Thriller Collection

With the possible exception of the expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s, no single group of American literary figures has achieved as much fame or notoriety as the New York sophisticates who met to match wits and attempt to outshine each other as members of what came to be called the Algonquin Round Table. The humorists Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman, playwrights Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman, novelists Edna Ferber and Alexander Woollcott, and most famously, Dorothy Parker, were the literary luminaries who made up this group....

Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy listeners who are sick of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more.

As Jindo delves deeper into the high-stakes world of haute couture, his initial wonder is laced with unsettling truths, revealing the high fashion industry's dichotomy beneath its glamorous veneer. He stumbles upon hidden agendas and concealed biases, where Gabrielle's charismatic exterior belies the dark secrets she harbors.

Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic horror novel about a vampire’s search for new blood… Perhaps the most famous vampire story of all time, Dracula is an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities embody the dark underside of an outwardly moralistic age. As he searches for new prey, desirous to spread the undead curse, Dracula looks toward England. There he is met with resistance from a small band of men and women, led by the intrepid Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Will the people be able to keep the fearsome Dracula from terrorizing their community? This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Das erstaunlichste Abenteuer des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes hat eigentlich nicht Conan Doyle erfunden: es besteht vielmehr darin, daß diese Phantasiegestalt zu eigenem Leben erwacht ist und eine Existenz erlangt hat, an die Ungezählte felsenfest glaubten und glauben. Als der Detektiv 1887 erstmals in einer längeren Geschichte auftauchte, konnte niemand ahnen, welches glorreiche Schicksal ihm beschieden war.

Five desperate young women...Katie, Joanna, Eve, Evangeline, and Adelaide meet on a stagecoach on their way to Cheyenne, Wyoming as mail order brides. As they talk to each other, Katie and Adelaide become suspicious. Are they correct to be suspicious or are they overreacting? One man with an evil plan...Ross has been planning this for months and the stagecoach is finally on its way. After this, he’ll have succeeded in his most devious plot yet and be on the top of his game. Maybe he’ll even be able to come out of the shadows, despite his brother being a detective.

The secrets are coming out…. In the deep past of Beth’s family, the link to Charlotte and her mother has been revealed. But what is the connection to Charlotte’s old enemy, Klempner? And in the present, what are his intentions? A BDSM, ménage, erotic romance and thriller. This box set compilation contains the following titles from the Charlotte's Search series, previously published separately: The Daughter’s Manumission, The Father’s Betrayal, and The Shadow of Obsession.

Mind the blood, hide any weapons, and get an alibi. Murder is not for the faint of heart, nor is this collection of stories set in Eastern Washington. Join an array of characters as they struggle through the worst moments of their lives. A husband hides his wife’s terrible crime. Two contract killers deliver a final punishment to a mob informant. A remorseful man is forced to share his prison cell with a homicidal maniac. A serial killer vacations through the Pacific Northwest.

In a strange series of coincidences, young women start dying in Barnstow. Detective Jimmy Delaney doesn't believe in coincidences - and he's doubly suspicious when his irresistible nemesis Diana hires him to solve the murders. But can he stop the killer before they strike again?

Secret Agent X returns! Pulpdom’s premier spy returns via Airship 27 productions Secret Agent X Volume 6 in three new pulse-pounding adventures. "The Man of a Thousand Faces" is confronted with the most threatening challenges to America imaginable. Only his incredible talents as a super spy can overcome each, from destroying a spreading world plague launched from a giant airship to stymieing Nazi subterfuge at a mountain enclave and then having to fight dead men under spell of an evil mystic. All in a days work for the Agent X.

The Southside Restoration has been keeping Diana busy, but Jimmy knows it’s the phantoms in their past that are driving them apart. Jimmy agrees to act in a theatre production in an effort to draw closer, but a too-coincidental series of accidents won’t let his suspicions rest. Some more immediate phantom from their past is threatening more than their relationship–will Jimmy discover the threat in time?

On a blustery January breeze, a new girl sweeps into the neighborhood, breathing life—and a bit of magic—into the cottage she christens Elderberry Croft. The folks at The Coach House Trailer Park can't help but fall under Willow Goodhope's spell. She charms them all with her whimsical nature and outrageous laugh. But there's something about her, a secret sadness that hovers at the corners of her irrepressible smile. And it has everyone talking.

Saundra Bailey's hopes for her first Christmas in Cadburn Township lose their shine, even as the town dresses up for the holidays. First, her aunt might not make it back from out of the country. Then, nasty relatives who made her childhood so miserable follow her to her new home. Kai, Eden and Troy want to trust Saundra, but her relatives pose a threat to their search for answers and identity. Can Kai move forward in pursuing her heart when she might be keeping secrets from them?

The beautiful Vanessa Shotworth was being made extremely unhappy at the way she was being treated by her stepmother while her beloved father was away in India with his Regiment. When she was late for breakfast because she had been out riding on a lovely summer’s morning, she was humiliated by her stepmother by being told to scrub the kitchen floor or she will not be given anything to eat. Vanessa then decided to run away to her relatives in the North of England, having elicited the help of the faithful family butler, Bates.

Collected together here are the first 3 stories in the Detective Jimmy Delaney series: In a Flash, Mixed Signals, and The Right Idea.

Scare Street is proud to present 13 tales of supernatural horror in one volume, guaranteed to make your skin crawl. This bone-chilling collection awaits, luring listeners of the macabre deeper into the shadows.

If Zufar al-Massoud, the celebrated leader of the Salafist jihadists, accomplishes his planned terrorist act, Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. will forever be known as America's Day of Blood. He and his fellow conspirators will not only place multiple IEDs along the New York City Macy's parade route, slaughtering thousands of onlookers but will release canisters of sarin gas on the subway landings in both New York and Washington, D.C.

Whether exploring the tenebrous bottoms of the ocean, traveling into the cold recesses of uncharted space, or battling other supernatural creatures for world dominance, these vampires mean business! So gather your stakes and clutch your garlic tight as daylight draws to a close, because the vampires claim the night!

Hannah is shaken to the core after the mysterious death of her husband, Captain Hovey. A man that was as cruel as he was loved. Shunned by her neighbors and the town, Hannah is lonely and desperate. Some believe she was a witch. Others believe she was an outcast.

Seven strange stand-alone tales involving unusual people caught in disturbing circumstances are presented in this collection.