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Alive
by Sharon BoltonFor fans of Val McDermid, Elly Griffiths and Peter May, prepare to delve into the dark world of The Craftsman with Alive, the ghostly short story thriller by Sunday Times bestseller Sharon Bolton.A dark moon is rising. A perfect black circle, barely visible in the night sky, the dark moon casts its void over the wind-scorched moor, over the soaring mass of a great limestone hill, and over the town that cowers in its shadow. The dark moon is the absence of moon before the slender silver crescent of the new moon appears again and people can breath a little easier.The month is March and the night is clear and cold, black as pitch. The full moon in March is known as the Worm Moon, welcome despite its ominous name, marking as it does the end of winter and the emergence of earthworms from the thawing ground. Dark moons have never been named, although they are sometimes called the dead moons. The dark moons reign over nights when people stoke up their fires, draw their curtains tighter and try to think happy thoughts. In the town of Sabden at the foot of Pendle Hill in Lancashire they usually fail.In Sabden's soot-blackened terraced houses, the sleepers' dreams darken when the moon leaves the sky. Infants wake up cold, mothers tremble with elusive fears for their children and old folks slip a little closer to death. Only the Craftsman welcomes the dark moon. Alone in the town, he is awake, and ready to start work.Alive is a nail-biting, heart-racing, page-turning thriller that will have you up all night and includes an extract of Sharon's upcoming novel The Craftsman. Alive is the perfect appetiser to wet your appetite for Sharon's crime-fiction reads - a gripping tale that will leave you terrified to turn the lights off!
Alive in Necropolis
by Doug DorstColma is the only incorporated city in America where the dead outnumber the living. The longtime cemetery for San Francisco, it is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and aviation pioneer Lincoln Beachey. It is also the home of Michael Mercer, a rookie cop trying to go by the book as he struggles to navigate a new realm of grownup relationships including a shaky romance with an older woman; a growing alliance with his cocky, charismatic partner, Nick Toronto; fading college friendships; and an aching sense of responsibility for a local rich kid who Mercer rescues from a dangerous prank in the cemetery. But instead of settling comfortably into adult life, Mercer becomes obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor in the police unit, Sergeant Featherstone, who seems to have become confused about whether he was policing the living or the dead. And as Mercer delves deeper into Featherstone's story, it appears that Mercer's own sanity is beginning to slip either that, or Colma's more famous residents are not resting in peace as they should be. Through often crazy and/or life threatening experiences, Mercer learns more about himself and how to function as a young adult.
All Along the Watchtower (Rock Band Fights Evil)
by D.J. ButlerThe World of Heaven has been born again, and, weirdly, it was to a ragged bar band.? Now that band struggles to make its way into a post-apocalyptic Chicago ruled by Yamayol the Bull, to seize from him the Ensign to the Nations.? On the way, guitarist Eddie Marlowe aims to rescue his wife and settle a few old scores . . . unless they settle him first
All Dressed Up and No Place to Haunt (A Haunted Vintage Mystery #2)
by Rose PresseyWhen a film crew wakes up a sleepy Georgia town, murder is in fashion...Sugar Creek is all abuzz. A film is being shot on a historic plantation, and vintage clothing store owner Cookie Chanel is thrilled to provide authentic period outfits for its stars. When Cookie discovers the temperamental leading lady drowned in a pond, wearing a lovely vintage dress, she's suddenly on location for a real-life crime scene. And when a ghost says the dress belongs to her, the number of clues Cookie has to investigate rivals the size of her shoe collection. With the supernatural support of her psychic cat, Cookie must find a killer in the cast of suspects, and avoid starring in her own final scene...Don't miss Cookie Chanel's Fashion Tips
All Eight Eyes
by Steve FoxeIn the forgotten corners of post-9/11 New York City, skittering shapes in the darkness prey on the people society leaves behind.College dropout Vin Spencer floats through life in a drug-and-party-fueled haze, until one terrible night sweeps him into a drifter&’s reckless war against the giant eight-legged horrors stalking the city. Jaws meets Arachnophobia in a new vision of creature-feature terror from Eisner-nominated writer STEVE FOXE (Razorblades: The Horror Magazine) and dread-inspiring artist PIOTR KOWALSKI (Bloodborne)!Collects issues #1–#4 of All Eight Eyes and features pinups by James Stokoe, Martin Simmonds, David Romero, and Trevor Henderson, along with a bonus sketchbook section.
