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Tragedy strikes Harry's family leaving him with nothing but sorrow, grief, and a mysterious box whose contents leave him shaken to the core. Everything he thought he knew about his father teetered on the edge of lies. Despite this, he decides to carry out his late father's final wishes: to meet up with some of his old friends whose fathers had been best friends with his own - for a traditional camping trip their fathers had taken annually in years passed. But what they find up there in the Appalachian Mountains, and the mysterious circumstances that sent them there, reveal that their fathers had kept a terrible, deadly secret. And now that burden is theirs, and they must pay the price.

After the loss of her baby and subsequent divorce, Edgar Allen Poe scholar Marissa Owens leaves her tenured job as an English professor for a fresh start at her alma mater, Blackthorn University. As she begins to feel like herself again, one of her favorite students goes missing. Then, the police find the body. The investigation descends upon the campus, and familiar clues begin to surface. This triggers a disturbing memory from Marissa's own dark past at Blackthorn-one she has attempted to keep buried.

Desperate for money to keep the bank from taking his land, disgraced former marshall EliCooke accepts a bounty from his old partner to bring in a charismatic train robber. What shouldhave been a simple job turns into a deadly race against time as he finds himself pitted against agroup of rival bandits and murderous strangers from his bounties past looking for revenge. As they all collide for what looks to be a deadly showdown, their confrontation is interruptedwhen they are ambushed by an ancient creature from beyond their wildest nightmares.Suddenly, the survivors are forced to put their differences aside and form an uneasy alliance totake down the beast. Desperately, they hatch a plan that thrusts them into a deadly showdownwhile also worrying about who they've been forced to trust and what will happen if any of themsurvive the night.

A demon runs a bed and breakfast in southwest Virginia where sin never needs a reservation. A guilt-ridden retiree, two little boys, and a pair of meth making cousins will challenge America's most wanted black widow, a haunted southern town, and the Devil himself. The quest for salvation will lead to the darkest parts of themselves as well as the beating black heart of Summit Valley, Virginia. The Maple Lodge, a B&B where the turn down service is to die for.

Single mother, Victoria Hamilton struggles to make ends meet while she raises Rikki, her five-year-old daughter. A production assistant for a local New York City-based religious cable program called MIRACLES, Tori meets the handsome, well-known, and powerful Reverend Joshua Winters who is appearing on the show. There's an instant attraction, and soon Tori is deeply involved in a sexual and emotional relationship with the older charismatic preacher. And when Joshua admits he has fallen in love with her, she is elated, for she has fallen in love with him as well. Within weeks they are married, and Joshua whisks Tori and Rikki away to his home in the secluded town of Northport, Maine. Though Tori misses the city, she believes her and her daughter's futures are about to change for the better. But Joshua's need for control soon surfaces making Tori question her love for the man. And when whispers of Joshua's first wife and dead daughter come to light, Tori must face the truth about her husband's lies. But the darkest secrets are yet to come, forcing Tori to fight for her life and the life of her daughter.

Pittsburgh crime reporter, Steve James, returns home to find a mysterious package waiting outside his apartment door. At first, Steve fears the package could contain a deadly threat from a local mob boss pressuring him to retract his story, which helped put him behind bars. Instead, Steve finds a junior driver's license belonging to Rebecca Ann Turner, a teenager who went missing from a party twenty-five years ago, and a USB flash drive containing a video of her murder. Horrified by the contents inside the package, Steve is determined to find out what happened to Rebecca and why someone dragged him into uncovering this mystery. But as Steve sifts through the clues and weaves his way around those trying to prevent him from exposing the truth, he continues to struggle with personal issues stemming from his time as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, where he was filmed being tortured and nearly executed by the Taliban, making what happened to Rebecca all the more personal.

