice's life is turned upside down when Mara unveils a shocking family secret before vanishing without a trace, leaving Alice accused of a chilling murder. With the relentless local sheriff banging on her door, and Mr. Tall-Dark-and-Serious, a mysterious magical investigator, making himself at home in her head, Alice's world spirals into chaos. And as if that wasn't enough, her aunt's mischievous cat, Hades, is up to something, and it's got the living AND the dead rattled! Unsure who to trust and with time running out, Alice has no choice but to find Mara, stop a killer, clear herself of murder, and clean up Hades's mess! Hades's Haunt is Book 1 in the Widdershins Magical Mystery Series, a spellbinding paranormal cozy mystery, where a quirky town, a mischievous cat, and untapped powers converge in a captivating tale of self-discovery and suspense. Join the mayhem and pick up your copy today!

A collection of fiction and non-fiction by Kyler James, the Wizard of Washington Square."Writer extraordinaire Kyler James"- Dennis Cooper, author of The Sluts and I Wished"Bravo! Kyler James has a real talent as a writer. He's a great storyteller and the world needs great storytellers."- Nicole RenaudKyler James has been a professional psychic counselor for over 30 years. A Wiccan high priest of the Gardnerian tradition, he started reading Tarot cards on film sets as an actor, having studied with the great Stella Adler at NYU. He has published two novels with Rebel Satori Press: THE SECRET OF THE RED TRUCK and MERCURY'S CHOICE-and is happy to be publishing his first collection of fiction and nonfiction with Rebel Satori. Having read Tarot cards at many restaurants in New York, he is now well-known as "The Wizard of Washington Square," where he reads people from all over the world.Praise for the story "The Loneliest Man on Earth""He has a unique voice. I've never read anything even close to this character. Bravo!" - Andy Behrman, author of Electrobody"I enjoyed the story a lot. It's very sharp, and that sharpness has a lot going on in it, and yet it's all very clear, and the poetry inside isn't weeded out by the sharpness.. Kudos, man." - Dennis Cooper"Well done. Crisp dialogue. The story has a rhythm, a lilt, that carries it along. It's a fizzy blend of danger and hope, just like life in New York." - Ivan Webster, author of The Cares of Day

Whom Gods Would Destroy, Part I: The Architects of Hell is the first part of a trilogy uncovering the paranormal mysteries and secret histories of the First World War, blending fact and fiction into a metatextual tapestry of modern monsters and ancient terrors. The fires of the Great War cast a shadow history, too strange and terrible to twist into a single, rational narrative. Rumors spread of angelic visions above the battlefield, and airships haunted the clouds. Giant rats and mad wolves thrived in the trenches, while feral and ghostly deserters stalked abandoned dugouts in No-Man's-Land. Battalions vanished into mists, devils lurked in the corners of corpse-rendering plants, faeries danced in photographs, sorcerers plotted in diplomatic offices, sea serpents assaulted submarines, and giants woke from the earth.Whom Gods Would Destroy is a puzzle of fact and fiction, a paranormal history of human horrors and supernatural terrors. Come and see.

Whom Gods Would Destroy: An Occult History of the First World War continues in its second volume, Archangel, chronicling the otherworldly adventures of the Nine Giants through the devastated countryside of Belgium and Germany, and the paranormal fringe of the Great War. Enter a twisted world of supernatural spies and occult lodges across Europe. Survive the chaos of the Russian Revolution and the wolf-haunted wastelands of the Eastern Front. The labyrinthine trenches unearthed terrible evils, and ancient forces rise from the grave to clash with modern and man-made horrors.

Esta es la tercera parte, han pasado 10 años desde que Miriam fingió su muerte, la historia es narrrada desde el punto de vista de Lucy su hija quien ahora tiene 19 años, explicando que ha sido de ella, como ha crecido en influencia de un demonio llamado Alastor con quien ha hecho cosas "malas" pero que para Lucy no representan nada, quedó sin más familia cercana que su padre debido a que sus abuelos murieron, ellos migraron a estados unidos y vive una vida aparentemente normal con su padre.Ella era una chica caprichosa, egoísta, manipuladora hasta que al encontrar y leer un escrito de su madre donde narra como se embarazó y lo que tuvo que pasar para poder tenerla, todo lo que le había parecido normal hasta el momento, le inquieta, deseaba saber más de su madre pero no contaba con las intenciones de su padre, poseerla y a través de ella poder vivir y dominarlo todo además de ganar una vieja apuesta.A Lucy le sorprendió ser solo un instrumento de su padre que es un Demonio, Para quien ella era una "criatura" al servicio de él aunque no le agrada la idea, en el fondo esta fascinada por el poder de tener todo lo que desea, el mundo bajo sus pies.¿¿¿¿Decide regresar a Colombia, su país de origen con intenciones de buscar e investigar sobre el pasado de su madre y verificar si todo lo ocurrido era real.Es un camino con varias huellas borradas intencionalmente, esta historia se trata de saber de una vez por todas si "Él" lograra lo que desea o si una vez más serán frustrados sus planes.

An accountant by day, Mr. Rodgers spends his nights and weekends indulging in a unique passion. Traveling from neighborhood to neighborhood as an unknown entity, he uses unconventional methods to help long-suffering wives rediscover the love they once had for themselves and their husbands. Some might consider him a selfless hero, ahead of his time. The residents of Poagstown, however, have cutting-edge ideas of their own.