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The zombies are gone, and life for the Gravediggers has become a fairy tale. Unfortunately, it’s the old-fashioned, terrifying kind! Hordes of something green and nasty have invaded New Orleans, and the Gravediggers are learning that big, bad things come in small packages. As folklore comes to life, Paul and the others find that their crappy songs are not the only earworms in town. It’s a gray matter as something whispers madness into their ears and drives them into a state of paranoia. Can a wild hunt to the land of fairies and folklore show them the way? Will they be able to satisfy ...

The Gravediggers defeated the demons, so what could possibly be left? Time is on their side, but not in a good way! Something witchy is happening in New Orleans, and Paul’s the target…again. When a death cult conjures an ancient witch, you know there’s trouble brewing. And what’s this? Time travel? Past and present mingle with black magic, evil witches, holy knights, deception, palace intrigue, inquisitions, brainwashed cults, and as always, punk rock! Will Paul and Mary’s relationship last? Who will become the ultimate sacrifice for the gang? Will Ophelia finally win? More ...

What if the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud was not about an alleged murder, or a stolen pig, or an elopement, but ran much deeper, to the very blood of the two families involved? Ushaville, West Virginia is like a tiny European city in the middle of the piney wilderness. Four failed punk musicians’ van breaks down in Ushaville, and as they meet people in the town, they discover Ushaville’s bloody secret. The punks group up with a faithless priest; a skeptical ghost hunter; a real, magical fairy; a weak-minded professor; a Cherokee man; and a local bartender. This ridiculous, unlikely ...

Dead men tell no tales, but they do eat brains! Why won't the forces of evil just die and leave the Gravediggers alone? Weren't vampires and werewolves enough? Something new is arising in New Orleans, arising from the cemeteries! An ancient Voodoo curse won't let anyone rest in peace. Can the Gravediggers travel to Haiti to stop the original curse and save New Orleans from the evil horde? More importantly, will they ever find a bass player who doesn't die?

What would it take to break a person, to take their humanity? At 13, they'd survived a living nightmare at the hands of two vicious home invaders. Three years later, they've become living nightmares by causing the largest manhunt in New York city's history.

The Gravediggers and friends thought that Ushaville had sucked all the horror out of their lives, but it looks like they find themselves in another hairy situation. They decide to buy a punk bar and go into business, but the customers look just a bit too furry. Well, that bites! As the people of New Orleans experience a change of attitude during the full moon, the Gravediggers must find an ancient, evil swamp witch, and convince her to give them the antidote. It's a howl of a scary time as the group of friends try to make the monsters sit, stay, and hopefully, roll over and play dead. Will ...

The content in this special two-volume anthology details the many facets of aikido as it was formulated by Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969). Each chapter contributes to a piece of the aikido puzzle by providing historical details, insightful technical drills (bare handed and with weapons), and components that have flavored this art with a spiritual essence. From the Ueshiba wellspring flows a number of streams—political splinter groups offering their own take on what aikido should be and how it should be practiced. Each branch may stand on its own, but a good number of scholars and ...

For Paul and the Gravediggers, ghosts are in the past. They are enjoying life in the present just playing their bad punk rock. But Paul still has some future issues to work out. When an abused, limping boy named Goth Timmy Cratchit wants the Gravediggers to play post-punk music, Paul refuses. After all, anything other than punk is commercialized, corporate crap, right? When Paul finds out that Goth Timmy’s life is in danger from abuse, Paul needs a Christmas miracle to save him. Can Paul get into the holiday spirit, or will the holiday spirits have to scare the lesson into him?

After World War III wiped out civilization with nuclear weapons, humanity has rebuilt the world into a dystopian, cyberpunk nightmare. Hope City, built on the ruins of Cincinnati, is a megalopolis governed by a Draconian and mysterious quorum of twelve people called the Senate Collective. Professional criminal Rose Dao and her colleagues are good people forced to live outside the law. Hired for a job involving the Senate Collective, they are quickly caught in a web of deception and danger. Why do the Senators keep themselves hidden from the people? What do they do up in the black obelisk ...

