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The official novelization of the highly anticipated revamp of the classic horror film Halloween.In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. Myers was later gunned down, apprehended and committed to Smiths Grove State Hospital. For forty years, memories of that nightmarish ordeal have haunted Laurie and now Myers is back once again on Halloween, having escaped a routine transfer, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. This time, Laurie is prepared with years of survival training to protect herself, her daughter Karen and her granddaughter Allyson, a teenager separated from her family and enjoying Halloween festivities.

Step away from sunny Jerseys present day and into the sinister shadows of the past the islands history is filled with dark deeds and restless spirits. Collected here for the first time are stories that have endured through centuries to chill the blood. This unique anthology gathers together the most famous tales, such as the Ghost Bride and the White Lady, along with lesser-known tales, such as The Lake. Erren Michaels and Noah Goats skilful storytelling, along with Ryan Thomas detailed illustrations, beautifully combine to relate these haunting tales of murder and vengeance that refuse to be forgotten.

When their mutual friend Hannah vanishes without a trace, Blake Bond, vampire and chief of hybrid security at Scanguards, finds himself unwillingly allied with Lilo Schroeder, a human thriller author. As they race to unravel the mystery of Hannahs disappearance, they stumble upon a chilling plot by rogue vampiresa conspiracy that threatens to ignite a war and obliterate all human life.Thrust into a world of shadow and peril, Blake and Lilo must outwit their ruthless enemies at every turn. But the danger isnt just external. A sizzling, undeniable attraction burns between them, a forbidden current that threatens to derail their mission. Lilos courage is unwavering in the face of monsters, but what will happen when Blake is forced to reveal his true, vampiric nature? Will their growing passion be enough to overcome the ultimate secret that divides them?Scanguards Vampires: Book 1: Samsons Lovely Mortal Book 2: Amaurys Hellion Book 3: Gabriels Mate Book 4: Yvettes Haven Book 5: Zanes Redemption Book 6: Quinns Undying Rose Book 7: Olivers Hunger Book 8: Thomass Choice Book 8 1/2: Silent Bite (A Scanguards Wedding Novella) Book 9: Cains Identity Book 10: Luthers Return Novella: Mortal Wish Book 11: Blakes Pursuit

A shroud of amnesia cloaks Cain, a Scanguards bodyguard, in mystery. But the darkness shatters when a cryptic stranger appears, revealing a truth more dangerous than he could ever imagine: Cain was the target of an assassination, and hes no mere bodyguard, but a powerful vampire king. Even more startling, hes engaged to Faye, the enigmatic vampire whos been haunting his dreams.Believing Cain dead, Faye is consumed by grief, and only her loyalty to her clan keeps her from despair. For the sake of her people, she agrees to marry Abel, Cains brothera devastating decision that explodes when Cain miraculously returns to reclaim his throne.Now, Cain is relentless in his pursuit to reclaim the love he shared with Faye, but a ruthless assassin still stalks him, their determination knowing no bounds. Backed by his loyal Scanguards brethren, Cain is plunged into a fight for survival, facing an impossible choice: save his kingdom, or save his queen.ABOUT THE SERIESThe Scanguards Vampires series is full of fast-paced action, scorching love scenes, witty dialogue, and strong heroes and heroines. Vampire Samson Woodford lives in San Francisco and owns a security/bodyguard company, Scanguards, which employs both vampires and humans. And eventually some witches. Throw in a few immortal guardians and demons later in the series, and youll get the drift! Each book can be read as a standalone and always centers around a new couple finding love, but the series is more enjoyable when read in order. And of course, there are always a few running jokes - youll understand when you meet Wesley, a wannabe witch. Enjoy!Scanguards VampiresBook 1: Samsons Lovely MortalBook 2: Amaurys HellionBook 3: Gabriels MateBook 4: Yvettes HavenBook 5: Zanes RedemptionBook 6: Quinns Undying RoseBook 7: Olivers HungerBook 8: Thomass ChoiceBook 8 1/2: Silent Bite (A Scanguards Wedding Novella)Book 9: Cains IdentityBook 10: Luthers ReturnNovella: Mortal WishBook 11: Blakes PursuitNovella 11 1/2: Fateful ReunionBook 12: Johns YearningBook 13: Ryders Storm (Scanguards Hybrids #1)Book 14: Damians Conquest (Scanguards Hybrids #2) Stealth GuardiansLover Uncloaked (#1)Master Unchained (#2)Warrior Unraveled (#3)Guardian Undone (#4)Immortal Unveiled (#5)Protector Unmatched (#6)Demon Unleashed (#7)

