Old Fantasy

Night Portals is a metaphysical anthology series that explores the hidden secrets of life around us. Twelve "What If" short stories from the mind of Ernie Howard. The Old couple is the second book in the series. Pete checks on his elderly parents at least once a week. The countless visits all melt into one, but it doesn't matter how many boring visits he has with his parents. He makes these visits with a sense of foreboding. Will this be the last time? Pete and his wife have a different visit this time around. One that is far worse than death.

As a snowfall blankets 8th century Mosul, a Persian noblewoman arrives at the home of the scholar Dabir and his friend the swordsman Captain Asim. Najya has escaped from a dangerous cabal that has ensorcelled her to track down ancient magical tools of tremendous power, the bones of the old ones.

Mess with a werewolf, prepare to get bit. Mess with my patients, prepare to die. The Witch of Endor went too far. It was one thing when she warped my mind, but now she's threatening the health and lives of my patients. Is it wrong to kill someone who is supposed to be dead, anyway? I'm done debating the ethics of it all. It's time for the witch to die. Go up and click 'Read for Free' or 'Buy Now' to be admitted to the Vilokan Asylum of the Magically and Mentally Deranged. The Vilokan Asylum of the Magically and Mentally Deranged is a paranormal romp, diving into a world of voodoo, ...

The first lesson Eilean MacAlistair learned in blacksmithing: First, you harden, and then you temper. Otherwise, your metal will break. The same is true with life. A few years back, Eilean didn’t temper herself, and she broke someone. Badly. Hospital badly. Her family had to flee Scotland because of her, but now they’ve returned, and 17-year-old Eilean’s life feels like a forge with the temperature rising around her. Mamó is sick, her family is straining at the seams, and magic is real!

With considerable effort, the young prince Alexander Gorchakov managed to prevent a large-scale war between St. Petersburg’s old royal families. However, he got into a lot of trouble in the process and his actions did not go unnoticed by Her Imperial Majesty. Now, as his punishment, Alexander is forced to put on a uniform and enroll at a military school...and not at the most prestigious one, for that matter.

Tully thinks he’s ready for anything, but he soon learns that when it comes to weird, Eternity has nothing on Fort Charles. He meets the Old Salts, a closed-mouthed league of seamen who are mightily worried about something called the Sailor’s Curse. The group is led by grumpy physician Lazarus Clay and lighthouse keeper Amos Franklin, who talks to seagulls. The old men are favorites among a bevy of drop-dead beauties who the Salts swear aren't really mermaids.

Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s rich imagination. They are about love and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge.

For Ted Riley the moral of the story is be careful what you wish for.Claire Riley is your average mild-mannered suburban housewife. Mother of two and wife to Ted. After years of marriage and a brand new case of empty nest syndrome, her life has settled into a gentle rocking hum of doldrums. Little does she know it but her world is about to be turned upside down and changed forever. When she catches her husband Ted watching interracial cuckold porn on the internet she realizes that the problem isn't with their marriage it's with their sex life in particular. She peels back the boring facade ...

Three stories of horror in the vein of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

I hadn’t set foot in the human world for more than a few hours in over three and a half months. Sure, I was stronger and faster than I’d ever been before, and I had a shiny new sword, but I was seriously chocolate deprived.

It's just a fitness tracker...right? ...but then again, Doug's a hacker! Doug makes his living hacking technology. Technically, he roots the device, finding every hidden feature. When he finally breaks into the code of the HipChip, the ubiquitous fitness device all the cool chicks are wearing, he find's out the hot and steamy truth. Far from just tracking heartrates and steps, the litle device can alter personalities, making the most gorgeous, fit, hotties putty in his hands! Will he continue to date Josie, the cute cashier at his favorite hangout, the Computer Barn, or will he be ...

Tyler's an Alpha Tester. Unfortunately... ...he's not nearly the typical ALPHA MALE! The subdermal implant that made him irresistible has been upgraded to RELEASE CANDIDATE... Tyler wanted to pass the dangerous-looking gizmo on to his subordinate, but his hot, MILF of a boss wasn't having it.. Good thing, because when the new product turned him into an irresistible alpha-male living to serve his own carnal desires with all the lusty, unprotected babes his mind could dream up, the proverbial stuff hit the fan. Will Tyler bend to the will of the mysterious manufacturers, wanting him to seduce...

Ancient rivals, worst of friends, best of enemies: dragonlord Janx and master vampire Eliseo Daisani are the threads upon which a tapestry of lives and loves are woven across the centuries. From the coldest Russian nights to the heat of Chicago's greatest fire, nothing brings the immortal adversaries together - or tears them apart - like a woman. And there is always a woman....

Fernand is a young Italian nobleman who grew up in the port of Taranto. One morning his mother on his deathbed reveals a dark secret from the past that forces him to leave for Naples in search of his father and his tutor Laurentius who will help him claim his royal title. His fate is complicated when he discovers that his father has been taken as a prisoner before the ambitious Duke Filippo Visconti in Milan. Continuing his way towards the north, in strange lands, he falls wounded being assaulted and rescued by the monks of an order Benedictines that delays his purpose for another time. ...

One thousand years into the future, Old Dark has awakened from his deadly curse in a world overrun with magic where he hardly recognizes the dragon race anymore. The old dragon lord's body is frail and broken, and he is locked away by Lucan Grimoire for the safety and security of the world. But his thirst for revenge has only grown stronger.

Two old farts surviving a grid-down apocalypse by fate or chance, or could be rotten luck according to their bickering, find themselves bound by circumstance of survival to live out their days together. Bad luck seems to be a daily occurrence for all in this apocalypse of no food, no water, but add to it a hurricane, pandemic, and old age, and two grumpy old men, and you have a story of resilience and humor sure to entertain you in a quarantine.

When Kelly checks the cameras in her home, she is shocked to discover her husband cheating with a sexy coed. Watching their affair awakens new desires inside of her. After Kelly confronts the cuckcake, things take an unexpected turn. Desperate, humiliated, and aroused, Kelly steps into the role of cuckquean with abandon. Watching the Cuckcake: A Cuckquean's Humiliation is full of forbidden trysts, voyeurism, and hot FFM scenes.

At the Ferrara family’s splendid estate, Fantasy, some dreams come true while others vanish like blossoms in the wind. SHAWNEE must leave behind her past when she becomes trapped at Fantasy and its superstar in residence doesn’t want her to leave. DOM, a famous singer, wealthy hero and ladies’ man, shines brightly on stage, but struggles to keep home fires burning warm and bright. ELAINE, Bohemian at heart, craves love without bondage, but does love with freedom exist? FRANCO, successful, wealthy and independent, declares himself the eternal master of Fantasy, whether his famous ...

Trying to shake off the strange malaise that separates her from even her girlfriend Izzy, Tee decides to take over the Bed-Stuy Searchlight for the summer. But then she finds an alluring violet dress in the newspaper office, and a cute ghost girl no one else can see. Izzy can tell Tee's drifting away from her - she misses Izzy's shows and skips shadowshaper practice - and she won't stand for it. Yet when a girl goes missing in Bed-Stuy, Izzy needs Tee to get the word out and help investigate. Can they break through their distance and reconnect before someone else dies?

An escort girl who worked on the most popular downtown of New York. She knew exactly what she wanted to do this business and to survive. When she met James, everything had turned different...would her life ever be changed by James?