Homicide Detective Iris Williams and her partner, Detective Annette, are assigned to a case so baffling that it will leave them dumbfounded. In the meantime, a storm - more powerful than Hurricane Sandy - is headed toward the East Coast. Will Detectives Williams and Toni be able to unravel the perplexing murders that plagued the city, or will the perpetrator disappear with the storm?

Explore hidden sci-fi desires, get taken by Mothman, travel back to the myths and tales spiced up with fiery lovers. Get lost in this steamy collection and embrace the shifting magic with these sizzling stories of passion.

Welcome aboard the voyage to personal empowerment and mental well-being through the mastery of self-talk! This book isn't about fleeting motivation; it's about long-term change – providing you with actionable tools and strategies that will be your unwavering companions on this transformative journey. The science behind self-talk and its incredible influence on your life's narrative…including a helpful self-assessment so you can analyze your own current self-talk.

During my twenty-five years as a cop in Los Angeles, I had a lot of assignments. Of those I can write about, my experiences as a Background Investigator were perhaps the most revealing. All of the stories in the novel were inspired by actual incidents. I have deliberately fictionalized them to protect both the innocent and the guilty. The narrative provides insight into both my career and the inter-workings of the police department. This book is hard to put down.

It's been three months since Detective Iris Williams has been back to work. She has been on an extended medical leave, battling depression after she'd dropped the ball on the biggest case of her career - the apprehension of the 17-year-old serial killer, Stacey McHill. But instead of seeking treatment for her depression, Iris has been roaming the streets of New York City. The city's streets now haunt Iris, and paranoia has become her constant companion. The captain of the Double 0 precinct has placed Iris and Toni on desk duty, calling Iris an embarrassment to the department.

The Master is a benevolent tyrant, the world's sole immortal, whose 1000-year-reign has enabled him to steer humanity from an age of wars and want to a scientific age of peace and plenty. But now, the Master faces his greatest challenge - for, what is the price of immortality, when Lady Ellora, the woman he loves, lies dying?

Don’t go in the water. It’s dark. It’s deep. It’s scary as hell. There is no better keeper of secrets than the menacing, murky depths of the ocean. Unfathomable creatures, mysterious disappearances, abandoned ships, deadly pirates. Even experienced seamen are susceptible to the horrors that lay hidden far below the surface. It’s all a game of chance. Be in the wrong place at the wrong time and you’ll become something’s meal. The dark deep is ominous and unforgiving and it has no conscience.

Kerry Keen is a young millionaire playboy by day to hide his nocturnal adventures as a costumed airborne crime fighter! From a secret underground hangar on his Long Island estate in the Graylands, The Griffon takes to the skies in the Black Bullet, his supercharged and heavily armed seaplane on missions of justice and vengeance! Six tales of action, excitement, mystery and amazing aerial adventure take flight in this collection.

False Negatives is a fictional story of a young man who joined the LAPD in the wake of the Watt’s riots and amidst the rising tide of violence. The novel initially reads like a memoir of a naive idealist who was sure he could make LA’s streets safer and improve the department’s troubled relationship with the minority communities. When the point of view opens, the listener sees what the young idealist does not: the truth. Written by a retired LA cop, the fast-paced novel is as real as it gets.

Forgetting those things which are behind. — Phil. 3:13 WE have here St. Paul's plan of life — progress by forgetting, by letting go, the things that are past. "Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal." This is such a wise theory of life that we may profitably study it a few minutes. "Forgetting the things which are behind." There are some things we would like to forget. Probably most of us have done things we would give much to leave behind, to blot out from memory, to cut altogether loose from, to bury in...

The object of this little book is to help those who are beginning the Christian life. It contains merely a few suggestions and counsels by an older brother who has gone a little farther on the way, who has experienced some of the difficulties and dangers and learned a little of the help Christ is ready to give to those who will accept it.