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From a veterinary assistant and exciting rising author comes this fast-paced selection of four horror/paranormal stories featuring our beloved canines. In My Sister's Keeper, a lonely woman worries that her vampire sister will turn her new best friend that just happens to be a dog. Will the vampire sister accept the canine as a pet, or as a source of nourishment? In The Shape of the Shift, a shapeshifter is surprised to learn that the people around him aren't what they appear to be, including the love of his life. In Jinn or Jinx?, the wishes granted by an ancient Jinn not only come with bizarre consequences but also reveal dark family secrets. In Immortal Me, a woman discovers she is immortal after surviving a brutal beating. While she tries to keep her newfound persona a secret, her attacker learns the truth and comes after her for a second time, but she has a few surprises for him.

In rural Virginia, Liam Bishop, a former Army Ranger with a troubled past, unwittingly discovers a mysterious cosmic force that begins haunting not only the woods beyond his property, but the very starlit skies above. What begins as neighborly concern over a series of bizarre occurrences, becomes an investigation into an endless nightmare in which Liam will not only have to confront the darkness within himself, but dig into the inhuman truths that lie beyond anything he could have ever imagined. As the world braces against the growing fears of extraterrestrial phenomenon, Liam Bishop will come to realize that this isn't an abduction he's facing...it's revenge.Based on the motion picture from star/producer/director Matthew Ewald (Author, Human Nature, Whispers in the Cries, The Coffin Clock)

For many, Halloween is a time of celebration. The wearing of costume and mask, pretending to be someone, or something else they aren't the other days of the year. But for the residents of Tranquility, Florida, it will take on more sinister connotations. One thought long dead means to return and bring the denizens of the Hell with them. The residents of the idyllic small town have no idea what is coming to call. But they are about to. Several people whose lives interconnect this night are blissfully unaware that this Halloween will be their last.

What would you do if you woke up in hell and couldn't remember a thing? Set in a dystopian society about 150 years from the 21st century...... Suddenly rousing in a place completely different from his world, seventeen-year-old Robert is greeted with accusations, bullying, and fear from the teenagers around him. Life isn't easy in the new place, especially if it's the direct opposite of how and where he was raised. However, there's something more about the place that gives him the chills. Is it the fact that monsters and demons always get to massacre someone every night, and then leave when dawn comes? Or that he can't recall what his surname is? Maybe it's that the locals are always blaming him for what happened to Cleo, a girl whom Robert doesn't even know.

When former black ops agent Dack Shannon investigates an autistic child who sketches women the day before they are murdered, he's drawn into another incident of a Goth artist possibly sporting vaginal dentata. Dack's attraction to the artistic enimga Anna Strauss cuts deep into his soul and he walks the borderline between right, wrong and true evil. Can the albino PI solve these riddles as he delves into a grim underworld of cults, killers and mind control? A story of mystery, suspense, action and horrific happenings, Dack Shannon must find if he is strong enough to survive what ultimately lurks WITHIN.

During a blustery winter night, two retired Navy Seals transporting a top secret cargo to NORAD are besieged by an unexpected blizzard. A terrible car accident unleashes a creature with unparalleled killing capacity. Within hours dozens of people are carved up and dismembered in the town of Mangas Pass, Colorado with no end in sight to the carnage. Police Chief, Don Girard pairs up with retired Green Beret Colonel, Elliot Harmon to try to stop the creature from decimating the entire town. Harmon will be forced to face the sins of his past, while Girard helplessly agonizes over every death in an effort to protect the town and his own family. As the bloody body count rises, both men become consumed by a horrifying sequence of events that will forever change their lives The Night It Got Out! From the author of the popular short story collection, Blood Verse, comes a horrifying novel of suspense and terror that you won't be able to put down!

From the bestselling author of "The Night It Got Out!" Welcome to Blood Verse, not your average collection of tales and verses of terror. Within these pages you'll find how a serial killer uses an unusual method to stalk victims in South Chicago. A unique couple addresses infertility on a grand scale. Armageddon strikes twice in a small Iowa town at the hands of nature and a madman. A noble medical scientist undergoes a demented metamorphosis. The oldest and most powerful vampire on earth weighs in on contemporary culture. An obnoxious bigot goes to Hell to fulfil an ironic twist of destiny. An injured World Champion boxer fights his toughest opponent in a horrific bout beyond imagination. An outpatient psychiatric clinic places several patients in a setting that launches the ultimate terror and mayhem. A horrific futuristic twist on an American Scholastic tradition in Spelling Bee. A debut collection from a rising master of fantastic thrills that reads like Amazing Stories and Twilight Zone with a hellish twist, Blood Verse is sure to take you for an intense ride!

