Weird Mysteries

WELCOME TO SCALASAY For mystery writer Sam Thorne, moving to the island was supposed to be a fresh start—an idyllic refuge for his young family, and an escape from his past indiscretions. Things he wanted dead and buried. But on Scalasay, the past has a way of catching up with you . . . The horror which tore the island apart ten years earlier is returning. Ben Garrett, the convicted rapist and murderer, is coming back to the island to visit his dying mother. But no one could have foreseen the shocking turn of events which are about to unfold. A storm is coming . . . And on this terrifying...

Joe and Susie Maxwell are heading across the moors to collect their daughter. Unfortunately, Joe forgot to fill up on petrol. To make matters worse, a strange cloud lies between them and their destination. Will they make it to their daughter before the petrol runs out? Or will they fall prey to the terrible things inside the cloud . . .? DISTANCE TO EMPTY is an edge-of-your-seat tale of terror from the author of LAZARUS ISLAND.

Esther was lying in bed half asleep when the clock struck midnight and a voice spoke to her. It sounded to her like her bother Tom, and it warned her that her husband Charles must not go to the house of Waverley - that it would bring death and sorrow. Esther begged her husband not to go to the house tonight, even though he was going to find out what had happened to her brother, Tom Hargreaves.

SILVER MEDAL "RECOMMENDED READ" IN THE 2024 AUTHOR SHOUT READER READY AWARDS. Is anybody listening? Dr. Alessi Byrne has spent her life studying spatial anomalies to prove string theory. Her work seems to be nothing more than theoretical research until an anomaly opens over Antarctica and transmits a three-word message: Is anybody listening? The message isn’t the only thing to emerge from the anomaly. Something on the other side is having compounding consequences on the planet, and Alessi’s team is unable to crack the code to discover who or what is sending the communication. In ...

Jarek leaves the safety of the City to travel far and wide. A cursed priestess Hidden chambers Strange afflictions Danger lurks at his every step. In order to survive, Jarek must learn the secrets of the road! Discover the epic deeds of Jarek the Scholar, a new pulp hero, inside this anthology of fantasy and mystery.

Sie ist kaltblütig. Sie ist berechnend. Sie ist gefährlich. Das ist alles, was Siem Kallason über die Kirche des heiligen Prozesses weiß, als er ihr beitritt. Sie verspricht, ihm zu zeigen, wofür er bestimmt ist.​ Doch das weiß er schon längst. Er hasst seine Arbeit, er hasst die Unterdrückung der Staatsvollstrecker, er hasst die endlose Stadt, aus der es kein Entkommen gibt. Er will all das hinter sich lassen. ​Und das wird er, denn er hat eine Vereinbarung mit dem, was die Menschen der Stadt einen Geist nennen.

For more than a century, radio has been a part of people’s lives. No one alive today remembers a time when it hadn't always been there as a familiar, reliable source of information and entertainment...Weird Radio and Television: A Collection of Spy Transmissions, Unidentified Stations, Paranormal Activities, and Other Mysteries Across the Media includes strange stories that will make these famous forms of media seem a bit less familiar and far more interesting.

Light years from home. Bonded to an alien for survival. A dark secret is about to be revealed . . . The planet Verdana was supposed to be their new home, their new Eden. But shortly after arriving the human colonists were faced with a dilemma - join with the alaahi or perish. In the end, they chose the process of symbiosis, a physical conjoining with the native alaahi. But now there are whispers amongst the colonists. The alaahi are not the benevolent beings they made themselves out to be. Before long a dark secret is about to be revealed, and young Jena must make a terrible choice . . . *...

It takes a demon to hunt a demon... When a powerful demon crosses the Farfall Mountains, the task of tracking and slaying it falls to a man not expected to succeed: Jebediah Skayne, lothario, hustler, hunter of nightmares. Jeb follows the demon's "blood trail" to the fishing town of Portis, where it vanishes. All that remains are the demon's leftovers: corpses, half-dressed, killed in the throes of passion. Forced to rely on more mundane methods of investigation, Jeb uncovers a town rife with corruption, where a man will kill you for looking at a woman the wrong way. A town where his own ...