Covering its historic development, important individuals, and central ideas and issues, this encyclopedia offers broad historical coverage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia helps readers explore a church that has gone from being an object of ridicule and sometimes violent persecution to a worldwide religion, counting prominent businesspeople and political leaders among its members (including former Mass...

Unusual Vampire activity drives Dave Reilly, a long time enemy of the undead, to call his friend Dimitri Milton, a legendary Vampire hunter, and his young sister LaCai to his northern New Mexico home. Once there, they discover that the strange Vampire behavior may be the precursor to a Vampire war on humanity that will begin very soon. With help from Dave's brother Matt, a Methodist minister, Maria Brown, a woman whose history with the undead goes back over sixty years, Maria's great grand...

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literature. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis's field-defining scholarship. A wealth of expert essays refract the nuances of theory through the medium of authoritative Latin and vernacular medieval texts, providing fresh interpretative treatment to know...

Andy Simon wakes up in excruciating pain, a pain for which there is no explaination. He then hears sirens from vehicles that aren't there. Then his wife kisses him gooodbye and begs him not to die on her, though she doesn't even seem to notice her own strange words. His day only gets weirder from there. Why does the pain persist? Why does his coffee taste like blood? Why is he the only one who seems to notice the torrential rainstorm he's driving in? And what does that car accident he keep...

Working fast food is hell, literally, for Justin. He finds himself stuck at work, reliving the same hour over and over again and there is no escape.

My name is Peter. My story begins like so many others I have heard. Living all of my life in the Kingdom of Morningstar, I never thought that anything was wrong. I knew that it was always dark, always night, and that I was always sad. I didn't like it, but I could never change it. All my life I had heard the rumors about Dawn, but Dawn was a myth. If Morningstar heard of anybody propagating that myth, they would be killed. But when that old man dragged me into that ally outside of my favor...

In the near future, government mandated genetic testing is performed on all unborn babies. Matthew and Kristine Smith are both staunchly pro-life, but the results of the tests on their first child may change their minds. Would sacrificing this one child save the lives of millions?

King Orvan of Dargod has been cursed with insanity, passing all sorts of crazy laws and taking advice only from his dog. But when he calls for his oldest friend, a former general and military instructor, and his three best warriors to go on a mission to find a magic orange rose petal, they soon find out that this mission is not only legit, but is vital to the survival of their kingdom. On their way they encounter obstacles such as an insane wizard, drunken oafs and their hideous mother, zo...

Just a fun, quick, scary short story about a monster under a little girl's bed. But is the thing under the bed really the monster? Angela's husband Ben left her in the middle of the night, leaving her and her six year old daughter alone. Two weeks later, Janie is having nightmare's about a monster in her room. Her mother goes to investigate...

Do I really believe that Zombies stormed Noah's Ark? Not anymore than I really believe in Vampires, Monsters under beds, talking birds, or sadistic giant princesses. I do, however believe in evil, and even in my fiction, no matter how fantastic it may be, I will attempt to portray evil accurately.""Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth" Ge...

A year before the events in Akeldama: The Field of Blood a Halloween party turns deadly. Three bodies are found with wounds to the neck and most of their blood is gone. Sgt. Hector Ruiz, a veteran officer of the Hidden Valley police force discovers the murders. His old friend Dave Reilly has a theory. Ruiz saved Dave's life twenty years earlier and Dave insists that what was really after him was Vampires. While Ruiz tries to piece together the bizarre crime scene, Dave goes out to find the...

Can Cynthia save her beloved Grandpa Bill for the horrible happenings at the Vista Bonita Retirement Home? A quick read that will haunt you for days (at least minutes).