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How well do you know your neighbors? It all begins one sunny day in Century City High School's girls' locker room with the gruesome murder of a cheerleader. Soon, the attractive school valedictorian, Laurel, a promising chemist, is being stalked in one of the science labs. She catches a glimpse of the intruder, but gets away by breaking and escaping through a glass window. Within the next few days, other promising students, the best and the brightest the town has to offer, are killed by the mysterious, wise-cracking, goth-inspired, politically incorrect Clown. As the killer's net tightens around Laurel, those close to her are also targeted by the ruthless maniac.

Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of the ill-fated Queen Anne Boleyn and temperamental King Henry VIII, was never meant to rule the country. Yet, when her time came, she didn’t stumble under the weight of the English crown. Elizabeth was perhaps the most intelligent, forward-thinking monarch who ever sat on the throne before or since. Her reign is responsible for the strength of the Royal Navy, the cultivation of fine arts, the long-term stability and safety of her nation from foreign attacks, and the first steps toward international colonization.   

A collection of 23 stories from Kurt Newton, including "The Pit", "Puppies for Sale", "Bruises", "Under the Bridge", "Thumbin'", "Something Profound", "The Whittling", "Creak!", "Angels of Mercy", "Angels of Grief", "Skins", "The Banana Man", "Dead Dogs", "Trunk Story", "Nature Walk", "The Dog Park", "B-Side", "Lost Dog", "Periphery", "Post Mortem", "The Stagnant Ponds", "Thirty-Two Scenes from a Dead Hooker's Mouth", "Lump", and "The Golden Door".

If you sit a spell and look just so, you might catch a glimpse into another world, or several. Some seem no different from the world you call home, give or take a monster waiting in the shadows, an avenging angel hidden in plain sight, or an inhuman forest spirit better left undisturbed.

A world of inventions and intrigues, ingenious science and eldritch sorcery, mechanical marvels and magical mischief, daring exploration and dangerous adventure. A world powered by steam and teslic coils and etheric energies, where paranormalists ply their trade alongside constables and scholars and daffy dilettantes.

Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American’s personal sovereignty. And yet, millions of Americans—including author Deborah Plant’s brother, whose life sentence at Angola Prison reveals a shocking current parallel to her academic work on the history of slavery in America—are deprived of these basic freedoms every day.

Thirteen newly collected encounters with darkness from Adrian Ludens, the author of the collections Ant Farm Necropolis and Cobwebs: Tales of Dread and Disquiet.

Rune Hartsmund is on the verge of pitching the game of his life and making baseball history when there is an attempt on his life from somewhere behind the stadium lights. Miraculously, he is saved by a young boy who runs onto the field just before the bullet strikes home. He soon finds out that his savior, Jee, is a 600-year-old Japanese deity, reincarnated in the body of a 13-year-old boy.