The mysterious and brutal death of her twin sister brings a young woman back to New York, where she joins forces with a police detective -- and former lover -- to probe the dark secrets of her sister's lifestyle.

Paige and Daniel's new apartment seems too good to be true. A great place for a young couple with a baby on the way. Spacious, good location, fireplace, appliances, and such reasonable rent! What could be the catch?It isn't like it's close to the asylum -- well not that close.And it isn't like it's built on an old burial ground -- not an official one, anyway.Okay, so, maybe there was a secrePaige and Daniel's new apartment seems too good to be true. A great place for a young couple with a baby on the way. Spacious, good location, fireplace, appliances, and such reasonable rent! What could be the catch?It isn't like it's close to the asylum -- well not that close.And it isn't like it's built on an old burial ground -- not an official one, anyway.Okay, so, maybe there was a secret potter's field where they'd bury the lunatics, but that was ages ago.After all, the rent's so reasonable!

Venture once again into the world of darkness with these 23 short stories that are sure to make your heart race. Featuring Black Days And White Knights, a brand new never-seen-before companion story to Weaver of Darkness.Venture once again into the world of darkness with these 23 short stories that are sure to make your heart race. Featuring Black Days And White Knights, a brand new never-seen-before companion story to Weaver of Darkness. Arrival- What is locked away in an abandoned field?Killer Idea- Where does our inspiration come from?You Never Know What You’ll Find- Anything can be found at a garage sale.It Killed The Cat- Are you free from curiosity?Fair Warning- Cassie has a warning to tell. Will they listen?Campfire Tales- Where does your town’s legends come from? Confessions From An Apocalypse- How does the End really start?His Dark Ink- Where did you get the idea for your tattoo?Wet Work- Can beauty be found in anything?Domestic Disturbance- Something’s not right at Beth’s house.The Message- Can our words really affect others?The Fall Queen- It’s that time years again. Time to celebrate.Cockroaches and Peeps- Beware of those who think they have less than you.Where We Belong- Dani doesn’t know where she belongs. Will she ever?Forever- What would you ask for if you were nothing more than rags and bones?Black Keys- Something’s are just better left alone.A Token of His Affection- Someone is looking to raise an army.Go West, My Son- What if they start planning?Hands of Time- What are they counting down to?Misunderstood- Are we a product of our environment?Coastal Offerings- Just another day at the beach…Intrusion- What was that noise?What The Fates Decide- We all like a good game when we’re bored.Black Days And White Knights- A baby needs to be born. Can our hero ensure her safety?

Have you ever wondered if curses really do exist? Marty's grandfather always said that superstition was nothing more than nonsense that hindered fools from discovery, but now Marty's not so sure. Ever since his grandfather, a world-renowned archeologist discovered a tomb in Egypt his family has been plagued with tragedy.Kyera is fourteen years old, almost fifteen. She's a good student, responsible, and plays for the softball team. So when her mother doesn't allow her to leave the house on Friday night- YET AGAIN, Kyera takes matters into her own hands. She simply unlocks her bedroom window and gives herself a new curfew, going to that party she was invited to.She's okay when she realizes the party is not what she thought it would be. But things take a turn for the worst when her friend deserts her and leaves her with a guy named Nate. She ends up in a scary situation that she will not soon forget.

While the debate of the second amendment continues in various forms, a third and terrifying player emerges from the shadows with their own agenda for the people of this country. Will this new player change the course of human history? Can our freedoms survive the influence and presence of Demon Cats?Many little girls in Ireland borrow the dresses for their First Holy Communion from their big sisters or cousins. This is the tale of a girl who finds that her cousin's beautiful dress just does not fit her. She comes up with a clever, so she thinks, solution to the problem.This is an "Auntie Book" a short book to be read on a visit to a nephew or niece.

