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The Black women in these tales are women we all know. The mothers, wives, business owners, creatives, and more, that we see in everyday life. They perform the impossible and hold all ends together.
Sometimes, they're an open book, their stories written in the beloved lines of their faces and the varied bodies they wear with pride or weariness.
Other times, their secrets squirm beneath the surface, aching for release and discovery while beckoning...
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Simone Yang is afraid of heights. Like, REALLY afraid of heights. Even flying alone on an airplane to visit her grandma for the summer freaks her out. So when a creepy old broken-down carnival comes to town, only the idea of impressing her new friends is enough to get Simone to ride the Ferris wheel. But as the ride creaks slowly toward the sky, can Simone keep her cool, or is her worst fear about to come true?
16003) H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies: The Classic Stories That Inspired The Classic Horror Films
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An anthology of original Lovecraft stories that inspired some of the scariest horror films in history.
H.P. Lovecraft is universally regarded as one of the 20h century's most important horror authors. But with more than 100 movies based on his writing, he also ranks alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King as one of the most adapted authors of all time.
H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies presents the very best of the acclaimed author's stories...
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Vampires have fascinated mankind for centuries. These creatures of the night enthrall us, terrify us, and seduce us. The Vampire Super Pack brings together 42 vampires stories spanning almost 200 years. With over 225,000 words of fascinating fiction this is the Vampire anthology you've been waiting for. Included herein are:
• 'Lipstick on a Business Card' by Alledria Hurt
• 'The Vampyre' by John William Polidori
• 'Saving Grace' by Lillian Csernica
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Alien invasion? Zombies? Vampires?
Aria is an average 19-year-old with average problems - until zombies landed their UFO in her backyard. If Aria wants to survive, she'll need some help, and who better than a pirate captain, a steampunk inventor, a bazooka-wielding killer, and a deranged Englishman who insists he is Doctor Who?
Stuck in a war between vampires and zombie-walking Weeches, Aria and her eccentric crew take a stand for mankind as they...
16006) The Rats of Wolfe Island
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It's an eerie mystery for uni student, Eddie Haite, whose casual summer holiday on a remote tropical island in Fiji, changes from an idyllic escape into a nightmare. Eddie, on a chance meeting, agrees to help a scientist, Rex King, carry out experiments on rats recovered from an old Pacific atomic testing site. As Eddie watches Rex descend into madness he realizes there is something terrifying about the rats' strange behavior.
16007) Contagious
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"I wasn't afraid of death. If I died, it would be over. My worst fear wasn't of dying, it was of living. Living, while everyone around me had their flesh savagely torn from their bodies to be shoved into the festering and ever-hungry mouths of zombies. It terrified me, right down to my very core, to be alive while the rest of the world was dead."
During the Second Great Depression, twenty-four-year-old Orissa Penwell is forced to drop out of college,...
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Alexis n'a qu'une idée en tête, revenir en Russie pour régler ses comptes !
Quand Alexis Arkhipov sort du coma dans lequel il est plongé depuis plusieurs mois, il n'a qu'une idée en tête : retourner en Russie pour régler ses comptes, et donner le fin mot de l'histoire familiale. Alors qu'il se prépare à en découdre, il ne sait pas que se trame, dans une petite ville française, un jeu inquiétant venu de Russie : le Blue Whale Challenge,...
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Vitus Adamson has a second chance at life now that he's no longer a zombie. But after killing his brother Jamie, Vitus lands in prison on murder charges. Jamie's death exposes secret government projects so deep in the black they cannot be seen-without Vitus, that is.
Sprung from jail, the government hires Vitus to clean up Jamie's messes, but tracking down his brother's homemade monsters gone rogue is easier said than done. The first of them is a...
16010) Cosmic Roller Coaster
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In "Meet Me at the Bridgemont Inn" a recently dependent husband tries to salvage what's left of his relationship. "A Field In The Desert" is a retelling of the Kotan Utunnai epic from Japanese myth set in a post-apocalyptic world. "Become As One" Lila Bemis is a young woman battling anxiety and depression. At the suggestion of her therapist Lila joins a women's social club, but the club has other worldly motivations. "Devils In the Sky" Retired Earth...
