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Pandemonium: a twilight dimension of nightmare creatures, mythical beings, the undead, and everything in between. To Dead Jack, it’s hell sweet hell. In the first book of the series, the tortured, drug-addicted detective and his associate, the homunculus Oswald, face rogue leprechauns, ghost pirates, a sex-obsessed shark woman, sycophantic ghouls, an insecure fire demon, and a goateed maniac who calls himself the Duke of Pandemonium.

A man down on his luck trips and stumbles into a world of bloodthirsty monsters hidden among the precipices of New York City. A chance encounter with illustrious vampire Alexander LaMont ensnares the clumsy yet hopeful James Donovan in shadow and treachery, thrusting James into his new identity, The Vampire Jack Townson. Will Jack survive the vampiric politics of Manhattan, or will final death come to claim him at the next sunrise?

They say when the demons come, you either fight or you die.The Black Dogs know this all too well. For three hundred years, the warrior priests have sacrificed their lives to keep the island nation of Abios safe from the flesh-eating Nostros, while the rest of the world fell under the demons' savagery. However, an armada now stands poised to invade mankind's last bastion.

Pirate antihero Rooker Flynn has 13 death sentences. But instead of being executed, he’s forced into the deadliest fantasy magic school ever built. Trapped on the island with murderous outlaws, a corrupt warden, and giant poisonous spiders, Rooker must stage a daring prison break or die trying. This isn't school, it's survival. Joined by his former partner Jack Swift, Rooker Flynn must outwit lethal trials, outlaw gangs, and the inhuman dangers lurking beyond locked doors.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Jack Frey and the Black Dogs' worst nightmare has come true. For 700 years, the Black Dogs have kept the nation of Abios free from the flesh-eating demons known as the Nostros. Until now. One stalks the streets of the capital and everyone is its prey. As the body count mounts, mankind's very survival is at stake. Can Jack Frey stop it before it's too late?

Barbara Connolly thought she was giving her daughters a better life when she left her abusive ex-husband and moved back to her home town. But Rapture, Pennsylvania, just wasn't the same anymore. There have been two murders right on her street, in the same house her brother disappeared in over twenty years before. Bodies are turning up everywhere, all missing flesh and with the same ragged teeth marks on the bones. Teenage girls are disappearing. And something—or someone—is crawling around inside Barbara's walls.

The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago. Reduced to little more than a ghost town, it is suddenly revitalized by suburban sprawl from the city of Savannah, its long-vacant downtown storefronts gradually reopening as boutiques for weekend shoppers. But Timbermill has a dark legend unknown to the newcomers. Stories whispered from one generation of children to the next warn of a supernatural figure who emerges from the doors of closets and cabinets left carelessly open at night.

If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.

Captain Decker Donald is perfectly content in his isolated misery, until he receives news that his friend and former colleague has vanished. Decker intends to get to the bottom of his friend’s disappearance, and more importantly, keep the light on. Harriet was looking forward to being posted alongside her father, but he was gone before she arrived, and there is something wrong in the tower. Stenner Braunn commands the Daylight Crew. Their ship is headed east, with nothing but ancient ruins to guide their way.

Davyn is damaged, broken physically and mentally after being raised in captivity. He joined the Blackjacks to seek revenge against those responsible, but isn’t truly a part of them. He maintains distance while hiding his disfigured wing and his true heritage. His reputation as one of the deadliest is well-deserved. When he once more finds himself back in chains, fighting for his life, he doesn’t regret what led him there and accepts his fate.

Jacky Rowan once slew giants. In this thrilling sequel, she is tricked and then enslaved by a master of vicious Unseelie creatures. This cruel thief is bent on stealing his very sustenance—not only from Jacky—but from all of the Seelie faerie court. Only the Moon herself and a handsome young fiddler, unaware of Faerie and the power of his music, have the magic to set Jacky free.

Jack Serpent is the only person to have survived the Scriver Trials. With that, he became a lore keeper for the origin of monsters, a spy, and hybrid soldier able to withstand crushing magic. Ever since a coven of Strygan murdered his family, he’s set out to discover and record what plagues the continents. It’s the sort of highly valuable knowledge that could change wars and divide kingdoms.

Death, it seems, isn’t always the end. I was a soldier, fighting for the lives of the whole damned world, when I went and got myself obliterated by this alien f**k. I figured that was it. Game over, done. But then I woke up in a different body, in a strange world full of dust and ruins, with awesome martial arts skills I’d never had before. Not to mention a chi gift thing that seemed to work a lot like magic. I had no clue why or how it all happened. All I knew was that there were these monster girls I was supposed to protect from an endless horde of semi-human things.

Der Mann, der den kleinen Wohnraum betrat, trug auf seinen Armen eine entsetzlich zugerichtete Leiche. Bei jedem seiner Schritte baumelten die leblos nach unten hängenden Arme und Beine der Toten hin und her. Vor einem Gemälde blieb der Unheimliche stehen, bückte sich und legte den Leichnam vorsichtig auf die schwarz gestrichenen Holzbohlen...

Jack Harper can raise the dead, and those she resurrects she also controls. She belongs to an ancient race of magical beings called “ferrics,” though she is the first of her kind with this power. Having just escaped Jonathon Roth and his kill-for-hire organization, her new target is the demonic Builder, architect of damnation. She must act fast, too, because the ferrics’ last countermeasure - a plasmatic weapon - is dwindling away.

Jack Harper is a dangerous woman, capable of death and resurrection. Raised and utilized by Cyrus, the leader of a mystical religion, she was once a fearless and brilliant weapon against all who blasphemed. Now, having destroyed Cyrus, Jack is free to be more.

Avant d'être cet esprit célèbre d'Halloween, errant pour l'éternité dans les ténèbres avec sa lanterne en citrouille, Jack était un homme... Découvrez son histoire. Conte sonorisé en AUDIO 3D.

Jack the Ripper war tot! Der unheimliche Frauenmörder aus dem letzten Jahrhundert hatte längst sein Grab gefunden. Aber war er wirklich tot? Plötzlich tauchte er in London wieder auf und mordete wie zuvor. Ich bekam den Auftrag ihn zu jagen.