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Donald’s Sardine Shop—which was active in the old town of Celer, during the time of Joseph Walker and Sheriff Adrien Baker—existed primarily for the sale of good sardines, but it also inhabited a maniac hidden in plain sight. A lifetime among fish, cut off from human contact, had slowly and eerily worked Donald down into madness; to the point where the voices taking hold of his brain began prompting him to do things unspeakably vile.

Davis Allen's life changes the night he loses control of his truck and destroys the fence of the house on the bend. It's the same night he sees his old man remove his hat to speak to the elderly woman in the porch light. Liam King has tried to live honorably in the eyes of the folks of Harrison since the accident, but when he sees a car stop and dump a young woman on the side of the road before it speeds away, a choice must be made.

Vance Hadrian has led his research team through a rift at the bottom of the ocean-a shimmering, unnatural doorway between worlds. On the other side lies Earth 856, a savage mirror of our own. Vance says they're here for answers. But the truth runs darker than his crew suspects. He's haunted-by the day Kaiju emerged, by the destruction they left behind, and by the terrifying potential they revealed. Vance doesn't want answers-he wants to control them. To bend one of these living weapons to his will.

Ten strangers wake up to find themselves unwitting contestants in a new reality show, The Dungeon. The rules are simple: if they can make it to the end, they will live. The world is watching. Timed kill rooms, traps, wild animals, and a new breed of human monstrosity are all bent on making this game as difficult as possible. Can they come together and work as a team? Or will they fall to the perils within these halls?

At first distant glance, the spherical object appeared nothing more innocuous than a shooting star. Yet, upon further observation, there was something unsettling about its descent. This was no natural free-fall. The year is 1953, and the citizens of the American rural town of Kingshire Falls are busy preparing for its centenary.

When Lieutenant Mark Wheeler of the South Carolina Police Department arrives at a possible murder-suicide, he realizes almost immediately things are amiss. The crime scene is brutal, but upon further investigation, he unveils a sadistic killer at play who will stop at nothing to get away. As the case unfolds, nothing can prepare Wheeler for the gauntlet of turmoil and trouble.

The year is 1988, and Dallas Stone returns for his most lethal case yet. When an ancient artefact is discovered by a meek-mannered librarian, little does he realize, he has released an evil, so powerful, the future of our civilization is at stake. The world’s best hope for survival rests with a disgraced police officer and a motley crew of misfits.