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In this collection of short stories, you’ll meet vampires, zombies, elves, and aliens. You’ll step into an old haunted house. You’ll even witness a trial of the Kafkaesque sort, set in the distant year 2668. But you’ll never guess how any of these stories are going to end. Twisted Tales from the Northwest are chilling, subtle stories of latent horror. There’s not much blood spilt, but still, maybe you should refrain from listening to this one at night.

Sex and the mafia collide with higher education to make English professor Willard Slick’s tenure very tenuous. When “Slick Willie” asks Dudley College students to write about their sexual experiences, students, parents, faculty, and the college president are up in arms. Unfortunately for Slick, so is the head of New England’s crime syndicate.

Dream Lover and Other Tales includes seven paranormal and supernatural stories. The collection includes "Glint", "Dream Lover", "Ben Franklin's Dream", "The Mayor's Cow", "The Maestro's Gift", "Tracks in the Snow", and "The Messiah of Harriman".

It's 1854, and the 113th Regiment of Foot is commissioned to Sevastopol during the Crimean War. As the great storm of November 1854 rages, Jack and his friend Ben - a naval officer - are rescuing survivors from a wrecked ship. Jack finds out that one of the survivors is Helen Maxwell, his former sweetheart.

On a distant planet, xenobiologist Janine Meriwether finds herself haunted by a recurring dream: being dragged to her death by the Nartressan seaweed. Soon, she learns of three others - a traumatized emergency responder, a troubled seafood mogul, and a high-priced escort - who share the same nightmare.

Final days of the Earth are here. Mal is a 16-year-old girl who fights for survival in a dangerous, unforgiving world. When the Death Dealers - aliens that hunt in silence - begin harvesting people from her village, she is forced to flee into the wilds surrounding her home. With her three friends, Mal must learn how to cope and survive. But soon, she is confronted with a truth that will not only change her world, but the future of the whole species.

Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. Soon, George discovers that this is not the first property that has been targeted. When a man is found dead in the hold of a trade ship, George discovers a shocking connection between Beaumont and foreign powers threatening the very country.

As summer draws to a close before junior year, Rowyn Black is tired of seeing the Tower card stare up at her from the table. On their 16th birthday, Rowyn's kind is gifted with awesome powers. But this is not Narnia or Hogwarts; this is Elizabethtown, Illinois, and much to the chagrin of the local chapter of Susie-Homemakers, witches live here. All witches understand that the universe is a scary sort of powerful.

The Earth is no more. Escaping the premature nova of Sol, humanity's last survivors flee their doomed home using an experimental drive that takes them to the far side of the galaxy. With 10,000 survivors, dwindling resources, and rapidly diminishing hope, the fleet is on the verge of breaking point. Gaia, their new home, offers one last chance of survival for the human race. But when Major Tom Merrick and Captain Juliana Curran lead the expedition to explore this new frontier, they learn that Gaia is a world fraught with peril and deadly secrets.

When 13-year-old Greenwick wakes up in a forest, he has no memory of how he got there - or who he is. To make matters worse, he finds himself accompanied by a strange, yet friendly grizzly bear. Confused at first, the two travel across a vast, magical world, bumping into danger and those who claim to prevent it. Thrown into a conflict between nations, beasts, and spectres, Greenwick begins a journey of self-discovery and adventure. Soon, coincidences begin to feel more like fate. But can Greenwick and his new friend find their true destiny in this strange world?

It's the 1960s, and Joe has fled the big city only to end up in the small resort town of Applewood. Writing for the Gazette, Joe's life is uneventful until strange events begin to unfold. A young girl drowns off a motorboat, and a local farmer plants a hoe in his wife's back. The assistant manageress of the bank vanishes without a trace. Why is the whole town going crazy?

Come on a whirlwind ride across time and place with one of the most recognizable figures of Western history - Joan of Arc. We all know of her, but few know the details of her life. Travel back in time, through the words of the maid, in a series of imaginary interviews conducted by the author. Join her on her journey from shepherdess to warrior woman, to her rise to sainthood. Enjoy Joan’s own words, recorded through two arduous trials. Listen to her own descriptions of the many battles and political maneuvers she lived through and starred in.

Alicia Collinson poses a surprising question to her dinner guests: “Do you think lying is endemic in society today?” They all have different answers based on their experiences, but what was the purpose of Alicia’s question? She was separated from her twin brother Tom, when they were eight. Tom graduated into a life of violence, while Alice found a life of fortune and wealth in her partner Mary. But when Mary unexpectedly passes away, a new person enters Alice's life - someone who seems to know every detail about her.

It's the mid-11th century, and the Byzantine Empire dominates the world. Within the walls of its great capital, Constantinople, treachery, debauchery and power politics are part of the lives of the ruling elite. Thrust into this mix is the Viking adventurer, Harald Hardrada. In the court of the deranged emperor, Michael the Fifth, danger lurks at every turn, and Harald soon becomes a pawn in the various factions' thirst for power. Can he survive this dangerous place, and turn his mind towards regaining what is rightfully his?

Lithir and Bruno are sent to find the traitor who plotted to kill Alfrahil. If they are to be successful in their mission, centuries of distrust between their races must be overcome. As the unlikely duo enters the Dwarven mines of Nerea, they confront a maniacal sect, whose power threatens to consume all Dwarves with hatred. Desperate to learn the secrets of an ancient seer, they travel deep into the Elven and Dwarven realms, facing their most dire challenges yet. They must rely on each other to survive, but can they escape the traps set for them by their very own people?

The Fifth Commandment is a supernatural memoir entwined with a plot drenching with old-fashioned religious guilt, and short enough to finish in a single sitting - perhaps lounging by the pool or sitting in the garden. The novella follows Christina into a confessional and starts at what we would consider our weakest point.

The fate of the world is balanced on a knife's edge. Despite everything Madden and Eva have been through to prevent it, the ARC Council is in disarray and demons roam the Earth. The Apocalypse is closer than ever, and the solution couldn’t be further from her grasp. Eva has to throw off the yolk of personal tragedy and follow her destiny to the one place she doesn't want to go. The one place she cannot hope to avoid.

After aspiring novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness from a coma, he discovers he’s affected by synaesthesia and that his now cross-wired brain endows him with heightened psychic powers. Jake’s research on the Northumbrian king Aldfrith takes him to Elfrid’s Hole in North Yorkshire, where - as legend relates - the king sheltered after a bloody battle. What Jake doesn't realize is that his investigation has unleashed a series of deadly paranormal events in which Jake himself becomes the prime suspect.

When a deadly plague seizes the walled town of Avignon, young Marius is determined to save his townsfolk from the raging pestilence. While leading the effort to combat the Black Death, Marius is distracted by a liaison with the mysterious Alice. Meanwhile, Pope Clément harbors a burning desire for vengeance on the boy’s father. As death sweeps through the city, can Marius reconcile his passion with a duty to his wife, and his responsibility to the townsfolk?

Two hundred years after Earth's destruction, humans are on the run from the Warrior Alphas, who have taken over the planet. Only old, leather-bound books pulled from the rubble tell the story of who once inhabited most of Earth. Calypso is one of the last survivors, hiding in one of remaining human safe havens. But she’s different than the rest of her kind; her hair a silvery blue and her eyes like ice, due to a mutation in her genes from past nuclear fallout. She has always been warned about the large, merciless enemy, and that if they found them, they would be killed or enslaved.