"Creatively speaking this book is marvelous; it is rich and refreshing and decadent. Written wryly and masterfully, Mr. Hayden's twenty one short literary journeys will take you through the gamut: horror, laughter, sarcasm, and of course happy and sad." --Lurid Lit "Hayden nails it again with this darkly delightful collection filled with unforgettable characters and their askew outlooks!" G.L. Giles "Mr. Hayden, the devil told me if you continue to write this well you'll need to bargain the souls of your offspring as well." Alexander Beresford, Author of Charla "A fantastic mixed bag of highly imaginative tales. Spectacular and strange, wondrous and wild. It felt like Hayden was The Hatter and I was a wide-eyed enjoyably dazzled guest sitting at his tea-party table." -HORNS, Author of Chophouse and Stationhouse No. 1

The secrets behind these EVIL HOUSES make paranormal child's play. EVIL HOUSES is an original collection of haunted house thrillers that's a must-read for fans of ghost stories and tales of gripping terror. In The House From Hell, Mike, Trista, Greg and Tiffany conduct a paranormal investigation in a house where, twenty-eight years earlier, the father drowned his wife and son and bludgeoned his daughter to death before hanging himself. The investigation leads into the bowels of a preserved, abandoned realm where every clue exposes violent evil and each revelation deepens the terrifying, apocalyptic reality the team has exposed themselves to. In The Straw House, Steven and Brenda are living a normal life in the 1980's. Steven acquires building contracts and Brenda tends the home preparing for their life together. However, neither knows the ancient evil that stalks Steven's soul until Steven's memory is reawakened to his old sins and their consequences on Halloween night. In the darkness Brenda is seduced by witchcraft and Steven comes face to face with an inferno of evil more sinister than any closeted childhood fear. In Grave Incidents, David, a psychologist and dream analysis specialist, attempts to assist Rebecca (a woman suffering from horrific nightmares and a peculiar phobia) in resolving her inner turmoil. As the sessions reach deeper into Rebecca's soul, David soon discovers his own haunted past. This triggers a dangerous downward spiral for them both. Soon their highly charged emotions and own histories are revealed through supernatural visions, bloody secrets and a dark truth that can only be unraveled through a violent confrontation in a secluded house in deep wilderness. "A bone-chilling read!" says Joe Flynn, horror host of San Jose's popular "The Joe Flynn Show."

From the nationally award winning playwright, 2013 VSA Playwright Competition, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC. When Raven's world comes crashing down around her and her thoughts turn to suicide, this is exactly what she does. As she swings the last swing of her life, she jumps off, sprouts wings, and flies away to another world where she finds a group of teenagers just her age who accept her into their lives. Led by Crow, the group goes on a quest to lift a curse put on Crow by two witches, hell-bent on killing him, destroying the kingdom, and bringing forth the necromancer known only as the Sorcerer. But as Raven delves deeper into the new world, she discovers a land full of darkness, a world that parallels the one that she left. And when all is said and done, it is she who will have to stand before the Sorcerer and confront him as the fierce defender she never knew she could be.

Spiders. Spiders everywhere. All sizes and shapes, crawling down the walls and up through the cracks in the floorboards. Then surrounding her feet and leading her in her trance-like state out the door in the middle of the night to the cemetery down the road... This is one of many night terrors and strange urges to visit a certain little girl's grave that Maryanne Rosa has been experiencing for weeks. Someone from beyond is using them to push her towards uncovering horrific secrets about the publisher of the rising political magazine she's an editor of. Prerogative magazine's publisher, Joseph Goldberg, is also a leader of a cult of racist elitists. They've parlayed the death of six-year-old Cecily to gain further control of the quaint upstate New York town where Maryanne and her close-knit group of friends live. And as they all get closer to understanding who Joseph truly is, the cult becomes hell bent on claiming some of them as their own and removing others from their path entirely. Hopefully whoever-or whatever-is trying to warn them will get through, before it's too late. There's a NEW legend in Sleepy Hollow..... THE HOLLOW is a young adult, paranormal thriller set in the legendary Sleepy Hollow, NY and is AnnMarie Martin's first novel.

So many roads. So many adventures. So many horrors.A quartet of high-schoolers returning home from the movies encounter a strange man on the side of the road...A murderess who journeys into the desert to dispose of her husband does battle with strange beings from the sand...An over-the-road trucker tells a tale of alien road kill...A family embarks on a road trip that ends with dire consequences...Road Trip and Other Highway Horrors is a thirteen-story collection of terrors waiting on seldom traveled roads. From desert highways to hidden backroads, these haunted ribbons of asphalt are best to be avoided.So, the next time you want to see the USA in your Chevrolet, take the long way. It may be the best decision you'll ever make.

