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Welcome to Dethfest—the ultimate heavy metal festival, where the music slays... and so does everything else. You came for the riffs, the mosh pits, and the weekend of your life. Instead, you'll find yourself trapped in a nightmare where people are disappearing, riots are erupting, and something sinister is spreading through the crowd.

After a crash leaves you and your little sister orphaned, every choice inside Grandma's isolated mountain home could save you both, or end in a gruesome death. Surviving the crash was the easy part. Your parents are gone, your little sister is terrified, and the two of you have been shipped off to grandparents you barely know, deep in a Virginia mountain cottage where no one can hear you.

Twenty-eight terrifying tales. Mark Tullius takes familiar relationships, private guilt, small disappointments, and moments of weakness and twists them into psychological horror, brutal violence, supernatural unease, and grim morality. A reunion might bring a family together, or expose what one of them has been hiding. A small choice becomes an obsession. A wounded person learns that revenge offers no road back to who they were. The stories range from creeping dread to graphic, disturbing ends, always circling the human decisions that make horror possible.

Joshua's father raises him as the returned Messiah, and surviving every attempt to escape the prophecy may be the most frightening evidence that the old man is right. What if you were the Second Coming, and couldn't believe it? Joshua is born into a prophecy he never asked for. His father reads the boy's survival as a divine sign and builds a church around the belief that Joshua has returned to judge the living and redeem the faithful. Instead of love, Joshua gets worship, fear, abuse, and a lifetime of expectations he can't outrun.

Embark on a journey through 2,400 years of history with this definitive collection of 161 of the world’s greatest speeches. Presented chronologically, this master volume spans from the golden age of Athens in 431 BCE to the dawn of a new China in 1926, now complete with seminal speeches from India’s Mohandas Gandhi and China’s Mao Tse-Tung.

From the Try Not to Die series comes a chilling new entry from Angel Van Atta and Mark Tullius—a tense, immersive thriller where every decision could be your last. You and your brother are trapped inside a remote compound, surrounded by cultists devoted to dark and ancient gods. The only way out is through a gauntlet of deadly choices, twisted truths, and horrifying discoveries. Can you outwit the cult and escape with your life—or will you fall victim to their sinister faith?

Placerita Town has always been a place of opportunity, but today, it’s a death trap. Ruthless outlaws led by Jumpin’ John are ripping the town apart, and the sheriff’s nowhere to be found. You came here to trade your father’s ironworks—not to fight for your life. Now, every choice could mean the difference between making it out alive or ending up in a shallow grave. Will you outsmart the gang, brave the desert’s dangers, and find a way to survive?

Five familiar lives take one step beyond safety, and discover the horror waiting in homes, jobs, families, entertainment, and the mind of the author himself. Horror doesn't always wait in abandoned castles or distant woods. Sometimes it lives across the street, clocks in for work, comes on over the radio, or sits beside the people you love.

Trapped aboard a cruise ship during a manufactured outbreak, every choice could spread the infection, or make you its next victim. Your cruise was supposed to be an escape. Then passengers start getting sick, and panic spreads faster than the infection. The crew loses control. Armed men move through the restricted decks. And the whispers say this outbreak was no accident. You're Dylan, stuck on a ship bearing down on San Francisco Bay. Who you trust, where you hide, whether you fight. Every call matters.

What compels someone to step into a cage knowing they may be knocked unconscious, suffer a broken bone, or face public defeat? To find out, former fighter and investigative author Mark Tullius embarked on an extraordinary journey across America. Traveling to 100 mixed martial arts gyms and interviewing 340 fighters—from beginners chasing a dream to world champions defending their legacy—he set out to uncover the truth behind one of the world's fastest-growing and most misunderstood sports.

You signed on to playtest the biggest reality show around. Nobody told you the set was a real haunted hotel, and the serial killer never checked out. You step onto a real studio backlot to playtest Slashtag, the biggest reality competition show going. It's a rush, right up until you learn where they filmed it: a haunted hotel that once belonged to a notorious serial killer. That's about when it hits you that you've made the worst mistake of your life.

It should be the happiest night of your life. Then the churches start burning, the town turns on itself, and your fiancée looks at you with Satan behind her eyes. You should be celebrating your engagement. Instead, churches burn, suicides spread like wildfire, and brutal murders tear your town apart. The happiest night of your life collapses into hell on earth. Then your fiancée is possessed by Satan himself, and every impossible choice drags you deeper into the dark. The Devil doesn't just want her soul. He wants yours.

For years, former fighter and Ivy League football player Mark Tullius ignored the warning signs. The headaches, memory lapses, and mood swings were just part of the game—until a brain scan changed everything. This raw and revealing traumatic brain injury memoir blends personal storytelling, medical research, and mental-health insights.

A small collection of short horror stories that you should listen to with the lights on. Come join a soldier on the run in the jungle, a coed's late night at the computer lab, a doctor's visit to the insane asylum, an old man's quest for the perfect photo, and a family's unique Christmas ritual.

Inside a beautiful prison for telepaths, every thought can betray you, and every choice can get you killed. Welcome to Brightside, a peaceful mountaintop town where privacy doesn't exist. Everyone here is a Thought Thief, a telepath locked away because the world is afraid of what they can hear. You're Becky, trapped among people who know when you lie, sense what you hide, and may already be planning your death. Choose who to trust. Decide which thoughts to reveal. Risk an escape through a system built to see rebellion coming.

After surviving the horrors of your last visit, you thought the nightmare was over. But when your little brother falls deathly ill, the only cure lies deep within the place you swore you’d never return to. Something evil has taken root, spilling beyond Grandma’s walls and into the surrounding mountains.

A totalitarian state doesn't just happen overnight. It's a slow, dangerous slide. 25 Perfect Days chronicles the path into a hellish future of food shortages, contaminated water, sweeping incarceration, an ultra-radical religion, and the extreme measures taken to reduce the population. Through 25 interlinked stories, each written from a different character's point of view, 25 Perfect Days captures the sacrifice, courage, and love needed to survive and eventually overcome this dystopian nightmare.

Joe's telepathy sends him to Brightside, a beautiful mountain town that is really a prison, where every resident can hear the thoughts he cannot hide. Across the country, people who can read minds are being rounded up. Joe is one of them. His ability lands him in Brightside, a secluded mountain town sold as a peaceful refuge and run like a prison. The residents have homes, jobs, relationships, and no privacy at all. Everyone around Joe can hear the thoughts he can't control, and the people running Brightside are watching for the first sign of resistance.

Twenty-four tales of madmen, monsters, and misery. A tantalizing blend of horror, suspense, and crime stories; each unique but all dark, disturbing, and violent. In the audiobook lurk: A tarot card reader who makes house calls; a disabled man in a miserable marriage who is regaining the use of his arms; an ex-con who can’t resist carrying out one last home invasion, and much more!

Vom "modernen Meisters dunkler und verdrehter Geschichten" kommt eine Geschichtensammlung des Schreckens, eine gruseliger als die nächste. Ein Pornograf, der ein schreckliches Morgenritual durchlebt. Ein Mann plant, wie er seinen lästigen Begleiter loswerden kann, während ein Serienmörder mit Gedächtnisverlust sein Unwesen treibt...