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One man’s ability to travel in the astral realm leads to a terrifying discovery: powerful beings who manipulate lives and events for their own mysterious ends. It’s his, and our, first encounter with The Controllers, but far from the last. After listening to this collection of six tales - two of them brand-new - which take you from the past, through the present, and into the far future, you’ll understand just how little influence you have over your own destiny.

After briefly coming back into her life, Joyce's mother is now gone, for good. Murdered. Detective Luca knows he shouldn't work directly with a minor, but he’s a father, unable to resist the call for help. What he discovers is revolting, more disturbing than murder. A Killer Missteps is book eight in the stand-alone Luca Mystery Series. Buy this engrossing listen now.

It started off like any other day, but for the tourists, staff and workmen at Willerton Castle it will end in terror. Because a storm is coming, a storm like nothing anyone has ever seen. A storm that will herald an attack by creatures this world has never encountered before. Will any of them survive?

These stories were born out of a discussion on themed collections with the Canadian writer Claude Lalumiere. They are diverse in every way except that each one of them has a metal element at its heart. "The Maskmaker" was the first to be written, a story set in an early Venice and has gold as its theme. "Silver" comes next, but there follows tales of robots made of lead, cyborgs who are addicted to drinking mercury, aliens obsessed with shiny chromium, a nickel coin worth a fortune, and many others.

Fear of the dark. It's one of the most common phobias, especially when we're growing up. For teenager Lee Masterton, his deepest childhood fears are about to become a reality - because, not only will he discover that the things living in the darkness are real, he will also find himself in the middle of a war between them and the forces of light.

History student Alex Palmer is thrilled when his girlfriend, Claire Ryan, buys an apartment in Belle Vue Manor, formerly a Victorian lunatic asylum. But as Alex begins to discover the dark truth about the asylum's past, he, Claire, and their friend Marianne find themselves on a nightmarish journey. Each will face the deadly consequences of the evil that began with the construction of the first Belle Vue Manor by an aristocratic French émigré in 1789, as well as the cruelty and satanic practices that continued when it became an asylum for the insane.

The cabal has made its move with devastating efficiency. Bravo Team has been incarcerated for a UAV strike on an Ankara market; General Hank Jones has been framed for the murder of the president and is on the run with Scimitar and his men. Kane and his people have been abandoned in a Syrian war zone and have to find a way out before French mercenaries bury them amongst the rubble.

Francis Williams has been to 104 countries, most of them with beer. Some of them more adventurous than others: eating sacrificial snakes in China, drinking with locals in Artsakh, and climbing Everest Base Camp. Ultimately, nothing compares to being toasted to by a Georgian mother.

Robbers and cold-blooded killers won't stop Stillman.... He’s desperate to overtake the robbers and cold-blooded killers before they murder his wife and the doctor. He doesn’t realize just how badly Triber wants that money returned to him...nor what it is for.

Detective Luca investigates the death of a high-profile businessman, and it doesn't surprise him the man has enemies. Powerful people make powerful enemies, after all. But Luca isn't prepared for the sheer number of people the victim pissed off - nor just how influential they are. The deeper he digs, the uglier the truth grows. Luca uncovers a dark, disturbing side to the murdered man, and discovers hints of a deviancy along with membership in a secret society.

Cette publication est nécessaire afin de mieux comprendre et explorer la gamme complète des raisons pour lesquelles les personnes issue de la communauté Noire sont touchés de manière disproportionnée par COVID-19. Il est important de se pencher sur l'histoire des Noirs, l'histoire de la science, l'histoire de la recherche et l'histoire du système de santé en relation avec les personnes afrodescendantes.

Barry Simmonds is a partner in a small-time law firm in Belize, a small, not-very-rich Central American country squeezed between Guatemala and Mexico. His principal business is setting up and servicing offshore companies and bank accounts for British, Russians, and whoever else wanted to hide their money or assets. Barry had been looking forward to an early retirement, but ran into difficulties after carelessly drifting into business with a group of unscrupulous investors, attracted by the benefits of laundering and investing their ill-gotten gains in real estate.

Legendary Montana lawman Ben Stillman is transporting a prisoner, a former friend of his, back to the town where the man and his gang had robbed a bank to stand trial. Stillman’s also packing the stolen loot. Along the way he picks up a young White woman and her Indian boy who are on the run from a pack of bloodthirsty human wolves led by a prominent area rancher. The rancher wants revenge on the woman because she killed the man’s son in self-defense. Stillman finds himself on the run from not only the woman’s enemies but from his prisoner’s gang, as well.

The fifth and final PHANTASM took an incredible eight years to go from set to screen. The project began as an experimental short before becoming a 13-part web series and finally a feature length sequel. Shot in secret on a microbudget, RAVAGER reunites PHANTASM's core cast 35 years after the original cult classic. The new sequel filmed not in Hollywood soundstages but in the homes of cast and crew. Visual effects were handled mostly by the director.

"Dracula" is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

The death of a young man in Kentucky from a drug overdose sets in motion a chain of events that will see Team Reaper fighting shadows and searching for an enemy they can’t see but who is so powerful they can reach out of the darkness and touch anyone they wish. The Cabal was meant to be a myth...a story that floated around the corridors of power. But when people start dying from poisoned cocaine, Team Reaper is about to find out that some myths are real.

FBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent — she views the world through a lens of numbers. The numbers torment her, make her unable to relate to people, and give her a failed romantic life — yet they also allow her to see patterns that no other FBI agent can see. Zoe keeps her condition a secret, ashamed, in fear her colleagues may find out.

Horror legend Tom Holland (Child’s Play, Fright Night) dares you to join him for a collection of nerve-shredding Twisted Tales. Serving up a mind-bending assortment of the macabre, it’s a collection of four nightmarish short stories, fine-tuned to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Paul Kane’s The Colour of Madness is a collection of spine-tingling short stories from one of the most prolific masters of modern horror. The collection features Men of the Cloth, the original novelette that inspired the movie Sacrifice, starring Barbara Crampton.

Breaking the law to protect your family seems reasonable...until it's not. Detective Luca’s life is shattered when he’s accused of a revenge killing. When a corpse appears, it doesn’t look good for Luca. The body belongs to someone who harassed his wife, and the circumstances of death point a grisly finger at the detective himself. As suspicion spreads quickly that he has morphed into a killer, Luca finds himself in a difficult predicament. Luca is left on his own to clear his name and capture the culprit. Failure means the loss of his freedom - or his life.