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The waiting room stands on a crumbling railway platform at the edge of a retired rock star’s vast estate. Abandoned to dereliction and isolated by a moat of thorny wilderness, it used to be a playground for his children. Until strange music and the terrifying spectre of a leering soldier frightened them away. Julian Creed is TV’s most popular ghost hunter. Only his small production team knows he is a complete fake who doesn’t even believe in the paranormal. Until he spends one night in the waiting room.

All through August Abigail looked out for the ship, counting the masts on each vessel and reading their names before they reached the harbour.

Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future… together. Months after they married, Anton died in a horrible car crash, but lived long enough to utter five words to her, “I’ll be waiting for you.” That final private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the press—the terminally ill woman holding her dying husband as he promised to wait for her on the other side.

Evan Tormer is haunted. His life has been shattered by events beyond his control and regret is his constant companion. His wife is gone, lost to an unbeatable cancer. His son has been mentally and physically handicapped by a tragic accident. He's been fired for using company funds in a failed attempt to save his wife's life.

When Sam Feary meets his old high school buddy Abner in Manhattan, he knows something is wrong. But he doesn't know how wrong. Abner has stepped over the boundary, into the world of unseen spirits - a world that has suddenly become a terrifying reality. It will take Abner's life unless Sam can rescue him.... But now it wasnt Sam's life as well!

All through August Abigail looked out for the ship, counting the masts on each vessel and reading their names before they reached the harbour.

Bash Trawler wants to find an easy summer job, so he can get back to partying with his friends. When he discovers an advertisement in the local paper for night watch at a nearby funeral home, he jumps at the chance to make quick money. But staying up all night watching corpses for an eccentric war vet turns into something out of his worst nightmares.

It's been three months since Casey McClair fought and survived a harrowing ordeal with a cold-blooded serial killer. No one expected her to bounce back right away, but Casey's agonizing recovery is riddled with more than trauma. Night terrors tangle with daytime drama as she fights to find her way to recovery in this second novel in The Waiting Mortuary series.

It's been a long time since Jack Skilton wrote an article for The Westport Press, but when rumors of a sinister presence lurking inside the waiting mortuary begins to spread, he's sent to Kessler's Funeral Home to investigate a possible haunting. What he discovers will definitely make front-page news if only he can live long enough to write about it.

Years ago, Thomas Edison invented the psycho phone, a crude device he believed was capable of reaching dead people; but now, Heather Ross has his old phone number, and the dead are calling her non-stop. Heather wants to get rid of the phone but learns they can still reach her through email, television, and billboards. Heather is not averse to talking to lost souls, but will they save her life or destroy it?

The eccentric, and sometimes lovable, characters of Spookie have returned for another series of mysterious adventures. Frank Lester, ex-Chicago homicide detective and mystery author, after his and Abigail’s long-awaited vacation is over, and they’re home again, has once more come out of retirement this time to take the position of sheriff of Spookie, because of Sheriff Mearl’s murder.

No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does. Although In Darkness Waiting begins in much the same vein as many horror novels (mysterious deaths; a small town invaded by evil; plucky, attractive young lovers; the logical level-headed doctor; some salt-of-the-earth townsfolk), by its end, you will have discovered it is not "just another horror novel".

Nick and the boys return from the summer's last hunting trip to find the streets empty, the beachfront and park abandoned, and the windows of their own homes boarded shut. The hunters have become the hunted, in an apocalyptic plague that pits man against beast - very tiny beasts. And Nick is determined to keep his strength, courage and family alive during what could very well be the last winter of their lives.

When three burglars break into an old man's home, they take home more than they bargained for.

After dying in a hospital, a woman - now a ghostly apparition - discovers a waiting room from where the recently deceased are escorted to the afterlife. There, she awaits the return of an angelic little girl, "the maître d'", to take her, unaware she's destined for someplace other than where the little girl would like to take her.

This is a work of humorous fantasy as well as political parody. Any persons who actually exist are public figures and depictions here are exaggerated and used for purposes of satire and political commentary as protected by law and the first amendment of the US constitution.