Every year a new group is chosen. Every year there must be a sacrifice. A laughing, drunken god picks three middle school children for his deadly ritual. Two may live as long as they pick one in their group to be given to the dead. Sam an angry child who feels abandoned, along with his best friend Benjamin who fears Sam more than anything else, meet Maggie who is no stranger to death. Sam sees an opportunity in the horror to get back at those who have wronged him, he grows cruel and violent. Someone must be picked. Whether it is through bargaining, treachery, or bloodshed. One must go.

As the son of a pastor, Matthew McKay has lived a sheltered life. He has little exposure to anything beyond the Boston mega-church where his father works and the local Christian school he attends. However, when his family decides to start a new church in Melbrook, Massachusetts, his entire life is turned upside down. He will now have to deal with small town living and the chaos of public education, yet none of that compares to his biggest challenge: there is something evil in his new home. Nightmares, ghostly visions and strange noises become a regular part of his life. But his parents refuse to accept that there is something dangerous among them, clinging instead to their strict religious teachings. So, Matthew is forced to seek answers on his own with the help of a Wiccan girl who becomes his new best friend--his secret best friend. Together, they will hunt down the truth until Matthew and his family are finally forced to come face-to-face with an evil that has been lurking for over three hundred years, an evil that will lead them into a disturbing crisis-of-faith.

Deals made with demons are not easily broken. Arthur Burris spends his birthday celebrating with his friends, unaware that a century of safety is coming to an end. For an ancient deal is resurfacing and a Hunter smells blood. Soon Arthur finds himself fighting for more than just his life, aided only by mysterious American Nancy Mullins, Raphael, the angelic voice in her head and the notorious "Playing Card Killer". Together they must evade that which hunts them, as well as Theodore Green, head of a murderous cult, and find a way to break an ancient deal. But will everyone still be standing when the dust settles?

After a series of grave robberies in the 1920's goes unsolved until reporter Michael Jacobs follows a new thread. He gets too close to the truth and becomes part of the story he is looking to write. At the same time, wealthy businessman Edmund Creighton organizes a group of equally wealthy families and individuals in the Chicago area to finance illegal experiments in the basement of his mansion. These experiments require the presence of recently dead bodies. By the time these dark secrets are uncovered, it may be too late for the truth to make any difference.

In a post-nuclear Eastern Europe, Hammel E Varka departs for a remote island to join a survey team cataloguing the abandoned Gollitok prison in the hopes that he will redeem his family's tarnished reputation. After the passage across the strait leaves a team member injured, Varka quickly realizes that this survey is far from routine and that what he thought he knew about the island was a cover for more horrifying truths. As his team presses deeper into the decaying facility, hidden agendas splinter the team, and they find themselves beset with dangers beyond their worst nightmares.

Beneath the black waters of the Louisiana bayou hides a world of dark mysticism. A world steeped in superstition and the decay of family legacies. A world Rhiannon LeBeau thought she'd left behind fifteen years ago after a summer of tragedy and horror. But following the death of their mother, Rhiannon LeBeau and her younger brother Rhett find themselves drawn back to their crumbling ancestral home deep in the sugarcane farms of Terrebonne Parish. A place full of family secrets and lost memories that will force both siblings to come face to face with the demons of their past...and present. Because something has been waiting for their return. Something with a long memory and a debt to collect. Something tied to the bayou in blood. Something that intends to make sure Rhiannon and Rhett never leave again.

Despite his city being torn apart by riots and unrest, the St. Louis mayor has decreed that the beloved Fourth of July festival WILL go on as planned. This leaves public safety manager Logan Field at his wits' end. How can he protect the city's residents and his own job, especially in the light of a deadly attack in Chicago, a vanished local boy, and a series of disturbing occurrences that are drawing closer and closer together? City-wide panic brews - something is horribly wrong. Desperate for help, Logan turns to a struggling hunter and they link up with a professor who believes he just might know the cause of the incidents: an ancient evil, dormant for centuries, now awakened. There is no time to waste as the trio races to find to confirm their fear and discover how to face it down - because an entire city and its millions of lives hangs in the balance.

