Monster House

Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in Oak Creek Estate, a wealthy gated community in Dallas, Texas. The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve and Emmanuel, who have long since abandoned the childhood home in which their parents remained all these years. A home that has haunted and hollowed them throughout their lives, in a neighbourhood where they grew up as the only Black family, hoping to survive a place that wanted to claim them, expel them and ruin them all at once.

As paranormal investigator Marcus Mortlake recovers from his latest battle with the supernatural, he finds himself haunted by a face from his past. His former lover calls to him from beyond the veil of sleep. But are these disturbing visions just dreams...or something far more sinister? Meanwhile, Mortlake’s new assistant, Tara Pride, has discovered a paranormal site worthy of investigation. Haslam House has no shortage of restless spirits prowling its dusty halls, communicating with the owner’s young daughter through pictures and drawings.

Nineteen-year-old Myla Lewis is loving life - she’s now a wife, mother, and Queen of the Thrax. Oh yeah, and being a super-powerful demigoddess who moves souls into Heaven or Hell doesn’t suck, either. In fact, everything is pretty much awesome. Until something craptastic happens. Her honorary older brother, Walker, enters the Dark Lands, home to the rule-loving ghouls, and vanishes without a trace. Now, it’s up to Myla to solve the mystery of Walker’s disappearance. Of course, Myla likes interacting with ghouls about as much as elective dental surgery.

John Coal is the town oddball. Old, crotchety, pungent, and solitary, he lives in a house just as run-down as he. The neighborhood kids take great delight in plaguing him morning, noon, and night, but they’ve chosen the wrong old coot to trifle with this time. He knows where the bodies are buried. He’s been to the outer limits. He is the keeper of dark secrets. Murders, monsters, demons, and vampires: He has seen them all and lived to tell the tale.

Years have passed since Myla Lewis last fought gladiator-style in Purgatory's Arena. Now, she’s fighting again, only this time in Hell. And the stakes have never been higher. The demon King of Hell, Armageddon, has kidnapped Myla and Lincoln’s young son, Maxon. Myla knows that a war against Hell will cost millions of lives, so she devises her own plan, involving a small attack team and a secret entrance to Hell. Will Myla save Maxon, or will her child - and all the after-realms - fall to Armageddon?

Myla Lewis has married Prince Lincoln, and now they’re expecting! But she has a serious problem. The day after their honeymoon ended, Myla’s real husband disappeared. The man who’s sharing her bed is an imposter. Myla tries explaining about “Evil Lincoln”, but no one will listen. The reason? People think that Myla’s supernatural pregnancy is making her cray cray. Mostly because that’s what Evil Lincoln is telling everyone, and that man’s a great liar. What a creep. There’s no way Myla will take this lying down, though. She’s going to rescue her man, and she has a pretty good idea where he’s being held.

Crimson, a sultry lamia, has been living at Ms. Ekhinos' boarding house to protest the lesbian monster girls sharing the house. Crimson claims she's straight, even as she is seduced into sapphic passion again and again. Today, her past finally catches up to her. Violet, a cute lamia, has tracked Crimson down. The supposedly straight lamia had a lesbian fling with her best friend and ran away. Crimson believes that sapphic delights are a sin, even as she wants to be with Violet.

No one in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the house – and its last lonely heir – go to rot. Starling House is uncanny and ugly and fully of secrets, just like its heir. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but it might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. It feels dangerously like something she's never had: a home. But Opal isn't the only one interested in the house, or the horrors and wonders that lie beneath it. If Opal wants a home, she'll have to fight for it.

Macy hasn’t stepped foot in her grandparent’s house in fifteen years. She should have never come back. Macy’s Grams is old and about to die. Feeling guilt from her mom and the respect she has for her already deceased grandfather, Macy goes back to a place she vowed never to go again. A pleasant memory of a warm summer day turns dark as Macy starts to realize there was always something very wrong with this part of her life. Her last visit to her grandparents’ house puts her face to face with an ancient evil that never wanted to let her go. Will she escape? Step into the portal and ...

