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DIE KREATUREN RUHEN NICHT – ZEIT FÜR DAS S/SQUAD! Das S/SQUAD ist zurück – und dieses Mal verschlägt es sie in die Antarktis. Als Captain John Banks ausgesandt wird, eine verlassene Armeebasis der Nazis zu erforschen, rechnet er allenfalls damit, verdammt viel Eis und vielleicht ein paar Leichen vorzufinden. Aber in einem der Hangars scheint seit Jahrzehnten etwas zu lauern... Eine Waffe – konstruiert, um den Ausgang des Krieges zu verändern. Nun erwacht sie zu neuem Leben... Monster. Riesige Kreaturen. Kugeln. Und Flüche... jede Menge Flüche.

Our adventurers have escaped a conflagration only to find themselves in a great underground city. They quickly discover they are not alone. And when a natural disaster threatens to engulf them, it becomes a battle for survival. Can they find the route home to the sun before it is closed to them forever?

Als in arktischen Gewässern ein russisches Spionageschiff offenbar in Seenot gerät, werden Captain John Banks und sein Trupp ausgesandt, um den Vorfall zu untersuchen. Eigentlich eine Routinemission für die S-Squad. Doch als sie an ihrem Einsatzort eintreffen, finden sie nur ein leeres Schiff vor - und Spuren eines blutigen Gemetzels. Der Einsatz wird schnell zu einem Kampf auf Leben und Tod, denn in den eisigen Fluten vor Baffin Island lauern seltsame Kreaturen von gigantischen Ausmaßen und mit einem ungewöhnlich großen Appetit auf Menschenfleisch.

Ein neuer historischer Sherlock Holmes Kriminalroman von William Meikle: Der Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes lässt sich auf ein höchst mysteriöses Abenteuer ein. Wie gewohnt widmet er sich aber auch diesem bizarren Fall mit größter Akribie.

A treasure hunt into the deepest cave system in Europe takes a turn for the worst. Now, rather than treasure, it is survival that is at the forefront of the spelunkers' thoughts. But their attempt to escape out of the dark deep places is thwarted. Men are not at home in the depths. But there are things that are... pale terrifying things. Huge things. Things red in tooth and claw.

The case of a lost husband leads Holmes and Watson into the bowels of the new Underground system, where they uncover a fiendish scheme – the recently deceased are being forced to work as unpaid labor in the tunnels. And soon the walking dead come up into the city itself, spreading mayhem and disease. Holmes must find the perpetrator of these atrocities, and stop him, before the plague engulfs London.

When the end came, it wasn’t zombies, asteroids, global warming, or nuclear winter. It was something that escaped from a lab. Something small, and very hungry. It starts with deadly rain that delivers death where it falls, but soon the whole planet is under threat as the infection spreads, consuming everything before it. A band of survivors on the Eastern coast of Canada watch as their world falls and crumbles to ruin. The infection seems relentless. More than that, it seems to be learning, adapting, and evolving faster than they can fight it.

In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, held an informal dining club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest. These are their stories, containing tales of revenant loved ones, lost cities, weird science, spectral appearances, and mysteries in the fog of the old city, all told by some of the foremost writers of the day. In here you'll find Verne and Wells, Tolstoy and Checkov, Stevenson and Oliphant, Kipling, Twain, Haggard, and Blavatsky alongside their hosts.

It starts with an odd hum that brings headaches and nosebleeds to the inhabitants of a remote, sleepy country town. Then a sinkhole begins to form...and out from that hole comes the townspeople's worst nightmares.

Two boys in the west of Scotland awaken an ancient vampire. And the only way to stop it is in the power of a book - a bible detailing the dark religion of the Eldren. But time is running out, and the sun is getting low.

My Peculiar Family is an anthology of Gothic horror and unusual stories like none ever published before! Combining New York Times best-selling authors (Christopher Golden, Tracy Hickman), Amazon best-selling authors (William Meikle, Derrick Belanger, Rob Watts), award-winning authors (James A. Moore, Stacey Longo), and emerging talents, this anthology unites these authors, who have sold millions and million books between them, to come together for a common cause.

A mysterious house sits on a corner block on a hill in St. John's, Newfoundland, in one of the oldest cities in North America, a nondescript, three-story wooden cube, going slowly to seed. When local cops, John Green, Janis Lodge and Todd Wiggins are sent to investigate a multiple murder on the top floor of the property, they start opening doors and uncovering secrets. But like peeling the layers off an onion, each door opened only leads them deeper into the mystery. There are houses like this all over the world, and those who suffer are drawn to them, as John, Janis and Todd have been drawn. They have found their way in. Can they find their way out again? And at what cost?

For Tor and Skald this is their first Viking raid, and their minds are filled with thoughts of honor and glory. What awaits them are beasts - huge, hairy, and fanged, the Alma, who will not suffer intruders in their domain. When the Vikings slaughter a female Alma, they soon find themselves in the middle of a battle with vicious creatures bent on bloody revenge. Now they must stand and be counted, for destiny awaits in the mountains, where the hairy ones dance.

When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue he leaves behind at each scene are the brutalized corpses of black swans.

The conclusion of the critically-acclaimed Watchers series! A great victory has been won, but the war is far from over. The Boy-King now needs his bride...and his heir. Only the young officers of the Watch can stop him. But they have their own battles to face and their own demons to fight. And those inner demons are not proving so easy to control as they are lured to the blood-soaked moors of Culloden for the final confrontation.

The dead are rising. A new darkness is fast approaching. Victory is close - but will the hands of Martin and Sean be too bloodied for them to grasp it?

On a small, sparsely populated island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, a group of archeology students are opening what seems to be an early Neolithic burial mound. Marine biologist Duncan McKenzie is also working on the island, staying with the lighthouse caretakers, Dick and Tom, while he completes his studies of the local water supply. One afternoon the three men are disturbed in their work by the appearance of a dazed female student from the excavation, who is badly traumatized.

A lost world has been found again... and no one is getting out alive. In 1863, a group of mercenaries in Montana come upon the remains of a once-thriving mining town. They soon discover that the destruction was not wrought by human hands, but by creatures long forgotten. William Meikle delivers a classic Lost World story with just the right touch of Horror and Western. You'll be on the edge of your seat as you descend into The Valley.

It is 1745. The forces of the Boy-King have decimated Milecastle. The Thane is dead, another chosen, and Mary Campbell has been taken by the Boy-King as his unholy bride. The town is a scene of carnage and the Watchers have failed…but they may yet have a chance at redemption. Can Martin be a leader to his people in their time of need?

The old wall is a border: England and Scotland, South and North, light and darkness. It is 1745, and the long-awaited night as come. The Bloodking calls his army to battle, and armed with the powers of the undead and the damned, he will bring them South to claim his birthright: The throne of Britain. Only the old Watchers on the wall stand in his way. They, their swords, and their faith. But too much time has passed and the Watch has grown slack and ill-prepared for the coming war.

It all begins with a dead whale on a Boston shoreline - not in itself an unusual occurrence. But the things that claw their way out of the blubber are very unusual indeed. A cast of giant crabs, evolved over centuries, descends on a small coastal town and, having feasted, make their way to the city using the sewer system. Soon they are swarming around Manhattan, hunted and harried by a SWAT team tasked with ridding the city of the menace...before the menace gets big enough to rid itself of the city.