After two decades incarcerated in a vampire prison, Luther tastes freedom. But his liberation is short-lived. A sudden kidnapping rips him back into the shadowy world of Scanguards, forcing him to confront the very vampires whose mates he nearly destroyed twenty years ago.Meanwhile, Kimberly "Katie" Fairfax, a former Hollywood actress now teaching drama in San Francisco, is consumed by guilt when Scanguards owner Samsons daughter Isabelle vanishes during one of her performances. Katie is convinced she unwittingly led Isabelle into peril. Desperate to put things right, she forms a fragile alliance with the mysterious Luther, believing hes the only one who can save Isabelle.As an undeniable passion ignites between the unlikely pair, they must battle not only an unknown enemy, but also the relentless demons of their own pasts. Can they overcome their personal torments and unite to rescue Isabelle before theyre consumed by the darkness within?Scanguards Vampires:Book 1: Samsons Lovely MortalBook 2: Amaurys HellionBook 3: Gabriels MateBook 4: Yvettes HavenBook 5: Zanes RedemptionBook 6: Quinns Undying RoseBook 7: Olivers HungerBook 8: Thomass ChoiceBook 8 1/2: Silent Bite (A Scanguards Wedding Novella)Book 9: Cains IdentityBook 10: Luthers ReturnNovella: Mortal WishBook 11: Blakes Pursuit

Newly turned vampire and Scanguards bodyguard Oliver teeters on the edge of savagery, battling a relentless thirst for blood. Each night is a brutal test of his control, but when the alluring Ursula literally collapses into his arms, he fears his carefully constructed defenses will crumble, unleashing the monster within.Ursula has just escaped three years of captivity, enslaved by vampires who crave her unique blood. Rescued by a handsome stranger, her relief turns to terror when she realizes that hes a vampire. Oliver promises salvation, but how can she trust a vampire whose hunger for her body is matched only by his craving for her blood?Driven by a desperate vow to free her fellow blood whores, Ursula reluctantly allies with Oliver and the formidable team at Scanguards. As they plunge into a dangerous quest, the line between predator and protector blurs. Will this uneasy alliance lead to her salvation, or will Olivers insatiable hunger and the lurking dangers of the vampire world drag them both into damnation?Scanguards VampiresBook 1: Samsons Lovely MortalBook 2: Amaurys HellionBook 3: Gabriels MateBook 4: Yvettes HavenBook 5: Zanes RedemptionBook 6: Quinns Undying RoseBook 7: Olivers HungerBook 8: Thomass ChoiceBook 8 1/2: Silent Bite (A Scanguards Wedding Novella)Book 9: Cains IdentityBook 10: Luthers ReturnNovella: Mortal WishBook 11: Blakes PursuitNovella 11 1/2: Fateful ReunionBook 12: Johns YearningBook 13: Ryders Storm (Scanguards Hybrids #1)Book 14: Damians Conquest (Scanguards Hybrids #2)

Turned into a vampire against her will, Maya finds herself under the reluctant protection of Gabriel, a hardened bodyguard, and second-in-charge at the vampire-led security company Scanguards. His mission: to hunt down the rogue vampire and mete out justice. But Maya is unlike anyone Gabriel has ever guarded. Her intoxicating mix of vulnerability and fierce spirit ignites a desire hes sworn to resist. Bound by duty and haunted by a past of rejection, Gabriel fights a losing battle against his yearning. He fears that if Maya ever sees the true monster within, shell flee, branding him a freak, a creature unworthy of love.In a world where danger lurks in every shadow and temptation burns bright, can Maya be the one to see beyond his monstrous facade and cherish the man and vampire Gabriel truly is?Scanguards Vampires (Vampire Series):Book 1: Samsons Lovely MortalBook 2: Amaurys HellionBook 3: Gabriels MateBook 4: Yvettes HavenBook 5: Zanes RedemptionBook 6: Quinns Undying RoseBook 7: Olivers HungerBook 8: Thomass ChoiceBook 8 1/2: Silent Bite (A Scanguards Wedding Novella)Book 9: Cains IdentityBook 10: Luthers ReturnNovella: Mortal WishBook 11: Blakes Pursuit

Jewish vampire Zane, a bodyguard fueled by a violent past and a burning thirst for vengeance, wants nothing to do with his new assignment: protecting Portia, a headstrong vampire-hybrid whose father is dead set on preserving her virginity. Zanes heart, scarred by the horrors of the Holocaust, beats only for revenge against his tormentors. Compassion is a weakness he long ago abandoned. But Portia has her own agenda. Time is running out. In a matter of weeks, her body will set into its permanent vampire form, sealing her fate as a virgin for eternity. To avoid this, she needs a lover, and fasta desperate quest her overprotective father has hired Zane to prevent.The moment their paths cross, an undeniable, explosive attraction ignites, shattering Zanes rigid control and challenging Portias desperate timeline. Their forbidden desire burns hotter than the hell of Zanes past, threatening to consume them both. Can they overcome their ingrained prejudices, trading hatred for love and vengeance for forgiveness, before Zanes demons from the past tear them apart forever?Scanguards Vampires (Vampire Series):Book 1: Samsons Lovely MortalBook 2: Amaurys HellionBook 3: Gabriels MateBook 4: Yvettes HavenBook 5: Zanes RedemptionBook 6: Quinns Undying RoseBook 7: Olivers HungerBook 8: Thomass ChoiceBook 8 1/2: Silent Bite (A Scanguards Wedding Novella)Book 9: Cains IdentityBook 10: Luthers ReturnNovella: Mortal WishBook 11: Blakes Pursuit

