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In this second book of The Cort Chronicles, Andy, John, Wendy, and Zack go on a quest to save their world from a powerful Corporation named CORT. This company controls the lives of almost everyone, yet a spark of hope still lays hidden underground with the Resistance. Then, from deep in the woods comes a new evil, named Spirral. If CORT is successful in finishing this project, human life as we know it will be over. Our heroes must find Spirral’s heart and destroy it. Will good prevail over evil or vice versa?

Follow Elford Alley into the shadows with 10 terrifying stories of the evil that watches from the darkness while worming itself deep into your heart. The dead rise, and a small company discovers a disturbing new business model. A family stumbles on a nest of eight-legged terrors beneath their new home. An ancient being torments a fractured family.

When a mysterious man enters Jed’s life and offers him immortality and a free ticket to Hell, Jed has no choice but oblige the stranger. The outlaw and his loyal horse Nugget venture through Hell and come across strange companions as well as former dead Texas Rangers looking to settle the score with the one who killed them. Jed awaits his true fate and judgment within the realms of Hell.

Valerie Lott is a reporter living in Tucson, Arizona, when she meets a man at the ballpark while waiting to interview a baseball star. Their conversation affects her deeply. He is so alive in the moment that she can't forget him. Homeless? When a councilman's daughter is kidnapped, though, the description fits the man she met! Could her instincts be wrong about him? She is so certain that he can't be a criminal that she tries to find him before the police do...

People used to talk. We don't much anymore. Not sure when it happened, but how is pretty obvious. Progress became a two-edged sword. People wanted more, better, faster. Stopped going on family road trips in fake wood-paneled station wagons and moved on to SUVs and muscle cars fueled by road rage warriors between monitored intersections.

Evil is best fought from within. When Mason Black is first called out to investigate the disappearance of three teenagers, he never truly believes he will find their bodies. Especially not with human bite marks embedded in their remains. While the police are breathing down his neck, Mason finds himself trapped in the deep underground world of a cannibalistic cult, working his way toward the truth from the inside. But then a shocking secret is revealed, and it will change his life forever.

Mason had killed him in cold blood years ago, but somehow, the Lullaby Killer is back. He’s taunting Mason with letters printed in blood. They threaten a slow, painful death…but not before his secrets are spilled. Desperate to keep the weight of his crimes from crushing his family, Mason is forced back into his run-and-gun life as a private investigator, as he tracks down the man bent on destroying his life - the man who will do anything to ruin him. Mason is caught up in his most dangerous case yet.

Mason Black is finding calm, fulfilling work as a private investigator until Jacob Wright turns up at his door. Jacob’s family has recently been killed in an explosion with 15 other tourists. The police are baffled as to who did it, but Jacob has a secret he can only share with Mason. With nowhere else to turn, Mason promises to find the killer and stop him before he targets another group of tourists. But he has to do it discreetly, or Jacob will be next on the list…taking Mason Black and his family with him. The terrorist is out there with a bomb, and the timer is counting down.

After coming to terms with his troubled past, Mason Black has found balance between his family and his career as a private investigator. For the first time in his life, everything is going well — until Chris Healy arrives at the office. Three members of his family are reported missing, and Mason is hired to find them. But when a body is found with a message written just for him, Mason discovers the survivors were kidnapped by a man known only as Anarchy, who will stop at nothing as he forces Mason to play his twisted game.

Joseph Soderini di Avenzano is America's most celebrated chef. Some believe he cut a deal with the devil to achieve fame and fortune. Whether he is actually Bocuse or Beelzebub, Avenzano is approaching the 25th anniversary of his glittering Palm Beach restaurant, Chateau de la Mer, patterned after the Michelin-starred palaces of Europe. Journalist David Fox arrives in Palm Beach to interview the chef for a story on the restaurant’s silver jubilee and quickly becomes involved with Chateau de la Mer’s hostess, Alessandra, unwittingly transforming himself into Avenzano’s rival.

Something ancient has awakened in the depths. So terrifying is this newly freed entity that sea slugs are driven onto resort beaches to climb hotel walls...and die. Yet the threat posed by the primal sentience is far less obvious to the world's dominant species, seemingly manifesting in the trance states of a couple rescued by Ben Miles and his celeb wife, Morna Belchek...and subsequently communicated to Morna as well.

Sometimes, they fall is about intrigue, accidental deaths, and outright murder in the circus. Our narrator is Mason, a trapeze artist who is gradually losing his grip, both in his hands and on his mind. As he suffers the loss of those he holds most dear, he struggles with reality and the resurrection of the dead.

Are you struggling with creating clear and concise writing daily? Are you not earning enough money through your writing to live a comfortable lifestyle? 365 to Vision: Modern Writer's Guide: How to Produce More Quality Writing in Less Time has the solution. Learn how to regain some time back in your life by doing more quality work in less time and with less stress.

LIKE is a selfie of our times. It takes you on a journey through the lives of people fully connected in an electronic age, lives which will collide in both great and terrifying ways. It's a tapestry of people and events woven together with this era's most abundant thread: social media.

For Paul Prentice things have gotten much worse. His house was destroyed in the battle with the Koŝmaro. He's on thin ice at his job, where instead of working he loses himself in the Between's computer game, trying in vain to find explanations. His best friend Jay has transformed into a shadowy killer. Corinne and Supriya have vanished. And it appears his wife, Julie, has finally had enough and left him. Alone and near ruin, Paul receives a familiar visitor with a dire message: they are all back in the Between.

One wishes to destroy. One seeks power. One wants only to forget. Three lives shattered by the Fangs of Wallachia - weapons that hold the fragmented soul of the archangel, Samael - are on a collision course with a bloodbath that stretches from Boston to Vatican City. They survived. It’s a bad, bad, bad, bad world.

When Billy Whitebread clocked in that night, he was fully expecting to work a regular midnight shift at his decidedly unregular job. Unfortunately, things are rarely as they seem at Bonesaw Vic's Cryptozoological Gardens. Before long, Billy will find himself trapped in a briskly-paced nightmare that that takes him to the spirit world... and beyond. After an unsettling encounter with Katherine the child poltergeist, Billy vows to expose the true identity of the Book Man, a serial killer who's been dead for over a century.

A rookie postal inspector hunts a postal bomber as police search for the wrong man! Set in Tucson and Phoenix, where I worked for 20 years as a postal clerk, retiring early in 2009 to do more writing. See memoir Post Office Confidential. The story needs no update as it fits today's headlines about shootings and bombings, and border tensions with targeted immigrants and social services costs.

Come along on another hilarious and terrifying tale by comedy-horror writer, P. D. Williams. Amelia is a quiet, intelligent loner, longing for purpose and love. Oh, and by the way, she’s also a savage serial killer. Follow Johnny, the criminal and manipulating courter addicted to over-the-counter meds, and Timothy, the naïve Mormon missionary, as they find themselves caught up in Amelia’s kooky web of violence. Prepare to laugh at the zaniness, and gasp at the horror that unfolds in the dark, frightening room that lurks beneath her feet.

Welcome to the world of cursed objects and demented morticians, a spectral realm where living shadows traverse the darkness of your bedroom at three in the morning—the Witching Hour. This terrifying collection of horror shorts will torture your fearful mind with the sound of claws scratching the floor beneath your bed and the nightmarish figure of a milky-eyed corpse reaching for you with ghoulish intent.