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After the events of Shadowchaser, Detective Jennifer King finds herself in a new city. A new assignment. Her first case brings her to a place where something otherworldly has happened. A murder scene beyond anything she has ever seen before. Something hangs in the air...a presence that seems to be following her every move. Among the evidence found at the scene, Jennifer notices a strange and unique black ring among the mutilated remains of the victim. After researching the ring, believing that it may help to solve her case, she learns of a legend attached to it.

This is the story of a child who has a bit of trouble sleeping. Unlike most children who occasionally have difficulty drifting off to sleep, this particular one's nighttime world has become a place of utter madness. Hailed by the respected Indianola Book Review in 2012 as "one of the most frightening shorts that has ever graced indie publishing," The Closet Man returns with a brand new edit and introduction by the author.

Shaun Jackson couldn't have children...but he loved the children. And the children loved him. Whether they wanted to or not. The Gainesville Slasher, as he was also known, has just found the newest child in a string of bodies the police never recovered. He had done this countless times...but even as he succeeds in kidnapping the next little girl, a fear begins to grow inside him. Something isn't quite right about her....

A couple is stuck in a small town, unable to leave due to a violent storm that seems to have come out of nowhere. The residents seem overly prepared for what, at first, seems like an ordinary thunderstorm. People are fleeing into their homes and shutting them up as if protecting themselves from something far deadlier than thunder and lightning. There's just something about those clouds....

Matthew Herrington has just built a getaway for his friends...friends bonded together by a terrible secret. Lot 150 was supposed to be a place of relaxation, a place to forget about the strange past they all share, but it quickly turns into a place worse than hell itself. Billie Dean Shoemate III offers his greatest novel to date...with a story he cites as the most terrifying one he has ever written.

Jeremy Miller is six weeks old. He is not like other children. In fact, no other child on earth is like him. He was somehow born with a fully-functioning adult mind. A unique character study of human nature and moral implications regarding parenthood, The Sixth Week of Jeremy Miller is a dramatic, yet subtly unsettling listen.