Stephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, and Ramsey Campbell are the first contributors to a mind-bending new series of short-story collections that push the boundaries of horror and dark suspense to the bleeding edge. From Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar of the acclaimed Cemetery Dance Publications, Dark Screams: Volume One reaches across genres to take readers beyond the precipice of mortal toil and into the glimmering void of irreality and beyond....

Greetings from the Elsewhere Welcoming Committee. We're glad you made the journey and hope your stay here is exactly what you want it to be. Please feel free to roam wherever you want and take as long as you want. We have no timetables, no agendas, no schedules, no calendars, and no clocks. Time does not matter here. Normal rules do not apply. Restrictions are non-existent. No boundaries, no "Keep Out" signs. You are your own tour guide in a universe of anything. So, be sure to allow yours...

Imagine losing your high-paying job as an executive after almost thirty years at a multibillion-dollar company. How would you react? When it happened to author James Brian Kerr, the answer was simple: Walk more than twenty miles home.In The Long Walk Home: How I Lost My Job as a Corporate Remora Fish and Rediscovered My Life’s Purpose, Kerr invites us to join him on his strange journey from impending unemployment to self-discovery, and reminds us that the only true journey...

Expand Your Knowledge of Organization Development to Enhance Your L&D EffortsATD’s Organization Development Handbook is a tactical, hands-on book for those in learning and development looking to make that first step into organization development or those who are a one-person band doing both. While many books and textbooks exist on organization development—the effort to improve an organization’s capability through the alignment of strategy, structure, peopl...

This Civil War study examines the role played by Michiganders in the Battle of Antietam, shedding new light on their sacrifices and contributions.The Battle of Antietam remains the bloodiest day in American history, and the people of Michigan played a prominent role both in the fighting and the events surrounding it. In Michigan at Antietam, Jack Dempsey and Brian James Egan—both Civil War historians and Michigan natives—explore the state's many connection...

TIPS FOR HOW NOT TO END UP IN A HORROR STORYDON’TListen to the SpidersDrive in the rainBuy the dollDOSell the PuppetTake the Dr.’s AdviceLeave the Box ShutIn this thrilling horror anthology by No Bad Books Press, the characters of the following authors didn’t take this advice:Kevin David AndersonDiane ArrelleShaun AveryChris Bann...

In 1934, a band of desperadoes known as the Ghost Gang terrorized bankers across the state of Nebraska with a series of daring robberies. A posse of lawmen traced the gang to a Gage County ghost town, and the hideout was raided on a cold November night. One by one, all the members of the gang faced prison or death, until only Maurice Denning remained at large. Denning, the son of a respectable farm family, had drifted into bootlegging and, ultimately, bank robbery. For ten years, he was at...

Amos Alonzo Stagg is referred to as the Grand Ol' Man of Football. He died on St. Patrick's Day in 1965 at the ripe old age of 102! Today's Stagg Bowl, which determines the D-3 collegiate pigskin champion, is so named in his honor. Thank the good Lord, he was not on this earth to Google the shameless season of the purple-clad Generals and the wild exploits of 19-year-old defensive back, Brian James, or A. A. Stagg may have been wearin' of the green and feelin' ill much before the 17th of M...

Stare Deep into the Abyss...and the Ghosts Stare BackWith its breathtaking views, amazing depths, and terrifying ghosts, ghouls, and UFOs, the Grand Canyon is indeed worthy of its title as one of the greatest natural—and supernatural—wonders in the world. This incredible book invites you to journey into the canyon's most haunted locations and explore first-hand accounts of spirits and unexplainable events.Ghosts of the Grand Canyon is packed with e...

This children's thriller, based on the author's own experiences in London, is about coming of age and the importance of family and friends during World War II.It's the height of the Blitz. Night after night, waves of German bombers pound London streets, determined to bring the city to its knees.As the air-raid sirens wail, Alan and his best mates, Tommy and Wilkie, skip school to play among the bombed-out homes of their neighbors. They are soon sucked into ...

Say hello to New England mobsters and special agents of the " B ". Would they ever strike a symbiotic relationship beneficial to each? Author Brian James puts the above premise in play within the opening chapters of his latest work … CHASE. Not content to get his own ass in a sling, he quickly entraps his family and friends in dangerous circumstances and unjustified suspicion. The autocratic powers James poked fun at in his two earlier books have now had enough of him. Travel then up and d...

Author Brian James's sequel to his first book, HEADSTONE, answers most questions about the infamous heist. However, it also opens up so many more possibilities that even Junior James himself would be scratching his silver receding hairline and belting down several vodka and waters in the hereafter with co-record holder, Rasputin, for most vodka consumed in a lifetime. What was actually taken from the trusting depositors in the Fourth of July holiday weekend vault burglary of the early '80s...