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In a time when the undead bloodsuckers of legend have become a shadow of their former selves thanks to watered-down romance novels like Twilight and the Sookie Stackhouse series, horror author C. Dennis Moore returns the icons to their former glory with his collection of six short stories, Icons to Ashes. Featuring three previously published stories plus three all-new tales, Icons to Ashes doesn't shy away for one moment from the bloodshed and ferocity of these killing machines.

Horror author C. Dennis Moore (author of The Third Floor and Revelations) takes you to the streets of Camdigan, a town literally in the middle of nowhere, the place where the dead come to live. David has wound up there by accident, but a chance encounter with a little girl brings him face to face with the wife he lost years ago. Now he'll do anything to get out of Camdigan, and Camdigan will do anything to keep David there.

This collection of three novellas from different genres - supernatural horror, mystery suspense, and historical romance - all blend together to form a perfect mash-up of all things imaginative.

This collection features reviews of the Hellraiser, Pulse, Feast, Leprechaun, and Boogeyman franchises as well as classic horror films like Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Keep My Grave Open, Beast of the Yellow Night, The Vampire's Night Orgy, and more.

Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting for the faithful when they receive the sign of the cross in an effort to bring others to the church. But when 14-year-old Mary Western received the sign, something happened and she was suddenly seeing a series of grisly murders from the perspective of a violent killer. In desperation, Mary turned to the church, insistent she'd been possessed by a demon. Can a visiting priest at St. Michael's help save Mary's soul? In Angel Hill, nothing is certain.

Jim and his high school girlfriend Monica have just moved into a third floor apartment in a secure building to start a life together. Everything's going well at first, even though Jim finds adjusting to living with another person difficult. Then one night one of the residents in the building is murdered. With the security lock on the front door, and considering Jim was the only one in the building who couldn't prove his whereabouts at the time, all fingers point to him.

David Reed is struggling. He's working two jobs to make ends meet, trying not to resent the fact his wife makes so much more than he does, and to top it all off, he's just totaled his car after swerving to avoid hitting a very large animal in the middle of the road. But an empty bank account and no car soon turn out to be the least of David's worries, when he begins to think the animal he almost hit might be stalking him.

What qualifies a house as haunted? Brian is still grieving over the loss of his parents when something resembling his mother slithers out from behind the bed and screams at him to get out of the house. With nowhere to turn, he tries the empty house he and his partners have just started renovating. The house on Irving has never seen a death inside its walls, and there are no ghosts lurking in its shadows. But that night, Brian senses something waiting in the dark outside the bathroom door for him.

There are many ghosts that wander the halls of the Mertland Childrens' Home in Angel Hill. The story of what happened to Carlotta Valdez has grown into legend, but the truth is very, very different. For one angry young woman, Mertland has a way of paying back what's due.

The Angel Hill Podcast explores the mysteries surrounding this strange Midwestern town, asking questions that shouldn't be asked, seeking answers best left unspoken. And someone, or something, has been stalking the podcast's host, hoping to stop his investigation.

For 18 years, Jason has heard the talk around town, but he's never actually seen any of Angel Hill's ghosts. That's until one night at a senior party, when he hears a noise upstairs and decides to check it out. He tells himself the key to freeing a ghost is to find out what it wants, but if what the ghost wants is justice, it might not be too particular on where it finds it. Assuming he's doing a good thing by helping a spirit cross over to the next plane, Jason instead finds himself locked in a hell of his own making.

Angel Hill has always been a place where the unexplainable is commonplace. The residents have accepted this in a don't ask, don't tell sort of way. But one man, Sean, feels these forces are out to get him. He can't go out. He can't make a noise. And when one of "them" walks into his apartment, he takes the only action he can in defending himself.

Doug and Joanne Moore have moved to North Wales with their two daughters, eight-year-old Raine and four-year-old Ivy. They hope to make a fresh start in the cheap house next to the lake. Perhaps there, Doug can defeat his demons and control his drinking. Almost immediately, a strange doll begins tormenting Ivy, threatening the child with a terrible end. Doug's attempt to rid his family of the doll turns ugly when the worried father is himself attacked by a creature out of local nightmare - an 18th-century revenant.

Oliver Mark has found the perfect house. Old, abandoned, on the outskirts of Angel Hill where no one lives - it's the perfect place for him and his girlfriend to make a life together. But when Oliver breaks into the place to explore his new treasure, he finds himself lost in a maze of confusion and spatial anomaly. After losing his job and getting kicked out of his friend's house, Oliver just wants a place to build a new life, but this house wasn't constructed using the physical laws we all take for granted.

In this candid first-person memoir, Huckleberry gives you an insider's view of his beleaguered campaign, such as it is: a hilarious clown car packed with an astonishing array of fear-mongering grotesques, xenophobic paranoids, closeted bigots, and rapacious, self-promoting Conservative pundits, all of them poised to commandeer America's future in the name of God and unrestrained capitalism (not necessarily in that order).