'It is almost impossible to put down' - Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN'A stonking great slice of American folk horror: modern trauma layered with ancient evil' - DAILY MAILThe ranch was our dream home. Nestled in the arms of a valley below the Teton mountains, acres upon acres of wilderness, our nearest neighbours over a mile away . . .Beautiful, serene - isolated.Perfect. Until, naturally, the only neighbours for m...

An instant classic horror novel.Harry and Sasha found their dream, a beautiful small ranch in an unspoilt valley nestling beneath the Teton Mountains in Wyoming.It's perfect.Except for the neighbours, an apparently cute old couple, who have some truly crazed ideas about a timeless spirit which asserts its power over the valley in different terrifying ways, with the coming of each different season.The only thing for Harry and Sasha to do, obv...

Turn the avalanche of raw data from Azure Data Explorer, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Sentinel, and other Microsoft data platforms into actionable intelligence with KQL (Kusto Query Language). Experts in information security and analysis guide you through what it takes to automate your approach to risk assessment and remediation, speeding up detection time while reducing manual work using KQL. This accessible and practical guide—designed for a broad range of people with varying experience in K...

Do you use SQL at work or at home and want to learn how to use the right functions and queries to extract the relevant details in the database? Do you want to learn how to generate the right views and more? If you answered yes, then you are in the right place.Many companies collect information from different sources and use that information to improve their revenue. It is difficult to work with large volumes of data, but companies have to learn how to collect that ...

Many companies worldwide suffer from one fundamental problem, and that is the inefficient functioning of their databases. While many know of database tuning and work to cover that aspect, professional database developers, managers, and administrators always miss one thing: optimizing their queries to save maximum time and cost and provide the query efficiently. Those who are aware of query optimization often lack the skillset and resources to implement this process at an a...

Book 1 :Are you thinking about learning SQL, but not sure where to start?Big data is prevalent now, with more data than we ever dreamed possible being made available . And all that data needs to be stored in such a way it can be easily accessed.That's where databases and SQL come in, providing the means to manage and interpret data easily. SQL is the go-to language for database management, the most reliable and widely used, and it's...

Witness his descent into madness when writer James Walek, suffering from a failing marriage and a stalled writing career, gets pushed over the edge by one too many of those insulting "Dear Author" rejection letters from publishers.

Witness his descent into madness when writer James Walek, suffering from a failing marriage and a stalled writing career, gets pushed over the edge by one too many of those insulting "Dear Author" rejection letters from publishers.