After forging a contract with Berial, the king of Hell, young Illya obtains an incredible education in the art of magic. Her skills grow by leaps and bounds, catching the attention of the royal court and qualifying her for an elite apprenticeship. But court life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Illya quickly grows tired of the manipulative machinations of nobles and the scheming of the high court wizard. Her only choice? To quit! Leaving her post and the entire country, Illya now searches ...

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie, the author of the non-fiction ...

An Aurora Award FinalistSix contestants. One haunted house. And a whole lot of bloody murder.B-grade horror masters the Gowan brothers have devised a new reality TV show with a killer hook. Six contestants compete for the chance to star in an upcoming slasher movie. All they have to do is survive one night in a “haunted” house and be voted Scream Queen.The setting is perfect: a crumbling Victorian mansion with a gruesome history an...

Winner of the prestigious Aurora Award and Silver Birch Award, WOLF PACK is the inspiration for the hit show on Paramount+Nothing gets between a wolf and its pack…Most of the time, Noble, Argus, Harlan and Tora are like any other teenagers. Prowling the halls of their high school in search of new crushes and true friendships, all while trying to keep up their grades. Except these teens are anything but ordinary…Discovered as wolf c...

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE: Mark Dalton isn't sure if he finds trouble or if trouble finds him. But ever since his wife traded him in for a prettier model, and he traded in his Private Eye business for a Peterbilt, it seems to be everywhere he goes. In this collection of loosely interwoven who-dunnits, Edo van Belkom introduces Mark Dalton, Trucker Detective. Whether he’s scooping up pretty hitchhikers with secrets, getting back goods stolen right out from under his nose, making a shady repair sh...

"One can perceive life as trying to make sense of the confusion that is known as experience."It's been three months since the motley crew of aliens started living at Kenaeth Goldwrite's house. They are finally settling in, and peace has come to the household.Except for the appearance of Ken's sister, two new manipulator allies, the return of a couple of enemies, a birthday, a swooning doll, and . . . Santa Claus?The chaos continues in this second book!

An Aurora Award Finalist250 years ago, French Jesuits erected a mission deep in the uncharted Canadian wilderness, where they lived until they were brutally tortured and murdered by a band of Iroquois.Or so the legends say.Today Ste-Claire College stands near the legendary massacre site, the mission's memory now more folklore than fact. Then Ste-Claire professor, Karl Desbiens, a Regent in the Order of Jesus, and his band of students set of...

"I expect it to knock people's socks off, the way Stephen King's Carrie did . . . Teeth will haunt you for the rest of your life" (Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award-winning author of Calculating God).They think they're getting lucky.They're dead wrong.Det. Joe Williams has seen all kinds of murder scenes. Some brutal, some gory, all disturbing and horrific in their way. Nothing could have prepared him for what's waiting in Apa...

Not all vampires are tall, dark, and handsome.Some are short, fat, and ugly.Amanda Peck is stuck in a dead-enbd job, lives with a deadbeat boyfriend, and is dead set on changing her life. With no thought about what tomorrow might bring, she packs up and runs. She hitchhikes west, accepting rides from truckers, but what she know is that prowling the enedless miles of asphalt on eighteen wheels is a vampire who’s already claimed the lives of five women, leaving their...

"Potential without self-control results in disaster."Just when Ken and his tenants think they have caught a break in the action, fate plays odd tricks on them.If a black-and-blue Valentine's Day wasn't enough, and intergalactic pop star crashes at Ken's place, and a young duo come for what's in Silver's mind.And in the midst of everything they think they can handle, a tragic past is revealed . . .And one tenant will leave the household.The chaos goes...

Just as she is settling down to merchant life in Renant, Illya hears news of man-eating monsters plaguing a village isolated by recent disasters. Illya and friends set off to the rescue but are accosted by rampaging carnivorous beasts. Are these the monsters victimizing the village? Or is there an even bigger menace afoot?

Leaving the Royal Court of Egdoalm and all its political intrigues behind, Illya escapes to a nice quiet life in the countryside. Word about her skills spread, and soon enough she gains some renown as a magic item craftswoman. But things don't stay quiet for long. From getting kidnapped along with some elves to being coerced to partner with a sleazy businessman, things sure are far from peaceful. And what's up with the demon Berial? Could it be that he has feelings for Illya?