All Flesh Is Grass
by Clifford D. SimakTensions rise and terror runs rampant when the residents of a small town are trapped within the confines of their village by an invasive force from an alternate dimension Nothing much ever happens in Millville, a small, secluded Middle-American community--until the day Brad Carter discovers he is unable to leave. It's not just the nearly bankrupt real estate agent who's being held prisoner; every other resident is also being confined within the town's boundaries by an invisible force field that cannot be breached. As local tensions rapidly reach breaking point, a set of bizarre circumstances leads Brad to the source of their captivity, making him humanity's reluctant ambassador to an alien race of sentient flora, and privy to these jailers' ultimate intentions. But some of Millville's most powerful citizens don't take kindly to Carter's "collaboration with the enemy," even under the sudden threat of global apocalypse. Decades before Stephen King trapped an entire town in Under the Dome, science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak explored the shocking effects of communal captivity on an unsuspecting population. Nominated for the Nebula Award, All Flesh Is Grass is a riveting masterwork that brilliantly reinvents the alien invasion story.
All Good Things (The Breadwinner Trilogy #3)
by Stevie KopasThe heart-pounding conclusion to the zombie trilogy by “one of the most engaging and powerful emerging voices in apocalyptic fiction” (Devan Sagliani author of the Zombie Attack series). Locked up safely behind the walls of their glamorous beach resort, the survivors have grown comfortable, almost forgetting that the undead are still on the prowl in the streets below. When tragedy strikes and the group loses one of their own under mysterious circumstances, friends turn on friends and they soon find themselves back on the apocalyptic streets of Haven, battling the dead. The biggest threat yet emerges and a traitor is revealed, proving once and for all that the flesh-hungry creatures infesting the city are not the group’s greatest foe.Will the survivors be able to make it out alive one last time?The final book in The Breadwinner Trilogy is a non-stop, post-apocalyptic race to the finish line.Praise for The Breadwinner Trilogy“Rich with character and eerie with the kind of scares that get under your skin.” —Jay Bonansinga, New York Times–bestselling author of Self Storage“All Good Things reminds you why the phrase ‘page turner’ was coined . . . The pacing just might lead you to a few paper cuts—and you won’t care. This is a good, good, good one.” —Mort Castle, award-winning author of Knowing When to Die“In a world filled with zombie fiction, The Breadwinner Trilogy stands out from the pack, hungrily gnashing its broken teeth. For once, I urge you to let it dig right in.” —Jim Dodge, Mass Movement Magazine
All Hallows' Eve
by Gibbs M. SmithThis charmingly illustrated volume collects classic works of eerie and ghoulish poetry and prose from the 19th and early 20th centuries.All Hallows&’ Eve is the perfect gift for readers of all ages who revel in the spooky spirit of Halloween. These ghastly poems, sinister short stories, and curious black and white line illustrations throughout are sure to keep your bones chilled and your imagination ablaze. Included here are timeless works by Thomas Hardy, Hugh Mearnes, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and more.Read aloud by the fire, or read alone—if you dare.
All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories
by Vivian Vande VeldePresents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.
All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories
by Vivian Vande VeldeA boy is trapped in a possessed car that has stalled in the path of an oncoming train. A girl is dragged into a crypt during a field trip to an eighteenth-century cemetery. A group of friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic. And that's just the beginning. <P><P> Celebrated author Vivian Vande Velde is at her spine-tingling best in this collection of thirteen scary stories, all of which take place on Halloween night. With tales that range from the disturbing to the downright gruesome, this is one collection that teens will want to read with the lights on . . . and the doors locked.
