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Devil Stories - Twenty tales of the demonic selected and edited by Maximilian J. Rudwin. The Devil is an old character in literature. Perhaps he is as old as literature itself. He is encountered in the story of the paradisiacal sojourn of our first ancestors, and from that day on, Satan has appeared unfailingly, in various forms and with various functions, in all the literatures of the world.

An anthology selected and edited by Edward J. O’Brien and John Cournos with an introduction by John Cournos and Edward O'Brien.

My life experience with the supernatural, ghosts, and spells - about the possession of my unborn baby. It's also about my heritage with witches, shadow people, and about the family curse.

Humanity lives in the sunlit world of what we believe to be reality. Unknown to most there is, unseen by most, another world, possibly many other worlds, running side by side with our own. The Marquette Institute and Department of Preternatural Activities (DPA) are the latest in a long and illustrious line of organizations established to help safeguard the human race from the monsters living in the spaces between reality and nightmares. These stories just scratch the surface of the operations and investigations conducted in almost 200 years of operation.

Cybele Moondragon is an unemployed English graduate student who is disillusioned with her life and tired of being in debt. She decides to resurrect a matriarchal cult based on the pagan goddess Cybele in order to make a lot of money and empower men and women who are stifled in more traditional, patriarchal religions. Cybele is joined in her quest by her best friend, Janus Styx, a psychology graduate student who helps with the funding for the cult - but unknown to Cybele, manipulates vulnerable members of the cult for his own purposes.

Sandi is just a girl, a mom, a lover...and now a killer. There is only one chance left to sabotage the opposition that seeks to annihilate democracy and the republic. This counter-coup fits Sandi like a glove. If Sandi succeeds, not only will the power and basic services will be restored, but our way of life as well. If Sandi fails, many will fall. Either way, someone's going to get their heart broken. Either way, someone's going to die! This is the long-awaited finale of destruction, revenge, and blood. Will hope win out in the end?

Sandi used to sleep with Jimmy, her man. Now she slept with her AK-47 with a detachable scope. Her Bible lay dusty in the cab of the truck. The nightmares of the past years haunted her. Sandi wasn't the fun, happy, busy girl she used to be. The Opposition took what she most held dear. She could still barely stomach the horrifying images in her head. This time, she was not going to let it go.

It's not always easy to talk about race, racism, and prejudice. These are subjects that can really make people angry. What we sometimes forget is that we all have opinions. We don't all think alike, no matter what race we are. There are certain words that shouldn't be said aloud and jokes we shouldn't repeat because they can be very hurtful. This book is divided into four parts. The first part will deal with individual, personal stories of racism.

Sixty-one year old Ruth Barstow is mean, bitter, and always sticking her nose in everyone's business, including threatening the local police chief to do his job or lose it. Until the night she crosses paths with a dangerous man named Devin. Now, she's a trembling mess and quite possibly losing her mind - and needs the police chief's help to stop Devin from terrorizing her. But the police chief has other plans.

A collection of horror short stories that will make you cringe and leave your lights on at night. The more you listen, the more you fear anything that goes bump in the night.

The murder of Mara's father and grandmother thrusts her into her mother's life of secrets, lies, and crushing emotional abuse. Alone and starving for love, she has no one to turn to, except her pet sugar gliders Then, she meets Travis Raines. He's everything her father warned her about, and everything she needs to protect her shattered soul. With him, she discovers her strength - and the vengeful, deadly secrets of the past.

Rachel just learned something that will change her life forever. Rachel can raise the dead. Surrounded by people who think she's either a circus freak or the biggest deal in a century, Rachel has to figure out who to trust. Luckily for her, she has her father on her side, and a new mentor willing to teach her how to control her new talent. But there's someone else interested in Rachel, and he's not nearly as nice as the cute new boy in school. Can Rachel control her new talent, and still manage to remain at least semi-normal?

A loving couple adopts a child of their own to raise, and as the child gets older he realizes that his loving mother and father are not what he thought they were. This is a twisted short story of a loving family that had major issues of their own and want to pass on their practice to another.

After their world falls apart, these look-alike aliens want to invade earth and will do anything they can to do it...even murder. But what they don't know is that we will also.

Inga manages to escape from a house of terror where she was held as a sex slave along with other girls who were kidnapped. She is chased into the woods and runs onto the road, almost falling under the wheels of an approaching car. She thought, it would be better to die that way than to return to her captors. The driver of the car, to her surprise, saves her. He brings her to his house and introduces her to his family: his mother, his father, and his younger sister.

On any given day, Chief Carrie Stewart has her hands full, between meth cooks, pot farmers, drunk and disorderly calls, and the ever-present day to day hassles of running an underfunded police department. But when first livestock and then people start dying, it will take the help of a mysterious man and all her resources to discover the truth. Is she the hunter, or the hunted?

Elionist is a demon beyond measure, but somehow he's developed a conscience and it's tearing him apart. Captivated by a young woman, he finds himself falling in love with a mortal but evil entities try to thwart their advances by any means, even the devil himself.

The Dark Musings Collection contains six stories of horror and suspense.

The Clarkson family has been through a lot, having gone through a paranormal event that nearly took their lives and, without knowing, having it plastered on the Internet and TV. Now, they just want to leave their old life behind and start anew, but the evil entities that haunted them seem to follow them wherever they go.

Well, in Dating: A Woman's Playbook, you will see how you can be successful in any relationship. You will learn if he's just using you for sex when you think that he wants to settle down. Some people love to play red light, green light with your emotions. Men have traits and telltale signs, but often we women ignore our intuition and believe we can change him. No longer will you have to go on an emotional roller coaster to figure what you want - let alone is this relationship going to work?