Bøger af Benjamin Card

When Kevin Cooper and his troublemaking friends venture off to explore Ashmore house, Victoria tags along to protect her classmate, Icarus, from the manipulative tricks of Kevin and his posse. But the irresponsibility of their actions catches up to them when Icarus suddenly goes missing. Did he run home in fear, or was he victim to a supernatural misdeed? The answer becomes clear when Victoria and the others find themselves trapped and tormented by the psychotic ghost of a man who murdered his family a hundred years ago. Now she and Kevin will be forced to set their differences aside if they are to survive the night and save their friends. And through the haunting acts of demonic possession, clairvoyance, and a palette of other deadly horrors, they'll discover that they have a deeper link to the house...one that will threaten to tear the fabric that separates this life from the realm of the dead.

Benjamin Card's first collection of short stories, in the vein of YA, contemporary fantasy and horror, and psychological drama. In the title story, Angelo and his wife Kimberly have been having marital issues for some time. Things take a catastrophic turn when one morning an invisible entity in the sky claims Kim's unconditional love...and that of every other female on Earth. Now the women are shouting, crying, and ripping each other apart to earn the love of this mysterious and seemingly non-existent being in the sky. And Angelo, along with every man in the world, needs to figure out a way to snap the women back to reality before it's too late. These ten subtly unnerving stories all dig deep into the uninhibited recesses of the mind. In "Blind Date", a man discovers that his dream girl may live in a different dimension; "I'll Spend It With You" is a brief glimpse of the afterlife, where two dead lovers may be forced to spend eternity separated; and in the nerve-twisting "Late-Night Snack", young Dennis is constantly visited by his demon-possessed father during the night. Jennifer Serling, niece of the legendary Rod Serling, provided the foreword.

In the foreseeable future, America has legalized a new simulation machine called S.T.E.A.M., which allows users to play out any fantasy their minds can conjure--whether it is something legal, or as most often the case, something illegal. This story follows different, ordinary characters and their vices, in a country where their most carnal desires can materialize with a simple flick of a switch. LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE delves deep into some of the hardest questions we must all ask ourselves: How evil would you become if you had your country's approval? Where would you draw the line? Would there even exist a line at all?