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They Hide: Short Stories to Tell in the Dark collects 13 chilling tales that weave through the shadows, exploring the nature of fear, powerlessness, and control.

Jim, Mercedes, Andrew, and Feline have their hands full. New supernatural threats keep hitting the city, and the Tempus Team are the only ones who can stop them!

Todd elevates genre short fiction beyond entertainment. Whether it's the titular story of a haunted mug driving the new office hire mad, or a worrisome look at the near future where the guilty simply hire someone to do their prison time, these stories will challenge as much as engage.

Scattered and fighting for their lives, the survivors face whatever pain and darkness they hold in their heart, as the strange forces at work make their demons appear in flesh and blood. John, now blind, is fleeing through the sewers, hoping against all odds to find the person who started everything and maybe reverse things.

In the wake of the catastrophic event known as the breaking sky, the survivors find themselves facing horrors much greater than the blind, mindless monsters roaming the cities. Mark and John are trapped at the government facility, now in complete darkness. Only one of them seems to have the will to go on, but it will take a lot to make it out of there, through endless hallways and stairwells, in pitch blackness, with dozens of blind people lurking everywhere.

The crack is still there. Growing bigger each time it appears. Turning more and more people into mindless killers. The authorities struggle to keep things from spiraling.

Death and destruction are taking over the world. The impact of the crack that's transforming ordinary people into blind, rage-filled monsters, are bringing every system down and forcing the survivors to fight for every breath.

Shy and introverted, Dash grew up reserved and with few friends. Once meeting Bria and Talyn on his home planet's academy, they became his best friends. With more courage and knowledge than he could hope for, the pair consistently managed to pull Dash into adventures he would have otherwise avoided.

Welcome to Brighton. Nestled in the North Carolina foothills, this small community boasts scenic, rural sights and easy, small town living...or so it seems. There is a dark side to this bit of Southern Americana, a secret show of which few know and fewer dare speak. Strange beasts roam these forests, spirits stir the dust of old houses, and vast powers crouch just beyond perception.

Two brothers. A childhood sweetheart. Life has never been easy for this trio, and especially not after the end of civilization as they knew it. Having had their formative years ripped from them, they were thrust into a shattered, savage world, a world where they only had each other. Weary travelers on the brink, there is a storm brewing, a turbulent tempest that has nothing to do with the weather. When tragedy strikes, everything changes in the blink of an eye—façades come undone, and loyalty is pushed to a breaking point.

Apollo Salvatoir is a fun and fast-paced coming-of-age saga that follows the lives of two children as they discover their destinies. Apollo Enrico Salvatoir was born into a life of privilege and fame. A growing business empire leads his father to hand off responsibility for raising Apollo to strangers who may not have Apollo’s best interest at heart. Apollo’s friend, a girl named Ling, comes from a family that is obsessed with the Salvatoirs and has a mysterious past. These best friends find themselves abandoned in a foreign land that is not as safe as the one they grew up in.

Making It Big in Japan is your ultimate guide to living, working, and playing in Japan. The information you get about Japan from reading articles online in English only scratches the surface. Like an outdated textbook, the advice seems to be stuck in the 1980s without reflecting the real pace of change in Japan. There is a need for more clarity and explanations of information that is often only available in Japanese. To fill this gap, I have interviewed the people who influenced me, served as role models, or offered valuable perspectives along my seven-year journey in Japan.

This book is a compilation of events that occurred to Paul Nemeth during his four-year classified assignment with a British Air Force Intelligence Signals Unit in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. These events include being bitten by the Hong Kong governor’s guard dog, various visits to Vietnam, and many encounters with high-ranking members of the defense department and members of the United States Armed Forces Committee.

A fallen angel and an assassin walk into a bar...For nearly 70 years, Murphy's had the worst luck any fallen could ever have. The Collector - a title Murphy never wanted - can't seem to do his job: Collect a soul. And after 70 years, Murphy's not so sure he wants to go back to the Below. Joy is a practitioner of one of the world's oldest professions. Murderer for hire, assassin, hitwoman - Joy's your lady if the money's right. Brought together by a job and dropped into the political machinations of the Above and Below, Murphy and Joy have to decide where their loyalties lie.

In the lack of light, darkness permeated the universe, and from the darkness of the void, there came a miracle. It burst out of nothing and devoured the dark. God washed the universe of its obscurity and created all. He created the world, he created life, and he created angels. Lucinda, one of the three archangels of heaven, is given a task that will challenge everything she has based her entire life on. What will she do when her core beliefs are no longer the pillars of what she thought?

How does one record an extraordinary time? Confined to his Delhi apartment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee unravels the intimate paradoxes of the life he encounters in the first weeks of a global pandemic. His stories about local fish sellers, gardeners, barbers, and lovers merge with his concerns for the exodus of migrant labourers, the challenges faced by health workers, and a mother braving check posts to bring her son home.

1872. Life in the orphanage is hard for Emma, and she turns to life on the streets, where she pickpockets to stay alive, until she pickpockets a wealthy gentleman who wants her punished. As a frightened Emma fears for her life, handsome Lucas repays the money she stole and offers her a maid’s job in his townhome. Thankful for a second chance, Emma accepts, believing her life is finally turning around. But soon after she arrives, she is forced back on the streets.

Scipio lives the charmed life of a Roman playboy, but his indolence masks the pain of a past he refuses to face, and the bitter rejection of his estranged father, the consul Cornelius. Women and wine quench Scipio’s thirst for life, until the day he hungers for something more. Driven by staunch principles and fiery debate, Aemelia is unlike any woman Scipio’s desired and he longs to make her his wife. But Aemelia and her father know that he is a lover, not a husband.

Bodies are piling up in once peaceful Edelleen, Colorado since Deric met Lana. Now in the grasp of a darkness that he cannot subdue or escape, he seeks vengeance on the residents of the sleepy mountain town. As Deric descends into madness, the creature demands blood. It watches. It waits. With a failing marriage and exposed affair sending his personal life and career spiraling, will Sheriff Haines be able to put his personal conflicts aside in time to catch a killer? Or will Deric lose the battle between conscience and terror, unleashing unabated evil onto Edelleen?

Grief and nightmares haunt us all in the wake of a parent's passing. For one man, the nightmares begin to invade his everyday life after his father dies suddenly. His father's neighbor offers their help to alleviate the emotional pain, but the cost may be worse than the dreams and visions. Memories are worth holding on to, no matter how painful.