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In late November a few weeks after rare book expert Crystal McInney’s relationship with her long-time boyfriend ends abruptly, she trades the sunshine of Orlando, Florida, for a more traditional Christmas atmosphere in her hometown of Placer, South Dakota. Unsure of her future, she begins a new job: cataloging and valuing the massive private library of Saul Custer, the town curmudgeon. Saul’s son Jason, whom she had jilted in their junior year of high school, shows up from New York City with his fiancée.

The monster that is Haunted Reels has returned, and now no one is safe. Featuring twenty-four brand-new, never-before-published stories by a mix of Hollywood legends and rising film-industry stars, Haunted Reels 2 continues the menace its brooding predecessor started, only this time it has a grudge. Beware the murderous vandals, maniacal crackpots, and diabolically possessed contained within this book, for once you let them loose, there’s no telling what they’ll do next.

Zachariah Fontaine specializes in private investigations of the most ordinary type. But he soon finds himself involved in some very unusual cases, especially after meeting the delicious Jessica, seeking to rid herself of her husband. A straightforward pursuit of evidence for a divorce uncovers something totally unexpected. And that’s just the beginning. Soon, Zachariah and Jessica are joining forces in some rather surprising adventures involving stolen jewels, high-stakes gamblers, and some strange creatures.

From the writer of The Gorge and The Black Phone, C. Robert Cargill returns to the post-apocalyptic world of Zero Day and Sea of Rust in an all-new novella dealing set amid the fallout of a brutal war between robots and humans. It is three years since the war between humans and robots began and...

Stacy Frost lives her life upside down, shutting out Christmas to focus on card designs for June. On Black Friday, she meets up with Uber driver Jack Anjill who loves Christmas, and has his car decked out to show it. Over the next month, she tries to avoid him and his car, but every time she needs a ride, he shows up.

Lady Krystaline Mondall, head of the Mondall Wiccan coven and living on her ancestral Mondall Estate southwest of London, England, deals with challenges when she accidentally unleashes an ancient demon on the world. It’s a game of release, capture, release, and so on, as Krystaline battles, with the aid of her coven members and the silver Sword of Deliverance, not only that demon but a rival coven bent on gaining control over the demon to rule the world.

Presenting six stories involving science and its interaction with the human psyche. Included are elements of mystery, horror, whimsy, fantasy, touches of romance, and some technology run amuck. From the story of a group of elder humans hoping to ride to the stars, an AI system taking its programming too literally, and a young woman who can really take charge, to a story that will have you watching the night sky in case an ovoid spaceship appears, each story stretches reality beyond the norm and shows how our qualities as humans have to take charge.

Presenting ten tales with elements of mystery, horror, whimsy, fantasy, touches of romance, and some technology run amuck. From the story of a young newlywed couple targeted by a ghost in their chimney, a club of six where one member goes beyond just discussing how to commit a simple murder in a complicated way, a pair of virtual reality goggles that give the wearer a rather deadly experience, a privately owned library where you aren’t just fined when a book is overdue, to a mystery man who leads a young woman into a dangerous situation, each story stretches reality beyond the norm.

Hopi est un tigre en peluche anthropomorphisé, un robot-nounou comme il en existe tant d’autres. Il n’en avait pas vraiment conscience avant de découvrir une boîte rangée dans le grenier. Celle dans laquelle il est arrivé lorsqu’il a été acheté des années auparavant, celle dans laquelle il sera jeté une fois que l’enfant dont il s’occupe, Ezra Reinhart, huit ans, n’aura plus besoin de nounou. Tandis que Hopi réfléchit à son avenir soudain incertain, les robots commencent à se révolter, bien décidés à éradiquer l’Humanité qui les tient en esclavage.

From the critically acclaimed screenwriter of Doctor Strange and author of Sea of Rust and Queen of the Dark Things comes a hair-raising collection of short fiction that illuminates the strange, humorous, fantastical and downright diabolical that tantalise and terrorise us: demons, monsters, zombie dinosaurs and Death itself.

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Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasmagoria that combines the imaginative wonders of Neil Gaiman, the...

A brilliantly crafted modern tale from acclaimed film critic and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill—part Neil Gaiman, part Guillermo Del Toro, part William S. Burroughs—that charts the lives of two boys from their star-crossed childhood in the realm of magic and mystery to their anguished...

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