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Dive into the terrors that lurk behind every corner and in every shadow of the world with these flesh-crawling tales, eight spine-tingling horror stories by Leigh Harlen.

Being a reaper is a lot harder than flipping burgers—but Jazz Sweeney has never been one to back down from responsibility. She’s not exactly thrilled about her latest assignment: reaping the soul of convicted serial killer Theodore Salazar at the state penitentiary. Years ago, Salazar terrorized Eastwood, leaving two victims near the Eastwood River. Now that he’s finally dead, the city can breathe a sigh of relief.

Greta didn't set out to solve a murder. But if the first thing you see when you come home after a long day at a lousy job is your own dead body, it can make even the most cynical non-starter in 1994 Seattle take an interest. Refusing to believe her dead eyes, the one-time theater editor at the city's least noteworthy periodical - now a bitter ghost haunting the streets and busways of the Emerald City - will happily break every rule of crime fiction to tell her story and prove she didn't die a lame-ass, suicidal Cobain imitator.

In this gothic-styled ghost story that simmers with strange, Warren shows once again her flair for exploring the mundane - themes of love, loss, grief, and guilt manifest in a way that is both hauntingly familiar and eerily askew. People come to The Angelsea, a rooming house near the beach, for many reasons. Some come to get some sleep, because here, you sleep like the dead. Dora arrives seeking solitude and escape from reality. Instead, she finds a place haunted by the drowned and desperate, who speak through the sleeping inhabitants.

When Michael Carpenter had been invited to examine the most perfectly preserved bog mummy from ancient Germany, it was the opportunity of a lifetime. Then everything came crashing down when the corpse is apparently stolen, carpenter's mentor killed, and he himself left with a traumatic brain injury. The man returned to his loving fiance, Faye, is damaged with severe amnesia. But worse, some wraith like stalker has followed them back to America, and with it comes gruesome death. Only Michael knows what this specter is, but he's not telling.

After years of struggling with his family and especially his own ghosts and haunted past, Oliver needs to confront his demons and move on. But whilst playing what they think is a harmless game on holiday in a lodge, Oliver and his friends find out just how real your past can be in your present. In a panic, the friends make a fatal decision. Now the past has come to haunt them, and the friends realize just how fragile their own realities, as well as their bodies, really are. Who will last the night, and who will have to stay forever?