Occult Paranormal Horror

Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can’t tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes: A vicious attack leaves one twin dead and the other so traumatized that she turns totally inward, incapable of telling anyone what happened or even who she is. She remains lost to the world, until the day Mark, a family friend, comes to visit - and the young woman utters her first intelligible word. As she recovers, still with no memory of the past, her nightmares grow steadily more frightful, followed by wild fits of hysteria and dark mood swings....

In Shadow People, national best-selling author James Swain’s brilliant follow-up to Dark Magic, magician Peter Warlock has a dark secret. He’s a psychic who peers into the future, using the information to alert the authorities to pending trouble. During a séance, Peter is confronted by a group of evil spirits called shadow people, beings who have the power to kidnap a person’s soul. Peter is taken to another plane, where he confronts a serial killer about to claim his next victim. It’s a harrowing encounter that Peter only barely manages to survive.

It had been almost a century and a half since I last encountered anyone from the Order of the Morning Dawn. They were religious fundamentalists with the dual goal of eliminating vampires and witches. Being both a vampire and a witch, I was the embodiment of everything the Order hates. Their first attempt to eliminate me failed. Thanks to the fact that my mentor in the craft was also a necromancer.

College student Kayla Monroe seems to have everything. Stunning looks, smarts, and loads of money thanks to her privileged upbringing. But something’s gone wrong. Ever since the start of her sophomore year, people have been avoiding her. Her friends shun her. Guys no longer flock to her. Even her former stalker, an awkward geek, now wants nothing to do with her. She is on the brink of utter despair when she encounters a young man in the park. The man is charming and movie star handsome. Kayla thinks maybe her luck has taken a turn for the better. But she couldn’t be more wrong.

Some families hand down wealth through generations; some hand down wisdom. Some families, whether they want to or not, hand down the secret burdens they carry and the dangerous debts they owe. Lissa Nevsky's grandmother leaves her a big, empty house and a legacy of magic: folk magic, old magic, brought with Baba when she fled the Gulag. In the wake of her passing, the Russian community of Toronto will depend on Lissa now to give them their remedies and be their koldun'ia.

The Era of Nighttime Has Begun... Forty years have passed since the end of the vampire/human war. Vampires have taken over the planet and have settled in, making themselves comfortable in the infrastructure their predecessors built, with just a few adjustments to ensure a permanent night. Humans still exist, tightly controlled, because the alpha species needs to eat. But even after four decades of peace, Reginald can't shake his conviction that the war never really ended — that the archive he still holds in his blood warns of an ominous change on the horizon.

This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft's "apprentice years" - roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925.

This volume is part of the three-book Pulp-Lit Omnibus Collection of all the fiction writing of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It presents the works of weird fiction which he ghostwrote or on which he collaborated with another author.

"Als wir in der Halle der Wahrheit standen, unfähig, unsere Aufmerksamkeit von der Faszination des sich aufbauenden Licht-Doms zu nehmen, wurde uns bewusst, dass der Moment nun gekommen war, auf den sich die Menschheit seit ihrer Entstehung zuentwickelt hatte: Sie stand vor der Entscheidung, den Kosmos als siegreicher Herrscher zu betreten - oder von ihm wie ein zaghafter Feigling vernichtet zu werden."

"Manchmal glaubt man, daß es nicht mehr schlimmer kommen kann, wenn Hoffnungslosigkeit und Todesangst zur puren Realität werden. Doch wer wirklich den Pfad des Erwachens zu gehen wagt, der wird sich damit abfinden müssen, daß die lehrreichen finsteren Täler von Mal zu Mal dunkler werden. Irgendwann wird die ultimative Prüfung ins Leben treten. Spätestens dann weiß man, wozu all die vorherigen Hindernisse gut waren und welch immense Vorbereitung sie brachten, um das Unmögliche eines Tages wagen zu können.

