Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented is a comprehensive and meticulously researched work by William Tebb, first published in the late 19th century, that delves into the chilling and often overlooked subject of premature burial—the accidental interment of individuals who are not truly dead. Drawing upon a vast array of documented cases, medical reports, and historical accounts, the book exposes the alarming frequency with which people have been mistakenly declared dead and subsequen...

Questions can be dangerous. . .Seventeen-year-old Alysse's senior year was stressful enough with exams, a harpy teacher, and a long time crush falling for her best friend Tori. Then she starts questioning what she's taught about the enemy living right outside the city walls. Alysse soon finds herself dealing with guerillas, a seismic bomb, and a genocidal plot that could spark a war. Alysse must decide who to trust as she and her friend Pete ask questions everyone ...

Blackwood Hall is a house shrouded in silence. Nine-year-old Alice Fenn communicates only through her music. Jonathan Fenn and his sister Judith guard a terrifying family secret. The servants refuse to discuss the mysterious disappearance of a former governess. A drawing room séance attempts to make contact with the spirit of Elizabeth Blackwood. And when a diabolic madman holds the residents of Blackwood Hall hostage to an insidious reign of terror, governess Claire Ashby finds herself in...

A chance meeting with an old friend brings wounded war veteran Clive Dahl face to face with the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Laura Balfour is kind and she is gentle, and most of all she judges him by his character, not his appearance. Laura is blind.She also has a sister, and once he meets Lydia, nothing in Dahl's life will ever be the same.From a posh London drawing room to a dockside opium den to a fog enshrouded country estate, this shocking tale of obsessive l...

When a winter storm forces his 1952 Buick Roadmaster into a ditch on Christmas Eve, Walter Spradlin seeks shelter at the home of Amanda Baldwin and her daughter Violet.Mistaking Spradlin for their awaited guest, the dashing young Hoyt Truitt, Amanda and Violet proceed to tell a tale of violent passions and dark family secrets guaranteed to make your blood run cold this holiday season.Inspired by radio mystery dramas of the mid-twentieth century and the lost tradition of tel...

The Rolling Stones perform a free concert in London's Hyde Park. Flying high on grass and LSD, Peter, Barnard, Bree, and Tristan rock along with nearly a quarter million people as The Stones make history. With them is Pandora, the once-famous fashion model whose downward spiral into addiction made international headlines, now clinging desperately to the belief that only a power greater than herself can restore her to sanity.After the concert, these five fr...

How much would you suffer to save the ones you love?After rescuing her brother, Alysse and her family are on the run. Before they can complete their escape, an attack separates them. Alysse is captured by the very people who were supposed to protect her. Treated and tortured like an enemy, Alysse must win over her captors, or Chrome wins and all of Oasis could pay the price."A fun and action-filled dystopian YA novel that packs a punch! 'If you enj...

New York City beat cop Stuart Rhodes is not the man he used to be. An errant bullet during a skirmish in perilous Bryant Park has left him financially dependent on his wife, artist Johanna Rhodes. Fortune befalls them in the form of an ancient family inheritance in idyllic Putnam Woods, a quaint New England village nestled in the wild and rugged hills of Northern Massachusetts.Whately House is the sort of place Stuart and Johanna have always dreamed of owning, but from the moment o...

After a promising career in the movies is destroyed by a disfiguring automobile accident, actor Tom Bolt struggles to survive in a world steeped in darkness and decay. When he is offered the role of a lifetime – and ten thousand dollars - to impersonate the long-lost son of reclusive film star Claudia Hyatt, Bolt speeds headlong down a dark and lonely highway toward a fate no clairvoyant could possibly foretell. For in the fantastic land of the Hollywood Dream Machine nothing is ever quite...

Tensions between religious freedom and equality law are newly strained in America. As lawmakers work to protect LGBT citizens and women seeking reproductive freedom, religious traditionalists assert their right to dissent from what they see as a new liberal orthodoxy. Some religious advocates are going further and expressing skepticism that egalitarianism can be defended with reasons at all. Legal experts have not offered a satisfying response—until now.Nelson Tebbe argues that the...

Do you believe in fairies?For thousands of years they have lived with us in our fables and in our forests. They have crept from beneath beds to frighten our children and tormented our travelers unmercifully on the road at dusk. They have infested our gardens and spoiled the milk in our barns and smashed the crockery in our kitchens. They have bewitched and bedeviled young lovers and drugged us and caused our sleep to be filled with fantastic dreams.In the summer of 1921, ph...

Meet Ivan Rastofsky. Ivan wants what most boys his age want – to go to college, get a good job, marry and have kids. But in October, 1962, as the uncertainty of the Cuban Missile Crisis holds America in its grip, anti-Russian sentiment runs high at Ivan's school. Faced with his mother's shame of her son's Russian heritage and the open hostility of his classmates, Ivan has almost given up hope on the American Dream.And then he meets Veronica, a flower who has blossomed despite the f...