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Little Sammy Went vanishes from her home in Manson, Kentucky - an event that devastates her family and tears apart the town’s deeply religious community. Kim Leamy, an Australian photographer, is approached by a stranger who turns her world upside down - he claims she is the kidnapped Sammy and that everything she knows about herself is based on a lie. In search of answers, Kim returns to the remote town of Sammy’s childhood to face up to the ghosts of her early life. But the deeper she digs into her family background the more secrets she uncovers....

In the title story, a white aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic - she has a handgun stowed away in her purse, just in case. But when she turns to confront her black male shadow, the situation isn't what she expects. In "The Rescuer" a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers.

Patrick Bateman è giovane, bello, ricco. Vive a Manhattan, lavora a Wall Street e con i colleghi Timothy, David, Patten e Craig, frequenta i locali più alla moda, le palestre più esclusive e le toilette dove gira la migliore cocaina della città, discutendo di nuovi ristoranti, cameriere corpoduro ed eleganza maschile. Ma la sua vita è ricca di particolari piuttosto inquietanti e quando le tenebre scendono su New York, Patrick Bateman si trasforma in un torturatore omicida, freddo, metodico, spietato.

“Com’era vivere in quella casa?” Maggie Holt è abituata a questa domanda. Venticinque anni fa, lei e i suoi genitori, Ewan e Jess, si trasferirono a Baneberry Hall, una sconfinata tenuta vittoriana nei boschi del Vermont. Trascorsero lì venti giorni prima di fuggire nel cuore della notte, un calvario che Ewan raccontò in seguito in un libro di saggistica intitolato "La casa degli orrori". La sua storia di eventi spettrali e incontri con spiriti maligni diventò un fenomeno mondiale, rivaleggiando con Orrore ad Amityville in popolarità e scetticismo.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Roxy is a scorned housewife on a rebound road trip with her best friend Lena when the women pick up a ragged hitchhiker on the side of the highway. Only this man named Ricardo is no typical hobo or tramp. Soon the pair of lusty ladies learn that their new passenger is in fact an apex predator and a true alpha male -- a man who is not entirely human. Now Ricardo is on a collision course with the two women, only before he can ...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Zodiac by Sam Wilson, read by John Chancer. Every murder is a sign. In a society divided along Zodiac lines, status is cast at birth - and binding for life. Who you are can be determined by a matter of days, hours, even minutes. Even for the most experienced detectives, every once in a while a murder can shake them to the core. Like when the Chief of Police is killed in his own home.

Someone is hunting Connor. Alone, freezing, in the wilderness of Bodmin Moor, on an elite Special Forces training exercise, he'd be a fool to scorn the kindness of a local stranger. Wouldn't he? At first, Eilidh seems to be an impeccable host. She offers Connor food and a warm bed—he finds it nearly impossible to leave her charming farmhouse. But the choice isn't his to make. There have been others before. None, though, as perfect as him.

Una plaga en la edad moderna. ¿Qué harías si tu mundo cambiara ante tus propios ojos?. ¿Qué harías si vieras a tus seres queridos convirtiéndose en horrendas monstruosidades?. ¿Qué harías si fueras la única persona sana y normal que queda en el planeta?. Estas preguntas, que brillan intensamente como los bordes exteriores de una supernova, son las que se hace Alicia Gaden mientras toda la vida a su alrededor se convierte en locura y decadencia. El agua, la sustancia vital de la que depende la supervivencia misma de la Tierra, se ha transformado en un fango espantoso y ...

A recovering alcoholic on the run from his past, all Billy Smith wants is to be left alone. But commanded by the voices in his head to commit acts of violence he does not understand, he kidnaps a prostitute known only as Angel and heads north to a bucolic little New England town called White Falls. Something monstrous has taken root in White Falls, and has waited centuries for the right time to awaken. Psyches begin to unravel and violence erupts. The fate of the living ultimately rests on the back of one man. For the dead are watching....

The town of Pine Ridge has an eerie past, with tales of witchcraft and ritual murders, but when a local man is savagely killed, all hell threatens to break loose. Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate the brutal slaying - a murder that seems to have been carried out by children - children with dead black eyes....

Ran McGhie's world has been turned upside down. A young, lonely and frustrated writer, and suffering from mental health problems, he discovers that his long-dead mother was related to one of Glasgow's oldest merchant families. Not only that, but Ran has inherited Newton Hall, a vast mansion that belonged to his great-uncle, who appears to have been watching from afar as his estranged great-nephew has grown up.

In the summer of 1990, young sisters Caroline and Joanna are sent to stay with their Great Aunt Dora in the idyllic Gloucestershire village of Witchwood. Still reeling from their father’s tragic death and their mother’s grief, Witchwood offers a welcome escape—but the shadowy woods hide dark secrets that bring their innocence to a distressing end. Caroline, volatile and longing for attention, becomes fixated on Dean Fry, the handsome local bad boy. When a body is found in the woods, the village becomes a cauldron of suspicion.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ Author G. Taylor In this 5K-word swollen and throbbing erotic short story, a woman named Jeanine joins her husband on a swinger couple's cruise, only Jeanine is suddenly blamed for stealing an emerald necklace from the ship's most executive passenger. Now it's a race against time as Jeanine and a handsome PI named Bridge Hoffa must find the true culprit in the theft. As the evidence begins to mount, it now appears as if that priceless ...

Eigentlich sind Elin Bertram und ihr Kollege Thees Conrads auf die Insel Juist gefahren, um sich von ihrer Arbeit in der Soko Mondschein zu erholen. Die beiden jagen immer noch den Mann, der entlang der Nordseeküste mehrere junge Frauen brutal ermordet hat – aus Rache für etwas, das vor Jahrzehnten geschehen ist, wie Elin inzwischen weiß. Kurz nach ihrer Ankunft auf Juist werden ein ehemaliger Justizvollzugsbeamte und ein pensionierter Richter tot aufgefunden. Elin ist sicher, dass der Mondscheinmörder sich an den beiden gerächt hat.

As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable, but their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is breath-taking, but it has a dark past: in 1974 it was rented by a notorious rockstar, who was joined by up-and-coming musician Pierce Sheldon and his girlfriend, Mari. By the end of the holiday Pierce is dead, and Mari goes on to write one of the greatest horror novels of all time.

A museum guard stands convicted of mass murder, after a mysterious visitor calls upon the curator and asks to see some ancient, Egyptian bones. This tale of horror features a full cast of voice actors with sound effects and music.

What happens when a seemingly ordinary life unravels into a terrifying descent into madness? "Mindless" plunges you into the unsettling world of a medical student whose ambition spirals into a dangerous obsession. As their pursuit of knowledge and perfection intensifies, the lines between reality and delusion begin to blur. Driven by a twisted desire to push the boundaries of human potential, their experiments take a dark and horrifying turn. Kidnapping, unspeakable acts, and a mind consumed by its own darkness await you in this chilling psychological thriller. Are you ready to witness the ...

Narrated by award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti, The House of the Vampire (1907) by George Sylvester Vierick is not only one of the first known gay vampire stories, but it is also one of the first psychic vampire stories - where a vampire feeds off of more than just blood.

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.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the Iron River that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border. The diamond fillings he wears in his left canine glimmer, distracting the men who sell the illegal firearms that enable the unspeakable violence on both sides of the map. Spotting the sparkle when “Charlie Diamonds” opens his mouth is often their first step toward life behind bars. Meanwhile, Bradley Jones, sheriff’s deputy and employee of the Baja Cartel and son of the love of Charlie’s life, the deceased L.A. outlaw Suzanne Jones, is expecting a son of his own.