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After Darkness Falls - Volume One
Matt Drabble - 2013
From the painted faces of a child's nightmare to discovering what we really put in our bodies in the name of health. Here are 10 tales to read with the light on.TALE #1 - "Roll up, Roll up"TALE #2 - "Late Shift"TALE #3 - "You call that music?"TALE #4 - "Whose face is this anyway?"TALE #5 - "Pink Bow"TALE #6 - "Careful what you wish for"TALE #7 - "Recycling can be hazardous to your health"TALE #8 - "Mommy's little soldier"TALE #9 - "Trick or Treat"TALE #10 - "You are what you eat"
50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2
Robert Keller - 2013
These are some of their stories.
A catalogue of evil, including;
Sean Vincent Gillis: A depraved psychopath who used his victims' body parts as sex toys.Thomas Piper: Outwardly respectable clergyman who had a deadly obsession with little girls.Louise Peete: Sex-crazed femme fatale who committed three murders and also drove four of her husbands to suicide. Thor Nis Christiansen: Killed four young women in order to have sex with their corpses.Roger Kibbe: The ruthless I-5 Strangler murdered at least 8 stranded female motorists along California's freeways.Orville Lee Majors: Angel of Death who waged a deadly campaign against his elderly patients. Believed to be responsible for over 100 murders.Robert Shulman: This Long Island prostitute slayer bludgeoned his victims before hacking them to pieces. Tillie Klimek: "Psychic" who predicted her victims' deaths, right before she poisoned them. Jarvis Catoe: D.C. serial killer whose murder spree prompted a Congressional hearing, and changes to the Washington Police Department. Mack Ray Edwards: Edwards found a unique way of getting rid of his victims - he buried them under the freeways he was building.
Big Bad
David Brian - 2014
Over time he has learned to accept his confinement. After all, it is no more than he deserves given the heinous nature of his previous crimes. However, when a new member of the nursing staff begins taking an interest in Tommy, he learns things previously kept from him: Like why he is being permanently dosed with meds. How, and why, his parents really died. And is it just a coincidence his earlier crimes occurred at the time of a full moon? Nurse Jenny informs Tommy about the true nature of his world: Secret Government cabals, and their plans for a New World Order; the murder of his parents, and facing up to the reality of his life as a werewolf. Then, when she thinks he is ready, she tells him the biggest secret of all: Nurse Jenny has a way out of Broad-lands. But, as is often the case, nothing comes without a price. What is the real motivation for her aiding Tommy's escape? A tale of horror that unfolds beneath the light of a full moon.
Dreams in Black Static: Eight Stories
Ambrose Ibsen - 2020
After watching it, one of them vanishes...A heart transplant recipient gets much more than he bargained for when he digs into his donor's sinister past...Mourning the death of their son, a young couple is plunged into madness after encountering something otherworldly in the wilderness...DREAMS IN BLACK STATIC is a collection of eight terrifying stories by Ambrose Ibsen, author of The Haunting of Beacon Hill and Asylum. The tales included are:"Me and Mr. Ray" **"Decatur Road" **"Dreams in Black Static" **"Distortional Addict" **"Trim" **"Subterrane Dream" **"Orchard""The Uncanny" **** = Appearing in print for the first time
Louisiana Blood (A Chandler Travis and Duke Lanoix Mystery Thriller)
Mike Donald - 2019
When the remains of Jack the Ripper’s first five victims are discovered in present day Louisiana, an English detective and a local sheriff form an unlikely alliance to unravel the mystery…and find themselves caught up in a modern-day conspiracy.
The Foot Soldier
Mark Rubinstein - 2013
The Foot Soldier brings you to the hell of jungle combat. Close your eyes and this novella takes you there. It conveys the terror and brutality of jungle warfare and their effect on the American riflemen--those who bore the greatest burden. It's every bit as compelling as The Things They Carried.
The Tree of Bones
J. Bryer - 2013
One part told through extracts from a 1920 Ukrainian teenager’s diary; the other a contemporary American teenage novel. The stories intertwine, as the events documented in the diary have a direct effect on Angeline's life in the present day. After descending a thousand feet underground, into an old Ukrainian salt mine, her life will drastically change. When she returns to Logan Falls, Angeline will have to unwillingly accept that she might not ever be the same again.The Tree of Bones also contains found diary excerpts from 1920, of a Ukrainian teenager named Katarina - who was the victim of a witch hunt.
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Tim MartinBernard Capes - 2017
From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.
Real Ghost Stories: Haunting Encounters Told by Real People
Tony Brueski - 2017
In this book, Tony and Jenny Brueski from Real Ghost Stories Online take the most haunting accounts from their podcast and share them here, including:• HAUNTED BUILDINGS AND BREWERIES• JEALOUS DEMONS AND PROTECTIVE SPIRITS• MESSAGES FROM RETURNED RELATIVES• GHOSTLY BATTLES FROM LONG-LOST WARS• EXORCISMS AND DARK ENERGIES• GRAVEYARD EXPLORATION GONE WRONG
The Kennedy Assassination: what really happened: A deathbed confession, new discoveries, and Trump's 2017-18 document release implicates LBJ in the murder
Jerry Kroth - 2018
Once we add these documents to what we learned from the CIA's own Howard Hunt, who made a deathbed confession in 2007, we find LBJ deeply implicated in the murder. The releases are absolutely revelatory.
Short Horror Stories Vol. 9
Kathryn St. John-Shin - 2020
A sleepwalker is stalked by a sinister spirit in the shadow world between dreams and reality. And in a town ravaged by a savage beast, a desperate man will do anything to protect his loved one.Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three spine-tingling tales for your reading pleasure. But first, lock the doors, close the windows, and be sure to turn on the lights.Safe and sound, you begin to read. But wait… something scratches on your bedroom door. And you realize all the locks in the world can’t protect you. Because the thing you fear most is already inside.The lights go out, the door creaks open. And the real nightmare begins…
Merry Bloody Christmas
Ellie Scott - 2018
A chocoholic grizzly bear, a talking Christmas tree, mince pie overdoses and a very bloody murder. Will poor old Saint Nick make it out alive? Sad, strange, funny and gruesome, this overlapping, multi-genre collection of tales has a little something for every reader. Curl up with a mulled wine and some fictional festive misery, and discover what Father Christmas really likes to drink when he wriggles down your chimney. Spoiler: it isn’t milk.
Dead Meat: The Complete Zombie Apocalypse Series
Nick Clausen - 2021
Within three days, the undead have taken over most of town. Despite heroic efforts and swift initiatives from the government, disaster keeps spiraling. Soon, the infection reaches the nation's borders, threatening to become a worldwide pandemic.Will this be the end of mankind?This is the end of the world - one day at a time.
"Stagecoach" Mary Fields: Montana's Legendary Pioneer
Julie McDonald - 2016
Little is known of her during her 30 plus years as a slave in Tennessee, or her life shortly thereafter. Her arrival and subsequent life in Cascade, Montana would make her a legend. Enjoy this great, inspiring and very humorous story of one amazing woman!