Haunted by the memories of his gruesome actions, James is tormented by the relentless back-and-forth battle within his own mind. The boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur as James confronts the malevolent spirit of his mother, who seems to have a demonic agenda of her own.Approximately 13000 words.WARNING: This is a work of Extreme Horror and is not suitable for young readers.

Allison Wright embarks on a harrowing journey that will test her courage, wit, and friendships like never before.Allison's life takes a nightmarish turn when a seemingly innocent camping trip with her closest friends goes horribly wrong. Deep within an ancient and eerie forest, they become separated, leaving Allison utterly lost. As the shadows lengthen and night descends, she discovers that she is not alone. Sinister, otherworldly creatures lurk in the darkness, each more menacing ...

A small mountain town hides a dark secret…When his father's death brings Grant Shipman to the Appalachian town of Wallen's Gap, he believes his biggest problem will be dealing with the slow pace and odd townsfolk. But something sinister is at work. A dark power rises, an echo of the town's bloody past. A book of blood magic offers an unspeakable horror a gateway into the world of the living, and only Grant stands in the way of their Dark Rite.Praise for Dark Rite:"Wo...

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information. Dark Star captures not o...

Now the director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, Brooke Fairfax has one objective: stay on top of all threats to the people and property of the Commonwealth. The position is thankless and never-ending. It even pulls her out of Declan O’Roark’s bed in the middle of the night.A power grid failure has struck Kentucky’s largest city, and Brooke assumes the role of lead coordinator for the investigation. The power outage pushes the city to the brink of chaos. Police, fire, ...

From the master of the wartime espionage novel; a thrilling story of subterfuge at seaMay 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus river to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, flies the flag of neutral Spain, and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo.But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter under the com...

After dozens of Lexington, Kentucky’s forgotten—mostly prostitutes and the homeless—swamp local hospitals from apparent overdoses over the 4th of July weekend, Kentucky cops soon discover a new synthetic form of heroin is infecting their communities, and that gangs—namely the outlaw motorcycle gang Samael’s Army—are responsible for using a “disposable” population to test the new drug.Soon after, the deadly new drug claims the daughter of a US senator, and FBI Director Jack Waller a...

Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and...

“In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941 . . .”May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River t...

Andre Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars, is a journalist working for Pravda in 1937. War in Europe is already underway and Szara is co-opted to join the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence agency. He does his best to survive the tango of pre-war politics by calmly obeying orders and keeping his nose clean. But when he is sent to retrieve a battered briefcase the plot thickens and is drawn into even more complex intrigues.Szara becomes a full-time spy...

From the USA Today –bestselling author, FBI profiler Karen Vail hunts for an escaped serial killer in this "impressive" thriller (John Sandford,#1 New York Times– bestselling author)Jasmine Marcks was a teenager when she discovered her father was a killer. First, there was the strip of bloody duct tape; then, the bloodstain on his shirt; and finally, the long nights away from ho...

Le cinquième opus de la collection Darkness, censure et cinéma examine sans doute l’un des sujets les plus controversés au cinéma, l’un des tout derniers tabous à subsister à l’écran : l’homosexualité.Montrée, évoquée ou simplement suggérée, l’homosexualité à l’écran ne laisse jamais indifférent parce qu’elle exacerbe nos contradictions et ce que nous croyons être. En contournant les postulats, en revendiquant le droit à la différence, elle renvoie à l’idé...