"First rate, compelling, nerve-tingling. A novel of sex, death, and the macabre. Extraordinarily vivid. A thinking man's Texas Chainsaw Massacre." — The Vancouver SunThe first in a series of crime thrillers featuring the Special X team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—world-weary cops hardened enough to deal with the most heinous of crimes.A serial killer is loose on the streets of Vancouver. A sadist preying on women, leaving a trail ...

Mounted police trained to track the criminally insane must hunt serial killers in this volume featuring the first four books in the Special X thriller series.The Special X team of the Royal Canadian police are experts at decoding the criminal mind—and hardened by years of confronting the most heinous of murderers. From serial killers driven by demons as dark as Jack the Ripper's to psychopaths with a penchant for gruesome displays of their victims, no evil is too s...

From an author who "writes the kind of stuff of which nightmares are made," three thrillers featuring Mounties battling a madman intent on world domination ( The Globe and Mail, Toronto).Robert DeClercq has faced a lot of lunatics as the head of the Special X team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. But never one as sinister as Mephisto, a megalomaniac hell-bent on global destruction. But first Mephisto is fixed on taking out DeClercq—by any means possib...

In this "mind-bender" about a psychopath seeking revenge "the plot yanks you compulsively toward its solution, and the shocks make you jerk back in fright" ( Toronto Star).The Winter Olympics are coming to western Canada, but the mood is far from celebratory when a snowboarder is murdered on the slopes, his corpse mutilated. And he's only the first athlete to suffer a grisly end. Soon, a raging winter storm and a deranged killer's team of mercenaries has c...

"Slade is at his peak with Ripper. A schizophrenic whodunit complete with locked rooms and self-triggering death devices. Highly enjoyable." — Time Out LondonAn American feminist is found hanging, her body slashed to shreds, her face flayed. Two hookers are murdered, their corpses mutilated in a similar pattern. These gruesome deaths are only the beginning of the trail Canadian Mountie Robert DeClercq will follow as he attempts to catch a...

"A Grade A thriller . . . twisted, near-omnipotent villains, brutal violence, sharp plot twists, solid (and enthralling) historical research." — The Vancouver SunCanadian Mountie Robert DeClercq and his Special X team are facing down a stolen mummy with a trail of corpses in its wake. The question is: Is this the work of one killer? Or is it some sort of diabolical conspiracy? DeClercq's investigation leads him to a local porn king who specializes in snuff...

This thriller from an author who "writes the kind of stuff of which nightmares are made" pits a madman intent on world domination against a Canadian Mountie ( The Globe and Mail, Toronto).Robert DeClercq has faced a lot of psychos as the head of the Special X team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. But never one as evil as Mephisto, a megalomaniac intent on recovering a relic rumored to hold the secrets of Stonehenge—mysteries Mephisto hopes to exploit ...

All four books in Phil Price's 'The Forsaken Series', now available in one volume!Unknown: Every year, a select few disappear never to return. From the Falkland Islands to the Himalayas, Puerto Rico to England - people are vanishing without a trace. After a young man stumbles across an ancient secret, he faces a mystery. But can he find those who need him... and can he escape the Unknown?The Turning: He had started a new life, with his new ...

This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear.To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels impelled to turn up the lights v...

Unthinkable . . . impossible . . . unstoppableSix months ago, Sean had everything. Now she has nothing but her private detective work, one client with a missing husband, and a growing body count.All of the victims live in the same luxurious building as the missing husband. All of them have some connection with Pierce Sangstrom, the megacorp whose systems power every computer in the world. And, according to the medical examiner—who just happens to be Sean's ...

If you love a great horror tale with ancient mummies, a deluded priest and two oddball cops, then you're in for a treat..."Conjuring ancient secrets, and with a body count that is out of this world, Ragman blends history and myth in a gritty procedural that severs bone and sears skin. Outstanding.” - Lee Murray, USA Today Bestselling author and four-time Bram Stoker Award® winner“If ever there was a cautionary tale about no...

From the award-winning author, "the kind of collection that lodges in your brain like a malignant grain of an evil dream" (Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence).Winner of the This Is Horror AwardFinalist for the Shirley Jackson AwardFinalist for the Bram Stoker AwardThis is not your cookie-cutter horror collection. Stephen Graham Jones has taken nightmarish visions from his fevere...