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Grab your partner and join the spirits on the dance floor. Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatural horror is a grand ball of fear and nightmares. This sinister collection is bursting with 14 tales of terror - more than enough to keep you dancing with demons all night long.

Pointvilla...A quiet town, the kind of place old folk go to watch the sea roll in and the years roll out. The kind of place guys like the man in the pig mask can make an easy dime, or an easy killing. An inhuman intelligence crawls up the shore and sprawls over Pointvilla. A thing capable of stealing bodies, and drawing minds into one, into it - the MIND. An intelligence pulling Pig Mask inward as others swirl around Pig himself, like he's a planet, a force, and the rest are drawn by gravity.

John March runs a struggling bookshop with just one regular customer - Mr. Hill. His life is defined by routine until the day he discovers he is sole beneficiary of a will worth £5 million thanks to the eccentric Mr. Hill's untimely death. But Mr. Hill also leaves behind something else - a lock of hair, a finger bone and a tooth in a jar of water. It's certainly not the worst day of John's life...until the rain comes and the dying starts.

Spiggot is catapulted into his second worst nightmare when, on a stakeout to catch criminal mastermind, his soul is sent by means of an ancient artifact into a mad axe murderer's body, who is held captive in a maximum security residential hospital for the criminally insane... Sheez, you couldn't make it up. His only hope of redemption is to rely on his partner to help catch the villain. The trouble is he's in a nutcase's body, Trout didn't like him in the first place, he's got an insane copper after him and he's afraid of pirates.

Deadlift is a weightlifting term that refers to the action of lifting a weight from the floor to a standing position, gripping a bar. David Lowe is currently performing the heaviest unrecorded deadlift, performed outside competition rules, or any rules, by holding the severed cable of a thousand-pound hotel elevator containing his wife and an undetonated bomb, while a killer in a sackcloth mask looks on, and a hit man holds a loaded gun to his head. David is no superhero; he has no special abilities other than mere human strength and the will to save his wife.

Mankind has fallen to darkness and a new breed rules the earth. The age of the vampire has begun. Few survived the fall of man. Those who remain to witness the darkening of the world live by the gun or live in fear. There is no middle ground. The cities lie in ruins after the last war and vampires have inherited the blasted remnants. Some will not cower in the night. They fight because there is nothing left to them, and they fight without hope of peace or victory.

When Sarah House's husband doesn't come home for yet another Christmas, she finally sees her marriage for what it is...a sham, and a waste of 20 good years. No amount of wine is going to fix it. She knows. She's tried. Her marriage isn't the only lie in her life. When her husband goes missing, she has just 12 days to set things right...and sometimes right isn't the man you've got. Sometimes it's the kind of man that speaks quietly and carries a .45. A Sarah House Novel...noir, love, and guns. And brandy.

The Devil might be the greatest liar of all time...but which lies are his? A man named Jesus wanders the earth, from the U.S.A. to Egypt, from the Middle East to South America, desperate to discover who he really is. The archangels would see Jesus dead for his name alone, but he's only mortal...isn't he? In a life defined by the insanity of the world around him, the man named Jesus has only one friend...that friend has many faces, but only one true name - Abbadon. Armageddon approaches, and not all revelations are welcome.

A man walks the streets of Frampton. Some people see him, though most don't. He's just the street sweeper...but he's a preacher, too, and he's preaching death. Warren Johns, the last of a dying breed, may be the only one who can stop the Hangman. Stuck in the middle of a battle to save the townsfolk's souls are a woman and a young boy, and they need to be anywhere else but in the way when the Hangman breaks free from Hell.

The ship Orpal searches the far realms of space for an answer that might heal an epoch-old rift between the three great factions - the robots of the Tradition, the Ecentrists, and the Lore. The Tradition stand for power, grandeur, remembrance. On the other side of the scale, the Ecentrists weigh heavy. They wish for a cataclysm unlike any ever known, one large enough to sweep aside the obsolete.

Elton Burlock's done his time. On the outside, he takes the only job he can find as the custodian of a local cemetery, but there are three black angels that won't let him rest. The first is a little girl who roams the night and two women, one a vision of beauty in white and the other a nightmare in black. When the killing starts, who can rock the restless dead back to sleep? There are no lullabies for the dead, and if he's going to live, Elton will have to give the little girl what she wants. Maybe then he can find peace for them both - in the grave or out.

Holland's a man who's good with death - a killer for hire - but is he a match for a God? When his daughter goes missing, Holland finds himself pitted against powerful enemies; a changeling, a mage, and a god who wants to destroy the world. Holland's daughter isn't just a girl, though, and she's far from an easy mark.

There's a highwayman who still roams ancient, lost forests. He's a murderer, a dead man who forgot to die. Once, he killed a girl called Madeline Rose Goodman. Now her father is the only one who can stop her killer. He might have to die to do it, lose all that he has left, but he won't face the highwayman alone.

In the heart of rural England Bernie and his wife Margaret cross paths with a dangerous family. People assume the family are gypsies, or maybe travellers, but all anyone knows for sure is that they're the Mulrones, and that the Mulrones are bad news.

When a young boy dies, his parents turns to an old lady known for fixing things, and sometimes people - but father and mother both are looking for a different kind of vengeance entirely. he sees better than most, whether she's looking close up, or far away...but like all those with power, she can't see inside her own shadow and even old ladies who always look the same can make mistakes...

Yvonne's sure there's something wrong with her new landlord. She's right. He insulates his apartment against the noise of the outside world, but it's the voices that bother him most, and only a special kind of insulation can give him peace from the ghosts in his head.

Sam O'Donnell's just another addict on the road to ruin. He knows it's time to make a fresh start - to save his marriage. Yet when Sam and his wife move to an estate by the sea to begin anew, they find something has taken the estate for its own...and it hungers. When weighed in the balance a man can only face his demons and pray he is not found wanting. But Sam is not alone. He never was.

Charlie Dawes lies in the Old Oak Hospice, plagued by dark memories, and stalked by a mysterious, faceless creature he knows only as the Shadowman. Cathy Redman, his only friend and a caretaker in the ward, spends her time reading to Charlie and comforting his pain. She thinks she knows him...but when an inquisitive detective, a spiteful nurse, and a dangerous old Gypsy woman's lives intertwine, Charlie's fate will be sealed - by flesh, and by coin....

When medium Beth Willis is given a message from a ghost, she steps beyond her world and into the spirit realm. D.I. Coleridge is a man marking time, until a call from Beth gives him a lead on an elusive killer who takes trophies from his victims. He is a killer who walks through both worlds, taking lives, with powers no mortal can possess. A man, but something else, too. If Coleridge and Beth are to survive, they must understand him...but some men cannot be fought and some creatures cannot be bested. Death calls on us all in time. Will it call them home, too?

Irene Jacobs always wanted a home by the sea. Pregnant with her dead husband's twins, she comes to the Blue House to heal and raise her babies. She thinks she's found solace from her sorrows, but her nightmare is far from over. Her husband's killer is coming for her and her children...and he's unstoppable.