A religious order, believing themselves to be entrusted by God with certain secrets, will stop at nothing to keep those secrets safeA haunted movie theater holds the key to a famous Scream Queen's return to lifeIn an attempt to recapture his glory days at the height of the apocalypse, a bitter, insecure security guard commits a desperate actThere is no art without sacrifice, as an aspiring poet is about to discoverA random act of kindness turns into a nightm...

Slay bells ring,Kids are screaming,In the lane, snow is blood stained.There's nowhere to hide,Krampus has arrived,There'll be feasting in a winter slaughter land…Welcome BacktoDeathlehem… where the office Secret Santa proves more dangerous than a game of Russian roulette…… where trips to Grandma’s house are fraught with danger…… where a traditional Nutcracker poses a threat to a pair of would-be thieves……...

Conceived in darkness, it feeds off the host. It is poked at and prodded, all the while growing within the confines of the author’s mind until it reaches that point where it will no longer be contained. It forces its way through the porous openings in the skull, insinuates itself into the bloodstream, feeds into the very cells of its host, who has only one desire – to rid itself of this parasite before it is driven insane.Cranial LeakageAn otherwor...

For some, death is not the end. There are those who are doomed to walk the earth for all eternity, those who are trapped between one plain of existence and the next, those who, for whatever reason, cannot or will not let go of the lives they left behind. These are the vengeful spirits, the tortured souls, the ghosts that haunt our realm. Welcome to FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, a collection of 19 original ghost stories from:Brent AbellGordon Anthony BeanRose Blackthorn...

Twas the fright before ChristmasAnd all through the townNot a soul stirredNo one dared make a sound...Welcome to Deathlehem, where......Krampus, not Santa, brings the holiday cheer......the lights on the tree, so festive and bright, skitter and crawl and possess a lethal bite......malicious little elves, not a jolly fat one, know if you've been naughty--or nice...and...family gatherings and office parties often turn deadly.

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Grice, Davidson, Strawson, Austin, and Putnam, as well as more recent contributions by scholars including John McDowell, Stephen...

The most comprehensive volume ever produced in defense of the Gospels and ActsThe four Gospels and the book of Acts tell stories of Jesus’ life and the birth of Christianity. Are these stories true history or just religious fiction? Christians accept the stories as true and say that the entire Bible is a reliable communication inspired by God. Against this, non-Christians have argued that the Bible is a book of legends, myths, and historical inaccuracies—just anoth...

Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female children, the separation of conjo...

This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament (MPs). The contributors employ the term CDF as a generic term although such funds have a different names, such as electoral development funds (Papua New Guinea), constituency development...

The ultimate, all-in-one resource on what the Old Testament says about JesusAs Jesus walked the Emmaeus road, he showed his companions how the whole of Scripture foretold his coming. Yet so often today we’re not quite sure how to talk about Jesus in the Old Testament. How do you know what applies to Jesus? And how do you interpret some of the strange prophetic language?Get answers and clarity in this authoritative and reliable guide to messianic prophecy fr...

In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he’s a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” China Newsweek declared him the “most influential foreign figure” of the year. In Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by the nation’s swift embrace of a market economy—a guide whose communitarian idea...

New Frontiers in International Communication Theory offers a wide-ranging assessment of the present state of the field of international communication and charts new directions for theory and research. It brings together renowned and emerging scholars who challenge the field to move beyond the limits of existing formulations, approaches, and trajectories, providing an alternative and a supplement to traditional approaches in analysis and study. In rethinking the central problematics of the ...