Zombies plague the landscape, wreaking havoc on the remaining uninfected. At twenty, I should be worrying about final exams and spring break. Instead, I'm sharpening blades and loading guns. My family hides out away from the settlements, deep in the Rocky Mountains. We raid stores and trade to settlements.Lucky for us I have a secret, I’m a necromancer.My name is Anya and this is my story.Zombies plague the apocalyptic landscape, insatiable and wreaking havoc on the remaining uninfected. Settlements desperately hold out, fighting for the last remnants of civilization while striving for a return to normalcy.At twenty years old, I should be worrying about final exams and where I’m going for spring break. Instead, I’m sharpening blades and loading guns.My family chooses to make its home away from the settlements, deep in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. We raid stores across the state, gathering supplies which we in turn trade to the settlements.It’s a simple, but dangerous, existence and biters haunt us every step of the way.Lucky for us, I have a secret . . . I’m a necromancer.My name is Anya Donovan and this is my survival story.

On Halloween night in 1973, young Daniel Taylor was approached by a mysterious horse-drawn hearse driven by a sinister old man. Forty years later, the hearse emerged from the darkness and appeared to Daniel once again - but this time it was carrying a coffin.Weatherton-native Jacob Grayson finally has life exactly how he wants it to be: a nice job, a gorgeous apartment, and a brand new start in Chicago. He appears fine on the outside, but beneath layers of thick skin lies a pain bigger than his seemingly-perfect life. Jacob journeyed hundreds of miles from home not only took him from the place he called home. He was also running from the pain of a bad childhood, the unexpected death of his beloved mother, and the estrangement of his father that caused him years of pain and self-destruction. In the midst of suddenly losing everything, Jacob finds himself far from the quality of life he once knew and places him at a crossroads. One road leads to deeper depression and possibly death, while the other leads him on the path to redemption and an unexpected reunion with his dying father. Will Jacob finally reach out to his dying father and forgive him, or have years of hate hardened his heart forever?

Sophia, soapmaker & serial killer, falls for like-minded guy, but struggles to break free from a most dysfunctional family.Sophia Varga runs a highly successful cosmetics company: one that utilizes human remains as a main ingredient. As her relationship with her accomplice deteriorates, Sophia seeks to break free from his control and find a replacement partner-in-crime. She may have found someone too perfect: the object of her obsession is confident in his methods, but Sophia risks becoming his next victim. Despite the warning signs, she believes she has found her twin flame.As Sophia struggles to deal with her growing attraction to her new potential accomplice, police discover an underwater graveyard. With the pressure mounting, Sophia loses sight of a neurotic female stalker, a young photographer named Ti. But Ti's obsessive ways lead her into a downward spiral when she discovers that Sophia and her ex-accomplice are her connected to her in a disturbing way. After a violent run-in with Sophia's new accomplice, will Ti decide that blood is thicker than water?

People of the Dark is a collection of stories by Robert E. Howard that includes: "The Black Stone," "Children of the Night," "The Dark Man," "The Footfalls Within," "Gods of Bal Sagoth," "Horror from the Mound," "Kings of the Night," "The Last Day," "People of the Dark," "The Song of the Mad Minstrel," and "The Thing on the Roof."The title story, "People of the Dark," is considered to be part of the Cthulhu Mythos. It was first published in Strange Tales, June 1932.

Madeline de Montalia, the perpetually youthful and beautiful vampire, once beloved of the Count Saint-Germain, comes to America in the 1840's to live with and study the native tribes of America, desiring to document their culture and knowledge before these are changed forever and unalterably by contact with the White Man. She had not expected she would fall in love with San Francisco Banker and US Army officer William Tecumseh Sherman in the 1850's. Now, living among the Choctaw in Georgia in the 1860's, she knows that Sherman's armies are marching through; and what will she say when they meet again after these many years? And how will she survive through some of the most horrifying events of the Civil War?