Congratulations! You are the owner of an authentic Idol from The American Idol Company. This Idol was made for the sole purpose of worship and reverence in exchange for blessings and protection. To use this Idol in any other way could result in damage, injury, and/or the cancellation of warranty. We at The American Idol Company wish you success and satisfaction in your spiritual journey. In an America where militias, doomsday cults and self proclaimed Prophets are as commonplace as gas stations and fast food restaurants, The American Idol Company is born. Operating under the belief that scandal and controversy will increase sales, the company founders manage to insult everyone from the Pope to the Ayatollah, inspire a generation, and come dangerously close to starting World War 3. "A hilarious, fantastic and crazy adventure that had me forgetting Douglas Adams is no longer with us!" ---Robert S. Wilson, Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor and author of the Empire of Blood and Ray Garret/Lifeline series.

A young Jack and Dan adventure deep into the woods to shoot themselves some supper one night. After a long while of hunting, Jack suspects all the deer that normally frequented those woods were completely gone, whereas here they'd always been easy pickings. Soon, they both find themselves being hunted...by a pack of werewolves. When the pack hits a small southern town, the local Sheriff realizes this is one case he can not solve alone. He calls in the F.B.I. to help him take down the killers that are taking the lives of the local teens. When the wolves abandon the town for the streets of New Orleans during Mardi-Gras celebrations, the hunters become the hunted in an all-out war where no one may survive....

Stationhouse No. 1 once held the town's most prestigious fire & rescue unit, but in late 1959 almost the entire team was savagely slain, their remains burned. Years later, the grisly incidents which had taken place became legendary, and the terror never exactly stopped. Its history has been since drenched in the blood of many an unexplained death. When a group of adventurous, irresponsible horny teenagers decide the building would be perfect for their high school Junior Firefighter group's latest ceremonies, a new and relentless slaughterfest ensues unlike anything they could possibly survive, and unlike anything you've ever read.

Bitternest's favorite radio disc jockey and debunker of supernatural myths Nick Kubrick is on vacation and on his way to Montreal to surprise his big brother. When he gets there, he finds his brother's mailbox overflowing with mail and the lawn hasn't been mowed in weeks. No sign of him anywhere. He decides to stick around town and try to find out where he is. Nick rapidly realizes that the city of Montreal isn't so different from his spooky hometown of Bitternest as a string of bizarre, gruesome murders are shocking the city. After bumping into an old high school buddy named Lance, Nick is invited to a gated community that Lance and his wife designed. It's a postcard-perfect spot, but there is definitely something odd about the place. No one's over forty, there aren't any kids anywhere, and its residents all look like supermodels. Things come full circle when Nick returns to eerie Bitternest and is approached by private eye Jim Coffin who requests his assistance to investigate a series of strange, ghastly murders. Are these murders linked to the ones in Montreal? Meanwhile, a mysterious traveling carnival rolls into town. Nick and Jim are in for a few surprises and when all will be said and done, Nick will never be the same again....

Biology professor Max Hurd's life is unraveling. Separated from his wife, pressured to perjure by his boss, and suspected by a psychotic cop of murder when that boss disappears already adds to his psychosis of fearing the dark. No one believes him of the real problem that has caused his boss and others to vanish near Gulls Bay: warrens of raccoon-sized carnivores multiplying in warrens beneath the dump, which DOE wants to re-open so that mining of methane can begin. No one seems to care if Max is eliminated. His ex-wife's pedophile biker lover is after the insurance money. The workers are locked out of their jobs at Gulls Bay. The Chinese chemists are cooking up bioweapons for use against Caucasians. All of these discontents are mustered against Max, whose separation leaves him only enough remaining money to live close enough to the landfill to see things that no one else believes in. By moonlight, he can see the landfill crawling with them. Biology tells him that those many mouths need food, and the biggest meal on the local menu of dark and foggy metropolitan Seattle are human beings. Max's only ally is Pugh's former lover, Dawn, who wants to cure him of his irrational fear of darkness, and silly notion that things out there do more than just go bump. Max cannot avoid the converging dangers. Without a plan, they will eat him alive.