All Hallows' Eve: A Novel
by Charles WilliamsIn post-Blitz London, humanity&’s last hope of defeating a powerful magician&’s insidious plans lies with a ghost trapped in a surreal city of the dead During World War II, soon after Ms. Lester Furnival married her beloved Richard, she died in an accident. Now she wanders the dark and lonely streets with her friend Evelyn. An empty mirror image of the London she once knew, the city is a place where time has lost its rules and structure, and where Lester can catch heartbreaking glimpses of the world she left behind. But all is not well in the realm of the living. The other London has fallen under the sway of the magus Simon Leclerc, a master of black magic and necromancy who would sacrifice the soul of his own daughter in the pursuit of ultimate power. With her widowed husband entangled in the sorcerer&’s toxic web along with an enigmatic artist who can paint only the truth, Lester must somehow thwart Leclerc&’s malevolent plan if she is to find salvation—for the evil necromancer desires nothing less than total dominion over both worlds. A ghost story unlike any other, All Hallows&’ Eve is the final novel by the remarkable Charles Williams, whose brilliant literary excursions into the spiritual and supernatural realms remain unsurpassed more than six decades after his death. Williams was arguably the most creatively daring and ambitious of Oxford&’s famed Inklings, the literary society that included such notables as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield, and his chilling, breathtaking, and deeply felt fiction remains the gold standard for provocative and intelligent contemporary fantasy.
All Hallows: A Novel
by Christopher GoldenNew York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home.It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are walking door to door, merging with the kids of Parmenter Road. Children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup. They seem terrified and beg the neighborhood kids to hide them away, to keep them safe from The Cunning Man. There’s a small clearing in the woods now that was never there before, and a blackthorn tree that doesn’t belong at all. These odd children claim that The Cunning Man is coming for them...and they want the local kids to protect them. But with families falling apart and the neighborhood splintered by bitterness, who will save the children of Parmenter Road?All Hallows. The one night when everything is a mask...
All My Colors
by David QuantickFrom Emmy-award winning author David Quantick, All My Colors is a darkly comic novel about a man who remembers a book that may not exist, with dire consequences. A bizarre, mind-bending story at the intersection of Richard Bachman, Charlie Kaufman and Franz Kafka.It is March 1979 in DeKalb Illinois. Todd Milstead is a wannabe writer, a serial adulterer, and a jerk, only tolerated by his friends because he throws the best parties with the best booze. During one particular party, Todd is showing off his perfect recall, quoting poetry and literature word for word plucked from his eidetic memory. When he begins quoting from a book no one else seems to know, a novel called All My Colors, Todd is incredulous. He can quote it from cover to cover and yet it doesn't seem to exist.With a looming divorce and mounting financial worries, Todd finally tries to write a novel, with the vague idea of making money from his talent. The only problem is he can't write. But the book - All My Colors - is there in his head. Todd makes a decision: he will "write" this book that nobody but him can remember. After all, if nobody's heard of it, how can he get into trouble?As the dire consequences of his actions come home to both Todd and his long-suffering friends, it becomes clear that there is a high - and painful - price to pay for his crime.
All Roads End Here (The Final War #2)
by David MoodyThe second book in the new series from Hater author David Moody.Set in the world of David Moody's Hater trilogy, All Roads End Here is the sequel to the "top drawer horror" (Booklist, starred review) One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning.It’s taken Matthew Dunne almost three months to get home. Never more than a few meters from the Haters at any time, every single step has been fraught with danger. But he’s made it.In his absence, his home city has become a sprawling, walled-off refugee camp. But the camp–and the entire world beyond its borders–is balanced on a knife-edge. During his time in the wilderness, Matt developed a skill which is in high demand: the ability to anticipate and predict Hater behavior. It’s these skills that will thrust him into a web of subterfuge and danger. As the pressure mounts inside the camp, he finds himself under scrutiny from all sides.He’s always done his best to avoid trouble, but sometimes it can’t be helped. The shit’s about to hit the fan, and this time Matt’s right at the epicenter. All Roads End Here is a fast-paced, and wonderfully dark story about humanity’s fight for survival in the face of the impending apocalypse.
All Seeing Eye
by Rob ThurmanThe New York Times bestselling author of the Cal Leandros series delivers a bold new supernatural thriller where one man's extraordinary abilities come with an equally phenomenal cost. Picking up a small, pink shoe from the grass forever changed young Jackson Lee's life. Not only did its presence mean that his sister Tessa was dead--murdered and stuffed in the deep, black water of a narrow well--but the shoe itself told him so. Tessa's death triggers an even more horrific family massacre that, combined with this new talent he neither wants nor can handle, throws Jack's life into a tailspin. The years quickly take him from state homes to the streets to grifting in a seedy carnival, until he finally becomes the cynical All Seeing Eye, psychic-for-hire. At last, Jackson has left his troubled past behind and found a semblance of peace. That is, until the government blackmails him. After Jackson is forced to help the military contain the aftermath of a bizarre experiment gone violently wrong, everything he knows about himself will change just as suddenly as it did with his little sister's shoe. And while change is constant . . . it's never for the better.
