Creepy Crawls is a ghoulish and ghastly terror-touring travel guide to the most dreadfully Horror-ed of destinations! From Tobe Hooper’s 1974 drive-in classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the real-life Baltimore haunts of Edgar Allan Poe to the macabre features of Paris, France, Creepy Crawls offers morbidly offbeat locations for horror aficionados and travel buffs alike. Author Leon Marcelo lurks with you amongst the foulest of frightfully fiendish horror sites, and of...

This book provides readers with an insight into information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, in particular an investigation of data management and processing, information extraction, technology, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, knowledge co-creation, knowledge integration, and the development of new intelligent services available anytime, anywhere, by anyone. The authors show how IoT enables communication and ubiquitous computing between global citizens, networked machines ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2023, which took place in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in October 2023.The 30 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. The contributions are divided into the following thematic blocks: Artificial Intelligence; Data Analysis; Decision Systems; Enterprise Information Systems Applications; Geoinformatics; Health Care Information Systems; Interd...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the Second International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2019, held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2019.The 37 full papers and one short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics; data analysis; decision systems; health care information systems; IT Architectures; learning management systems; robotic autonomy; security services; socio-te...

Best New Horror combines dozens of the best and grisliest short stories of today. For twenty-five years this series has been published in the United Kingdom as The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and now comes to the US to delight and terrify thriller enthusiasts. This has been the world’s leading annual anthology dedicated solely to showcasing the best in contemporary horror fiction. This newest volume offers outstanding new writing by masters of the genre, such as Joan...

This open access book explores ways to leverage information technology and machine learning to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on digital disease surveillance through the application of machine learning to non-traditional data sources. Developing countries are uniquely prone to large-scale emerging infectious disease outbreaks due to disruption of ecosystems, civil unrest, and poor healthcare infrastructure – and without comprehens...

THE ULTIMATE LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR ANTHOLOGY: From the depths of R’lyeh come 21 “exceptional” and utterly terrifying horror short stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft (Kirkus)!Taking their inspiration from works by H.P. Lovecraft himself, prominent writers such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Darrell Schweitzer, Donald R. Burleson, and David J. Schow delve deep into the psyche, expanding on concepts Lovecraft created and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2025, held in Samborondón, Ecuador, during November 26–28, 2025.The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions.These papers were organized into the following topical sections: AT for Engineering Applications; Communication; Computing; e-Learning; Electronics; Technology Trends; and Intelligent Systems.

A brutal murder incites paranoia in the rare-book world in a "brilliantly written . . . lethally enthralling" novel of literary suspense (Joyce Carol Oates).The bibliophile community is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam's sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will—a convicted if unrepentant li...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Doctoral Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies, DSICT 2022, held in Manta, Ecuador, in October 2022.The 15 full papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 72 submissions. The papers present research in areas of intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, ICTs and their applications to the real world.

From master editor of horror anthologies Stephen Jones comes this collection of twenty-six stories to make your skin crawl. Within this terrifying tome, you’ll discover classic tales of the macabre, memorable yarns culled from the pages of pulp magazines, original stories by some of the greatest minds in horror, and two novellas not published anywhere else. Living corpses intervene in a production of Twelfth Night. An undead suitor pursues his beloved. Desperate mortals fight to s...

This book is composed by the papers written in English and accepted for presentation and discussion at The 2023 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS'23), held at Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, in Cusco, Peru, between the 24th and the 26th of April 2023.ICIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern i...