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It's Christmas Eve - a time of wonder, magic, anticipation....And terror. A father who will go to any lengths to feed his hungry children. An unsuspecting woman who inherits a house with a deadly secret. A murderous widow who shares a train carriage with Jack the Ripper. Two burglars who bite off more than they can chew, during a late-night raid. These, and many more bedtime stories, come hideously to life, in Mark L'Estrange's 19 tales of terror - each set on the most festive night of the year.

Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up. From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

Here's the thing: You don't have to struggle with anxiety and depression. You don't have to stay awake at night worrying yourself to death. In this guide, you'll discover cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a powerful tool you can use to take control of your reactions to stressful situations, even if you've tried and failed to do so in the past.

Anger Management for Men is the comprehensive self-help guide for men that provides effective anger management tools and teaches how to take control of powerful emotions, so you can live a happier life. If there’s one thing hindsight always teaches us, it’s that a calm response would have been much better, even though, it felt good to say or do mean things while we were angry, panicky, or afraid. But regret can surely feel worse.

Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, and Byron. The poets of the Romantic Period celebrated with readings by Sir Ralph Richardson, Christopher Hassall, Margaretta Scott, and Tyrone Power.

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate, and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo takes on bizarre cases that invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with.

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world Quist is all too familiar with. Rex Grant has vanished from a hotel without paying the bill, but the police seem more concerned with the murdered girl in his room. Investigating their friend’s disappearance, Quist and Watson are intrigued.

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate, and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases, which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with.

A collection of original short stories. Hear tales of vengeful ghosts in the woods, an immortal murderer, the devil's tramping ground, shadow dancers, gifted children, and much more.

A university student doing a thesis on fear takes his research too far. A man learns he is next in line to be the Grim Reaper, but does not want to give up his life. An angel forces a man to relive his worst memory. A former Nazi hiding in Canada is haunted by more than just his past. A couple haunted by an unspeakable act committed with the best intentions, with dire consequences. People haunted by whispers of the past try to forget and move on. But no matter how hard they try, how far they run, it waits for them...and just when they think they are safe, the whispers begin again.

Professor Kevin Michaels has returned to the picturesque town of New Polk to fill a teaching position at the local university and a long-held ambition: to revive interest in the town's most illustrious citizen, author Eileen Connel and her neglected masterpiece "Season of Witches". But first, he must uncover the horror locked away inside the old woman's failing mind - a horror that had its birth one tragic Halloween night, over forty years ago.

Within this comprehensive workbook, you will find key details of cognitive behavioral therapy, a therapy that has gained a large following in recent years and is touted as producing long-lasting, effective results. CBT aims to teach people the keys to literally rewiring their minds in hopes of using the process to alleviate symptoms of anxiety. Through the process of CBT, you will be taught the skills to manage your anxiety so that you can live without it controlling your life, once and for all.

Something has awakened.... In the remote stretches of Southern Florida, a string of deadly animal attacks begin to surface near the borders of a housing development project. When evidence at the latest scene suggests that a massive predator may be the source of the carnage, a local crocodilian specialist is brought in as a consultant. Soon, an effort is launched by the police and the coast guard to successfully locate and capture the ancient creature, which threatens the lives of everyone in the expedition, as well as the surrounding communities.

Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and emotional abuse that is difficult to recognize and even more difficult to release. The effects that can result from a (short or long) relationship with a narcissist can be devastating for the person who suffers them. Right now you need someone who has already experienced your same symptoms, the same experience, the same anxieties and fears, but also someone who, like me, has managed to recover and find himself, finding the right strengths and methods to get out from this bad situation.

The Vengeful One: A Christmas Tale, the second novel by Aydin Guner, takes the listener on an exhilarating journey of magic and wonder. Adam Goldman is alarmed by a ruckus in the early hours of Christmas morning and nervously leaves his bedroom to investigate. Frightened by an ominous figure, he hits the perceived burglar over the head with a vase. After the subsiding shock, he turns on the light, and to his horror, lying before him is a motionless Santa Claus.

It's Christmas eve at 221B Baker Street. On the stroke of midnight, a delivery arrives addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The message is a cryptogram which reveals itself to be so obtuse that it has the famous consulting detective baffled. Holmes becomes so obsessed with revealing the secret of the cypher that Watson fears for his well-being in refusing to eat or sleep. Holmes can only deduce that time is of the essence, and that a means of deciphering must be discovered which has never before been employed. Watson wonders what new adventure will emerge, should the puzzle be unraveled.

There, inevitably, comes a time when a child must cast off diapers and learn to use a potty. It is one of those crucial stages in a young life, but it doesn’t ever come without a lot of tears and some stress, for you and them. This book on potty training aims to help you navigate the tricky period when your child has to start using a potty but doesn’t always seem to grasp the concept.

I watched as the policeman took out a notebook and read from an open page. He spoke in a whisper. Inspector Lestrade's face turned ashen. He turned towards me, looking grim.

It's the year 1906. Rumors abound that a deadly plot is hatching–not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles, but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task is to discover whether such a plot exists, and if so, foil it. But are the assassins targeting the young and progressive Ch'ing Emperor, or his imperious aunt, the fearsome Empress Dowager Cixi? The murder of either could spark a civil war.

The Dean of a Swiss university persuades Sherlock Holmes to investigate the background of a would-be lecturer. To Dr. Watson, it seems a very humdrum commission—but who is the mysterious "Lieserl"? How does her existence threaten the ambitions of the technical assistant level III in Room 86 at the Federal Patents Office in Berne by the name of Albert Einstein?