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“Steve Hudgins is a Horror Meister to reckon with!” VICTOR MILLER – Writer of Friday the 13th If you like quick reads, this is the author for you! Steve Hudgins uses a screenplay/novel hybrid writing style that keeps the descriptive portions of the story brief, allowing the narrative to push forward at an extremely fast pace. IT LIVES IN THE ATTIC A true jigsaw puzzle of horror that comes together before your eyes! On the isolated outskirts of a quaint, charming town, there is a long, lonely gravel driveway. At the end of the driveway stands an ancient, mansard roofed Victorian...

Dark Space, Book #3 Everyone at Zora’s school started dressing the same—right after the green flash lit up the sky. Zora Lane has always noticed things other people miss. So when a new exchange student named Axel arrives—too perfect, too quiet, and way too popular—she knows something's wrong. Especially when all the other kids start mimicking him, and even the mirrors in the hallway reflect things they shouldn’t. As students fall under Axel’s eerie influence, Zora uncovers a hidden signal pulsing through her school—changing memories, identities, and maybe even reality itself. ...

If you can imagine it, somewhere there’s probably a law against it. Laugh out loud over some of Canada’s strangest laws - but not too loudly, or you might get a ticket: until 2002 in BC, you couldn’t stand up while having a drink in a restaurant; in Halifax, cabbies are required to wear socks; you’re not allowed to dogsled on the sidewalks in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; and much more.

SURREAL, SUPERNATURAL, PARANORMAL, TRANSCENDENTAL, UNCANNY?The Axe: The desolate Australian outback is not a place to become stranded without water. Is it the stone axe which leads the desperate man to think he has been saved? Or is it all in his mind and is death creeping up silently?Alfredo: Is it possible to place a curse on a violin, a curse which will hunt down the members of just one family? The Mist: The becalmed yacht drifts into a misty haze in the hour before dawn, gliding into the raging fires of an oily hell of wartime death and destruction. A wounded sailor in the water fights ...

Do hospitals creep you out? If so, you are not alone. Hospitals are the most haunted places in a community. They are filled with ghosts and spirits of the dead while attracting spirit entities that help the dead and the living. Very few places attract this wide assortment of spiritual beings making it very uncomfortable for clairvoyants and psychics like me. I met my first angel and ghost when I was five years old while recovering from a head injury at the Shingle's Hospital in Hoolehua, Molokai. My first reaction to these entities was shock and surprise. As I learned more about the ghosts ...

In this Black Mirror style series, each Witching Hour 60-minute read takes you on an edge-of-your-seat journey that can be read in a single sitting. In Outward, we follow the life of Robby Boulder, a teenage addict who is forced to attend a new-age, walk-in-the-woods-style rehab. After the death of his father the previous year, he found himself in the throes of addiction. Then, late one evening, he woke up to a figure in his room, shaking him awake. The man dragged him into his van with three other troubled teens, promising salvation for the price of one week in the woods. But, once Robby ...

(Rated "G" for General Audience) ... Can love be found in the strangest places? Follow the paths of the heart and the stars and find out. Cathy & the Dolphin Reporter Mark asked, "The others who were on the boat with you, did you see what happened to them?"....."They died," replied the girl. "He tried to save them, but they grew frightened and swam away from him."....."By 'he,' do you mean the dolphin?" Mark inquired, puzzled....."He is a prince," the girl said....."A prince?" Mark questioned, mouth quirking in surprise....."Yes, a prince," she repeated, chin raised..... Stardust He caught ...

When Bethany moves to Windy Falls and into a new house, she doesn't know anything about the weird woman who once lived there or the mysterious cloud that hangs over the gloomy village. Being a born explorer, Bethany seeks the answers to a host of strange events and discovers a magical world in a very unexpected place. She finds a witch in a magical kitchen who teaches her how to cast spells of her own; but is Mrs Etherington-Strange everything she appears to be?

a little girl named Fly hears her mom’s outrageous story about why she has such a silly name…

"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.” In that short line, Anatole Broyard, a 20th century American writer, compactly captures the timeless and enchanting beauty that resides within the Eternal City of Rome. This tourist destination is often one of the highest ranked on bucket lists, for how could one not want to experience its marvelous ruins, mirror-like rivers, and spectacular stretches of aqueducts, firsthand?

These days you can play a round on the ice floes in the Arctic, in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq and on the plains of Africa. The rich history of the sport has produced a wealth of screwball, outlandish and just plain weird tales.

In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today’s European nations were formed. The Catholic Church rose to great prominence. Some of history’s most famous wars occurred. And a social class system was instituted that lasted over 1,000 years.

He meets a sexy woman at the bar who promises to show him the stars. She delivers, but his life will never be the same again. Around 3,300 words.

Enter a world of darkness and desolation, of delusion and destruction, of daring and death. Enter the personal hell of Christopher Irving in the thrilling novel, "This Side of Midnight" by David Halk. Christopher, a recluse and a failure, collects corpses for company and the dead become better friends for him than the living. But a mysterious voice threatening his own death puts Christopher on a mission of violence and murder as the only way to save himself. The line between the living and the dead becomes blurred with deadly consequences in this dark psychological thriller.

Approximately 80 percent of Americans admit they haven’t read the Bible. If they did, they’d be pleasantly surprised by its impressive quantity of sex and poop jokes. David danced naked. Noah was basically a moonshining hillbilly. Ezekiel baked poop bread. Herod was eaten by worms. Jesus cursed a fig tree, just to prove he could. Mark went streaking. Hosea married a prostitute. Lot was date-raped by his own daughters. It turns out, there’s a lot of weird stuff in the Bible.

This is the story of a man named Hiro who unexpectedly goes on an adventure through time! Follow Hiro as he travels through time while wearing a fundoshi and befriends a cast of characters including a gladiator, an alien and even a dinosaur! Three questions will be answered: Why is Hiro in his underwear? Why is he traveling through time? What is happening?

Regina Hartley has had enough. The demands of life have taken a toll on her and, no longer feeling equipped to endure the strain, she decides to end it all in watery surrender. But instead of drowning to death, she finds herself being revived on shore by a concerned, handsome stranger. After saving her, the stranger refuses to leave her alone. Regina realizes she doesn’t mind his attention and finds herself more interested in what else life has to offer overall. But after saving her spirit, will the handsome stranger eventually disappear? Gabriel finds himself in the right place at the ...

Although there had been treaties and seemingly cordial trading between the Native Americans and the new settlers in that area, recent fighting in nearby areas like the Battle of Tippecanoe less than a year earlier kept all sides on edge, and the British aim to maintain a barrier between America and Canada by propping up Native American tribes led to a controversial battle in the Illinois Territory at Fort Dearborn, a fort built along the Chicago River, shortly after the War of 1812 broke out.

Before the Necronomicon and the Pnakotic Manuscripts, mankind chiseled the madness of the dark elder gods onto a series of strange, onyx obelisks now lost among the wastes of the arctic circle. Transliterated in 1887 by a team of three researchers, these “Hyperborean Texts” present a bizarre look into the alien religion and strange insanities of a now vanished civilization.

Of all the great cities in the world, few personify their country like New York City. As America's largest city and best known immigration gateway into the country, NYC represents the beauty, diversity and sheer strength of the United States, a global financial center that has enticed people chasing the "American Dream" for centuries.