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"The Blessing" is a terrifying story, originally published in Billie Dean Shoemate III's 2012 collection entitled In the Willows. Jennifer Rosdale is seven months pregnant with her first child with her husband Jack. They are a happy, hopeful, and successful young couple. After a strange Native American acquaintance gives Jennifer a handmade blessing from the tribe, she accepts the intricately made gift and shows it to Jack, who offers her a warning.

After the events of Shadowchaser, Detective Jennifer King finds herself in a new city. A new assignment. Her first case brings her to a place where something otherworldly has happened. A murder scene beyond anything she has ever seen before. Something hangs in the air...a presence that seems to be following her every move. Among the evidence found at the scene, Jennifer notices a strange and unique black ring among the mutilated remains of the victim. After researching the ring, believing that it may help to solve her case, she learns of a legend attached to it.

This is the story of a child who has a bit of trouble sleeping. Unlike most children who occasionally have difficulty drifting off to sleep, this particular one's nighttime world has become a place of utter madness. Hailed by the respected Indianola Book Review in 2012 as "one of the most frightening shorts that has ever graced indie publishing," The Closet Man returns with a brand new edit and introduction by the author.

Shaun Jackson couldn't have children...but he loved the children. And the children loved him. Whether they wanted to or not. The Gainesville Slasher, as he was also known, has just found the newest child in a string of bodies the police never recovered. He had done this countless times...but even as he succeeds in kidnapping the next little girl, a fear begins to grow inside him. Something isn't quite right about her....

A couple is stuck in a small town, unable to leave due to a violent storm that seems to have come out of nowhere. The residents seem overly prepared for what, at first, seems like an ordinary thunderstorm. People are fleeing into their homes and shutting them up as if protecting themselves from something far deadlier than thunder and lightning. There's just something about those clouds....

Matthew Herrington has just built a getaway for his friends...friends bonded together by a terrible secret. Lot 150 was supposed to be a place of relaxation, a place to forget about the strange past they all share, but it quickly turns into a place worse than hell itself. Billie Dean Shoemate III offers his greatest novel to date...with a story he cites as the most terrifying one he has ever written.

Jeremy Miller is six weeks old. He is not like other children. In fact, no other child on earth is like him. He was somehow born with a fully-functioning adult mind. A unique character study of human nature and moral implications regarding parenthood, The Sixth Week of Jeremy Miller is a dramatic, yet subtly unsettling listen.

The third and final book in the Seldom Is Heard series. Quantum Time Travel is a book of the future and will become a real classic. It will sell for generations to come. This book is a rare find, like a great big gold nugget. My poetry is written for the very youngest of listeners, and loved by the oldest.

Travel back to 1916 with Ruth Bancroft Law to learn more about the early days of aviation in America. A remarkable pioneer, Law was one of the most daring, courageous, and successful aviators of her time. She set several records and inspired the nation with a bold and historic flight. In the process, she showed the world that women could be influential leaders and superb pilots.

Get Married, Stay Married is a complete series of marriage counseling sessions rolled into one comprehensive book that couples can absorb together. The reality of the authors' own 44-year marriage and the infidelity and addiction troubles they faced bring home the credibility of their sound advice based on biblical principles and real-life experiences.

Time with God is not about quantity; it's about quality. It doesn't have to be complicated. Simply come before God, give him the moments you have available, and ask him to fill those moments with his presence. When this is your heart's attitude, the time you give to God becomes a sacred space that will change how you approach your day.

Laney Simmons, brilliant life coach, wife, and mother of two, should be happy and fulfilled. But she isn't. Her husband, Dan, though a caring and loving partner and father, is preoccupied and disconnected. She turns to massage to take care of her need for touch, and finds much more than she imagined in Shay, the sexy massage therapist from The Women's Oasis Spa.

It had been perfect at first for the four young people. Friends since their broken childhoods, now they stood together at the threshold of adulthood. They were a family by choice, not by nature. When supplies dwindled and society failed, so did the rules of civilization and the mountain closed in. Not all predators walk on four legs.

This year's stories are by an award-nominated author of horror and suspense. Two of the stories are novellas. Hear dark tales of terror and intrigue from an alien child left on an Earth overrun by zombie cannibals to the first killer in all the world, Cain, the murderer of Abel, his brother. This is a worthy addition to the ongoing yearly series of Sinister, these eight tales will make your dreams restless.

Travel back to the late 1800s to learn more about the true adventures of Luella Agnes Owen, a female pioneer in the study of caves. Luella had to overcome many obstacles to reach her goal of becoming a scientist, but she succeeded. She became one of the world's leading authorities on caves at a time when such a career was unusual for a woman.

München im Sommer 2006, die Fußballweltmeisterschaft erhitzt die Gemüter. DieAnalystin Valerie Artman geht den Dingen gerne auf den Grund. Deshalb ist sie wohl auch diejenige, die nach einem Wohnungsbrand, bei dem ihre betagte Nachbarin ums Leben kommt, nicht so recht glauben kann, dass der Brand nur ein Unfall war. Während für alle anderen das Sommermärchen zur Realität wird, versucht Val, die Ermittler davon zu überzeugen, dass es sich lohnt, in Richtung Brandstiftung zuermitteln - und agiert bald als selbsternannte verdeckte Ermittlerin.

Fourteen brand-new 2013 tales of dread ranging from horror to dark science fiction and noir, Sinister will keep you awake at night. Two hundred and forty-four pages of aliens who come from the sky, a detective working his last case, a skull flenser who loves his job, and various evils and dark chills creep through this new collection from the Edgar and Stoker nominated author, Billie Sue Mosiman.

Rose Donahue was only seventeen when her life was turned upside down. Rose was a young child when her family came from Ireland in hopes of a better life. Things seemed to be going well. They had acquired a tiny homestead in Texas, and her father enjoyed working on the land. Rose being an only child, was close to her parents. A band of Apache Indians attacked the homestead. Rose's mother sent her into a hidey hole under the floor where they kept their potatoes and onions.

If Baya was going to make it she had to find a safe place. Was there any safe place left on Earth? That was the question she must answer for herself in Zom Alive:2110 .

Della Cambian was a senior in high school when she was struck by the family curse; vampirism. With the aid of the ancient known as Mentor, and harried by an aging millionaire with dreams of immortality, Del must find a way to prevent an evil that could endanger every natural vampire on Earth. And what kind of vampire should she be? Does she have the innate violence to be a Predator? Does the future hold nothing but fear and loathing?