Bellweather, 1994. Chrissy Trapper is twenty-two, bored out of her mind, and very good at running Video City—when she isn't arguing with inanimate objects, sketching strange handmade dolls, eating Burger Bunker with the clerk next door, or finding new ways to irritate Future Video's self-appointed executive.Then a battered old VHS tape moves when it shouldn't.One of Chrissy's regular customers begins wasting away after repeatedly watching an obscure horror movie called ...

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Dracula is dead. Now his three vampire daughters must inherit the living kingdom he built—and decide whether they can save it without becoming him.For centuries, Drevanor has been more than Dracula's castle. It is a vast, living kingdom—a refuge for humans, monsters, outcasts, and supernatural beings that have nowhere else to go.Now its ruler is dead.And Drevanor is beginning to fail.Ancient defenses falter. Gates obey comma...

A bold new history of the global class warA thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark Steven traces the history of class war from the Haitian Revolution to Black Lives Matter.Surveying the literature of revolution, from the poetry of Shelley and B...

In Wilstrom, monsters have teeth worth killing for.Across a frozen frontier of isolated towns, dangerous roads, strange trades, and supernatural creatures, monster ivory has become a fortune waiting to be cut from the right jaws. Professional hunters have turned the work into an industry. They have specialized weapons, expensive equipment, and a disturbing talent for knowing exactly where the monsters will appear.Jak Bitters wants little to do with any of i...

After a family tragedy rocks Yitzhak's Jewish faith to its core, he undertakes a journey into the desert of Arabia, with his Muslim friend Yusuf, in search of the sacred mountain where God appeared to Moses and the Israelites thousands of years earlier.What starts off as a quest for answers leads the two friends into an encounter that changes both their lives forever.Does God still meet with man face to face?Does God still care about those of us struggling to find an...

The dead have unfinished business, but that does not mean they have good judgment.In The Haunted Car: A Collection of Odd Tales, restless spirits return to settle old arguments, correct inconvenient lies, protect what belongs to them, and offer directions no sensible person should follow. Blending supernatural horror with dry humor, unexpected heart, and ghosts who are far more troublesome than terrifying, these three strange tales prove that death may end a life—but it ra...

Dacker Lloyd has spent forty-three years selling tourists on the legend of the Moon Jackalope: blue and violet rabbits with antlers and a history only he seems to remember. Now his roadside taxidermy shop is being repossessed, and he has one problem bigger than bankruptcy—what to do with a building full of unsold monsters.When a crater opens beside the neighboring Haverty farm, Dacker sees a solution. He dumps his collection, Robert Haverty fills the hole, and everyone gets on with...

Welcome to the first of three incredible volumes of haiku and senryu compiled by Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis from Auroras & Blossoms.Feast your senses on a unique collection that is moving, thought-provoking, inspirational, hauntingly beautiful and deeply insightful.This anthology is a delightful showcase of superbly crafted poetry that is extremely easy to get into but handsomely rewards the reader with each subtle nuance and twist. It is like spending time with love...

AJL 2024 Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards Honorable MentionThe late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the University of Judaism, toiled for years—and up to his final days—to complete this monumental book, which is the definitive demographic history of German Jewry. Lowenstein took the research of Hebrew University demographer Professor Osiel Oscar Schmelz and brought it to life in the daily l...

They say art is an expression. For Steven Revland, art has been his salvation. A recovering drug addict and alcoholic, he has overcome numerous obstacles in his life, including childhood ADHD, dyslexia, and Tourette's syndrome. But what he lacked in formal education, he made up with passion and grit. For nearly fifty years, he has been working as an artist, and he is still designing and creating with the same passion he exhibited at the start of his career. And it is his passion that inspi...

"A fascinating insight into the country's most famous asylum for criminals" which reveals Victorian England's care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree).On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoor's first patients had arrived.In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago...