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Jack Roberts is back from the Sudan and with a crippling wound, no longer an active soldier. When he is sent to Iran to help find oil for British battleships he has to leave home once more. This time he leaves a son who is about to embark on a military career too. The Roberts family is soon going to war again.

When Jenine finds an abandoned polaroid camera, she playfully snaps a photo without a second thought. But there's something wrong with the image: a ghostly figure stands in the background, watching her. Fixated on her. Moving one step closer with every picture she takes.

Life, Death, and the In-between: A heartbreaking supernatural horror dealing with themes of suicide, grief and the after-life. I guess I wanted to write this given my own personal struggles with thoughts of suicide. Every day I deal with some degree of pain where some days are better than others. When the pain is at its worst, my thoughts often drift to ending my own life.

One Man’s Poison by Robert Sheckley is a witty and suspenseful science fiction short story from the early 1950s that explores alien life and survival with a darkly comedic twist.

She thought it was just another job. She was wrong. When Clara Davies accepts a live-in housekeeping position at the remote and imposing Harrow estate, she’s looking for one thing: a place to disappear. With a new name and a forged résumé, she hopes to bury her past and start again. But something isn’t right at Harrow House. Eleanor Harrow is cool, watchful — and far too interested in Clara’s history. Daniel Harrow’s charm barely masks a predator’s smile. And the house itself feels alive, its silent halls heavy with the weight of long-buried truths. As strange noises echo ...

A man awakens in silence, surrounded by darkness. He believes he has died—but the truth is far more haunting. Unclaimed is a literary short story exploring memory, mortality, and the invisible thread that binds us to others. Told in lyrical, intimate prose, it reflects on the relationships we build—and what remains of us in the silence after we're gone.

In this haunting collection, master of horror Ambrose Ibsen tears open the chest cavity of human relationships to expose the writhing horrors within. From a cultist who returns to the scene of a terrible crime, to an academic seeking an obscure book with a disturbing secret, to a forbidden website that streams the decomposition of the dead.

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.

Have you ever felt the chill of unseen eyes upon you, the prickle of ancient fear when the woods fall silent? When the full moon swells and casts its pale, eerie glow, the world you know recedes. The boundary between man and monster blurs, and the oldest, most terrifying legends step out from the shadows. Prepare to be gripped by Werewolves: Horror Stories, a harrowing collection of FIFTEEN original tales designed to sink their teeth into your deepest anxieties. This isn't just about fangs and fur; it's about the crushing weight of isolation, the heart-stopping terror of the hunt, and the ...

The only way out of my horrible life is to become a mail order bride. But will my new cowboy husband be willing to take a chance on love? Tia I’m trying to start my life over as someone new. But with no skills or education, my options are pretty limited. Until I see the ad to become a mail order bride. Suddenly, I have hope. Maybe I can escape and live free. The only problem is I’m pretty sure my husband doesn’t like me at all. The more time I spend with him, the more I can’t help falling in love. But will my new cowboy husband break my heart? Ranger Grandpa was a diehard romantic. ...

Benjamin never learned to read or write so he has the local postmaster write his letter to Pearl's Mail Order Brides in hopes of having a woman pick him. Unbeknownst to him the postmaster writes that he is too lazy to write his own letter. I'm always the matchmaker but never the bride. He's the larger than life Texan who shows up at my office demanding a bride. A spinster of twenty-five that men never look at twice I've made peace with never being a wife. No men have ever turned my head until now. The man who storms into the office is straight out of the dime novels I read in secret. He's ...

Meet the reluctant caretaker of an abandoned high-rise teeming with supernatural horrors. A man’s search for his lost dog leads him into an abandoned doomsday bunker harboring the unimaginable. Ancient horrors awaken beneath the Antarctic ice as researchers uncover a terrifying underwater temple. In a world where children manifest terrifying supernatural powers, one agent navigates the moral maze of containment and control.

Before the game there was power, there was desire. And one man who made control feel like chaos. Dominic Vale rules his world with discipline, wealth, and detachment. Every encounter is calculated. Every feeling—silenced. But the auction world he observes so clinically is about to flip the script. Before the games, before the power plays—there was him. This is the origin story of a man who never meant to feel, and the moment that cracked everything open. Inside this seductive prequel to the Power & Possession series, you’ll find: 💼 A ruthless billionaire with secrets even he ...

Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.

From the master of crime fiction comes an unexpectedly whimsical short story about this San Diego surfer whose life plan is working perfectly until he meets a wealthy woman at an art gallery opening (the hors d’oeuvres), falls in love, and then has to masquerade as an upstanding member of society.

Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.

Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the cries for help are from the late Mrs. Turner, the former resident of the cottage, Jack hires a psychic investigator to spend a night in the house, a night which proves to have startling results.

Rule #1 of becoming a mail order bride: never fall in love with your cowboy groom. Cade She was the prom queen. I was the dork everyone made fun of. One moment of kindness from her changed everything for me. Years later when I'm in need of a wife, I hear she's in a desperate situation. I've never forgotten her kindness and now it's my turn to repay a debt. But the fake marriage between us isn't supposed to lead to real feelings. It certainly isn't supposed to spark this protective desire I feel toward her or her young son. Natalie Appearances can be deceiving. Being beautiful when I was ...

Can this curvy thief steal the grumpy mountain man’s heart after a break-in gone wrong? Laura I wasn't breaking and entering. I was on my way to grandma's house. That's the honest truth. The fact that I'm dressed like a cat burglar should be of no importance to anyone. Not even the hot mountain man whose cabin I accidentally stumbled into. The coming snowstorm is unexpected...so is the citizen's arrest. The problem is I've never wanted to let anyone search me so badly. This mountain man might be gruff and grumpy, but he's welcome to handcuff me anytime. Nash Yeah, she was on her way to ...

Gospel comedy queen Pat G'orge-Walker regales listeners with the hilarious antics of Sister Betty and her South Carolina friends, big-hearted Ma Cile and redhaired Sister Connie Fuse. But things don't really start shakin' until on-the-make Deacon Laid Handz, manhungry Sister Carrie Onn, and conniving Reverend Knott Enuff Money get into the act. And yet for all of its rollicking humor, this book is brimming with profound and, at times, pointed truths about church life.