Gillian Bellaver's family is one of the wealthiest in the world. Robin Sandza's father Peter is a government assassin. The two teenagers seem to have nothing in common. Yet they are spiritual twins, possessing a horrifying psychic energy that threatens humanity. While dangerous and fanatical men vie for the secrets of their awesome power, Peter Sandza, using all the ruthless skills of his trade, makes a final desperate effort to save them. Exploring with extraordinary skill the myths and l...

While Holocaust education is a staple of American schooling, it is rarely studied as a product of the political machine. We often focus on what happens in the classroom, yet the path to those lessons begins years earlier in state legislatures and governors' offices.This essential volume explores the development of Holocaust education in America from the early 1980s to the present. By shifting the focus from pedagogy to politics, this anthology analyzes the rise of two crucial state...

Deep within the volcanic rock of Mt. Kilamanjaro lie the Catacombs, the enormous hidden burial caves of a vanished African society more sophisticated and technologically advanced than ours. A civilization that has left the formula for present-day domination by a world power etched into blood-red diamonds--the rarest gemstones known. When a prestigious archaeological expedition discovers the valuable "bloodstones," the stage is set for a duel between agents of superpowers and powerful Afric...

Whitman Bowers has come to survey what was once the Langford estate, but is quickly drawn into the web of fear that surrounds the mountain. His old Army buddy Arn seems insane; claiming that the gloomy, thickly forested slopes of Wildwood conceal twisted creatures more beast than man -- until he displays the trophies that prove it. Arn's beautiful Indian wife Faren worships a snake god from before the coming of the white man, a god she sees returning to cleanse Wildwood of the white man's ...

In a peaceful Vermont courtroom, humanity will be called to trial by endless evil. Ancient and implacable -- armed with sensuality, delusion and horrible death -- it will join itself to human weakness in an unholy alliance.Against it stand only imperfect human beings, caught in a world-spanning struggle in which they have everything to lose -- for all of us -- and only human strength to help them.Not since The Exorcist has there been such a powerful novel of demonic possess...

Previously published as "The Uninvited"Her love is a hunger, an obsession...Beautiful eighteen-year-old Barry Brennan couldn't forget. A year ago, Ned Kramer, her fiance, had died in a hunting accident. Her grief threatened to overwhelm her - until the night her car careened off an icy country road to strike a handsome stranger.Naked, helpless, he seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Stripped of speech and memory, his recovery would begin only when Barry roused h...

John Farris is the New York Times bestselling author of such classic thrillers as The Fury and Son of the Endless Night. A filmmaker, as well as a novelist, Farris is a seminal influence on many of our most highly regarded writers, including Stephen King. Sacrifice, a terrifying thriller, is a work of relentless suspense, complex characterization, and surprise after stunning surprise.Seventeen-year-old Sharissa Walker is beauty personified, decency incarnate and a joy to behold — t...

The year is 1952. Fourteen-year-old Alex Gambier is rebellious by nature and scarred by childhood tragedy in the southern community of Evening Shade. An outcast in his own family, mute from a bout with diphtheria at an early age, Alex expresses himself by writing imaginative stories and by conceiving daredevil stunts that test all of his physical resources while putting his life in extreme danger.The aftermath of one of his hair-raising stunts finds Alex in the care of a young blac...

(Originally published as Elvisland)No Sin Unpunished is the second collection from the master of contemporary psychological horror, John Farris. The collection includes two new, never-before-published stories.Stories included in this collection:"Waiting for Mr. Gillray""The Odor of Violets""No Sin Unpunished" (previously titled "horrorshow")"Talking Heads""I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream""Hairshirt""Good Mo...

"Embodies the original series' unique vision of challenging its audience's assumptions about reality without sacrificing high-quality entertainment." — BooklistWhen it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from the censors' strict oversight due to the show's classification as science fiction, the 156 episodes explored classic, powerful, and moving human themes—love, hate, pri...

It happened quickly. Overnight, the greater Los Angeles area found itself in the horrifying grip of a werewolf epidemic. Twenty-eight days of the month, those who change are no different from those who have managed to stay uninfected—the normals, the High Bloods. But every full moon, they become the most ravenous creatures mankind has ever seen.A new law-enforcement agency keeps tabs on those whose blood runs Lycan. Rawson is a agent for Lycan Control, making sure all the afflicted...

In the frozen pit of blackest hell, Death sleeps. Ravishing beyond words, evil beyond our darkest dreams of Satan, Her eyelids flutter.Rising from Her pit, She wakes her vampire brood -- and frees them from their ancient graves.No, no one is safe, no one -- from the unwashed Children of Eve.