All Seeing Eye
by Rob ThurmanThe New York Times bestselling author of the Cal Leandros series delivers a bold new supernatural thriller where one man's extraordinary abilities come with an equally phenomenal cost. Picking up a small, pink shoe from the grass forever changed young Jackson Lee's life. Not only did its presence mean that his sister Tessa was dead--murdered and stuffed in the deep, black water of a narrow well--but the shoe itself told him so. Tessa's death triggers an even more horrific family massacre that, combined with this new talent he neither wants nor can handle, throws Jack's life into a tailspin. The years quickly take him from state homes to the streets to grifting in a seedy carnival, until he finally becomes the cynical All Seeing Eye, psychic-for-hire. At last, Jackson has left his troubled past behind and found a semblance of peace. That is, until the government blackmails him. After Jackson is forced to help the military contain the aftermath of a bizarre experiment gone violently wrong, everything he knows about himself will change just as suddenly as it did with his little sister's shoe. And while change is constant . . . it's never for the better.
All Souls' Night: Fight Evil Become Evil. Sacrifice. Everything (Bloodties #4)
by Jennifer ArmintroutA doctor-turned-vampire finds herself in a battle to prevent an apocalyptic nightmare in the final entry in this romantic horror thriller series.I have reached my breaking point. And now I will not, cannot be stopped. With the Soul Eater on the verge of god status, it’s time for me to take a final stand, even if it means losing everything I love. Even if it means losing my life.I’ve got plenty of power on my side, and some I didn’t know I could count on in the first place. But it’s nothing compared to the army of the undead the Soul Eater is building up. And time is running out.They say that good always triumphs over evil. I hope that’s true. Because the odds aren’t in our favor, and the fate of the world is in our hands.
All That I See (The King of Clayfield Series #2)
by Shane GregoryA survivor in a zombie-plagued small town tries to hold on to his humanity while those around him are losing theirs . . .As the zombie apocalypse rages on, survivors in the small town of Clayfield, Kentucky, attempt to carve out new lives for themselves. There is hope that eventually Clayfield can be secured, but first the undead must be eliminated and law and order must be restored. Unfortunately, the survivors might not ever get to implement their plan. Gangs of looters continue to strike the town—and news filters in that something worse could be coming . . .
All That We Remember
by Elenor GillA woman’s memories are not her own in this supernatural mystery, “a new direction for a well-respected New Zealand writer” (The Timaru Herald). When a violent car accident leaves Aimee Carmichael with nearly no memories of her childhood, she ventures back to her family home with hopes that it will jog her ruined mind. But instead of the answers she’s seeking, more questions arise as memories start to come back—memories that don’t belong to her. As mysterious recollections invade her mind and haunting images plague her dreams, tragic secrets come to light and Aimee begins to question everything she thought she remembered about those she loves—and of herself.
All The Answers
by Kate MessnerFor fans of Wendy Mass and Andrew Clements comes a new, magical middle-grade adventure from Kate Messner. What if your pencil had all the answers? Would you ace every test? Would you know what your teachers were thinking? When Ava Anderson finds a scratched up pencil she doodles like she would with any other pencil. But when she writes a question in the margin of her math quiz, she hears a clear answer in a voice no one else seems to hear. With the help of her friend Sophie, Ava figures out that the pencil will answer factual questions only - those with definite right or wrong answers - but won't predict the future. Ava and Sophie discover all kinds of uses for the pencil, and Ava's confidence grows with each answer. But it's getting shorter with every sharpening, and when the pencil reveals a scary truth about Ava's family, she realizes that sometimes the bravest people are the ones who live without all the answers. . .
