Occult Anthology

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the core of the Earth's crust. Our faces, banished from the warmth of the sun, and left to the darkness and the cold stone. Visit a world where Vampires, Witches, Elementals, Demons and Humans once ruled the land. In the fifth part, Gerwulf faces the Vampire Grythe and Alex learns of his Destiny.

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the Earth's crust. Our faces, banished from the warmth of the sun, and left to the darkness and the cold stone. Our tale has been told so many times by so many different people. Yet, no one heeds the warnings, and the message of the tale is lost from generation to generation. The time is coming again, oh so very soon it will be upon us. Darkness will fall upon the Earth, and one of the five races will reign supreme.

"Cancellation" - A young woman discovers there's a penalty for having excessive non-payments to her credit card company.

From time to time when I take a break from researching and writing my thrillers, I write short stories such as the ones collected for the first time in this new anthology, Trust and Other Nightmares. Each of these stories has its germination in nights when my sleep was suddenly savaged by ethereal visions and sounds sufficiently disturbing to wrench me from tangled, sweat-drenched sheets.

Magpie’s Ladder comprises five stories that came to me while working on my visual art. My preferred drawing technique is stippling in ink, creating images with countless dots using a mechanical pen or brush. During those long hours, my imagination would wander, introducing strange characters and settings. The elements began to cohere into stories. Writing them down became a new path for expression and for approaching the worlds that I enjoy creating.

This book contains 10 short stories from the deepest depths of the psyche. Are you brave enough to read these tales of chilling terror? If so draw the bed covers close, light the bedside lamp, and prepare for a rare treat of an audiobook.

Madman Jack had murdered 14 women in numerous ways seven years before in a small Indiana farm town. He was what doctors called a missionary killer. He believed all women were evil, and he believed it was his God-given duty to kill them. Tonight, October 30, 2008, Jack would escape his maximum-security prison cell and travel back to the same small town and steal more souls to regain his powers.

West Central Scotland - 1989. Hard-headed Glaswegian Ray Conrad lands himself a week's suspension from his job as a tyre fitter for brawling with a co-worker. Deciding to use the opportunity to disappear for a few days with his tent to a familiar camping area in the secluded village of Bakerage, he is completely bewildered to discover that the entire place has vanished! This is when he finds himself entering the barren desolation of Gilliemoor.

Two short horror stories, "Ezekiel Sykes: A Journal of a Daemon" and "Don't Drink Alone", compiled together. "Ezekiel Sykes: Journal of a Daemon" is a tale of a man who comes into possession of a journal, purportedly written by a demonic agent. Fact or fiction, Caleb, the new owner, becomes obsessed with the book. "Don't Drink Alone", is a story of a selfish, alcoholic, in-denial murderess who hasn't paid for her crimes...y et.

Quattro racconti di Nathaniel Hawthorne, caratterizzati dall'essere ai confini della realtà. "Il gran carbonchio", una caccia da una preziosissima pietra, ambientata nel far West; "La statuetta di neve", in cui si mettono in guardia coloro che vogliono far del bene a tutti i costi; "La figura di prua", in cui lo spirito dell'arte passa come una folata angelica, o diabolica, a scelta del lettore; e "La vergine dei veleni", in cui si ribadisce che l'essere amati è da preferire all'essere temuti.

Days have passed since Carol Long met her end at the Verde Valley Weight Loss Clinic. Now as her sister Tammy fights for her life, a new series of wicked events torture her soul as perfection continues to slip from her reach.

Sergeant Jacob Knox leads the Head Knockers, a unit of scout-saboteurs in the war against the Dread Duke and his armies. They are the favorite squad among Captain Brighton's Stormwalkers, until an ambush by shapeshifters kills the Captain, half the company, and Knox's best men. Now the new Captain has new orders: he's sending the Head Knockers to investigate an abandoned village, the possible source of the attack.

Le voci delle narratrici interpretano quattro novelle del 'maestro' del Decadentismo italiano Gabriele D'Annunzio. Egli ha esplorato il misticismo estetico e l'irrazionale mettendoli in relazione con la sua natura sensuale. Coll'abbandono della ragione come mezzo di conoscenza D'Annunzio si arrende all'istintualità e alla sensualità, vedendo in esse la via per vivere la vita più profondamente e sondare i misteri dell'Ego, come dire sondare i misteri della natura.

Pickman es un pintor en cuyos cuadros se encuentran monstruos desconocidos realizando actos de innombrable crueldad, cuya sola visión transmite una inenarrable sensación de realismo que atenta contra la cordura.

When three burglars break into an old man's home, they take home more than they bargained for.

A sleazebag looking for a one night stand gets more than he bargained for in the form of a mysterious woman with red lipstick. Things do not end well for all parties.

What would you risk to escape death? This is the question and test Thomas answered - and failed. Now he's on a race against time to save his daughter before she makes the same mistake - a mistake that will leave her enslaved to Death for all eternity.

Join ghost investigator DeDe Rose as she journeys through the world of the paranormal with six bizarre and scary stories taking place in Pennsylvania. Each creepy story has an element of truth to rock your disbelief in things that go bump in the night. A special author note for each tale gives you the scoop. Find out about a werewolf legion in Strasburg and visit a haunted book store in Phoenixville.

Priscilla putters along in her usual life of bridge and gossip and coffee shops and shopping at the local markets in the small Indian town where she lives, until one morning, the mysterious man known only as the Pharsee gives her a box. The thing is filthy, twitchy and just plain wrong...but no matter what Priscilla tries, or how many cleaning boys she fires, she simply cannot get rid of it.

In a sleepy, coastal, New England town, three men decide to rob and, if need be, torture a very old sea captain to learn where he keeps his wealth - a man who is so old no one ever remembers him being young; a man who pays for his purchases not with dollars but with ancient gold and silver coins minted over two centuries ago; a man who speaks to spirits in bottles; a man who may not be a man at all.