Der grüne Hüter erzählt: "Nach der großen, verlorenen Schlacht um Ailons Seele tauchte Sodon in seine Urheimat ein, um sich den lichten Blicken Ailons vollständig zu entziehen. Dorthin, wohin nicht einmal eines Menschen Vorstellung hineinreicht. Man sagt, Gedanken seien frei! Aber hier müssen selbst Gedanken erfrieren." Die Fortsetzung des Gral-Epos nimmt im zweiten Band an Dramatik zu, denn Sodon, das Lügen-Wesen der Finsternis, will nun einen lange vorbereiteten Plan in die Tat umsetzen, den er als letzten Schritt zur "Endlösung der Menschheitsfrage" bezeichnet.

A New Dark Leader Has Emerged... Following Maurice's near-assassination and the overthrow of the American Vampire Council, Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki have fled to Luxembourg, where they've taken refuge under the protection of Karl Stromm and the EU Council. Things in America have continued towards chaos with no end in sight — until a coup shakes the world and a new American leader arrives with promises to restore order and derail the imminent human-vampire war. But things are not as they seem. A dangerous, genocidal faction has arisen to upset the fragile balance.

For the fans of The DaVinci Code - with three generations of extraordinary women keeping alive the ancient Goddess faith. "Whenever you are of need, come to Me when the moon is full and I, Hecate, Queen of all witches, will guide you, my daughter, to your heart's desire."

"'Was ist das Geheimnis des Grals?' Kaum hat der Hüter die Frage ausgesprochen, beginnt der Friedens-Tempel zu vibrieren. Ein Klang, wie von einer gigantischen tibetischen Glocke oder Klangschale ertönt durch den Kosmos. Ja, der gesamte Mikro- und Makro-Kosmos scheint in diesen Klang einzustimmen." Der dritte Band des Epos "Die Suche nach dem kosmischen Gral" führt uns sowohl in die Tiefen von Sodons Höllen-Welten, worin dessen destruktiv wirkendes Magisches Tor zerstört werden muss, als auch in die Höhen des kosmischen Friedens-Tempels.

Fane is done living in Hell, and there is little time until her newest Maester has unrestricted ownership over her. When an angel is captured and held in the Deep, she knows he might be her only chance at freedom—for only an angel can break the demonic bond tethering her to Hell. Mihr was ambushed by a bunch of demons, who dragged him straight to the underworld. Now one of the Hellspawn—a sexy demoness—offers him a way out. A forbidden way. He spent his life fighting her kind and avoiding temptation, but with freedom and life beckoning, he finally agrees to her conditions.

Inspired by medieval legends about the poet Vergil, who was revered not only as the author of the Aeneid but also as a powerful necromancer, Davidson embarked on his Vergil Magus series in the '60s with the intriguing novel The Phoenix and the Mirror. In this sequel, Vergil answers a magical summons from Averno, both the wealthiest and the filthiest of cities. The magnates there are worried about the waning and shifting of the natural fires that have fueled their industries and fouled their air.

Five years ago, the demon Azazel tricked Ben Spencer into giving him possession of his body. After countless frustrating and heartbreaking dead ends, Ben’s family and his girlfriend Katy Ruskin have finally located him. Will their daring rescue attempt work, and will they be able to free Ben from the demon? And with Ben free, is everything truly over…or is it only just beginning? A Pattern of Shadows brings the Small Things trilogy to a stunning conclusion that pits Ben and Katy and their families against the very forces of heaven and hell itself.

The Obsidian Guardians lived in daylight as statues of their spirit animals and stalked the night in human form. Created by witches as protectors to those families who were entrusted with magic. Families born only to keep balance in nature and save humanity.

Just because I'm undead, doesn't mean I'm suddenly a ghost whisperer. But if it'll convince my dad I'm still me, I'll go to Korea and do my best. I'd do anything for him to love me again, even if it means trying to convince my ancestors to quit haunting us.

Fiona managed to save her town from demons. Now there’s a bounty on her head. When Fiona consumed the demon king’s aether, she half expected that it would kill her. Now she’s stuck with Lord Balor’s dark energy ravaging her soul. Gabriel has left Mountain Shadow, and the town has been invaded by ghost hunters and the crew of a hit reality-TV show. To make matters worse, Fiona’s fight at Busk Fest attracted the attention of the most powerful hunters in the Brotherhood. They’ve put a bounty on Fiona’s head, making her a target for freelance hunters.