While Holocaust education is a staple of American schooling, it is rarely studied as a product of the political machine. We often focus on what happens in the classroom, yet the path to those lessons begins years earlier in state legislatures and governors' offices.This essential volume explores the development of Holocaust education in America from the early 1980s to the present. By shifting the focus from pedagogy to politics, this anthology analyzes the rise of two crucial state...

Gillian Bellaver's family is one of the wealthiest in the world. Robin Sandza's father Peter is a government assassin. The two teenagers seem to have nothing in common. Yet they are spiritual twins, possessing a horrifying psychic energy that threatens humanity. While dangerous and fanatical men vie for the secrets of their awesome power, Peter Sandza, using all the ruthless skills of his trade, makes a final desperate effort to save them. Exploring with extraordinary skill the myths and l...

Like the hot seat fits a killer, that's how the frame fitted the kid. Then they found him hanged and knew it for murder. Which made a desperate assignment for Detective Sergeant Randall -- who had to find out if he himself were the murderer! He backtracked down his own trail with vengeful Stella -- with lovely Karis of the hot eyes -- with Roxy, the hood, who lived by lust. But what waited Randall at the murder's end? An honest cop, or -- the corpse next door?

(Originally published as Elvisland)No Sin Unpunished is the second collection from the master of contemporary psychological horror, John Farris. The collection includes two new, never-before-published stories.Stories included in this collection:"Waiting for Mr. Gillray""The Odor of Violets""No Sin Unpunished" (previously titled "horrorshow")"Talking Heads""I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream""Hairshirt""Good Mo...

"Embodies the original series' unique vision of challenging its audience's assumptions about reality without sacrificing high-quality entertainment." — BooklistWhen it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from the censors' strict oversight due to the show's classification as science fiction, the 156 episodes explored classic, powerful, and moving human themes—love, hate, pri...

It happened quickly. Overnight, the greater Los Angeles area found itself in the horrifying grip of a werewolf epidemic. Twenty-eight days of the month, those who change are no different from those who have managed to stay uninfected—the normals, the High Bloods. But every full moon, they become the most ravenous creatures mankind has ever seen.A new law-enforcement agency keeps tabs on those whose blood runs Lycan. Rawson is a agent for Lycan Control, making sure all the afflicted...

Anne Ramsdell dreamed of soft rain and stately elms.Reality was a psychopathic maniac who mauled her, battered her, hurled her through a plate-glass window — and now stalks her wherever she goes.She cannot remember his face — she cannot forget her terror.

To the outward eye the billionaire Trevellian family appears to be the paradigm of culture and class. But when hot young artist Sharan Norbeth is taken under their wing, she discovers that family loyalties have become horribly twisted, and hidden evil festers below the surface. Sharan must pry apart the mystery hidden in the family's innermost core—and fast, if she doesn't want to disappear into a traceless oblivion.

Shay Waco is a stuntwoman on her way home with her eleven-year-old daughter when a semi sends her car over an embankment. The two must jump nearly sixty feet, and crash through a nest of conifers, in order to escape. Bruised and bleeding, Shay walks with the girl until they discover a lone house. Planning to call for help, they break in, only to find a family sitting around a dinner table with bullets in their foreheads. As Shay fights to free herself from the web of money and drugs she's ...

Jubilation County, Georgia, Ten Years Ago:Chase Emrick was fourteen when her mother married Crow Tillman. Maybe it was his creepy name, or his sinister good looks; maybe it was the glass eye with the bolt of lightning for a pupil that he kept covered with a black eye patch, or maybe it was the rattlesnake tattoo that curled around his left wrist onto his hand, but for some reason, Chase never trusted Crow. Then one terrifying night of horror proved what Chase had felt all along . ....

SHATTERA novel that joins two generations in fear.SHATTERThe story of a murderer's son who returns to the scene of his father's crime only to tall in love with the daughter of his father's victim.SHATTERAn epic of love and terror that combines the darkest passions of all...

Whitman Bowers has come to survey what was once the Langford estate, but is quickly drawn into the web of fear that surrounds the mountain. His old Army buddy Arn seems insane; claiming that the gloomy, thickly forested slopes of Wildwood conceal twisted creatures more beast than man -- until he displays the trophies that prove it. Arn's beautiful Indian wife Faren worships a snake god from before the coming of the white man, a god she sees returning to cleanse Wildwood of the white man's ...