Daniel Patrick has a history of setting things on fire. Among the residents of the small town ofFerdinand, his dangerous obsession has even earned him a nickname - Firebug. It isn't until astrange, winter wind blows into Ferdinand that perhaps Daniel's impulse to set fires comes inhandy. Because on the back of that wind, rides a mysterious and deadly creature that onlyDaniel can understand - and stop.

Tucked away in the foothills, surrounded by pine forests, loaded with kids who still play outside, Millwood is the small town everyone knows. The local deputies grapple with petty vandalism and local drunks. The local teachers know the name of every kid in town. For Heather Bradley, it's a place that keeps her family safe and their lives in order; her biggest worries are the daily grind of her job and the kids coming home late. She doesn't know that unfathomable forces are set to converge on her town and thrust their neat lives into darkness, but when her oldest son Stuart opens a one-sided door in the woods and a black cloud pours out, the Bradleys and their whole town find themselves locked in a desperate struggle for survival. As the chaos grows and the nature of the real threat emerges, the only question becomes whether or not come morning the town will exist at all.

"It was a suffering like no other. And, oh, how they suffered."Recreating the séance that led to the infamous Victorian Suffering massacre seems like a good idea at the time. But Kyle Birbeck soon discovers that the ghosts his distant ancestor banished into the walls of Brackenby House in 1876 have been lurking, waiting for a chance to come out. One by one the 5 terrifying ghosts latch onto each of the students who reside at Brackenby, preying on their deepest fears: A 3-eyed Incan giant. A member of the Hellfire Club who struck a deal with the devil to keep his fortune in the afterlife. A thieving factory hand who fell to his death, torturing them with endless footsteps. An oracle with a horde of dead sailors to do her bidding, and a 17th century axe-wielding executioner with a murderous hobby. It's up to Kyle and his friends to uncover the real secrets of the séance and banish the ghosts for good. But they soon come to realise it isn't Brackenby House that's haunted. They are. And the ghosts will stop at nothing to continue The Suffering...

Bored in the middle of another summer vacation, Anna, her brother Chuck, and their friendsJohn, Merrie and Marcus plan to meet in the woods at midnight every Saturday to tell scarystories. They call their group The Nightmare Club and they get together to see who tells thescariest stories throughout summer and into the fall when they head back to school. The groupbecomes inseparable, looking forward to the meetings every week as they try to outdo eachother. But, their late-night fun turns to terror when they learn an other-worldy being-known to>Mr. Nightmare continues to taunt and torment the group until they decide to fight back againsttheir tormentor. The more The Nightmare Club fights back however, the more dangerous Mr.Nightmare becomes.

When Sadie Roth takes a part time job teaching creative writing at King's Hill, the local prison, she finds herself in close contact with Edward Joseph Mills, a local boogeyman and convicted serial killer. As Mills uses the course as a vehicle to finally tell his story, Sadie finds herself drawn into a strange world of money, violence, sex, and magic. Interweaving Mills' hard-boiled narrative of occult murder with Sadie's all-too-human story of marriage, friendship, and disability, King's Hill asks what we owe to the truth, and what we'd be willing to sacrifice in the face of both human and supernatural horror.

"Ten years after her first encounter with Mr. Nightmare, Anna is home from college. Living at home again brings up painful memories of the past. To help with those difficult reminders, Anna turns to her friends-the remaining members of The Nightmare Club. While things aren't what they used to be, it is good to have friends around. But Anna and the others begin to see signs that make them realize the past is not just a memory. Mr. Nightmare is back and is ready to get revenge on the group that banished him from their world ten years prior. And this time he's not alone. Older now, Anna and her friends must take on Mr. Nightmare a second time. Unlike before, this clash takes place where Mr. Nightmare has even more power. This time, they must defeat Mr. Nightmare inside The Nightmare Realm."--Provided by publisher.