One year ago, Jack warded the small fishing village of Anyok, Alaska against an ancient creature that feeds on anything it can find in the frozen tundra. He returns only to find that the men he entrusted with maintaining the wards have ignored his warnings and put the whole village in danger. Now, with no means of fighting back, they must band together to defeat the creature and survive the night.Watched by a ceiling camera inside the Florentia Moenia casino in Macau, teleoperator Clarity Nice joins the woman watching her, videographer Plum Bailey, in a live dealer gambling room broadcasting over the internet. Plum leads Clarity with her on board Heir Force One, the plane of Sheik Haroun Al-Najib, known colloquially as Hari, after offering to him the luxurious ring made by the firm Mauboussin, brought by Clarity to Macau, which points to an ancient sorority identified by a symbol known as the 'incomplete triangle'. Rejected by his family, known as the dumbest human loss-making machine of the Emirates, Hari likes to wear shabby clothes, which include a sweater with growths patched with puffs of woolfiller, ripped jeans, worn out brown leather shoes with one of the soles open, and housing several white pebbles.A golden bachelor with a solid reputation of lacking qualification and being indecisive whatever he does, Hari has not decided to marry, and is confused by all the women around him, who want to be near him in order to enjoy the affluent lifestyle of 'HDH', His Dumb Highness, as everyone else but himself thinks of him. Hari does not care about failure, and sees it as something inherent in business and in general.Seen as a nuisance by his family for their business, because of his loss making business blunders and repeated incompetence, his list of achievements including only failures and money losing ventures or trades, Hari heads for the Caribbean to sort out his love life and make his first dollar on his own. His plane lands in the British Virgin Islands and he gets a job as waiter in a terrace of Tortola. After an unfortunate tip to a tourist on a penny stock which fails, Hari is fired from his job, and becomes jobless again.Sheik Hari is a sociable guy, who trusts himself when someone else tells him he is rich. He is rich, but someone else always ends up managing his money, either his family or his retainer Hakeem, a man who resents all the fortune around him, and seeks a chunk of all the money thrown away by Hari's disastrous forays into business, trade, or investing.After an email sent by error by Hari results in the landing of a consortium of journalists investigating the Sheik and the holdings of his company, Clarity helps Hari sort out some of the problems arising out of the unwanted notoriety. The mess created by Hari includes a scandal called Scrub Leaks, involving the Sheik's family assets and other powerful members of the elite, and a money laundering charge by the BVI financial services commission, which leads Hari's girlfriend to leave him. As a result of the mess, Hari, and Clarity, are arrested and are led to jail in Tortola.Stuck with Hari in jail, awaiting a trial which the authorities want as example of their compliance with laundering legislation, Clarity will have to find an ingenious way to leave jail and the island, to elude the charges against them by bringing to the police commissioner those who tampered with the Sheik's account in Tortola. Lacking any local allies, the only way for Clarity out of Hari's mess, is to strike a deal exchanging favors with Plum, who is seeking a valuable list of connections owned by the Sheik, in order to reach the sorority headed by an older woman, Lady Mulham, which brings to their members an explanation of 'completion', in particular the completion of its symbol, the incomplete triangle. (This is the regular banana humor version of the Shabby Sheik)

Day Watch (Russian: Dnevnoi Dozor, ??????? ?????) is a fantasy novel by Russian authors Sergey Lukyanenko and Vladimir Vasilyev. The second book in the tetralogy of Watches, it is preceded by Night Watch and followed by Twilight Watch and Last Watch. Day Watch also stands out of the tetralogy as it is the only novel in the series not told from Anton Gorodetsky's point of view. While the 2006 film Day Watch bears the same name as this book, it is actually a loose adaptation of the latter parts of the first book, Night Watch, and not an adaptation of this novel. The English translation by Andrew Bromfield was released in January 2007 both in the US and UK.

How well do you know your neighbors? A small town's best & brightest high school students are being eliminated one by one by a goth-inspired wise-cracking clown, forcing their valedictorian to unwittingly link up with a special investigator to help stop the carnage.It all begins one sunny day in Century City High’s School’s girls’ locker room with the gruesome murder of a cheerleader. Soon, the school valedictorian, Laurel, a promising chemist, is being stalked in one of the chemistry labs. She catches a glimpse of the intruder, but gets away by breaking a glass window. Within the next few days, other promising students such as the always comical Bell and the football star Chip are killed by The Clown. As the killer’s net tightens around Laurel, those close to her are also targeted by the ruthless maniac. It is only a matter of time before she, too, comes face to face with the dark evil bent on revealing the Tears of a Clown. Who will survive?

The Doom of the Griffiths by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A poet, his aunt, Stephen Fry and a peacock you might like to meet, but probably wouldn't want to play Strip Monopoly with. Bulgakov, Gogol...Spraints.A poet, his aunt, Stephen Fry and a peacock you might like to meet, but probably wouldn't want to play Strip Monopoly with. Bulgakov, Gogol...Spraints. Don't have nightmares.