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When Michael "Blue" Whitley -- a former party boy turned up-and-coming Brooklyn chef -- returns with three friends to the remote Canadian commune of his birth, he discovers that his entire life has been a carefully orchestrated lie. He is in fact someone else altogether, a replacement for a local child who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. He is something not quite human.

The Addisons - Julia and Tonio, 10-year-old Dewey, and derelict Uncle Robbie - are driving home, cross-country, after collecting Robbie from yet another trip to rehab. When a terrifying blizzard strikes outside the town of Good Night, Idaho, they seek refuge in the town at the Travelers Rest, a formerly opulent but now crumbling and eerie hotel where the physical laws of the universe are bent.

Wyrdwood is unlike any other town in America. Home sweet home, mom, baseball, and apple pie take on whole new dimensions when Viviane, her mother, and her cohort Corona arrive just in time to become embroiled in a nasty struggle between the guardians of Purgatory and the residents of King Arthur's mythic isle. Viviane's enemies will stop at nothing to wrench open the gates of Apfallon, and Viviane is their chosen crowbar.

Half Life is a triplet of supernatural stories which journey to worlds that linger between life and death. Fear, disappointment, and loneliness permeate these worlds, forcing each character to face up to the dark side of human existence. An original blend of horror, pathos, and humour, these curious stories will cause disquiet, heartache, and a thrilling sting of pleasure.

Doctor Gary Miller is introduced to the world of self-help in the form of seven experiments. Each experiment is designed to focus Dr. Miller’s mind, so he can realize his dreams through the power of thought alone. He’s dubious at first, but frustrations at work and a loveless marriage lead him down the rabbit hole. Much to his surprise, the experiments work. In fact, they work unbelievably well. They can make him immortal, and God-like. However, Dr. Miller will learn getting what you want isn’t always a good thing. Just be careful what you ask for.

You died three weeks ago, so how can you be following me on social media? Your funeral is packed to the rafters leaving standing room only. Everyone talks about your untimely death and the hole you’ve left behind. But no one feels your loss more than me, Mum. I’m the one returning to an empty house and I’m the one who receives the first notification from X.

Reid is a bully, but he's still Alex's best friend. When Reid pushes Alex and their friends into invading a historically haunted Massachusetts house, Alex knows it's a terrible idea, but indulges his friend. What could go wrong? Inside, a mysterious Shadow looms in the darkness. The door to the house vanishes, leaving them trapped. The group flees through the tiny, one-roomed house that defies logic, constantly shifting, presenting them with new doors, hallways, and rooms that seem to be plucked from their memories and fears.

An extreme land breeds extreme emotions. Comraich - Gaelic for Sanctuary - that's what this ancient fortress of a house in the Highlands of Scotland has offered its generations, a haven from the world beyond. The nesting instinct kicking in, a pregnant Jessamin decides that Comraich, which she shares with her partner Fionnlagh Maccaillin, needs refreshing. Getting to work in one of the spare bedrooms she makes a startling discovery, one that pulls her into a world of the intense and disturbing passions of others that have been here before.

In Chicago the year 1979, Detective David Neal and his partner were thrust into a series of dark, grisly murders. The darkest they and the people of Chicago, had ever seen. The deaths were so bizarre; the government got involved sending a beautiful female FBI agent, who seemed to have her own agenda. After seeing an older female at one of the crime scenes, David and David only saw her time and time again in the strangest places.

For Paul and Debbie it was meant to be the happiest time of their lives. A small village wedding in front of their family and friends, followed by a quiet honeymoon in Devon. Not everyone had been happy to see them together. A woman from their past refused to accept it. Her actions over the previous year had ended in tragedy, and had almost broken the happy couple apart. Now, away from it all in a picturesque log cabin, Paul and Debbie look forward to time spent alone together.... But she has found out where they are, and she will stop at nothing to make sure that the marriage is over...forever.

A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running woman - and he does, because his grandfather, a cop in Jacksonville, was hunting the same woman in 1957. In pursuit of a serial killer who can ride The Shimmer across decades, the chase goes from modern-day Jacksonville to Mafia-ruled St. Augustine in 1957, then to New Orleans in 1914.

Oh, to be a Beloved - one of those lucky people for whom nothing ever goes wrong. Everything falls into their laps without effort: happiness, beauty, good fortune, allure. Betty Stash is not a Beloved - but her little sister, the delightful Gloria, is. She's the one with the golden curls and sunny disposition and captivating smile, the one whose best friend used to be Betty's, the one whose husband should have been Betty's. Then, to everyone's surprise, Gloria inherits the family mansion. Losing what Betty considers her rightful inheritance is the final indignity.

When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House, a museum dedicated to an obscure 19th-century philosopher, and she and Nick swiftly move into their new home. At first, life in this old, creaky house feels cozy. But as summer turns to fall, Hannah begins to have trouble sleeping and she hears whispers in the night. One morning, Nick wakes up to find Hannah gone.

There's a new ice cream truck roaming the neighborhood, and Trey Leger believes its driver is a monster. While the neighborhood children see a friendly man serving the treats, Trey sees a frightful demon behind the wheel. Battling years of mental illness and the demons from his own childhood, Trey investigates to determine if the creature is merely a symptom of his mental illness or something far more terrifying.

In 1993 at a top secret facility conducting telekinetic research, something dangerous escaped. Now the government wants it back. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, is a quiet little tourist town where nothing exciting ever happens. All of that changes when a young woman is found brutally murdered and a local boy vanishes without a trace.

Ada König will herausfinden, was diese wichtige Sache ist, die ihr Vater ihr erzählen wollte, kurz bevor er das Lenkrad herumriss und die Welt ins Chaos stürzte. Was hat es mit dem 'Verbrannten Mann' auf sich, der Ada seit dem Autounfall verfolgt, und wieso träumt sie von Else, der alten Frau aus dem Dorf, die sich an nichts erinnert und doch nie vergisst, die Walnüsse aufzusammeln, die der Meister im Garten des Königs fallen lässt. "Du glaubst doch nicht, dass so ein Pakt über Leben und Tod ohne Gegenleistung geschlossen wird.

Will Connor returns to his hometown, a village north of Boston, to care for his injured mother. He’s kept his distance from the town since high school, but once home he finds himself reexamining a horrific incident that took place during one of his mother’s "spirit circles". His mother had embraced the hippie generation’s fascination with New Age and the arcane, but the unexpected death of a close friend put an end to the meetings of the modern-day coven. Or did it?

This psychological thriller takes us through the lives of liars and champions. And those caught between the two. Wasteful is a tale that displays the mask people use to survive in the world. Even if it means they survive as someone else.

Madonna ist ein Geist, eine Namenlose, ihre Zelle trägt die Nummer 13. Ohne jede Hoffnung muss sie Nacht für Nacht Unvorstellbares über sich ergehen lassen. Doch Madonna ist zäh. Und geduldig. Denn sie weiß: Sie muss zurück zu den Anfängen ihres Martyriums, um es zu beenden. Als ihr endlich die Flucht gelingt, begibt sie sich auf eine gnadenlose Odyssee, immer nur ein Ziel vor Augen: Rache. Doch überall lauert Gefahr, und auch ihre Peiniger sind ihr bereits auf den Fersen, und irgendwann muss sie sich die Frage stellen: Soll sie weiter fliehen oder sich ihren Dämonen stellen?

Dive into the terrors that lurk behind every corner and in every shadow of the world with these flesh-crawling tales, eight spine-tingling horror stories by Leigh Harlen.