Freak. That's what folks are calling Lyric Freeman after a horrific crash kills her best friend and nearly claims Lyric. Her injuries result in the ability to hear the dying speak, and soon she finds she must help deceased slaves find freedom. Not so bad, right? Wrong... STRANGE FRUIT: A Ghost Story is a wild ride through the American Slave Trade to a modern day haunted house and is inspired by the protest poem by Abel Meeropol and the haunting musical versions by Nina Simone and Billie Holliday (and the many others who have done this ode justice). "Totally mesmerizing...." - Sandra Carrington-Smith "I was absolutely gripped with fear and interest from the very beginning!" - Natalie Rae Kimber

Tristan went looking for trouble and ended up with more than she bargained for. A night on the town goes awry when a local Dallas girl runs afoul of a vacationing coven of vampires, who have come up with a novel way to ensure a blood link to join them all together. When going home is no longer an option, Tristan finds herself trapped in a world of non-stop sex and violence, and struggles to find her place and balance her own morality against the nature of the beast she has become.

Will you BECOME ONE with the terror? The Mind Walker..... ...a diabolical man who possess the power to invade, distort and rape your mind..... For retired Dominic County Sheriff Jack Yuma, the terrifying incidents of the local chophouse ended years ago on that one dreadful night where so many lost their lives and bestowed upon the chophouse its infamy. But something has been reborn in an unholy womb, thriving on fear and hatred, driven by savagery and revenge, and it is coming for him. They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. In this case, Sheriff Yuma should have made sure it was dead the first time..... From the celebrated author of Chophouse 1 & 2, and When the Night Darkens the Streets.

Matthew Abraham is a drug dealer being forced out of his empire in Baltimore, Maryland. Rather than submitting to the pressures of the younger dealers, he decides to destroy his empire and leave his neighborhood turf with his baby mother and seven year old daughter Destiny, leaving behind a gang war to take up residence in Negro Mountain, located along the Mason-Dixon line. Destiny, disturbed and frightened by her parents' gang banging lifestyle, turns to the spirits of her departed grandmother and of Negro Mountain itself who speak to her through the dolls she plays with, and bestow upon her powers to manipulate nature through prayer. The saying is, Negro Mountain is a place where bad things happen to bad people. So when negative energy meets with the energy resting in Negro Mountain the outcome is always the same. The Mountain wins.

Mike Van Gremor, paranormal journalist, has lost what's most important in his life: his wife. Plagued by her memory, he throws himself into a new assignment, investigating fatal accidents near a small town in the Hudson River Valley. Soon, he will open the door to a remarkable new dimension and find himself in the position to decide the fate of mankind, and with the power to deliver us from evil. "Shawn-a-lee will scare the pants off you!" --Norm Applegate (author, Blood Bar)

If you liked the spine-tingling, Stoker-inspired terror of Shadows In the Dark, then you will love the collection of related stories that takes place around the same point at the turn of the 19th century around the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes have always been filled with beauty, awe and mystery. Now they offer up waves of frightening tales of suspense and terror. From Flying Dutchman-like Mariners to an unspeakable evil transported back to Chicago from its Egyptian Tomb, to a ship's log revealing it was more than just a storm which killed its crew, to vengeful ghosts and big fish tales. These stories are sure to give you pause about ever journeying into the Great Lakes regions at night, or ever going anywhere near them....alone.

From the haunting story of an alienated young boy yearning to be understood to the brutal bloodbath invoked by a satanic excuse for a small town preacher to the creepiest birthing center you've ever imagined, Jason Gehlert's debut release will astound, horrify and delight you - sometimes all at once. Gehlert's style is muscular, even brutal on occasion, as he batters at your brain with a collection that kicks off with a gleeful hat tip to our Twlightesque past and then digs down deep for more bloody, visceral thrills that will leave bloody trails in your nightmares for weeks to come.

La Momia (The Mummy) is a horror novel set in modern-day Mexico where the citizens are once again caught in the middle of a raging drug war between the Mexican Mafia, Los Federales, the American DEA and Homeland Security. Ricky Valdez is facing the death sentence in northern Coahuila, recently reinstated as a backlash against the epidemic of drug violence. He has been framed by the Government for a string of executions by the Aztec 666, the most vicious of the drug gangs in El Norte. Numerous witnesses claim that an Aztec mummy had been resurrected to carry out the murders. Lieutenant Leo Narvaiz of the Mexican Federal Police has been assigned to the case, and finds himself on a trail of superstition and witchcraft where an ancient ritual conjures up a Satanic demon manifesting itself as La Momia Azteca of legend. The monster embarks on a string of serial murder, as the ancient prophecies are fulfilled at last. For horror buffs, crime enthusiasts and Mexican history enthusiasts, La Momia (The Mummy) is that rare exciting thrill you were summoned to read!

