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Brought to you by Penguin. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . For most people, that means a time of celebration, relaxation and inebriation, but not for the staff of The Stranger Times. While a book club meeting ending in a triple murder isn’t unprecedented, it is at least...

Sie starb für sie alle, aber lebt für ihn. Nach dem Erntemond ist für Kalea nichts mehr, wie zuvor. Geplagt von den Geschehnissen versucht sie sich in Viredis wieder zurecht zu finden. Fauns Abwesenheit allerdings, erschwert es ihr, ihre neuen Mächte zu beherrschen.

2010. The end of the world has begun, but no one is paying attention. People are unaware of the breaking pandemic, code name, The Epilogue Event. Accidentally finding himself at center stage, an unlikely and unwilling hero Peter Finch, must, if he is to survive, awaken powers he has been trying to forget for over thirty years. And time is not on his side. A mysterious Artificial Intelligence, the cause of the plague, is slowly gaining control over everyone Peter loves and everything he values.

Da will man in seinem Buchclub ein wenig Spiritualität ausprobieren und schon hat man aus Versehen den alten Gott Zalas heraufbeschworen. Und Zalas hat natürlich nur eins im Sinn: möglichst viele Gläubige um sich scharen. Mithilfe des unglückseligen Neil Aikens erschafft Zalas ein Winterwunderland, in dem alle Wünsche wahr werden – vom echten Einhorn bis zum Besuch des Opas, der letztes Jahr doch eigentlich das Zeitliche gesegnet hat. Das Team der Stranger Times muss einen Weg finden, um nicht nur Weihnachten, sondern womöglich die ganze Welt zu retten.

After surviving countless perils and dangers, including an examination by the Blood Council, Fred is preparing to take on his most important adventure to date: marrying Krystal. That is, if he can get everything handled in time. Visiting Boarback, hiring new staff, clearing out his schedule for a honeymoon; there's no shortage of tasks to check off before the big day arrives. But not everyone views the occasion in such a happy light. With new dangers looming, old debts raised, and grudges rekindled, it'll take everything Fred has to finally make it down the aisle.

Airborne mage armies traverse enemy territory in utter secrecy. Vast city-liches conspire to influence events from afar, while city-states and archmages unleash strange new magics in a rapidly accelerating magical arms race. Nations and great powers that have remained quiescent for years have begun reaching out into the growing power vacuum. Magical superweapons and giant monsters are wielded by every side in a deadly tangle of alliances and factions, as each squabbling force spirals in towards their inevitable final conflict.

The attack on Earth is imminent. Nelson can't prevent it. But he can end it. Even if it's the last thing he does.

Welcome to The Westside Fairytales PodcastDemons, desperate souls, and eldritch horrors…We at the Westside Fairytales have written a story for you. Not you in that broad sense where you just means anybody, but you, Dear Listener. We know all about you. What makes you nervous, what sickens you, what keeps you from leaving your house sometimes for the maddening worry of it. And we’ve put it in a story. A story we’ll read for you.These strange and varied original tales will linger long after you've finished listening. The Westside Fairytales horror and dark fiction podcast is an ...

Simon Bovey is an established writer and director who has penned numerous compelling dramas for BBC Radio. Collected here are four of his sensational sci-fi tales, packed with mystery, suspense and terror...

The Establishment wants Earth. Earth isn't ready to defend itself. So Nelson Newman takes matters into his own hands. Determined to disrupt Oleander's plans, Nelson travels back to Wenua. With SELF alongside him, they have one mission: to buy humanity the time they need to prepare against invasion. Nelson’s life is on the line. SELF knows sacrifices must be made. Earth’s freedom is the prize. Is Nelson willing to pay the price?

After Windsor Ebonwood’s love life and successful career as a book conservator vanish in one fell swoop, she’s determined to begin anew. Win moves to Darkly Island off the coast of Louisiana, where she’s been bequeathed an unusual bookshop and a charming home on the edge of a dark swamp. Win gets to work settling into her new life in the sleepy Southern town but discovering Darkly’s heartless town alderman impaled on a gravestone wasn’t on the books. Nor was finding out about her family’s legacy as powerful witches responsible for protecting the bookshop at all costs.

Christmas is right around the corner, and Angelica and Vance are finally getting ready to say their vows. But just as they're about to start their happily ever after, a dark cloud appears on the horizon in the form of someone from Angelica's past. This mysterious figure has a dangerous plan and will stop at nothing to silence Angelica forever.

An eccentric theoretical physicist created a portal to some of the extra dimensions predicted by String Theory. The positive impact this could have on the world was awe inspiring. It was also perceived by political leaders worldwide to have the capacity to be weaponized with a level of power that would be unchallenged. An international race thus ensued to either control or destroy the technology and its creator.

Lizzie Grace and Belle Kent, her witch familiar, are living and working on the Faelan Werewolf Reservation - one that has banned the use of magic within its borders. Although they have their supporters - including ranger Aiden O’Connor, who once hated all things witch - Lizzie and Belle now face possible eviction.

Als die junge Kunstgutachterin Eve Shaw in ihrem Büro einem silberhaarigen Herrn die Hand schüttelt, wird sie das Gefühl nicht los, diese schon einmal gehalten zu haben. Sie erfährt von einem rätselhaften Ort, dem White Octopus Hotel. Mythen von Zeitreisezimmern und magischen Gegenständen ranken sich darum. Eve beschließt, in dem verlassenen Anwesen, hoch oben in den Schweizer Alpen, nach Antworten zu suchen und findet sich plötzlich in dem prachtvollen Belle-Époque-Hotel zu seiner Glanzzeit wieder.

When a sleeping dwarf is found entombed in a glass coffin and remedial witch Sophie is blamed, Emma Hart must defend her friend while trying to get to the bottom of the enchantment. The investigation lands Emma smack dab in the middle of Spellbound's dating scene, where plenty of the town's residents are eager to make her acquaintance. Emma knows it's time to kick her witchy skills up a notch if she expects to survive Thursday night speed dating and keep sweet Sophie from a life in paranormal prison.

Thumbelina's a long way from home and on campus, studying hard to find her happily ever after. So, when the Tom Thumb of legend asks her out for lunch and Tinker Bell doesn't approve, does Thumbelina go with her gut, or does she run faster out of college than a jack rabbit? Join this funny adventure when Thumbelina crosses over with Tinkerbell, Tom Thumb, Odette from Swan Lake, and other beloved fairy-tale characters!

Set along the Great Barrier Reef, ‘The Black Bell Buoy’ recalls the story of two members of the Marine Board who were sent to secure a giant buoy near a dangerous piece of coral. Only one man makes it home though as rumours of a hideous octopus abound.

Who would you trust with the power to alter the destiny of humanity? Devastated by the loss of his son in a remote rainforest of Indonesian Papua, Quentin Darnell now must struggle to get his wife and surviving students safely back to civilization. But surviving the trek out of the wilderness is only the first challenge, because his group now possesses an object that can create anything or do anything, for better or for worse. Can anyone be trusted with such power? If they can somehow get the object to the United States, will they be heroes—or the world’s destroyers?

Quand la cloche de l'église sonne trois fois au milieu de la nuit, le mal arrive... Lizzie Grace et Belle Kent, sa familière qui est aussi une sorcière, vivent et travaillent dans la réserve des loups-garous de Faelan, réserve qui a banni l'usage de la magie à l'intérieur de ses frontières.