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AI for Sales: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Sales exposes what is actually happening in the world of AI for sales. As Joël Le Bon, PhD, says in the foreword, "In sales, time kills deals, in modern sales AI kills time!"

The fifth and final PHANTASM took an incredible eight years to go from set to screen. The project began as an experimental short before becoming a 13-part web series and finally a feature length sequel. Shot in secret on a microbudget, RAVAGER reunites PHANTASM's core cast 35 years after the original cult classic. The new sequel filmed not in Hollywood soundstages but in the homes of cast and crew. Visual effects were handled mostly by the director.

"Dracula" is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

The death of a young man in Kentucky from a drug overdose sets in motion a chain of events that will see Team Reaper fighting shadows and searching for an enemy they can’t see but who is so powerful they can reach out of the darkness and touch anyone they wish. The Cabal was meant to be a myth...a story that floated around the corridors of power. But when people start dying from poisoned cocaine, Team Reaper is about to find out that some myths are real.

FBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent — she views the world through a lens of numbers. The numbers torment her, make her unable to relate to people, and give her a failed romantic life — yet they also allow her to see patterns that no other FBI agent can see. Zoe keeps her condition a secret, ashamed, in fear her colleagues may find out.

Paul Kane’s The Colour of Madness is a collection of spine-tingling short stories from one of the most prolific masters of modern horror. The collection features Men of the Cloth, the original novelette that inspired the movie Sacrifice, starring Barbara Crampton.

Breaking the law to protect your family seems reasonable...until it's not. Detective Luca’s life is shattered when he’s accused of a revenge killing. When a corpse appears, it doesn’t look good for Luca. The body belongs to someone who harassed his wife, and the circumstances of death point a grisly finger at the detective himself. As suspicion spreads quickly that he has morphed into a killer, Luca finds himself in a difficult predicament. Luca is left on his own to clear his name and capture the culprit. Failure means the loss of his freedom - or his life.

Ben Stillman is on his way back to his hometown of Clantick after chasing illegal whiskey peddlers. He’s eager to be back in his warm home with his wife and young child. But when he runs into a saloon owner who’s been robbed, his best doxie killed, the sheriff of Hill County finds himself on the trail of two young thieving killers, with a hard winter storm bearing down. The saloon owner himself, John Stock, rides along with Stillman. Stock isn’t much help. He’s a loudmouthed drunk, and he ends up getting his horse shot out from under him.

From award-winning writer Paul Kane, the best-selling author of Hooded Man, The Hellraiser Films and their Legacy, and Blood Red, comes three very special interconnected zombie tales.

Reaper arrives in hell zone Afghanistan, set on bringing justice to a Taliban opium warlord. Teamed with the CIA, Reaper wages a dirty war against international narco-terror and the casualties quickly pile up. In a single instant, everything unravels and the team is decimated, forcing John Kane to continue the mission with a quick-on-the-trigger female intel officer wielding an extremely bad attitude and too many secrets.

FBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent: She views the world through a lens of numbers. In Face of Fury, women are turning up dead, victims of a serial killer who carves a mysterious symbol on their bodies. The symbol holds some mathematical significance, and Zoe struggles to know if he is killing in the order of PI. But when her theory falls apart, Zoe must second guess everything she thought she knew. Has Zoe’s talent met its match? And can she save the next victim in time?

Detective Luca knows there are hundreds, if not thousands of killers out there. When he receives a strange call about an unsolved murder, the evil that struck 25 years earlier resurfaces. A teenage girl brutally murdered. A younger brother who was with her that night. A devastated mother, unable to move on. Contemplating fatherhood himself, Luca commits to solving the horrific crime. He'll find the killer, offering the family a measure of closure. But there is a carousel of suspects, the original investigation was botched, and someone is trying to stop Luca.

Jack Steel joined Blackhood Ops to keep his country safe. His family safe. What he didn't expect was a choice between saving an innocent person or stopping terrorists. He knows what his orders are, he's just not sure he can follow them. Millions of lives hang in the balance, along with Steel's conscience. But it doesn't look like he'll make it through the day.

Love and death, bullets and blood.... Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland’s daughter pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss’s daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning public and two weeks later Bliss was dead.

A lovely young teacher is brutally assaulted by her honors class.... A tiny infant is thrown from the top of a double-decker bus to smash on the pavement below.... An elderly man is burned to death by a gang of rampaging teenagers.... And as child after child is sucked into the ever-spreading whirlpool of violence, school security chief Max Donnelly works frantically to discover what is turning six hundred thousand innocent youngsters into deadly machines of destruction - racing against time to prevent their dreadful power from being unleashed against a helpless city.

When the head of Army Black Ops is murdered by assassins, Steel and Christie hunt the killers, and become the hunted. The Jack Steel series is now in development for a major motion picture. From the snowy Virginia forests, to the frigid interior of Alaska, to a lush mountain on St. Croix Island, Steel and Christie will face off against a powerful mercenary organization that wants them dead. Someone is using murder to reshape the U.S. government. And that person has a score to settle with Steel.

One by one, the top officials of US anti-drug agencies are targeted for murder. A cartel hit squad is running free in Washington, DC, and racking up a body count that sends shock waves through federal law enforcement. Team Reaper must stop the killings, but John Kane begins to suspect a web of corruption that extends to the highest levels of the government. The assignment against the cartel hit team is compromised from the start, and soon Team Reaper is under attack.

For rising young executive Bart Hughes, his Manhattan brownstone was his castle - a haven of peace and security amid the urban rot of New York. Now, with his wife and children away for the summer, it was more peaceful still.

Fear grips the city. Frank’s fight with cancer continues, but it’s not keeping him off the job. This killer is clever. As chemo clouds his mind, he struggles with a nagging feeling that something isn’t right. Is the killer toying with him? Will he choose justice or vengeance? His partner, Mary Ann, has her doubts, too. The leads are few and seem to be telling different stories. Her profiling skills are put to the test as she wonders if they’re chasing a single killer. Is she letting her affection for Frank cloud her judgment?

Matthew Daley is an enigma. He’s appeared after seven years - eager to pick up the threads of his life, and make contact once more with his loved ones, which is something that’s not so easy to do when everyone knows that's he's dead.