The sunlight, oh how its warmth and soft radiance provides visibility and a pretend sense of safety against the night and the fiendish beasts who roam in the devilry of the darkest shadows.... A shy, bookish female sitting across from you on the bus-her satiny hair in a tight bun, those big, pretty eyes glancing nervously up at you from behind a pair of thick lenses, then a delicate draw of her lips shaping an uncertain smile on her plain yet elusively beautiful face when she notices you staring. You look away worrying she might suspect you're a pervert who wants to do her harm. Yet WHEN NIGHT DARKENS THE STREETS this same trepid woman walks confidently down the front steps of her apartment building wearing lots of makeup and a skintight outfit made of leather and lace with her feet squeezed inside a pair of stiletto heels. Her seductive figure slinks through the night, hurrying across the cooling pavement in search for prey. A streetlamp casts its light on her clutch bag and she pulls it hard against her body as she scurries back into the darkness where her wicked secrets are invited and safe. And for now only she knows about the large straight razor hidden inside the purse-its cutting edge stained with the blood of past victims. Consider the local soul-caring priest who wishes you a blessed day or the middle-aged woman working at the grocery checkout counter who is always friendly and helpful. Regard the mailman who has reliably delivered letters and packages for decades to your doorstep or the neighbor who routinely smiles and waves each morning while helping his young daughter inside the car before heading out to school. Now heed the hundreds of individuals around you milling about in the sunlight-civil and sane. What demons transform when the veil of darkness arrives and the streets blacken? What stories of terror and bloodshed will unfold?.... WHEN NIGHT DARKENS THE STREETS.... From the publisher of THE PRICE OF FEAR: THE FILM CAREER OF VINCENT PRICE (In His Own Words) and the blockbuster novel THE EVERBORN comes this collection of hair-raising tales. WHEN NIGHT DARKENS THE STREETS brings together two seasoned horror writers - HORNS and John Grover - and together they fill the pages with prose frightening enough to summon the blistering attention of the baleful beings who swarm the night world should this book be used for purposes other than pure entertainment. Plus we include a special treat with GALEWOOD BAPTIST, a demonic tale by horror fiction master Nicholas Grabowsky! Read at your own risk.... Each story is accompanied with an illustration created by the talented hand of Gary A. Gabbard.

Jeremiah Black is unwittingly trapped in Hell after heroically saving his family from a serial killer one fateful night during the 1890's. There he finds himself propositioned by none other than the Devil himself. Resurrected and immortal, he is forced to kill his wife and entire bloodline over the course of the next century in order to appease the Devil. When two Inspectors attempt to halt his killing spree, he murders them, or so he thinks. One of them, Inspector Jackson Granger, through a freak mishap of Black's blood mixing with his own while wounded finds himself immortal. Looking to end Black's reign of terror, and bent on getting revenge for his murdered partner, Jackson sets out to find Black, and destroy him even if he has to battle against the power of the Devil himself.

Two powerful brothers, separated at birth, find each other after being tortured and turned into vampire killing machines by sinister forces for use as weapons of Dark Ages warfare. They were fierce when starved and then unleashed into battle and slaughtered an astonishing many. But while being immortal, they were not immune to manipulation, lies, betrayal, or their own growing desires for truth and morality in a brutal world. Upon further transformation into creatures even more powerful than all the vampire elders, they struggle in their quest to maintain peaceful lives across history, from Medieval times to Nazi Berlin and present day USA, searching for answers to existence. Neither one wanted to be monsters, but was there a way to use their powers for good?

Spring-Heeled Jack is a British urban legend, first appearing in 1837. Eye witnesses tell of a man who could leap several stories in the air with little effort. Some say he could breathe blue fire, others say he lured women out of their homes and attacked them by clawing at their faces. By all accounts he was a thief and a menace. Sightings of Spring-Heeled Jack continued for several centuries and crossed numerous continents, but he has been mysteriously absent from the 21st century. Until now. Spring-Heeled Jack breaks into the houses of two women, brutally attacking them both. Police report that a few items from each house were stolen and neither women were critically injured. His appearance is frightening: dressed in all black with hat, full face mask, goggles, cape, shirt, pants, and boots. He then breaks into an antique store, searching for special items for their energies including a rare glass knife. With the correct combination of objects and energies, Jack can open portals to different times and places. Enter Alice, who works at the store. Jack suspects she herself can open portals and the two develop an unlikely alliance in a search for a portal to a mythological utopia.