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A series of gruesome murders haunt a small Irish village. After a mysterious woman arrives to the town, the villagers find a young girl tortured and mutilated at the bottom of Devil’s Drop. Who is "The Lady on the Hill"? A prosperous, self-absorbed couple uncharacteristically offer shelter to two beggars. But then both claim to be reincarnated souls from a long-forgotten past, hell bent on possessing their saviors to be reunited in flesh. Who are the "Kids in the Park"? Listen to find the answers to these questions and other stories in this horror collection.

In the English village of Low Moor, something sinister is afoot. New to the small town, young vicar Paul Milton discovers the depths of the town’s ominous energy when his wife disappears. Desperate to find her, he gets tangled in a struggle between a deadly Celtic sorceress and a relentless Christian geomancer. Both sides seek control of the strange power running beneath the town, and tension mounts as a new channel to the darkest forces of the Otherworld opens.

A breakthrough in an investigation leads Alex McEwan to find the address of his old lover, carved into the flesh of a dead murderer. He soon realizes the woman he loves is in danger. While researching a book on Scottish Masonic buildings, Kate Harlow - McEwan's lost love - has become involved with the occult underground, and powers beyond her comprehension.

When the perfect job comes up, Charlie doesn't have to think twice. This is the break he's been looking for, and nobody - not even the rest of his team - can persuade him otherwise. The job means working for an old enemy and crossing the border into London. Both are risky, but Charlie has no idea how high the stakes really are. The team will have to confront their past, each other and a killer who is closer than they realize. But can they make it out of the city alive?

After being incarcerated on a neighbor’s farm for 20 years, Chelsea Grey is reunited with her mother and daughter and begins the search for self. Finding reconnection with the world difficult, Chelsea seeks the elusive feeling of freedom and finds it while working at the Wildlife Center - until a burglary, a gun-wielding thug, and her own insecurities threaten to destroy what she’s gained.

Every night, Alan Dexter has the same dream: His former colleague Christina is seducing him when suddenly, two of her perfectly white teeth turn into fangs and tear into his flesh. Dexter is always the skeptical journalist, but his feeling that Christina must be in danger only grows when he discovers she disappeared over two months ago in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains. What evil still lurks in the heart of Transylvania?

Olivia and Edward Lereux live a quiet life with their chocolate border collie Axel in a picturesque cottage flanked by Maine’s blustery cliffs, far from town and people. Outwardly, their lives appear normal, but they’re not ordinary people. The Lereux family is cursed with something that has claimed their ancestors for many years. When Ravine Lereux receives a distressing letter from her Uncle Edward, she must return to a place she swore never to return - a place that’s haunted by something, an abnormal presence she feared as a child.

The inventor of the world's first teleportation device has been savagely murdered, and Global Inspector Burt Campbell is tasked to uncover who killed the infamous scientist. As he delves deeper into the case, strange things begin to happen. Spirits seem to be controlling deadly objects to viciously attack him, and according to the teleporter computer, the spirits are taking orders straight from the inventor's ghost. The only person with answers is the inventor's beautiful assistant, Penelope Preston...but she has secrets of her own.

Jonah has witnessed the unthinkable. The world has changed, and the new threats aren’t just ethereal. It’s no longer just about having the right spiritual powers, the right armaments, or the right allies. Just like before, when Jonah thought he had the 11th Percent figured out, just when he thought he had all the answers, he learned once again that he had no idea. Now, Jonah Rowe faces his most challenging trial yet. His faith will be tested and his beliefs challenged. And in the end, he'll find himself asking the question: Is it the world that is different or just him?

When successful author Sherri Lambert moves back to her hometown after 40 years, she doesn’t expect to run into high school heartthrob Dylan Roberts or to the visions that haunted her childhood. Navigating teenage discord she thought she had escaped years ago and intense dreams that have returned, Sherri searches for meaning as she makes a staggering discovery.