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll, a runaway bride encounters a sea monster, a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time, an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman.

As the High Prince of the demon-fighting thrax, Lincoln knows he must marry for political gain. Not that he minds. For all of his eighteen years, Lincoln’s been bound to his duty. Then the prince glimpses Myla, a part-demon girl, and everything changes. What happens when a woman you’ve never met upends your life completely? Lincoln’s about to find out.

Seventeen-year-old Bryar Rose has a problem. She is descended from one of the three magical races - shifters, fairies, or witches. That makes her one of the Magicorum, and Magicorum always follow a fairy tale life template. In the case of Bryar, that template should be Sleeping Beauty. Trouble is, Bryar is nowhere near the Sleeping Beauty life template. Not even close. She does not like birds or woodland creatures. She cannot sing a note. And she certainly cannot stand Prince Philpot, the so-called His Highness of Hedge Funds that her aunties want her to marry.

Penny Hope used to be brave, but that was before she met the Fear Maker. Years later, he still haunts her nightmares―a tall, thin man with red eyes, in a haunted house in the woods, who devours human souls and leaves their eyes hollow and empty. Penny’s beloved grandma tells her to write down these nightmares as poems in her notebook. But then Penny starts seeing blank-eyed people in the waking world, too. She’s the only one who notices.

Love Myla Lewis? Don’t miss Angelbound Tales Volume One, a collection of five bonus stories from Myla’s world, including: Walker’s Love Connection, where Myla uncovers a secret about her honorary older brother; Sharkie and Snickerdoodles, in which our heroine faces down an uber-evil ghoul in order to get her hands on (what else?) some damned fine cookies, and more!

Early in August 1937, a news flash came: A sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island. Historically, the Massachusetts island had served as port for whaling ships. Eyewitnesses swore this wasn’t a whale, but some new, fearsome creature. As eyewitness account piled up, newspaper stories of the sea monster spread quickly. Across the nation, people shivered in fear.

Charles Manson, Issei Sagawa und Dorothea Puente sind kaltblütige Massenmörder. Aus ihren Taten machen sie ein Mordsgeschäft. Als "Ikonen des Horrors" verkaufen sie Fanartikel, laden zu kostspieligen Rede-Shows oder versteigern Marathon-Sex. Micael Dahlén, schwedischer Wirtschaftsprofessor mit Kultstatus, hat sich in den Bannkreis der "Monster" begeben und fünf von ihnen hautnah erlebt.

Sie haben Menschen vergiftet, erschossen oder mit ihren eigenen Händen umgebracht. Sie haben ihre Opfer zerstückelt, vergraben oder verspeist. Charles Manson, Issei Sagawa, Dorothea Puente sind kaltblütige Massenmörder. Aus ihren Taten machen sie noch dazu ein Mordsgeschäft. Als "Ikonen des Horrors" verkaufen sie Fanartikel, laden zu kostspieligen Rede-Shows oder versteigern Marathon-Sex.

"Buicks gibt es überall..." Eines Morgens taucht an einer Tankstelle ein alter Buick auf. Der geheimnisvolle Fahrer verschwindet, und schließlich zeigt sich, dass der Straßenkreuzer genauso wenig ein Buick ist, wie der schwarzgekleidete Fahrer ein Mensch. Der Wagen entwickelt ein ungewöhnliches Eigenleben.

WARNING: This audiobook will haunt your thoughts long after the final word fades! Dive into "The Neighbors Upstairs" - a chilling tale that will shatter your perception of reality! Join Jaxon Parker as he unravels the sinister mysteries lurking in his dilapidated apartment building. With EVERY CREAK AND WHISPER, you’ll be pulled deeper into a nightmare where the past screams to be heard. Feel the pulse of fear as you uncover the DARK SECRETS of 4B, where shadows dance and the walls bleed memories of TERROR!

This undead collection contains Peter Green and the Unliving Academy, Peter Green and the Skeleton Crew, and Peter Green and the Desert Disaster, starring fourteen-year-old Peter Green.