All The Devils: Are you ready for the spookiest, most addictive Dark Academia read of the year? (Sisters of the Occult)
by Catelyn WilsonSTEP INSIDE THE DARK ACADEMIA NOVEL WHICH HAS EVERYONE TALKING THIS SPOOKY SEASONPERFECT FOR FANS OF LEIGH BARDUGO’S NINTH HOUSE AND NETFLIX'S WEDNESDAYAn elite academy. A secret society. A sister who will stop at nothing to discover the truth.A deliciously dark and atmospheric read. I tore through this gothic tale of a sister's love and the monsters she will face to unearth the shocking truth - Frances White, Sunday Times bestselling author of Voyage of the Damned'Eerie, intense, and mysterious with immersive world building and mythology. The fast pace kept me turning pages, and I’d follow Jae pretty much anywhere' Stacia Stark, bestselling author of the Kingdom of Lies series---Hell is empty and all the devils are at Ravenswood Academy . . .Mourning the sudden death of her sister, Andy Emmerson knows she must come to terms with a life without Violet. But on the day of the funeral Andy is shocked to discover one thing: the person in that casket is not her sister.Is Violet alive?Convinced her sister's elite boarding school is covering up the truth, Andy enrols at Ravenswood Academy to discover what really happened and find Violet.The school is as beautiful and haunting as the students within it and Andy learns that it's not just good grades that drives these pupils.Something much darker is at play.After discovering a cryptic note from her sister, Andy must follow a set of clues to unlock the truth. This will bring her into contact with secret societies, ancient magic, demons and monsters. And a charming senior named Jae Han who has his own reasons for finding out what happened to Violet . . .Soon Andy realizes the price she must pay to bring her sister home is darker and more dangerous than she ever could have imagined.---Readers are loving All The Devils'Wow, wow, wowwwww!!! I did not expect how this book was going to play out, I couldn’t put the book down' 5 ***** Reader Review‘I have read almost every dark academia or dark academia adjacent book and All The Devils was SOOO refreshing. The romance, the storyline, the plot. I practically devoured it!’ 5 ***** Reader Review‘Dark academic? Witchy vibes? Art history? Sprinkle of romance? All a recipe for a 5* read in my opinion. The characters and the scenery were all exquisitely, especially when we went to the Underworld. The twists just kept coming when it came to Jae and I spent a good deal of time picking my jaw up off the floor' 5 ***** Reader Review'If you love dark academia, secret societies and the supernatural then this book is perfect for you. I adored this book and won’t be forgetting it anytime soon' 5 ***** Reader Review
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
by Kalynn Bayron Liselle Sambury Ryan Douglass Joelle Wellington Circe Moskowitz Ashia Monet Sami Ellis Joel Rochester Brent C. Lambert Donyae ColesWelcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love—and a lot of what they fear—through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying. From haunted, hungry Victorian mansions, temporal monster–infested asylums, and ravaging zombie apocalypses, to southern gothic hoodoo practitioners and cursed patriarchs in search of Black Excellence, All These Sunken Souls features the chilling creations of acclaimed bestsellers and hot new talents.- - - - - ContributorsKalynn Bayron @KalynnBayronAshia Monet @AshiaMonetLiselle Sambury @LiselleSamburySami Ellis @themoosefJoel Rochester @fictionalfatesJoelle Wellington @joelle_wellingBrent C. Lambert @BrentCLambertDonyae Coles @okoknoRyan Douglass @ryandouglasswCirce Moskowitz @circemoskowitz
All Those Broken Angels
by Peter Adam SalomonRichard Harrison was the last person to see his friend Melanie alive. She vanished when they were six, and while the police never found her, a part of her remained--a living shadow that became Richard's closest friend. For ten years, Richard has never questioned the shadow that keeps him company . . . until a new girl moves to town, claiming to be Melanie. All Those Broken Angels is a story of buried bones and shadowy secrets and the freedom that can only come from a journey through darkness.
All Your Twisted Secrets
by Diana UrbanA thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classics by Agatha Christie, that will leave readers guessing until the explosive ending. “Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.”What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill...or else everyone dies.Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead.As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something.And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?
All in the Family
by Heather GrahamEnjoy again this sweet and humorous classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham!Dan Marquette is sure his innocent daughter was seduced by some teenage lothario, while Kelly McGraw is certain that a little temptress set her sights to trap her perfect son. It was an incendiary way to meet, and both parents are too stubborn to admit that they’re wrong. Until, of course, they start to realize that you don’t get to choose who you fall in love with. And baby makes five...Originally published in 1987