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Count Dracula, the centuries-old legendary vampire and former soldier-nobleman, wishes to extend his horrific cult of Undead followers to England. Innocent British realtor Jonathan Harker visits the Count with the intention of transacting the purchase of a house in London.

Demon, Mike, and their Demon Inc crew take the dimensional war to the Haunts. Demon and Mike communicate directly with hilarious results, but the darkness within Mike grows after another Haunt wound and holy water healing. Facing Haunt attacks, sexual awakenings, and teenage drama, the kids turn to their sarcastic paranormal pup Demon for rebuke and humor to keep their minds set on survival and victory.

Once again Craig and Cate, with help from others, fight to right an injustice. This time it’s a flamboyant, bombastic billionaire who has a secret that hits close to home. The pair work with a troop of expert computer hackers to drain the river of dirty money from the billionaire. They hatch a plan and with pinpoint precision, siphon off the billionaire’s world-wide, offshore bank accounts. Ruined financially, his creditors, the Mexican Cartel and the Russian Mafia, come calling for the billionaire.

Matt Knox managed to reach middle age without ever breaking a law. So far as he is aware, he has never transcended the law, ever, no matter how trivial. He will not step outside the lines of a crosswalk. He refuses to take the "creative" tax write-offs suggested to him by professional advisers. He will not opt to get away with anything simply because he can. Until now.

Craig and Cate are wealthy, smart, driven business professionals who have their idyllic world shattered and turned upside down. Their two children are killed during a hate crime. They are devastated and consumed by grief. After the killers are set free, the two take matters into their own hands. They embark on a calculated quest to avenge their children while finding out who was really behind the shooting. Unsatisfied with their revenge taken, Craig and Cate plan the destruction of the neo-Nazi organization that sponsored and planned the shooting.

Life is full of strange and awkward events seemingly designed to annoy us. To Thomas Sullivan, these trials and tribulations are actually meant to entertain us.

December 6, 1941, 24 hours until the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor. Ford Island was quiet, the hangar bays home to aircraft all ready to take off at a moment's notice. But on this day, there was no forewarning of what was to come.

Raising school-age children is becoming increasingly difficult. The prevalence of the internet, smartphones, computers, social media, and technology has changed the parenting landscape. 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents is a thought-provoking and practical parenting book aimed at helping parents navigate this new landscape.

America can rise, but the cost is high. Traumatized by previous exposure to her own tests, Dr. Rachel Parker has to complete the methodical steps she swore would never see the light of day...on herself. Her sister, Brenda Krous, may be the only one capable of pulling her through intact. If they can accomplish the feat and find resolution together, the answers they discover can help the rest of America rise up and reclaim itself from the protection of destruction.

We were watching old Tom show us his string of fish. When he threw them back in the water the alligator grabbed them. The boat rocked violently. Tom fell overboard. The Alligator got him. We ran for help. The Sheriff, his deputy, the game warden, and my uncle brought me and my little brother back to the lake to search for old Tom and the alligator. I was 10 and my brother was 8 when it happened. We had to wait until night so we could use flashlights to spot his reflecting eyes. We motored around in the boat until we spotted him. He came for us!

Tuxedo Junction is the third short story collection from Fangoria and Dread Central veteran writer Thom Carnell. Thom's fiction has been featured in Carpe Noctem Magazine, Swang Magazine, in his novel No Flesh Shall Be Spared: Don't Look Back and in the short story collections Moonlight Serenades and A String of Pearls.

As the Feast of Hungry Ghosts begins in the northwest port city of Strikersport, monsters and actual ghosts begin appearing throughout the city causing all manner of chaos. Thus the city’s twin protectors, Dragon and Tiger, enter the fray and set about uncovering the reason behind the sudden appearances. Their revelations lead back in time to a horrendous massacre in the village of Batsu, a province of the magical kingdom of Khaitan. Have agents of ancient deities come to Strikersport to wreak vengeance on the guilty?

Shanghai in the 1930s is a place of excitement and intrigue and magic. It is an international hotspot where foreign agents from around the world ply their trade. Brought to Shanghai to investigate a powerful new aircraft engine, young Conall McLeod becomes embroiled in a high-stakes game between gangs, spies and immortal beings.

My friend Dr. Robert (Bob) Russell said that he knew a girl that could communicate with the dead. I didn't believe him. He invited me to an "encounter" to prove it. We went to a very weird old house where a Paranormal Investigative Team was working. The team was led by the girl Amy, about 25 or so. She had another girl and two guys about her age as the rest of the team. They had some pretty sophisticated equipment. Their equipment recorded the event in detail.

A great power has awakened within Princess Kallan. To keep the princess hidden, she is taken to Alfheim, her abilities suppressed and her memory erased. Years later, Kallan inherits her father’s war and vows revenge on the man she believes responsible: Rune, king of Gunir. But soon, a twist of fate puts Kallan in protection of the man she has sworn to kill and Rune in possession of powers he does not understand. Lost in the world of men, the two form an unlikely alliance to make their way home and solve the mystery of their past - and of the shadow that hunts them both.

In The Humour of America, 88 short stories, poems, anecdotes, and essays from the 18th and 19th century will keep you smiling and chuckling!

As a young child, Morgan Rein was taught by Mother Kalavela the curative powers of White Witchcraft. Ancient arts and skills employed in the service of mankind. The greatest of these elemental talents is the ability to control fire. Now, from out of her tortured past comes a deadly threat in the form of a psychotic warlock bent on murder and destruction. A cruel, sadistic soul who also happens to be her brother.

Grow Up and Be a Man is really not so much about my opinion on what "being a man" is, but more of learning from example, from our own experiences, and then setting our own course. Life doesn't come with instructions, and folks are pretty much responsible for writing their own book of "care and feeding", or they're likely to live a life wholly instructed by others. That's not always so bad, and sometimes can be quite good. But...in each life there comes a time when one has to chart their own course.

Rope Hypothesis and Thread Theory is based on Bill Gaede's Rope Hypothesis. We apply the rope model to questions such as, what is gravity, light, electricity, and magnetism? What is thermodynamics? What is the difference between light and sound? What is plasma? How do batteries, antennas, and cathode ray tubes work? What is the difference between fundamental and composite objects? Does size scale make a difference when it comes to motion, friction, bending, stretching, and tension?

Ben Dauber had much to learn about the newspaper business. And about being a man. He found himself in a place and time some would call Heaven, others Hell to learn both. Desert Sun, Red Blood by E. W. Farnsworth is a collection of tales during the time of the Indian wars in the lawless Arizona Territory. Ben Dauber found himself among a rough-and-tumble group of renegade Apaches, range settlers, saloon girls, professional gamblers, seedy lawmen, a hanging judge, gunslingers, desperate thieves and murders, con men, land-grabbing ranchers, ruthless claim jumpers, steely-eyed railroad operatives, dashing cavalry officers and spirited frontier women who knew how to ride, track, and use weapons as well as men.