Colin Ireland was called a serial killer "wanna-be" who bypassed his morbid daydreams in order to consciously and deliberately murder five gay males as part of a New Year's resolution to see if he could do it. His extreme planning and attempts to hide evidence made investigators' jobs more difficult. Ireland would call police stations and drop little hints, essentially taunting the police. His choice of homosexual male victims who he picked up at a local gay bar earned him the nickname "Th...

For bad children, a lump of coal from Santa is positively light punishment when Krampus is ready and waiting to beat them with a stick, wrap them in chains, and drag them down to hell—all with St. Nick's encouragement and approval.Krampusnacht holds within its pages twelve tales of Krampus triumphant, usurped, befriended, and much more. From evil children (and adults) who get their due, to those who pull one over on the ancient "Christmas Devil." From historic Europe, to t...

This 80-page volume tells the story of the demise of Savoy opera in London during the 1909-1910 season. Produced by actor-manager Charles H. Workman, these operas played for a very short time, only to drop off into obscurity for several decades. Scott Farrell's research on the operas unearths more information about them in this second edition, with corrected details as well as some photos new to this publication. The volume covers four operas: "A Welsh Sunset", "The Mountaineers", "Fallen ...

England, 1191. Richard Lionheart has left the realm bankrupt and leaderless in his quest for glory. Only Prince John seems willing to fight back the tide of chaos threatening England – embodied by the traitorous ‘Hood.’But John has a secret weapon: Guy of Gisburne, outcast, mercenary, and now knight. From intercepting the jewel-encrusted skull of John the Baptist to investigating a string of grisly deaths linked to the Prince's own past, Guy is John’s hound, combat...

Psychotic killers, devious ghosts, alien monsters, howling storms, undead creatures, and other dark forces haunt the highways and the truckers who drive them in these 18 chilling tales. A ghostly voice on a trucker's CB radio knows more about his life than it should… Two drivers find their cargo gives them inhuman appetites… A boy in a truck stop encounters a supernatural force that threatens to destroy the world… The hypnotic singing lulling a driver to sleep might not be coming from the ...

A brutal multinational corporation. A land ruled by necromancers. One girl in their way...The complete Cloven Land Trilogy: Hedge Witch, Wyrm Lord and Witch King, as well as the prequel novella, Hyrn, and bonus short stort The Waters, Dividing the Land.“I loved it. Pulled me into the world and wouldn't let me go ... wonderful.”

Toy LandThere they were, just as he remembered. Rooms and rooms of them. Dolls. Toy soldiers. Clowns. When he was a kid, his Aunt Cary's toy collection should have been a child's paradise. But instead he had been terrified by their staring eyes . . .Toy HellTwenty years had passed since Jay Clute set foot in Victory, Missouri. Twenty years of trying to forget that night--that hellish night of unimaginable horror. Now his Aunt Cary w...

All four books of The Immortals series in one boxset!Book One: The ImmortalsWhen demons refuse to play by the rules, all Hell will break loose.Colin and Anna are sent to Baton Rouge by the Angel with only one directive: keep their past a secret, including their relationship. Believing their new mission would be short-lived, Colin agrees, but as the months pass and the demons they've grown accustomed to fighting def...

Read all three novels in the exciting Whispering Woods series.Average student, expert gamer, rookie portal locator...Mia has one goal for her senior year at Whispering Woods High—find her missing older brother. But when her science project reveals a portal into another dimension, she learns that travelers are moving in and out of her woods in the most alarming way.But Mia possesses a secret a weapon--an ability to sense portals to other wor...

It was more than chance that brought her to this island...American doctor Tara Moore wants to disappear. On the run from an abusive husband, she seeks shelter on a windswept Irish island and dismisses the villagers’ speculation that she is descended from a selkie—a magical creature who is bewitching the island. But when a ghostly woman appears to her with a warning, Tara realizes it was more than chance that brought her to this island. Desperate to escape ...

Those in line to the Malenfer estate are succumbing to terrible ends – is a supernatural legacy at work, or something entirely more human?Young Irish mercenary Dermot Ward retreats to Paris at the close of World War I where he drinks to forget his experiences, especially the death of his comrade, Arthur Malenfer. But Arthur has not forgotten Dermot. Dead but not departed, Arthur has unfinished business and needs the help of the living.Upon his arrival at Malenfer Manor, Der...

“Halfway Human is a first novel that should help establish its author as a major new voice in science fiction.”—New York Review of Science Fiction“Beauty, pain, wit, and wisdom all suffuse this powerful novel, as it uses imagined futures to reveal our own world in starkest clarity...and yes, with a whisper of hope.” —LocusTedla is a 'bland,' an asexual class of people that exist only to serve their fellow beings.Val is an expert on alien cultures but has never seen ...