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Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up. From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

It's Christmas Eve - a time of wonder, magic, anticipation....And terror. A father who will go to any lengths to feed his hungry children. An unsuspecting woman who inherits a house with a deadly secret. A murderous widow who shares a train carriage with Jack the Ripper. Two burglars who bite off more than they can chew, during a late-night raid. These, and many more bedtime stories, come hideously to life, in Mark L'Estrange's 19 tales of terror - each set on the most festive night of the year.

Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, and Byron. The poets of the Romantic Period celebrated with readings by Sir Ralph Richardson, Christopher Hassall, Margaretta Scott, and Tyrone Power.

Husbands if you want to hear God say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant,” at the judgment seat of Christ, there is a simple way to achieve that. Give up your life for your wife's. Be her leader, her lover, and her servant. Accommodate your life to her, she is a gift from God. Treat her as such and you will hear that accolade at the judgment seat. If not, well it's up to you.

I watched as the policeman took out a notebook and read from an open page. He spoke in a whisper. Inspector Lestrade's face turned ashen. He turned towards me, looking grim.

A collection of original short stories. Hear tales of vengeful ghosts in the woods, an immortal murderer, the devil's tramping ground, shadow dancers, gifted children, and much more.

Finding ways to make money that doesn’t force you to directly exchange your time for money is something we all dream of, but how many of us actually make it a reality? The problem is that it’s all too easy to look on with envy at the "lucky" few who make it work, while still doing nothing in your own life to force the shift.

After 17-year-old Natalie Willis is dropped off at her Birmingham, Alabama, home following a Halloween party, she discovers that the house has been ransacked and her parents and younger twin siblings have been brutally murdered. Natalie is attacked by one of the killers, but rescued by the police who arrive in time to save her. Fast forward seven years to another Halloween night. Natalie, now a reclusive author of children's books, stumbles onto another crime scene when she checks to see how her neighbors fared during a tornado.

Lab-built monsters, genetically created from dinosaur and reptile bases, are terrorizing people all over the world. Used in attacks by everyone from terrorists to governments, they are the latest weapon to be unleashed on the global public. Max Alexeyev is part of a secret military group formed to strike at the heart of the monster problem: the labs that are churning them out. Melanie Viña is an active duty US Marine sniper out for revenge. They meet in Africa and join forces to locate and destroy the largest of the labs.

It's Christmas eve at 221B Baker Street. On the stroke of midnight, a delivery arrives addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The message is a cryptogram which reveals itself to be so obtuse that it has the famous consulting detective baffled. Holmes becomes so obsessed with revealing the secret of the cypher that Watson fears for his well-being in refusing to eat or sleep. Holmes can only deduce that time is of the essence, and that a means of deciphering must be discovered which has never before been employed. Watson wonders what new adventure will emerge, should the puzzle be unraveled.

If you're looking for fun new ways to talk about pooping, then Poophemisms is for you. From going to throw down some brown to chumming for sewer rats, you'll never run out of ways to tell your friends and loved ones you're going to crap! Poophemisms is a veritable dictionary of defecation, with over 1,737 different ways to say you need to take a dump. Arranged alphabetically, the book covers everything from "adding a wing to the manor" to "zapping the porcelain".

Anger Management for Men is the comprehensive self-help guide for men that provides effective anger management tools and teaches how to take control of powerful emotions, so you can live a happier life. If there’s one thing hindsight always teaches us, it’s that a calm response would have been much better, even though, it felt good to say or do mean things while we were angry, panicky, or afraid. But regret can surely feel worse.

When Pea opened a portal and the alien cat, Max Gigan, jumped through from another dimension, he certainly didn't expect the talking tomcat to stay on as a family pet. He soon learns it can come in handy to have a fur ball from an alternate universe around when his friend reopens the portal letting in vampire velociraptors who want to slime and eat the whole city! Pea’s dad is one of the first infected. But his dear old dad isn’t the only one. The dinosaurs escape the museum where the portal opened and rampage through Milwaukee.

A university student doing a thesis on fear takes his research too far. A man learns he is next in line to be the Grim Reaper, but does not want to give up his life. An angel forces a man to relive his worst memory. A former Nazi hiding in Canada is haunted by more than just his past. A couple haunted by an unspeakable act committed with the best intentions, with dire consequences. People haunted by whispers of the past try to forget and move on. But no matter how hard they try, how far they run, it waits for them...and just when they think they are safe, the whispers begin again.

For Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler was always the woman, but at the end of A Scandal in Bohemia, Dr. Watson had pronounced her dead and gone. However, reports of her death were greatly exaggerated. Holmes and Miss Adler had fallen in love at first sight, and she promptly moved in with Holmes and Watson at 221B Baker Street. In an effort to protect the delicate sensibilities of the British reading public, Watson explained her presence by referring to her as Mrs. Hudson, the housekeeper, even as Holmes and Adler combined forces to become a formidable detecting duo.

London: November 1905. England and the world are changing. Into the rooms of Sherlock Holmes come Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison - with new inventions that will alter the course of human history - only both inventions have gone missing. Can Holmes, Watson, and Irene Adler somehow unravel the latest diabolical scheme of Marie Chartier - evil daughter of the late Professor Moriarty? Can world peace be achieved by the most powerful weapon ever created? Can death itself be overcome by a scientific genius? And can Sherlock Holmes survive the greatest personal loss of his career?

London: June 1897. It's the day before Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and her son, the playboy Prince of Wales, arrives at 221B Baker Street, pursued by anarchist assassins. The greatest chef in the world, Auguste Escoffier, also arrives, his career about to be shattered by blackmail and scandal. Can Holmes, Watson, and Irene Adler save the life of the heir to the British crown and the reputation of the master chef?

London: December 1888. The notorious and as-yet undiscovered genius, Vincent van Gogh, presents Sherlock Holmes with a most unusual case. Aided by his partner Dr. Watson and his paramour Irene Adler, the trio embark on a rousing adventure and find themselves confronting the evil daughter of Professor Moriarty. With a helping hand from Oscar Wilde, the world's greatest detective attempts to solve one of the most audacious crimes of the Victorian era and uncover a post-impressionist conspiracy.

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate, and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases, which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with.

It's the year 1906. Rumors abound that a deadly plot is hatching–not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles, but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task is to discover whether such a plot exists, and if so, foil it. But are the assassins targeting the young and progressive Ch'ing Emperor, or his imperious aunt, the fearsome Empress Dowager Cixi? The murder of either could spark a civil war.