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In a time when the undead bloodsuckers of legend have become a shadow of their former selves thanks to novels like Twilight and the Stackhouse series, horror author C. Dennis Moore returns the icons to their former glory with his collection of six short stories, Bloodletting (previously published as Icons to Ashes). Featuring three previously published stories plus three all-new tales, Bloodletting doesn't shy away for one moment from the bloodshed and ferocity of these killing machines.

The Angel Hill Podcast explores the mysteries surrounding this strange Midwestern town, asking questions that shouldn't be asked, seeking answers best left unspoken. And someone, or something, has been stalking the podcast's host, hoping to stop his investigation.

Angel Hill has always been a place where the unexplainable is commonplace. The residents have accepted this in a don't ask, don't tell sort of way. But one man, Sean, feels these forces are out to get him. He can't go out. He can't make a noise. And when one of "them" walks into his apartment, he takes the only action he can in defending himself.

There are many ghosts that wander the halls of the Mertland Childrens' Home in Angel Hill. The story of what happened to Carlotta Valdez has grown into legend, but the truth is very, very different. For one angry young woman, Mertland has a way of paying back what's due.

Up and down the only highway into Angel Hill, men are being found with their mouths torn open and their organs shredded inside their bodies. Chuck Rayburn is a cop who knows that, sometimes, the answers lie outside the normal realm. Out of his depth, Rayburn enlists the help of Stephanie Garcia and William Kirby, one a former cop, one a retired MD. Together the pair now investigate Angel Hill and its peculiarities. Can the trio solve these crimes and stop the killings before they reach Angel Hill? Or will The Organ Grinder tear a path straight to their door?

For 18 years, Jason has heard the talk around town, but he's never actually seen any of Angel Hill's ghosts. That's until one night at a senior party, when he hears a noise upstairs and decides to check it out. He tells himself the key to freeing a ghost is to find out what it wants, but if what the ghost wants is justice, it might not be too particular on where it finds it. Assuming he's doing a good thing by helping a spirit cross over to the next plane, Jason instead finds himself locked in a hell of his own making.

Welcome to Angel Hill, Missouri, a town that shot blood from the ground at its own groundbreaking. There are only two roads in or out of town, and everything within those borders is subject to the whims of reality. Those who grew up here are immune to the town's peculiarities. But Jack and Liz have just moved here, and for their young son, Joey, it's almost like coming home again.

Paranormal investigator Will Castleton's psychic friend Mazie calls on Will to accompany her when she's forced to return to her horror-infested hometown of Angel Hill, Missouri - a town she fled decades before, having been psychologically shattered by a harrowing vision in the woods. A death in the family pulls Mazie back to Angel Hill, but soon after stepping foot on her native soil, she and Will are caught up by spectral forces that twist a ghastly crime from the town's past into an all-too-terrifying present.

Oliver Mark has found the perfect house. Old, abandoned, on the outskirts of Angel Hill where no one lives - it's the perfect place for him and his girlfriend to make a life together. But when Oliver breaks into the place to explore his new treasure, he finds himself lost in a maze of confusion and spatial anomaly. After losing his job and getting kicked out of his friend's house, Oliver just wants a place to build a new life, but this house wasn't constructed using the physical laws we all take for granted.

Mandy is about to start as a caregiver at the Mertland Childrens' Home in Angel Hill, Missouri, a town that keeps its secrets by hiding them in plain sight. For the Mertland Home, this means ghosts. Word around town is the place is haunted, and for the workers at Mertland, they make no bones about it: it is. There are menacing reflections, the third floor hallway, and a dark force lurking in the woods out back.

Angel Hill is not a place to be taken lightly. For many, it's the sort of town you escape from, not one you move into. And those who do often find the ghosts of their past have a way of following them. When Todd Morgan finally moved out on his own, the last thing he expected was the feeling of isolation that came with breaking his leg in a new town, far from his home. That feeling only got worse when the man in the window showed up, a small somehow familiar man who did nothing, just stood there and stared at him.

What qualifies a house as haunted? Brian is still grieving over the loss of his parents when something resembling his mother slithers out from behind the bed and screams at him to get out of the house. With nowhere to turn, he tries the empty house he and his partners have just started renovating. The house on Irving has never seen a death inside its walls, and there are no ghosts lurking in its shadows. But that night, Brian senses something waiting in the dark outside the bathroom door for him.

David Reed is struggling. He's working two jobs to make ends meet, trying not to resent the fact his wife makes so much more than he does, and to top it all off, he's just totaled his car after swerving to avoid hitting a very large animal in the middle of the road. But an empty bank account and no car soon turn out to be the least of David's worries, when he begins to think the animal he almost hit might be stalking him.

Oscar has finally had it. The vermin have done enough damage to his yard, and it's time to settle the score. But extermination isn't enough. He wants revenge. So during the winter, while the creatures are sleeping, Oscar has come up with a plan to exact his revenge in the most satisfying way. But some creatures aren't so easily gotten rid of, and soon it will be more than just a few vegetables in his backyard garden that Oscar risks losing.

T had one mission in life: keep her friend Tracey from getting into too much trouble. Fine job she did, though. First they start running drugs for a local dealer, and then they start skimming off the top, thinking he won’t notice. But Junior does notice, and now, they’re on the run and hiding out in a very dark place. This familiar three-story structure has seen more death than life, and now, the Lonely Man lurks there, looking for someone to keep him company across the long, dark nights.

Jim and his high school girlfriend Monica have just moved into a third floor apartment in a secure building to start a life together. Everything's going well at first, even though Jim finds adjusting to living with another person difficult. Then one night one of the residents in the building is murdered. With the security lock on the front door, and considering Jim was the only one in the building who couldn't prove his whereabouts at the time, all fingers point to him.

This audiobook is designed to help the struggling writer, no matter how far along in their journey, find their passion and confidence to sit down and put words on a page on a consistent basis. Through examples and experience spanning three decades, author C. Dennis Moore leads the listener through a series of trials and tribulations, from how to overcome the fear of failure to having the faith to take those first steps on your literary journey. Other topics include efficiency, productivity, morning rituals, finding your audience of one, and honoring your influences.

Five friends are about to enter the most extreme Haunt they’ve ever visited. And in a town like Angel Hill, that’s saying something. The Nightmare Corridor appeared overnight just outside of town and for John, Marcia, Sam, Malcolm, and Virginia, the promise of a thrill was too good to resist. But before the night is through, they will each be forced to face their worst fears, alone. These five Angel Hill natives have seen their share of the unexplained, but nothing can prepare them for the hell they’ll face in the Nightmare Corridor.

They came together to capture the Hangman. They came out to the public when they stopped the murder-for-hire duo of Pleasure and Pain. Now the Invasion Agents face their greatest challenge yet: the Chain Gang. A band of mercenaries are wreaking havoc at the Capital City police station, and only the Invasion Agents have the powers to stop them from destroying the entire place and killing hundreds.

A man frozen in time...Geoffrey was an experiment in cryogenics. But someone forgot to wake him up...50 years ago! Now he's awake and finding out the world isn't exactly the way he left it. Hell on Earth...The Lord led the righteous to Heaven and left Hell to literally open up on Earth. And Hell is spreading like an infection. Unfortunately, it's inside that infection where Geoffrey has to go in search of answers, the most important being: Why wasn't he taken?