The Warden of the Castle opens the gate of his fortress to scare us with his stories, each of them more horrific. His strange guests and us will spend the night sheltered from a neverending snowstorm and listening to his horror tales. The deep voice of the warden resonates with the name of the stories in a room lit by only the dying light of two torches and a fireplace in front of a red carpet. The guests are Edgar Allan Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley or James Warren amongst others. The howling wolf stops, signaling the time to say goodbye. These are the stories that appear in this anthology: The Sheet, The Undertaker, The A+ Girl, Rotten Apples, In the Mouth of the Worm, The Bogeyman Is Under the Sheets, Everything You Have Lost, Time to Say Good-Bye, The Girl I Love, The Curious Case of Mr. Carl Farmer, Sometimes They Sleep, They Are Amongst Us, Fletcher's Death, Horns - An Extraordinary Case, Pets Always Come Back, Catalepsy, The Fifth Guest, The Apocalypse We Knew, The Photocopier, The Shortcut on the Goat's Slope, Children That Disappear, Hold on While You Breath. Views: 23
Product DescriptionThings aren't always what they seem. Tulsa Police Detective, Kenny Elliot's quest to uncover the truth behind the death of a transient makes him a target - from whom or what he isn't sure. When he brushes the dirt from the surface of an apparent John Doe overdose case, he finds a labyrinth of misdirection and deception beneath, and a trail, which leads him to an encounter with an aberration in human nature, the likes of which he's not prepared to deal with. Drawing on his strength of character, and sense of right and wrong, he wrestles with deep personal feelings to solve the case. About the AuthorBob Avey Lives with his wife and son in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Views: 23
Now with a new afterword by the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR...And a brand-new package.A woman's relief over the death of her husband gives way to mind-numbing terror in this shockingly suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. Views: 23
Eric Lander hated to be tied down... But when Sarah Trask, the woman he'd left months ago, came to him for help solving a very personal murder, saying no wasn't even an option. Especially once he learned she was pregnant with his child... Running from the law through the Rocky Mountains after being wrongly accused about his role in the killing wasn't exactly how Eric planned on absorbing -- or celebrating -- the big news. Yet they had no other choice. Now, with the beautiful rancher and their unborn baby counting on him for protection, Eric found himself both excited and terrified by the idea of "family." He knew he'd be a good father -- if only he could keep them all alive to prove it. Views: 23
An atmospheric tale of romantic noir with shades of Hitchcock about a man who is swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love mysteriously reappearsGeorge Foss, a forty-year-old employee of a Boston literary magazine, has passed the age when he thinks he might fall madly in love or take the world by storm, or have anything truly remarkable happen to him. He spends most of his evenings at his local tavern talking about the Red Sox and the minutiae of everyday life, and obsessing over a lost love from his college days who vanished twenty years earlier. Until she reappears.George has both dreamed of and dreaded seeing Liana Decter again. She isn't just an ex-girlfriend or the first love George could never forget. She's also an enigma and quite possibly someone who was involved in a murder years ago, a woman whose transgressions are more in line with Greek tragedy than youthful indiscretion. But suddenly, she's back--and she needs his help.... Views: 23
