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24) Kisses from Hell
Truly, Madly, Undead-ly
This irresistible collection features stories of love amid vampires by five of today's hottest authors—Kristin Cast (Tempted), Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy), Alyson Noël (Evermore), Kelley Armstrong (The Summoning), and Francesca Lia Block (Pretty Dead).
From a fugitive vampire forced to trust a boy who might work for the group bent on destroying her to the legendary romance of two immortals whose
...Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie's Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun.
In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts some rather human, and rather sinister, traits.
A country gentleman is questioned about a murder yet to be committed.
While
...A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories.
Raymond West approaches the Tuesday Night Club after his visit to John Newman, a friend who is searching for the Spanish ship Otranto which was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall. When John Newman disappears for days, upon his return he claims that he had been abducted by the thieves who had stripped
...Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie's wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit.
There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring
...This is the first volume of the collected short stories by Joe Vasicek. It contains:
The Gettysburg Paradox
The greatest battle of all time, secretly fought by time travelers.
(Gallery of Curiosities, June 2018; Bards and Sages Quarterly, July 2019)
Killing Mister Wilson
Every time traveler wants to kill Hitler. Only one actually stopped him.
(Uprising Review, September 2017;
Ronnie the Rooster was always the first one to wake up on the farm. It wasn't really that surprising really because it was his job.
But I bet you never give him a second thought. Every single morning, whether it be the weekend, a Bank Holiday, Easter or Christmas Day, whether it is sunny, raining or snowing, there he is, crowing as loudly as he can, to wake everyone up.
But just imagine if he didn't wake everyone up.
What would
...This story is about....hmmm, hang on, the word is so scary that I'm not even sure I should say it.
Let me just think for a moment while I decide if you are brave enough to hear the word.
Ok, I suppose I'll have to say it, otherwise, this story is not going to make any sense. Unless I substitute the word for something else?
Hmmm, that might work. Ok, let me do that.
This is the story about the real reason avocados are so
...In the gripping dark fantasy short story "The Harmony Bridge!" Princess finds herself at the mercy of Cyril, a mysterious figure who claims to possess knowledge of the harmony.
With trepidation, Princess steps onto The Harmony Bridge, a place known for its deadly secrets. As she navigates the bridge's treacherous slats, she discovers that each step carries a high risk of death, as previous sacrifices have stained the wood with their
...No seriously. He is.
Isaac Freedman used to be just this old cook that I buy my coke from. Nice enough guy, I guess. Didn't really know anything about him until recently—but he definitely was a little cooky.
Think: "Dumbledor—but, like, if Dumbledor did a ton of candyflipping in the 90s and now he goes under a different name cause he believes the CIA has it out for him, so he never leaves his house and usually doesn't even
...Matthew Scudder knows that justice is an elusive commodity in the big city, where a harmless man can be shot dead in a public place criminals fly free through holes in a tattered legal system. But now a vigilante is roaming among the millions, executing those he fees deserve to die. He calls himself "The Will of the People"—an ingenious serial killer who announces his specific murderous intentions to the media before carrying through on his
...This holiday, spend quality time with family and loved ones—living and dead . . .
There's no place like home for the horrordays—unless you'd prefer a romantic midnight walk through a ghost-infested graveyard . . . or a haunted house candlelight dinner with the sexy vampire of your dreams. The (black) magical season is here—and whether it's a solstice séance gone demonically wrong with the incomparable Kim Harrison,
...39) To Be a Spy
40) A New Script
Every moment, filmed. Every struggle, recorded.
Day to day life is hard for film students. Whether you're an editor, a scriptwriter or a videographer, it's never easy. More so when an apocalypse has arrived, taking with it the industry you've dedicated your life to and leaving you with Skills ill-suited to a post-apocalyptic fantasy hellscape.
But humans are adaptable and Skills, with just a touch of imagination,
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