Four friends find themselves boarded up in their own home as the world outside collapses. Riots have broken out and now spread to their neighborhood. When one friend is brutally injured by a crazed attacker, it up to the remaining friends to decide his fate.

On a spring day, 1.8 billion children disappear from the face of the earth and natural disasters rock the globe. Of those who remain, 90 percent a ravaged with a plague that turns them into mindless, murderous beings.  When the walls of Grace crumble at the hands of the Sleepers, those who survive are forced to flee. They move east to beyond the Great Divide and find refuge in a former Juvenile correction facility in Ohio. The loss of their home is great, but...

June, 2012...Bombs explode in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Tijuana. They seem completely unrelated and as they happen South of the United States, no one worries too much as there aren't many casualties and just reports of acrid smoke.July, 2012...The world no longer looks away in apathy as the acrid smoke gives way to looters and cannibals who are more interested in attacking their fellow human beings than raiding the nea...

They have the beginnings of a perfect family. A husband, a wife, a baby on the way.But something will stop them from being happy as they move into their new house: the power of the undead that roam the halls of their home.The demons that have come to claim them. The darkness that seeks to destroy them.The haunted.***The Haunted is an Amazon Horror Bestseller written by novelist Michaelbrent Collings, whose other bestsellers in...

Feed is an electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own that the New York Times calls “Astonishing” — a novel of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all — from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant.The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop...

Bryan Armstrong and Kyle Detwiler, two college students on the cusp of graduation, are the lucky winners of a contest to become interns on the paranormal television show The Specter Slayers.Their excitement turns to jubilation when they discover that they'll be aiding in the investigation of The Danver Church, one of the most haunted places in America. Nestled in the remote mountains of Pennsylvania, the church is world renowned for the massacre that occurred there forty years earl...

WINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING“The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.” —Stephen KingOnce every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite...

Rumors on the Red CarpetLearning at the hands of a billionaireWhen a dream holiday propels Thia into the glittering world of New York's scandalous elite, she catches the eye of renowned businessman Lucien Steele. For the first time, Thia's determined to take what she really wants…love and life in the fast lane!The Talk of HollywoodLights, Camera, Bedroom!From his latest sports car to his latest blonde, gossip surrounds infamous Hollywood director Jax...

A short story by the Edgar-, Shamus-, and Anthony-winning author of GHOST HERO. In "Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case," Lydia Chin's mother does some detecting of her own.

China is one of the largest countries in the world, and with one of the largest populations. With the fall of the communist party new business opportunities are appearing everyday in China. It seems almost everything these days is made in China. China has become one of the largest export countries in the world. And it is growing at an exponential rate!However the Chinese do not negotiate or conduct business like Westerners, and unless you understand their negotiation style you'll b...

Raised in the deep south by poor, spitefull relatives, Lila longs for an escape, but the freedom she finds is far different than she was looking for.

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