Pirate Horror

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.

In the mode of other best selling business fables, The Energy Bus takes listeners on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Everyone faces challenges. And every person, organization, company, and team will have to overcome negativity and adversity to define themselves and create their success.

All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy. His belly full of laughter, his life full of joy. Until one day, something changed; stripped his innocence away. The hole inside making space for the devil to come and play.

Earth: a space pirate's dream when it comes to booty but not a good place to hide when bounty hunters come looking. Pulling up stakes means Rafe must leave his vintage trailer behind, but in the process he acquires a passenger, a mouthy female who seems to think she's calling the shots. She'll soon learn who's the captain. And it isn't Annabelle, his sassy ship.

Yet another brilliant entry in Kenemore’s zombie canon - Cap’n Hook meets the undead. Set in the Caribbean of the eighteenth century, the epicenter of piracy, voodoo, and the dark arts, The Code of the Zombie Pirate reveals all the secrets to selecting, customizing, and managing a motley crew of pirates-cum-zombies.

The sailing ship Mortzestus is far from shore when the wind drops away and a mysterious mist surrounds the ship. As the days drift by, the observant sailor Jessop spots something half seen creeping over the taff rail. Then men in the rigging are attacked, a man disappears, and everyone starts to get scared. Then Jessop sees something below the water following the ship....

Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world and at its end will be either one of the most glorious finds in history - or certain death.

In Paris, a ruthless descendant of Napoleon has risen to power, hell-bent on restoring France's former glory. His fiery ambitions are cynically stoked by a coterie of cold-blooded Mandarins, plotting behind the gates of Beijing's Forbidden City. Cloaked in secrecy, this unholy alliance devises a twisted global plan, backed by China's growing nuclear arsenal, that will send America and the world to the brink of a gut-wrenching showdown.

There is a map of secrets and lost treasure, but the gatekeeper's seem to always be one step ahead. If you enjoyed the adventures, author and researcher, Connor Flynn, took you on in his previous books, Erie Swamps, Big Brother, Bigfoot and Monsters and Mysteries; you won’t be disappointed in The Panhandle Pirates. Connor is back, but this time in search of the many creatures which call Florida home. From the Goatman to the Pensacola Serpent, Connor will detail his journeys like only he can and done in his unique voice. So, buckle up, keep your head on a swivel and get ready; because The ...

What do you do when pirates kidnap you for a ransom and a mad scientist injects you with a powerful and inevitably fatal concoction of aether? You get revenge. Matilda Katrine Myra is no one special, but her pirate abductors don’t know that. When they boldly kidnap her from an airship and sweep her away into the deadly wasteland of mutants and poisonous radiation, her life becomes a day to day battle to evade death. And she’s much closer to death than ever. A mad scientist has injected her with toxic condensed aether, the air of the gods, and now she’ll need frequent doses just to ...

Claire Hendricks can see ghosts, but she can't see herself having a fun vacation. Yet when her new friends/found family, Basher and Alex, insist, Claire and her dead BFF, Sophie, pack themselves off to a remote Irish island. This tempest-tossed isle is indeed full of noises: not only is the hotel where the gang is staying double booked with a posh private party, the island's crumbling old fort is being fought over by rival ghost pirates. In death, as in life, they're vying over a legendary stash of loot, supposedly hidden somewhere on the island or in the surrounding rough seas.

Devin and his sister Violet are visiting their Uncle Jack in an old house by the seashore. Jack was a sailor and he has collected strange and fascinating items from the sea. Exploring a back room, Devin and Violet discover a locked trunk. A pirate's chest. They manage to get it open - and see that it's filled with antique jack-in-the-boxes. Huh? Up pops a very ugly, mean-looking puppet, an old pirate with a dirty red bandana over his long greasy hair. "Thanks for letting Sailor Jack out!" he rasps. Will Jack return them to their uncle? Just how much is a pirate's promise worth?

Wendy came to the Never Isles to get away from the stress of everyday life. To find adventure and maybe even a little bit of romance. What she didn't expect was to get swept up by the charming sea captain with a gleam in his eye. A gleam that told her he wanted to do wicked things to her and lord help her she might just let him.

Dive into Darkness with "Tales of Renfield's Vampirats" Embark on a chilling voyage with Captain Nosferati and his crew of bloodthirsty rodents in "Tales of Renfield's Vampirats." From the depths of the old world to the haunted ruins of a New Orleans ghost town, witness the transformation of ordinary rats into immortal predators. Their tale is not just of survival, but of a dark destiny that beckons them across oceans and into the heart of darkness itself. A New Realm of Nightmares Awaits In a forgotten amusement park, where joy once echoed, now only whispers of the night prevail. Here, the...

Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world and at its end will be either one of the most glorious finds in history - or certain death.

Lasadi doesn't like strangers on her ship, but she'll need a bigger crew if she's going to steal a mysterious artifact from a dead pirate's long-lost space station. She takes a chance on a charming grifter named Raj, along with a skilled hacker and her genius little brother. And it's...nice? If Lasadi isn't careful, she's going to start enjoying having a crew aboard. Raj's last bit of luck capsized right before he ran into Lasadi, and this job could finally get his life back on track—as long as Lasadi never learns the truth about his past.

Arnold und Alina Habbicht haben die schrecklichen Ereignisse in denen Alina fast ihr Leben verlor überlebt und verarbeitet. Ihre Tochter Sandy, die ein Jahr später auf die Welt gekommen ist, ist ihr ganzer Stolz. Doch eines Tages verschwindet Sandy spurlos aus ihrem Zimmer. Es gibt keine Anzeichen für ein gewaltsames Eindringen.

Ah, there you are! Come on in; the party’s just getting started. What are you drinking? Burgundy? Perhaps a Bordeaux? Maybe some hemoglobin? What’s that? Are the vampires, witches and werewolves within these pages real? Well, it could just be a costume party. Then again, maybe the true masks we wear are the faces we show to the rest of the world when it’s NOT Halloween! A vineyard that produces a very special wine on only one particular day of the year, a pirate who visits hell to strike a deal with the devil, and a woman who loves to hunt werewolves! These are just a few of the ...

Robert Allen Lupton's third collection of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and adventure stories are tempered with wit and humor. Journey from the edges of the galaxy to the high desert of New Mexico, from fairy lands to stone castles guarding ancient coastlines. Meet swordsmen and brew masters, genies and sheriffs, wrestlers and robots, and travel on space ships and ghost trains. Nothing's quite the way it looks and even the most evil villain and the most noble hero learn not to take themselves too seriously.