Nik Munro has the same nightmare every night. Refusing to listen, he carries on as normal, until Corbie - the crow of thorns - tells him the great spirits have chosen him to become a shaman. Taking him through his first steps to fulfill his destiny, Nik has to journey to the Underworld and retrieve his soul. Trying to balance his old and new lives, Nik soon understands that Corbie has a hidden agenda that comes with a heavy price.

Jonah knows that Inimicus is in the game. His unseen enemy is prowling through the shadows, making moves that no one can predict or prevent. And he's armed with a weapon more dangerous than any ethereal blade or staff: Anonymity. Jonah thought he had ventured into uncharted waters before, but the past is nothing compared to this. Loyalties will be tested, and people will lose sight of what’s truly important. The line between friend and enemy will blur. And the question in everyone’s mind will make the difference between victory and downfall. Who can you trust?

Her wealth dwindling after her father’s death, Sabrina Strong interviews for a job at Tremayne Towers - and is attacked before the interview can even start. Narrowly saved by an attractive, strangely familiar vampire and eventually hired to investigate the murder of powerful Vampire Master Bjorn Tremayne’s mate, Sabrina is quickly immersed in a sea of twists, turns, and secrets. The first book in Lorelei Bell's thrilling Sabrina Strong series, Ascension is a question-filled journey into the supernatural that is equal parts vampire romance and murder mystery.

Jonah Rowe thought he had the 11th Percent figured out. Spirits were real, and he had access to ethereal powers. He got that. But he hadn’t expected this: this was one threat too many. One revelation too many. As ethereal monsters prepare to ravage Rome, Jonah is the only thing in the way of the ancient city being bathed in lifeblood. His survival depends on him confronting the one thing he never thought he’d have to. His past.

Jonah Rowe's doing great. His accounting days are behind him, and he has more allies than he can count among his fellow Eleventh Percenters. But when a mysterious woman invades Jonah’s dreams and warns him of a danger of chronological nature, a game of cat-and-mouse ensues. Who is this woman, and why does she believe that they are in danger? And will Jonah be able to find the answers while protecting all of them - before they run out of time?

When we were children, we dreamed of being heroes. We wanted to slay dragons and defeat the monsters that scared us. As we grew older, we were forced to try and find our monsters. We had been told they would be easy to spot. Monsters had too much teeth, too much fur, too much size. These were lies. We stopped wanting to be heroes. We started to want to be more, to be too much. We wanted, needed, more than the world could give us. We wanted more than what we were told we should be. We wanted to become monsters.

It's rush hour on a cold autumn morning when Jon Hesker takes the bullet that kills him; a punishment for seeing what he shouldn't have. For asking too many questions. And then he wakes up, with smooth new skin over the entry wound in his chest, and a hungry black space in his mind. Cut off from the old world and free from fear, Hesker’s a new man. But at what cost? Accompanied by his best friend and small-time criminal, Alexander Corgen, Hesker's on the wrong side of the law: a fugitive on the run through a storm-lashed city on the brink of collapse.

Stage illusionist Charlie Chilton's career is a failure. When the mysterious Asmodeus Tchort offers him a deal of a lifetime, it looks like he's on a fast track to become the most famous illusionist in the world.

After aspiring novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness from a coma, he discovers he’s affected by synaesthesia and that his now cross-wired brain endows him with heightened psychic powers. Jake’s research on the Northumbrian king Aldfrith takes him to Elfrid’s Hole in North Yorkshire, where - as legend relates - the king sheltered after a bloody battle. What Jake doesn't realize is that his investigation has unleashed a series of deadly paranormal events in which Jake himself becomes the prime suspect.

On the night of Friday the 13th, all the townsfolk hide inside their homes, leaving the streets of Gideon’s Hollow empty. The locals believe the spirits of the witches from nearby Salem roam on this cursed night, seeking revenge on the descendants of those who burnt them at the stake. Maya dismisses the legends as silly superstition and walks the silent streets, but something sinister lurks in the shadows, watching her, ready to pounce. When Maya screams for help, nobody comes. Alone and afraid, she has to face off against monsters both human and inhuman in a desperate bid to survive.