Haven, a ruthless bounty hunter fueled by vengeance, faces an impossible choice. His brother is kidnapped, held hostage by a formidable witch. To save him, Haven must deliver a vital pawn: young actress Kimberly. But theres a problemKimberlys protected by the very creature Haven despises most: a vampire. Yvette, a formidable vampire bodyguard working for Scanguards, finds her world turned upside down when she and her charge are snatched by this relentless hunter. Her first instinct? Kill him. Yet, before she can strike, a chilling realization dawns: the hunter has been double-crossed. The witch has ensnared them both in a deadly trap.Now, trapped together, their lives hang by a thread. As Yvette and Haven fight to escape their prison, rescue Kimberly, and save Havens brother, an unexpected fire ignites between them. Can they overcome centuries of ingrained hatred and risk everything to defeat the witch before she unleashes an unimaginable power? Or will their primal instincts tear themand their last hopeapart?Scanguards Vampires (Vampire Series):Book 1: Samsons Lovely MortalBook 2: Amaurys HellionBook 3: Gabriels MateBook 4: Yvettes HavenBook 5: Zanes RedemptionBook 6: Quinns Undying RoseBook 7: Olivers HungerBook 8: Thomass ChoiceBook 8 1/2: Silent Bite (A Scanguards Wedding Novella)Book 9: Cains IdentityBook 10: Luthers ReturnNovella: Mortal WishBook 11: Blakes Pursuit

For two centuries, Quinn, a vampire bodyguard, has drowned his grief in a life of hedonism, desperately trying to forget the one woman he ever loved: his human wife, Rose.But Rose is very much alive. Transformed into a vampire herself, she has spent centuries in the shadows, guarding a terrible secretone she knows would lead to her destruction.But when a malevolent vampire rises, threatening her last living descendent, Rose has no choice but to emerge from hiding and confront the past she so meticulously buried. As Quinn reels from the shock of her return, they are forced to unite against a common enemy, and the embers of their long-dead love ignite into an inferno. Can their rekindled passion conquer the devastating secret that ripped them apart, or will it consume them both?Scanguards Vampires (Vampire Series):Book 1: Samsons Lovely MortalBook 2: Amaurys HellionBook 3: Gabriels MateBook 4: Yvettes HavenBook 5: Zanes RedemptionBook 6: Quinns Undying RoseBook 7: Olivers HungerBook 8: Thomass ChoiceBook 8 1/2: Silent Bite (A Scanguards Wedding Novella)Book 9: Cains IdentityBook 10: Luthers ReturnNovella: Mortal WishBook 11: Blakes Pursuit

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella with the slow build menace of Angela Carters The Bloody Chamberfrom a New York Times-bestselling author hailed by Chuck Wendig as "a storyteller working at the top of her class."Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers market. Ashprecise, pretty, and practically perfectsells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants.Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure. But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find shes not the one doing the devouringTold in lush, delectable prose, this is a deliciously dark tale of passion taking an unsavory turn...

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.In "The Dead Thing," a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents substance addictions and split. One day, her little brother claims he found a shoebox with "the dead thing" inside. He wont show it to her and he wont let the box out of his sight. In "The Last Conversation," a person wakes in a sterile, white room and begins to receive instructions via intercom from a woman named Anne. When they are finally allowed to leave the room to complete a task, what they find is as shocking as it is heartbreaking.The title novella, "The Beast You Are," is a mini epic in which the destinies and secrets of a village, a dog, and a cat are intertwined with a giant monster that returns to wreak havoc every thirty years. A masterpiece of literary horror and psychological suspense, The Beast You Are is a fearlessly imagined collection from one of the most electrifying and innovative writers working today.

These spooky ghost tales from one of Britains most ancient counties are vividly retold by local storyteller Janet Dowling. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these stories are as eerie and mysterious as the windswept moorland, wild shorelines and rugged landscapes from which they derive. Here you will find stories of a voice beyond the grave, a ghost on the pivot between heaven and hell, and the spectres of Viking princes on moonlit roads. Richly illustrated by Vicky Jocher with original drawings, these atmospheric tales are perfect for reading aloud in front of a roaring fire or alone under the covers on dark, stormy nights.

