Showing results for "Afterlife" in Suspense

The last thing FBI agent Will Brody remembers is the explosion - a thousand shards of glass surfing a lethal shock wave. He wakes without a scratch. The building is in ruins. His team is gone. Outside, Chicago is dark. Cars lie abandoned. No planes cross the sky. He's relieved to spot other people - until he sees they're carrying machetes.

College professor Stephen Barlow needs cash. Badly. He puts his skepticism aside and signs on to a paranormal research organization in the hopes of scoring a fat bonus. Enter Chaythe Asylum: a long-shuttered and controversial institution where patients were allegedly subjected to unethical experiments. Stephen deems the old building, closed in 1989 after a series of grisly murders, as good a place as any to explore the possibility of the supernatural, and arranges to take a tour with his students. But it turns out that the asylum is not as abandoned as it seems. There is something sinister in the building.

Professor Stephen Barlow is no longer a skeptic. Having faced the horrors of Chaythe Asylum, he turns his attention to the man responsible for the Third Ward Incident - the enigmatic Dr. Corvine - in the hopes of finding answers to his many questions. But some things, he soon learns, are better left lost to history. Traveling to a remote cabin in Michigan in search of the doctor and his research, Stephen finds himself descending deeper into a world of terror and madness.

Alterlife: The chance of a lifetime...To live in a thrilling world of adventure...One with endless possibilities. Down on his luck and with his back against a wall, John Crussel would do anything to provide for his family. Even rob a bank out of desperation. But when he hears of how he can make money in a virtual reality video game called Alterlife, he walks away from the robbery and decides to give it a shot. Couldn't be harder than robbing a bank, could it? John's world is about to change as he finds that Alterlife is easier than it seems.

The door has been opened. It's already too late. The hunt is on for the thing that escaped from Chaythe Asylum. A life hangs in the balance. Dark plots set in motion more than thirty years ago wind to a close in this final, terrifying volume. Will Stephen Barlow intervene in time to spare the world the horrors of the Occupant?

Ein Scharfschütze versetzt Chicago in Panik: Achtzehn Menschen hat er heimtückisch erschossen. FBI-Agent Will Brody und seine Vorgesetzte Claire McCoy brennen darauf, den Killer zu überführen. Dann gerät Will selbst in einen Hinterhalt. Eine tödliche Explosion zerfetzt die Luft, tausende Glassplitter bohren sich in seinen Körper. Doch er wacht auf, ohne jeglichen Kratzer. Seine Leute sind verschwunden. Er ist allein. Um ihn herum liegt Chicago im Dunkeln. Willkommen im Jenseits.

Five years ago, Nathan’s world came crashing down. The witness protection program stole the woman he loved, and now, he’s lost everything - including hope that she’s still alive. His security job is a daily reminder of the girl he failed to protect, dragging him deeper into despair. Forced to assume the identity of a dead girl, Caitlin struggles to rise from the ruins of the life she lost.

Book of the Bloodless, Volume 1: Alternative Afterlives is a collection of imaginative short stories filled with vivid characters and twists of fantasy. Death is the common theme, explored in a dry, humorous style. This is the first volume of the Books of the Bloodless series. More will follow.