Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. As the days pass, Ethan’s investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Why can’t he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn’t anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact—he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

Damaged. Deceptive. Dangerous. Darling. Are they labels or a warning? The answer could cost Sera everything. Murder, justice, and revenge were so not a part of the plan when Sera set out on her senior camping trip. After all, hiking through the woods is supposed to be safe and uneventful. Then one morning the group wakes up groggy, confused, and with words scrawled on their wrists: Damaged. Deceptive. Dangerous. Darling. Their supplies? Destroyed. Half their group? Gone. Their chaperone? Unconscious. Worst of all, they find four dolls acting out a murder—dolls dressed just like them. Suddenly it's clear; they're being hunted. And with the only positive word on her wrist, Sera falls under suspicion…

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All that stands between Earth and multiplanar invasion is one pissed-off redneck protecting his pot crop.When the unearthly intelligences that rule the Higher Planes have their attention drawn to Earth, all that stands between them and total annihilation is a pissed-off redneck protecting his marijuana crop.

Wendy Stroud is afraid that her mother's abusive boyfriend will hurt the members of her family. She wants him to go away forever, but she can't make him do so on her own. So she decides to ask a friend of her uncle for help. And all she has to do is recite a magic spell. This is a short story.Wendy Stroud fears for her family. Eric, her mother's new boyfriend, has a fearful temper, which gets worse when he drinks. He regularly beats her mother, he hits her on occasion, and he sent her Uncle Timothy to the hospital. He even killed her pet Siamese cat.Wendy wants him to go away and never come back, but she can't do it on her own. Her Uncle had told her about a friend who could help, but Eric beat him almost to death before he could ask.Wendy cannot wait until he recovers, if he ever does. Who knows what Eric might do in the meantime? She decides to contact her Uncle's friend herself. Fortunately, he had told her how to do it.All she has to do is recite a magic spell out of one of his books....

Death. Despair. Madness. When a terrifying nightmare predicts the apocalypse, Detective David Burfict finds himself drawn into an ancient conspiracy to bring about an end to the age of man. Can he stop the machinations of madmen, or is he merely an unwitting link in the chain of our destruction?David Burfict has always been haunted by nightmares - violent ones, with unspeakable horrors, and terrifying whisperers, whose every word has always proven to be prophetic. Now, he dreams of Eschaton - the end of times. Can he avert the prophecy, or are we doomed to destruction by an entity beyond our understanding?

Six months ago, Jessie's only problem was getting a ride to beach parties. Then her mother is murdered in a horrific way and Jessie's friends start dying, one by one.No sane person believes in ghosts and vampires, do they? Soon Jessie will be locked in the fight of her life with a killer who is part of an ancient evil, and the only person who can help her might be a figment of her imagination.Blood Worship, Book 1 in the exciting Chasing Vampires TrilogySix months ago, Jessie's only problem was getting a ride to Friday night beach parties. Then her mother is murdered in a horrific way and Jessie's friends start dying, one by one.Jessie doesn't believe in the supernatural, but strange things keep happening to her anyway. Her dead mother visits her dreams, she has bizarre visions, and a predator stalks the Florida night. Jessie hears rumors that her friends were butchered for their blood.The police think that she is withholding information, but all Jessie knows is that she is in danger. The relentless, vicious killer has disciples everywhere, and now they are hunting her.No sane person believes in ghosts, demons, and vampires, do they? The line between reality and fantasy seems to be blurring, and the only person who can help her just might be a figment of her imagination. Soon Jessie will be locked in the fight of her life with a killer who might just be part of an ancient evil.

Don Whitman was a high school boy who did a bad and bloody thing. Now the pipe's all filled with cement and the adults tell his name to scare us—all except Mr Gregor: Mr Gregor knows the truth. He told it to me once, with details...I don’t want a stepmom. But that doesn’t stop my dad from remarrying.I don’t need a grandpa. But this new marriage comes with one.I don’t want my mom to leave me with these people for three weeks. But she’s going on a work trip anyway. I might run into the gorgeous boy from the wedding that asked me to dance. I’m just not sure I’m ready to let my guard down. There’s too much at risk.Thankfully I have Vianna and Natalie to help me get through all of this. They know the rules of how to play this game.

Simon, a serial killer, has only hours to save his little sister. From himself. A bloody journey of rescue, revenge and redemption.There's something in the water, preying on men, women, children and animals along the UK coastline. For two years, Simon, a teenager, has been tasked with providing live bodies for the thing. Like his father before him, he has a natural ability for the work and is even beginning to think he might enjoy it. Then the creature asks for something he cannot give. The life of his sister. He has a window of just a few hours to save both their lives and so begins a bloody journey in search of rescue, revenge and redemption.

From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race. In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race. Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard’s published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn–including the eerie masterpiece “Worms of the Earth” and “Kings of the Night,” in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders. Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard’s handwritten revisions, and much, much more. Special Bonus: a newly discovered adventure by Howard, presented here for the very first time.

New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells continues his popular John Wayne Cleaver series in Over Your Dead Body. John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the midwest--but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use, and meanwhile Brooke's fractured psyche teeters on the edge of oblivion, overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of dead personalities sharing her mind. She flips in and out of lucidity, manifesting new names and thoughts and memories every day, until at last the one personality pops up that John never expected and has no idea how to deal with. The last of Nobody's victims, trapped forever in the body of his last remaining friend. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The end is coming. The sickness struck everyone sixteen and older. First it twisted their minds; next it ravaged their bodies. Now the sickos—crazed and hungry for young flesh—are gathered in the center of London, lying in wait. It’s time for all of the survivors—kids spread out across the city—to unite. They must come up with a plan of attack to end the grown-ups’ reign of terror before it is too late. One thing is certain: surprises abound in the bloody conclusion to Charlie Higson’s Enemy saga.

Short Stories for HalloweenTest Draft of the TWW Halloween Horror Collection 2016 - Don't bother downloading just yet, unless you are a Tunbridge Wells Writer downloading to proofread / check formatting!

Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew... Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate -- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon -- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house, it seems their future is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget even the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in a secret ceremony and remain husband and wife in name alone. But the thick, expensive walls of Cypress Woods cannot shut out the terrible memories that have woven their fabric over her destiny, or the cold eyes of Paul's mother, Gladys, reminding Ruby of the secret she must keep to give Pearl a loving father. Then her venomous twin sister, Gisselle, arrives to taunt her with news of Beau Andreas, the true father Pearl has never met, and the only man Ruby will ever long for with all her body and soul, Desperate to find the complete, fulfilling life she craves, Ruby builds a precarious new existence, a flimsy shanty of hope that the first flood washes away. Only when the storm exposes the very blackest evils of the past will she glimpse the rainbow's fragile promise, a morning of sunshine and laughter with a family of her own....