Suffolk a peaceful, rural county with big skies, rolling fi elds, unspoilt beaches, quaint towns and villages. But all is not as quiet as it seems. Could that be the eerie clanking of gibbet chains at the crossroads? Did you see a desolate face at an upper window or a spectral white form lurking in the hedgerow? Cats are not always lucky and beware a north Suffolk Broad in the still, small hours of Midsummer Night . . . Kirsty Hartsiotis and Cherry Wilkinson retell, with spine-chilling freshness, thirty fabulous ghost tales from all corners of this beguiling county. So pull up a chair, stoke the fire and prepare to see its gentle landscape in a new light.

The stories in this haunting collection are as ancient and modern, powerful and fantastical, ambiguous and ambivalent as the ghosts they feature. Here you will find tales of headless horses riding moonbeams, an entrance to another world on Marrowbones Hill, drowned sailors and ghost ships, and a girl riding pillion on a motorbike driven by her dead boyfriend all told in the distinct voice of noted storyteller Michael OLeary who, for years, has wandered the highways and byways of Hampshire, immersed in the layers of ghost stories that have accumulated in this ancient county. Richly illustrated with original drawings, these tales are perfect for reading under the covers on dark, stormy nights.

Three respected Scottish doctors - psychiatrist Steve Hartford, paediatric surgeon Grey Lochran and cosmetic surgeon Robert Forrest - have been close friends since their Edinburgh boyhoods, and now live handsomely in suburban London. But for each, midlife has brought certain discontents, especially for Forrest, a reformed womaniser who broods over his fading looks and the departure of his beautiful younger girlfriend. When Dr Forrest goes missing one summer evening and fails to return, Lochran and Hartford are alarmed by the thought of what might have befallen their friend. The police can find no evidence of foul play, but the two doctors resolve to conduct their own investigation. Soon, however, Lochran and Hartford find themselves bedevilled by bizarre, unnerving events, and the attentions of menacing strangers. Robert Forrest, they come to realise, has remained closer than they could ever have imagined...

En un apacible pueblo rodeado de montañas se suceden una serie de crímenes movidos por el interés para la explotación de una vieja mina abandonada. Pero el regreso al pueblo de un vecino que emigró buscando un futuro mejor para su familia, trunca los planes de unos pocos en el pueblo. Odiado por unos e ignorado por otros, Francisco trata de sacar adelante a una familia al borde de la ruptura, en medio de un ambiente desagradable y malintencionado en el que no tiene en quien confiar, excepto en una mujer a la que todo el mundo cree loca

Boulder, Colorado - El reloj atómico ha avanzado exactamente 666 años. Algunos sugieren que el cambio horario tiene connotaciones bíblicas o satánicas.La lanza del destino, formada a partir del árbol de la vida y usada para atravesar el costado de Cristo, estuvo a lo largo de la historia en manos de hombres tan poderosos como Constantino, Carlomagno o Adolf Hitler. Ahora, las fuerzas del mal han de encontrar la antigua reliquia para utilizar de nuevo su poder con el fin de poner en funcionamiento su Proyecto Hades. A menos que Cotten Stone, la hija de un angel, pueda hallar la forma de evitarlo, se desencadenara una anarquia global sin precedentes que afectara a todos los hombres, mujeres y niños de la Tierra.

El libro de la ley de los Muertos, el compendio de todos los horrores, el manual de los rituales más depravados. Esta es la versión más completa de lo que del Necronomicón ha llegado a nuestros días. El arabe loco, aquel a quien H. P. Lovecraft llamo Abdul Alhazred, estuvo cara a cara con lo mas abyecto, y gracias a su testimonio de primera mano tenemos hoy acceso a la traduccion de parte de los rituales, conjuros y plegarias sumerios que establecen los puentes entre nuestro mundo y el abominable reino de los dioses Primigenios.

Cuando en el transcurso de una terrible tormenta un avión se estrella en la Antártida, dejando expuesta una enorme cueva subglacial, un equipo de investigación y rescate es enviado al lugar. Veinticuatro horas despues, todo contacto con ellos se pierde.El capitan Alex Hunter y su equipo de soldados de elite son enviados alli para averiguar que ha ocurrido. En el interior de esas cavernas encuentran una sustancia no identificada, pero no hay ni rastro de posibles supervivientes. Extraños y primitivos jeroglificos cubren sus paredes: codigos secretos, la llave para desenterrar una antigua civilizacion Se ha liberado un arcano mal; los miembros de la expedicion caen uno a uno, y ni siquiera Alex Hunter, nombre en clave Arcadia, puede evitarlo.