But Button was only dimly aware of the sounds. Her consciousness had shrunk down to focus on the body that was blocking her hole— —and the warm, thick liquid that was dripping onto her hand.” Button is an 11 year old, bubbly and intelligent girl who is haunted in her dreams by a tapping sound… Living with her mother and father in Cottsborough, Vermont, Button had been trained to hide and not ever answer to her secret name, ‘Rachel’. One day, two men arrive at Button’s family home searching for her by this secret name. Refusing to give Button up, things turn violent and the men shoot her father dead. Through a narrow crack in the floor boards, Button bears witness to the murder. Eluding the two men who tried to catch her, Button uses her wits to navigate herself from Vermont to Boston and then to New York. Button has a plan to find her uncle Dromkin. When her search seems hopeless, Button is taken in by a resident of her uncle’s apartment building, Phil, who claims he can help. But when they find Dromkin sprawled on the floor with his throat cut, Button is convinced she is somehow the cause of these family murders... Will Phil be able to keep her identity hidden long enough for her to find out the truth? Praise for Michael Kurland: "A perfect tale of childhood terror." - Tom Kasey Michael Kurland grew up in New York City, attended Columbia University, spent four years in the Army, much of it in Europe, and now lives in California with his partner, novelist Linda Robertson, a dog, a cat, and an occasional visiting family of raccoons. He has been a teacher of obscure subjects to disinterested children, the editor of a magazine even more idiosyncratic than himself, a seeker of absent persons, a magical explainer, and guest lecturer at numerous unrelated events. Kurland has written a dozen or so science fiction novels, a brace of mysteries, and several books that fit into that tenuous genre known as “mainstream.” He has been nominated for an Edgar (twice) and for the American Book Award. His books have been translated into eleven other languages. His other novel with Venture Press is Psi Hunt.

    A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear.

    

    So you go on a road trip together, have a few drinks, a final fling before the long academic haul ahead. Young and bright, you feel the future surge beneath you like a sleek stallion, under your full control.But a series of small lapses ends in tragedy and now you're faced with a terrible decision: Do you take responsibility for what you've done and risk losing everything? Or flee into the night unseen, with only God and conscience as your jury?Sixteen years ago, Scott Bowman faced this decision...Now a successful psychiatrist with a loving family, Scott endures a judgement far more harrowing than any god or man could conceive. An ancient derelict appears in his practice, an apparently senile old man with a remarkable artistic talent. Otherwise disconnected from the world around him, this strange little man quickly demonstrates an ability to foretell events through his drawings.But before long Scott is left to wonder: is this eldritch prophet predicting events? Or shaping them?PRAISE FOR THE CARTOONIST"In THE CARTOONIST, Sean Costello creates a fast-moving read that mounts in tension while mixing horror with psychological anguish." —J. B. Macabre"Sean Costello's The Cartoonist is a wonderful blend of horror, psychology, and the power of suggestion that leaves you guessing right up to the very end!" —The New Jersey Grapevine

    Another woman is approached by a stranger who tells her that her dead child lives. A fifth grade girl "sees" her dead twin beckoning to her. Parents across the nation are being "contacted" by their dead children and the message is the same: "We're alive and we need help!" Original.

    Jacob Wier, a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, is hounded by the minions of hell who are looking for a book written by Satan himself and will stop at nothing to get it

    In order to help get his name back out there, we are offering Blood Hunter at a special reduced price until the first of September. Grab your copy now!Legends abound about hideous creatures who live in the swamps near Aimsley, Louisiana. They’ve picked up the name Mormo, and they are said to be terrifying. but Jag Walker and Debra Blane discover the creatures are at the root of a larger conspiracy as they begin a search for her missing brother. As they unravel ancient secrets and modern evil, they find they must confront a nightmare.Author’s Note for the E-EditionIt’s hard to believe Blood Hunter was written twenty years ago, and the unsold screenplay on which I based it even further back. That screenplay entailed what is now the latter portion of this story. I opened the tale up a little more when I turned it into a novel, my third published book. It was written while I was a young reporter, though not, by that point, as green as Jag, this book’s protagonist.Recently, someone sent me a You Tube clip of an interview I did at a science fiction convention around the time of the original publication. I remember doing that sound bite, and it seems like yesterday. This new edition is much like the original edition. I’ve tightened the prose in places and touched up a few plot points, but I haven’t tried to update it or do major overhauls. This is a story set in the 1990s.It’s interesting, in re-reading the text after some time, to note how the world has changed. Characters make a lot of pay phone calls and struggle with communication issues that are no longer a challenge. They also refer to a troubled economy and the impact of fluctuating oil prices. Some things don’t change at all.There were certainly no e-books when this was first written. It’s exciting to see it gain new life in a new era. Happy reading.

    An Inspector Janeway Mystery. Inspector Lewis Janeway is drawn out of retirement when the body of a student washes up on a grassy bank of the River Cam. The mystery deepens when similar crimes are revealed going back many centuries. As the ancient festival of Samain approaches, an American graduate student meets a mysterious young woman in the ancient woodland known as Trinity Grove.

    popular literature. From 1929 to 1959, Dent wrote and sold millions of words of fiction—wildly colorful action stories with sea, air and western settings, adventure and suspense novels. His most famous serial character was supehero Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, who battled crime throughout the pages of a ten-cent pulp magazine in the thirties and forties.

    So when handsome, brooding Hunter Latimer offered her a post as governess on Dark Thunder Island, Faith didn't listen to his warnings that the place was not for the fainthearted -- and that for long stretches of time she would be alone on the dismal, fogbound island with only a frail and timid woman and her high-strung, sleepwalking child.Emboldened by Hunter's confidence in her, and strangely drawn by the glint of adventure in his dark eyes, Faith approached her new position with a high heart -- only to find herself shunned by the hostile islanders and the darkly taciturn housekeeper of Latimer House. She fell prey to a series of small accidents too contrived to be coincidences, and she realized, finally, that someone was trying to keep her from learning the secrets of Dark Thunder Island. Even the enigmatic Hunter Latimer could not be trusted. For he was at the very heart of the evil that swirled around her...

    They come to him by day, and call to him by night. And one by one, they are dying - their bodies hideously marked, their faces twisted with ecstasy. There are only two women who can resist Chris Dixon's power. One awaits him nightly in the crypt where she lies, silent and strangely preserved. The other is trying, alone and desperate, to awaken the town to the terror in its midst. She knows, because she too has been inside the devil's pentacle; she too has gazed into the grisly doorway of Hell.