Angels Horror

Caught within the horror that has become his life, Lucius Benedict waits patiently for his savior to come, preferably an angel who can ease his heart and release him from his cursed existence. When the sudden appearance of a russet-haired beauty postpones his execution, Lucius can not quite believe his luck. However, he will not waste his freedom and makes plans to prove his estranged wife died by the hand of another.

Fallen from grace, cast out of heaven, or grim reapers in their own right, these characters all share two things in common: darkness and wings. Read these five enticing stories by the following authors: Hui Lang, Layne Calry, AJ Claymore, and A.M. Cummins.

In 1997 an angel fell to Earth. Dave Peters, and his sidekick in the San Francisco police squad, Danny, were right there at the time. Caught up in a supernatural war between good and evil, they had eventually tracked down the rogue entity and brought an end to its reign of deadly fire. But now the stakes had risen. It's 2002, and there's a demon abroad in London, a soul so corrupt and foul that Satan himself has recruited him from the legions of the dead. Only one entity in Heaven can counter his power - an Archangel, an angel of the highest rank.

We first met the pathetic alcoholic womanizer Lawrence Garnier, in the exciting novel, The Rogue Prophet. There, in the restroom of the Church of Advancing Light, he recalled the horrific events that cost him everything that meant anything to him as he rose from obscurity to national fame. The Prophet Garnier blames all of his woes on his true, yet flawed, God-given gift of foresight. If only he could've seen his own future, maybe he could've avoided all of the loss he suffered, as well as the misguidance of the evil Bishop Barnes. When he finally exited that church restroom, he stepped out...

Born from sin and created to feed... For millions of years, I’ve been the first of my kind: a demon, a succubus. Born to serve the Shadow Realm. My prey is the human male, who relishes in causing chaos, pain, despair, and other delicious sins. Through the pleasures of grunts and loins, I consume their lives, then their souls. My reward? Eternal youth, beauty... and my very existence. I was powerful. Infallible. My master had just allowed me to lead a legion of shadow beings. But that was until I met Michael Blake. When our hands touched, I knew he was something other than human. When I ...

Vigilante Spirit, now is an angel married to Lucien, a hot angel unattainable when he was just an echo spirit. They are stalked by killer clones. His only friend is Clyde a ghost who made it to heaven but is miserable. To be with the mortal woman he loves, he risks everything to return. "Dumbass" dog gets a new name after destroying two would be killers but another name he hates. Angels compete constantly with evil trying to keep their human charges from being destroyed.

Possession of people by immortals isn't new. What happens when angels or demons possess ever evolving robots? When it happens look out! And when unethical scientists get into cloning people, is the original safe?

My name is Serena Rogers. After escaping from a juvenile detention center, all I wanted was to get as far away from home as I could and never look back. Everything changed when I uncovered the dark secret that's been haunting my family since before I was born. I am not who I thought I was.

Life in Clearwater was quiet, even a little dull for Grim, but it was better than the time he'd spent on the streets of Seattle. Then the strange girl arrived, abandoned at a roadside diner. Drugged, sick, with no memory of her past. Grim had a bad feeling about her from the beginning but he didn't say anything when his foster mother, Clara, took her in. If anyone needed a home, it was this strange, sad girl - Clara's new Angel...

A 15-year-old deaf orphan, Maria has telepathic dreams that reveal a powerful religious leader committing demonic crimes. Her clairvoyance leads her on a careening course as those she views in her dreams discover that she’s watching them - and they know who she is.

Thomas has reigned as Lord of Death for nearly 2,000 years and his sanity is slowly leaching away. Will he be forced to use the Choice to find a successor? Or will he lose his sanity before finding a way to escape eternity as Lord Death?

Five years after the Wallis family put an end to the curse, destroying the creature that had plagued Campbelltown for generations, the townsfolk have adapted to a quieter way of life. Despite the perceived safety, most residents are still wary of venturing into the woods that had been the scene of so much bloodshed in the past. When a developer sets their sights on this area of unused land, it triggers a blood-soaked chain of events, and the Wallis family soon realizes that the creature had merely been dormant.

A talented art student living in Paris attempts to ease his loneliness by creating the perfect woman, in marble. When his creation begins to whisper to him at night, he finds her a seductive muse who leads him down a path from which he cannot return.

These stories portray characters who believe themselves to be the heroes. In reality, they are sick, twisted villains with their own agendas. Delve deep into the six tragic tales provided to you by the following talented authors: Joann M. Shevock, Angel Blackwood, Layne Calry, Diane Drake, and A.R. Wilson.

In a world of banned magic, these witches are forced to contend with authority and their conscience while trying to go about their daily lives. Can they survive until the ban is lifted or will they live their lives as rebels? Read as thirteen characters by fourteen authors decide their fates. Stories by: Meg Boepple, Angel Blackwood, Jim Postlethwaite, Melissa Robitille, Layne Calry, Laurie Bis, Victoria Harrison, Diane Drake, LiAnne Kay, J.E. Feldman, Joann M. Shevock, Nicole Cunniff, and Strivion Jacobs.

Duty is a double-edged sword. It means putting yourself last, ripping you away from everyone you love while you complete an unreasonable quest just to keep them safe. Tom Ryan left York. He left everything he loves to safeguard the last angel descendants. Now he's back, still damned, still persecuted. Prophecy says York will burn, and everyone left who matters to Tom is in York. With no time to catch up and reconnect, Tom is thrust into a battle he's destined to lose.

When virgin warrior Braga learns from a cross-cult sorcerer that Fate has chosen her to steal the sword of a rogue angel, she lights out on a dangerous quest from mystical Hag Mountain to other worlds, and even into the bowels of hell. With her soul in the balance, she and the mist-walking sorcerer encounter all manner of damned souls, demons, the living dead, and noble fighters.

The Devil might be the greatest liar of all time...but which lies are his? A man named Jesus wanders the earth, from the U.S.A. to Egypt, from the Middle East to South America, desperate to discover who he really is. The archangels would see Jesus dead for his name alone, but he's only mortal...isn't he? In a life defined by the insanity of the world around him, the man named Jesus has only one friend...that friend has many faces, but only one true name - Abbadon. Armageddon approaches, and not all revelations are welcome.

Patricia Highsmith was one of the great 20th-century novelists, celebrated for classics The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train, but she was also a masterful and prolific short-story writer. This definitive new collection, featuring two stories that have never been published before, confirms Highsmith as a genius of the genre. Peerlessly disturbing, exhilarating and savagely funny, Highsmith's stories still have the power to startle, presenting a world that is frighteningly familiar and as relevant today as when they were written.

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