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20901) Heaven's Prisoners
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I'm Rian MacCaren, owner of The Midnight Agency, and I deal in supernatural cases no one wants or is equipped to handle. Being Nephilim, part-angel, and part-human, you'd think it'd give me an edge on the bad guys. This is not always the case.An enemy out for vengeance has targeted a young man to get to me and has buried him alive. As the man's air and his time run out, I need to find the person responsible before I become the next victim. With my...
20902) Z-Topia
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Ally Lane survived the explosion of the Betty Loo only to find herself turned over to the man responsible for the death of her friends. She fights her way free and teams up with a man from a past she'd rather forget. Betrayed by all those she comes into contact with, she trusts no one. She travels across the country with a team of mercenaries fighting off zombies to protect the one man who might be able to save them. The man who wants to be the next...
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For more than a hundred and fifty years, the Night Office has stayed up late, fighting off all sorts of whistling horrors, shrieking monstrosities, and drooling frog monsters. One of the secrets to their success is lots and lots of coffee.
This Education Assessment Exercise is meant to introduce you to the perils of working for the Night Office. Instead of throwing you into the field, where all kinds of terrible things could happen to you, the Night...
20904) Desperate Housewolves
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The ladies of Mistral Lane have a secret-and someone's found out!
Romance novelist Willa Forsyth, step-mom to twins Isis Slade, and former Filipine beauty queen Wandalou Trueheart appear to have it all in the upscale bedroom community of Hydrangea Heights. But since the unforgettable night of Wandalou's bachelorette party, the three best friends find themselves at the mercy of a dark curse and involved in a shocking crime that rocks their upper crust...
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In the tranquil village of Kovensehn, nestled amidst green hills and dense forests, life used to follow its peaceful and undisturbed course. Its inhabitants had known each other for generations, and the old houses whispered stories of times gone by. But even in the most serene places, secrets can hide in the shadows, and curiosity can unleash forces that should never have been set free.On a sunny summer afternoon, a young and determined couple, Arina...
20907) Seven Deadly Ghosts
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For witch Deegie Tibbs, toil and trouble come in many forms including a week's worth of obnoxious spirits (that aren't even her fault... for a change).
A teenage girl steals a magical item from Deegie's shop and accidentally conjures up seven of the most annoying paranormal entities in Washington. Now Deegie and her friends-a boyfriend, his brother, a witch, and a thief, have to help her capture them all, one by one. At first, they seem harmless...
20908) Scary Tales, Volume 1
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Scary tales offer a thrilling and chilling experience, providing a temporary escape from reality while simultaneously tapping into our primal emotions and fears. They have remained a popular form of storytelling, providing a unique blend of excitement and terror for those who enjoy the spine-tingling sensation of a good scare.
20909) The Corpse Thieves
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Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter.
Danil Dubin is a murderer. He knows this because he's been told - by the many witnesses to his crime.
Only, he has no memory of it himself.
It's part of a spate of similar killings, and Konrad must act. But how can he deliver The Malykt's justice...
20910) Zillions of Zombies
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After defeating the fearsome Ice Dragon, the students of Scary School were in full celebration mode with an awesome parade leading up to the Dance of Destiny. But when a bearodactyl snatches Charles Nukid and flies him to Monster Kingdom, his friends have to figure out a way to rescue him before he's served as lunch to one of the kingdom's horrifying creatures. Little do his friends know that he's actually been taken there to be crowned the next monster...
20911) SeaSide
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Caldus Montgomery left the Chicago bomb squad looking for a more peaceful setting for his family to live in. Surprising to many locals, that he had been elected County Sheriff, being an outsider. Caldus is quickly faced with a crazed bomber wanting to destory all the rides on the amusement pier. To make matters worse for the Sheriff, a demented madman is playing a guessing game with his Deputy. Every time the officer guesses wrong, another teen is...
20912) Outbreak: Boston
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Life is tough. It gets a lot tougher when death isn't the end...Just back from a deployment to Iraq, Senior Airman Amy Frays is trying to put her life back together when her Air Force Reserve section is called up to help quell rioting in south Boston. However, by the time the unit arrives the mission has changed: Quarantine.Undermanned and ill prepared, the quarantine starts to fail almost immediately and Frays finds herself in charge of a mixed bag...
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The man trying to make sense of his life now that his demon has been, exorcised. The woman who knows her son has been, taken, even as he sits by her side. The scorned professor who's found a missing work from The Planets Suite.
Christopher Stanley's debut flash fiction collection, The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales, boasts an impressive assortment of characters trying to make sense of a world gone horribly wrong. The darkness here is home...
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Dimension6 magazine takes you on a journey beyond the borders of the real. Our third annual collection features stories from some of the best Australian and overseas writers working in the field today.
'In the Slip' by Emillie Colyer -O wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us!
'Guitarrista's Lament' by Jeff Suwak -A Guitarrista's life is full of laughter and sadness, more of each than most people know.
'Preservation of...
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"The Cursed Mirror: Rakel's Shadow" is an intriguing tale that will immerse you in a world of mystery and suspense from the very beginning. In the peaceful village of Nesjaverth, Rakel's life takes a sinister turn when a shadow in the mirror begins relentlessly pursuing her. As this shadow grows in power, Rakel finds herself losing control of her own existence. Dark secrets buried in her family's and community's past emerge to further taint her nightmare.Join...
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Au travers de ces quatre récits, découvrez différentes facettes de la Roumanie, entre communisme et modernité.
Quatre récits. Quatre saisons. Deux époques qui se mêlent parfois: les années du communisme et celles de la Roumanie moderne en pleine transformation. Ce pays profondément européen est marqué par une mythologie populaire toujours vivante. Partout dans les forêts enneigées, dans les petits villages sublimes et colorés, dans...
20917) A Coming Evil
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Lisette Beaucaire was angry when her parents sent her away from Paris that September day in 1940. And although she knew that with the Nazis occupying the city she'd be safer at her Aunt Josephine's farm in the Dordogne valley, Lisette resented her "exile." She'd miss her friends and the excitement of being thirteen and starting a new school. Instead she'd have nothing to do but amuse her little cousin Cecile. That's what Lisette thought, but she soon...
20918) Po Lyn Lee: Ophelia House
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Some people say proof of man's predatory dominance as a species is not continuously evolving weapon systems but man's prehistoric mastery of the plants, minerals, and animals of his environment, humanity's innate awareness of nature, the elements, the spirit, of how they combine to make life. Awareness lost to the continuing war, famine, and plague of ancient history. Awareness symbolized, ritualized, and retained as faith by a surviving prehistoric...
20919) Napoleon (Silver Edition)
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The steel mesh started to break: first one joint, then another. Napoleon stood sideways on the fence like a parrot, his splay toes gripping the bars. He braced himself with his legs and pulled at the grid with his teeth. The muscles of his neck rippled; his growl was a steady trill. Metal squealed as he peeled a section back.Lightning flashed nearby, followed by a crack-kaboom! In the wash of light, the man saw the dinosaur looking at him. Glaring...
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After a meteor crashes in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, the U.S. Officials send out a team of scientists to uncover the mystery. Eventually, they learn of something else lurking in the desert. In such a course, the Officials send out a team of soldiers to head into the desert to track down the meteor and the mystery moving through the desert.
Included with Darkness of the Hunt are several other stories. Stories such as ,A Walk With Fear: A Dark...
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