There's no place like home... Unless, like Kaarl, you are a demon and your home is Hell...literally! While the rest of Hell enjoys cruel games, Kaarl is looking for a new challenge. So he makes a deal with the devil himself: time in the Mortal Realm in return for human souls... The Mortal Realm offers a taste of freedom he could never experience in Hell and Kaarl jumps at the chance to fulfil his dream. But gathering human souls comes with a cost...

Marlene Gutjahr reads the regular inventory reports of her drugstore on the holoscreen. Absent-minded. Her thoughts search her wardrobe for the perfect dress on today's video chat with her fiancée. If only she feels awake. Inventory work exhausted her. Marlene discovers a discrepancy in stock and inventory counted. The first in ten years. Not possible! Risking the rage of her fiancée frightens her. The stock discrepancy requires her to stay at work....

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yes. And dead. Skulduggery Pleasant is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension overrun by the Faceless Ones. If his bones haven't already been turned to dust, chances are he's insane, driven out of his mind by the horror of the ancient gods. There is no official, Sanctuary-approved rescue mission. There is no official plan to save him. But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans. The...

Most everyone knows Benjamin Franklin flew his kite in a lightning storm, proving lightning is electricity. But do you know what led him to think up such a crazy idea? Zach and Zane are about to find out. ELECTRIC FIRE It's supposed to be an exciting day for sixteen-year-old twins, Zach and Zane, when they recreate Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment. But instead, they travel through time in their father's unsuspected time machine, stealing his glory....

Après de nombreuses batailles, Jérémy n'a jamais été aussi proche de mettre fin à toutes ces violences… Et pourtant la vérité est tout autre… Cette fin du monde a-t-elle eu lieu ? Il est tellement plus facile d'accepter la réalité telle qu'elle est présentée… Tellement plus simple de se conforter dans un doux mensonge que d'accepter une vérité qui dérange… Quel sacrifice l'humanité a-t-elle accepté de faire pour se donner...

Life will never be the same. Their homes, schools, friends, families, and cities are gone. America has been reduced to sparse population centers and those daring to survive in the wilderness. Grant and Lindsey were doing fine until the pressures of the world separated them. Surviving alone isn't safe, and Grant is desperate to get Lindsey back home to the cabin. He may need to give up the comforts of the cabin to save her. The wilderness is a dangerous...

Welcome to the hidden histories of “Doctor Who”, the unauthorized, the ignored, the overlooked, the abandoned and the hidden. This second volume chronicles the record of “Doctor Who” stage plays, official and independent, from “Curse of the Daleks” to “the Trials of Davros”, including the reviews of the recordings and documentaries about these plays. It explores the bizarre copyright and legal structure underlying “Doctor Who”,...

The final volume of the Pirate Histories of Doctor Who, this chronicle brings us up to the modern era with explorations of Doctor Who animation from short fan films of the 1970s, to the modern BBC re-animations of classic series. We'll also investigate the history of Doctor Who audio adventures, fan created, official BBC and how they lead to the the audio universes of BBV and Big Finish. We'll also discover amazing fan films leading up to the revival,...

Smuggins stands every day ready and waiting in the King's courtroom in the King's castle. It's the center of all the kingdom, perched high in its city, rising from the plains around it. The King's people love him, but there are rumors of unrest at the edges of kingdom-North, East, West, and South. Some do not trust the King's goodness. In all of this, Smuggins knows one thing: as a King's Messenger, his most important task is to make the King's goodness...

Shure and begorra, it was a great day for the Earth! The first envoy from another world was about to speak-that is, if he could forget that horse for a minute....