16011) Zero Hour: Part 4 of 4
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Zero Hour can either be read as a full-length ebook or in 4 serialised ebook-only parts. This is PART 4 of 4 (Chapters 46-63 of 63).
Department 19 still stands against the darkness. But for how much longer? Book 4 in the explosive series from bestselling author, Will Hill.
As Dracula continues his rise, the men and women of Department 19 wait for good news. But hope is in short supply - the country is beginning to fall apart as the public comes...
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Stranded on a desert island, a young man yearns for objects from his past. A local from a small coastal town in England is found dead as the tide goes out. A Norwegian whaling ship is stranded in the Arctic, its crew threatened by mysterious forces. In the nineteenth century, a ship drifts in becalmed waters in the Indian Ocean, those on it haunted by their evil deeds. A surfer turned diver discovers there are things worse than drowning under the...
16013) An Unkindness of Ravens
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Alice Liddell and Dorothy Gale team up once again to fight a new evil terrorizing Edwardian London in this dark fantasy by the author of The Red King.
A grisly death in the Tower of London and a deadly attack on an ocean liner in the mid-Atlantic signal the arrival of the Raven, a creature that seeks to reshape the universe. Alice Liddell and Dorothy Gale, fresh from defeating the Red King, must try to prevent it. But even their childhood adventures...
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Eerie Publications' horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America's newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values lent an air of danger to every issue, daring you to look at (and purchase) them. The Weird of World of Eerie Publications introduces the reader to Myron Fass, the gun-toting megalomaniac publisher who, with tyranny and glee, made a career of fishing pocketbook change from young...
16015) The Other Side
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It's just the floorboards shifting, right?
At least, that is what fifteen-year-old Mira thought.
When her parents left for their anniversary dinner, spending the night alone in her century-old house didn't seem like such a big deal. Until now...
Lying awake in bed, staring at the ceiling, Mira could no longer ignore the strange sounds emanating from the long-abandoned room above her.
As her relentless curiosity compels her to investigate further,...
16016) Beanstalked
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Mac wanted to get high, but not like this… Living in poverty under the rule of Leah, his uncompromising girlfriend, Mac's only release is drugs. When a dealer offers him strange new pills, Leah is furious and throws them out. But in the morning, there's a beanstalk where the pills fell, climbing to the sky. Mac imagines it must lead to a land of opportunity. Do riches lie at the top? He and his friends are about to travel to somewhere all out of...
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The final installment of the New York Times bestselling Haunting of Sunshine Girl trilogy (based on the hit YouTube channel, and in development for television) about a girl who can communicate with ghosts.
Is Sunshine Griffith who she thinks she is? Now that her luiseach powers are fully awakened, and having barely survived an abyss full of demons at the end of Book Two, Sunshine must figure out who-or what-has been organizing the forces of darkness...
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As alien invaders amass a conquering army of zombies, a small band of rebels plans their resistance and revenge in this apocalyptic sci-fi series.
The former Deputy Sheriff of Serenity, New Mexico, Jubal Slate lost his home and everyone he loved to the ever-growing zombie horde. But, the zombies themselves are not the true enemy. It's the invaders from another planet, who are using demonic technology to raise an unholy army of the living dead.
For...
16019) The Ghost House
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Do you believe in ghost stories?
'I'm coming to find you, ready or not.'
There's not much that scares Annie Graham. Not even the horrors she has witnessed during her years on the police force.
When she agrees to look after her brother's farmhouse, she finds herself drawn to the crumbling old mansion in the woods nearby. But an innocent exploration of the empty ruin and the discovery of the diary of former resident Alice leaves her more than a little...
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When Sir Christopher Lee passed away at the age of 93 in 2015, it was truly the end of an era. He was the last of the great horror stars. This book is a comprehensive overview of Lee's work in the horror genre, including movies, books, audio recordings and video games. As well as providing in-depth production histories and critical analysis, new interviews have been conducted with Lee's co-workers (some of them speaking here for the first time), which...
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