The true untold tale of comicon legend Jessica Nigri. The truth they don't want you to know!

A collection of bizarre and hilarious true tales from the author's childhood growing up in the heart of the Deep South. It's worse than Deliverance.

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically comple...

I wasn't always a killer. I saw life just as easily as the next gullible, naive kid looking at a rainbow with hope-filled eyes. I was just another average guy, living just another average life. I did what was right, and never understood why anyone would choose to do differently.Then my fiancé was kidnapped and murdered.I quickly saw life without blindfolds. The kid inside me that still clung to dreams had to run and hide as there was no place for him anymore. Not with what I ...

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.But this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought and bravely died for their countryThe Forgotten Soldier tells the story of Private Edward Connelly, aged 19, killed in the First World War a week before the Armistice and immediatel...

A girl has disappeared...but did she go of her own accord?In a small town in turn-of-the-century Colorado, a young woman has disappeared from the boarding-house where she lives. Her distraught fiancé is certain that she must have been kidnapped. But the case takes a new turn when a city detective appears on the scene, looking for a woman who matches the description of the missing girl. Was Charity really kidnapped, or did she have a reason to flee? Mrs. Meade, a ge...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cirque Du Freak comes a chilling new series about one teen’s terrifying journey to the depths of darkness.Grubbs Grady has stiff red hair and is a little big for his age, which means he can get into R-rated movies. He hates history and loves bacon, rats, and playing tricks on his squeamish older sister. And he’s about to learn three mind-blowing things:The world is vicious.Magic is possible....

New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini is the latest in a long line of bearers of the Witchblade, a mysterious artifact that takes the form of a deadly and powerful mystical gauntlet. Bound by destiny, the Witchblade chooses one woman in a generation, who must stand between the forces of Light and Dark and preserve The Balance. Now Sara must try to control the Witchblade and uncover its secrets, even as she investigates the citys strangest, most supernatural crimes.

The Haunted Hotel (1878) is one of Wilkie Collins's late exercises in the sensation novel, blending Gothic atmosphere, domestic mystery, and psychological unease. Set between fashionable London society and the ominous spaces of a Venetian palazzo, the narrative turns on marriage, inheritance, concealment, and the troubling persistence of guilt. Collins writes with characteristic economy and theatrical suspense, transforming supernatural suggestion into a study of moral disturbance and soci...

Nine Women. Nine Stories. And nothing ordinary about them.From the slightly askew mind of Regan Wolfrom comes this collection of hilariously dark tales of love, death, and horrible timing.Heather SmythePretty. Shy. About as lapsed as a Catholic can get.Heather's trapped in the a cult of killer succubi with a taste for East Hollywood douches.("High Times at the Sixth Annual Succubus Sisters Garage and Bake Sale...

After his wife's death, clockmaker Alan Cartwright focuses all his energy on his work and his eight-year-old son, Brenton. Father and son bond by building a lifelike automaton, designed to resemble Brenton in looks and talent: The boy is an extraordinary artist. Before the automaton is finished, Brenton is run over and killed by a carriage driven by Sir William Tyndale, a decorated soldier and knight who lost his own wife and son during service in India. The accident leads to strange occur...

Ryan Richmond has dreamed about going to space since the age of seven. Reading space updates—and seeing pictures of Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface in National Geographic—was the ignition of this dream.At nineteen he sold his first company and employed the remnants of the Russian Space Program, three of the best space brains in the world.In his twenties he founded and sold two more companies and hired the most outstanding scientists and engineers from the European Space...