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Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.

Afflicted by a centuries-old curse, a warlord slowly surrenders his humanity and descends toward madness. Ballard of Ketach Tor holds no hope of escaping his fate until his son returns home one day, accompanied by a woman of incomparable beauty. His family believes her arrival may herald Ballard’s salvation...until they confront her elder sister.

This program contains original music. The title track, "Evil in Me," is performed by The Maxines and written by Brom and AJ Grey of The Maxines. "Rockers who love horror (or horror fans who love rock and roll) should give this tale a listen”—Library Journal Evil in Me is bestselling author...

Most humans have no idea that a dark and deadly underworld, filled with magic and monsters, exists. They wander through life blissfully ignorant of the supernatural world around them. Nora Jacobs is different. Nora knows exactly what kinds of hellish creatures haunt the streets of Detroit. Thanks to a unique set of psychic abilities, Nora has managed to steer clear of the underworld most of her life. But all that changes the night the most powerful vampire in the city discovers her gifts and decides to use her as a tool to find one of his missing clan members.

Noel: I'm finally free and able to patrol my own territory without Marco being by my side. I really appreciated everything he's taught me, what can I say... that big, brutal bastard grew on me. However, before I can embark on my new life as a General, I have to fulfill a debt my Father owes to the dragon king, Evander. This should be interesting. At least I'm not going alone. Dante, newly-mated to Josef, will be going with me.

These violent delights have violent ends. After surviving a shadowed childhood, Mallory Webb is ready to start fresh as a theater major at her mother’s alma mater, a sanitarium turned liberal arts university in Rhode Island. Landing the lead role in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet feels like...

Das Reich Phersia erstarrt in ewiger Kälte, doch die wahre Gefahr für Prinzessin Neera sind die dunklen Pläne ihrer Mutter. Ausgerechnet mit dem Dämonenprinzen Ciarán möchte sie ein Bündnis schließen, dem Mann, dessen Mutter Asmodea einst den Fluch sprach, der Neeras Heimat mit Eis überzog. Eine alte Prophezeiung bindet Ciaráns und Neeras Schicksale aneinander. Indes rückt die Dunkelheit näher und durch einen verzauberten Spiegel wirkt die gebannte Königin Asmodea ihre zerstörerische Magie.

Alex is a righteous witch hunter. I’m a stab-worthy witch. We loved each other once. Now, we can’t stand to be near each other. It’s my fault. We are natural born enemies, after all. I had to help him save his brother from a psychotic voodoo priest, though. What can I say? I like Little Remington as much as I pretend to dislike Alex. Besides, he promised to never bother me again after that. He kept his end of the bargain. I left my dubious life behind and started over. All is well. Until....

No one was aware of the demon who resided under the house. Zuazibar scraped his way to earth from the depths of the underworld, escaping its fiery embrace. He was an enemy of the dark lord and was hated in the underworld. He had four large, long, twisted arms that he used to get around and two short hind legs. Zuazibar had no eyes, but his mouth was on his back, and he was relatively silent as he moved about. He was brown in color and looked to have been severely burned all over.

Sometimes, a thread pulled through the flesh is all that holds you together. Sometimes, the blade of a knife or the point of a nail is the only way you know you're real. When pain becomes art and a quarter is buried deep within you, all you want is to be seen, to have value, to be loved. But love can be fragile, folded into an origami elephant while you disappear, carried on the musical notes that build a bridge, or woven into an illusion so real, so perfect that you can fool yourself for a little while.

David Vandergraff lost his home, his job, and contact with his oldest son, but remains determined to be a good husband and father despite being a dark winter wizard. His resolve is tested when a flyer for a missing girl - who happens to be a summer witch - begins to haunt him. David believes a spell needs to use him to save her, so he follows the magic's command and looks into her disappearance. His teenage daughter Emmy resents him for caring so much about a random stranger.

Bill Baxton is an ordinary high school senior—until he’s summoned into a magical realm by a kingdom in desperate need of a hero. But when the court mage fails to detect Bill’s immense magic, he is cast aside, deemed powerless, and abandoned. Alone in a dark, foreboding forest, Bill discovers his ability to control the elements—earth, wind, and fire. With the help of a small, mysterious fox named Cindy, who later reveals herself as the world’s goddess, Bill sets out on a journey to stop the kingdom from using his magic in a dangerous ritual.

Zeph had been a child, thrust into a war that wasn’t his. When he was older, he discovered he had landed on the wrong side of everything. He’d been fighting for sweet revenge, because of lies he’d believed - and those lies proved to be his ruin. Falling into despair, Zeph decides living is too painful. So, he writes his final act with poison and chooses to end his story. But Fate has other plans for Zeph.

Months after the events in The Eternal Machine, Novak leads an expedition into the long separated Realm of Giants, a land filled with dragons and dangerous secret societies who already have their eyes set on Iverbourne.

Seth stood and watched the nightmare creature as it tore its past master into bloody shreds and tried not to let the gripping fear show on his face. He could feel the man's life force, his memories, his talents and hard won skills filling his own mind and body turning him into something much more than the lowly soldier he'd been just mere moments before.

Keeper of Death is quite a fitting name for a villain, and yet Lythienne finds herself as the only Fae who can save the realm of Iverbourne. Born as an Empty Fae, she is sent into the Eternal Mountain, a prison designed for the most malicious, blood thirsty and cursed creatures alive. Her crime, along with so many other creatures, is being Lesser than the grand High Fae who rule the divided lands above.

What happens when The Firm meets Anita Blake? You get the Halls of Power - our modern world, but twisted. Law, finance, the military, and politics are under the sway of long-lived vampires, werewolves, and the elven Alfar. Humans make the best of rule by “the Spooks”, and contend among themselves to affiliate with the powers-that-be, in order to avoid becoming their prey. Very loyal humans are rewarded with power over other women and men. Very lucky humans are selected to join the vampires.

Eine Welt für das Leben nach dem Tod, eine für den letzten Kampf - Chaos, Verrücktheit & Gefahr. Um Rab White zu entthronen sowie Wonderland vor einem Krieg zu bewahren, sind Cathrine Cheshire und ihre Verbündeten gezwungen, mit alten Feinden zu kooperieren, aber auch Hilfe von Fremden anzunehmen. Erneut stellen sie sich gefährlich verrückten Aufgaben und beschreiten Wege ins Unbekannte. Bei ihrem letzten Abenteuer werden die Freunde von Verlust, Wahnsinn und Heimtücken verfolgt, wodurch ihr Verstand immer wieder auf die Probe gestellt wird. Das Spiel hat begonnen, die Zeit läuft.

After the fall of Troy, an Amazonian demigod descends into the underworld to save the soul of her lover from eternal damnation and discovers what it means to love and to hate something. A short story with a modern twist on Greek mythology.

When a brutal war comes to Gal’azu, Og-Grim-Dog believe things can’t get any worse. They’re wrong. For the dead now walk the land. As the world around them begins to disintegrate, Og-Grim-Dog face their greatest challenge yet. Can they survive the apocalypse?