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A dark tale of hubris, lust, and self-destruction… as told by a man who famously fell prey to those same impulses in his own life. Oscar Wilde wrote his original interpretation of the Biblical story of Salomé in French, and the play was so controversial that no theatre in England would produce it for nearly four decades. Includes a conversation with director Michael Hackett and Wilde scholar David Rodes. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production.

Every Christmas town has a secret. Giftwrap Town mails its people. Clara Martin came home for a soft holiday assignment—cover the parade, interview the mayor, write something warm enough to sell postcards. Then, at midnight, she wakes to a sound no house should make: tape tearing inside her bedroom wall.

The night was thick with an unsettling fog as the last train of the evening prepared to depart, a lone beacon against the encroaching darkness. Passengers, weary from the day's toils, hurried towards the train, their breaths visible in the chill air. Unbeknownst to them, a sinister presence lurked among them, ready to unleash a wave of terror that would alter the course of their lives forever. The station's dim lights flickered ominously, casting long shadows that seemed to dance with malevolence, amplifying the palpable tension that hung in the air.

When Diane Chen's email arrives at Jordan's bookstore, it seems like another impossible case: twelve deaths over eight years at Riverbend Psychiatric Facility, all officially ruled as accidents or suicides. But as Jordan, Alex, and Maya investigate, they uncover a horrifying pattern of systematic abuse across 47 Horizon Health Systems facilities nationwide. Children like Sophie Brennan are being over-medicated, restrained, and silenced, while corporate executives prioritize profits over patient care.

Eight Indigenous women have vanished along the route of the Clearwater Pipeline in Montana. Law enforcement calls them runaways. Lifestyle-related disappearances. Cases that don't warrant investigation. But community organizer Sarah Whitefeather has been counting. She's documented the pattern: all eight women disappeared near pipeline worker housing. All within eighteen months. All dismissed by authorities who won't look at the evidence.

Fourteen months after exposing a murder conspiracy, Jordan Blake wants nothing more than to return to their quiet life. But when a package arrives containing audio recordings from a dead woman, they're pulled back into the darkness. Natalie Volkov tried to expose a pharmaceutical theft ring operating through a rural Maryland pharmacy. She told the police. She had proof. Three weeks later, she was dead—ruled an accidental overdose.

Aetheria — a slow-burn horror saga about memory, place, and a thing that learns when we listen. When amateur explorers awaken a dormant force in the ruined Blackwood Asylum, the building doesn’t stop at haunting: it rewrites reality. From institutional rot to a single, corrupted town and then outward into the world, the Aetheria entity turns landscapes into living nightmares that feed on memory and sanity.

Claire Holloway has spent her life believing that systems exist to create order. Bills get paid. Accounts balance. Problems announce themselves clearly. Then her late husband’s checking account begins to move on its own. At first, the charges are small and familiar—coffee from a place her husband once frequented, pharmacy purchases tied to no prescription she recognizes. The bank offers neutral explanations. The records confirm nothing illegal. Everything is authorized. What Claire uncovers is not fraud, but intention.

A town reset to zero. A ledger that records what people try to forget. And a detective who refuses to blink. After the Hollow Creek case reopens old wounds, Detective Mae Calder faces a new pattern: survey pins that move overnight, brass tags stamped 0 where the number 27 used to be, and near-miss “rescues” with no victims—just cut red thread and footprints that stop at the fence. As Founders’ Day approaches, officials promise “normalcy,” but maps quietly shift lot lines by inches and the creek’s old channel begins to wake.

A failed horror writer, Marcus Thorne, inherits a "cursed" estate in a forgotten corner of Alabama. Desperate to revive his career, he decides to use the house as inspiration for his next book, a non-fiction-style account that will feel so authentic, listeners won't be able to tell fact from fiction. He believes the house is his salvation.

The Tenebrous Archives: The Sovereign Seed is a psychological horror thriller that marks the fourth descent into Tommy Marcum’s critically acclaimed series. In this installment, memory is no longer just a record—it’s a sovereign force, cultivated through diplomacy, betrayal, and biological revision. Dr. Lila Hart returns to confront the archive’s most insidious evolution: the sovereign seed, a living directive capable of rewriting grief, identity, and history itself.

When ecologist Mara Wren arrives in the timber town of Alder’s Hollow to catalog an old grove, she expects moss and silence. What she finds are eighteen-inch footprints leading away from a butchered deer, a line of ritual cairns hidden beneath moss, and a community that answers every question with a quieter question. The locals call it the Keeper. The old stories call it something older.

In a fractured world where memory is power and truth is negotiable, a fragile accord emerges—one that could redefine the future of narrative itself. As global institutions scramble to control the past, the Archive stands at the edge of diplomacy, myth, and resistance.

This is a story based on a true story, with an added twist. A woman goes missing in a small rural town in the mountains. As she awaits her fate unraveling the truth of her life's mysteries. She is mentally ill, desperately trying to take control by seizing the opportunity to figure out what, or who has been following her. She advances her studies trying to plant her feet, but is unsuccessful. She must go through a windy, troubling path, to move on, and find peace. Uncovering the truth she would never would have known what was making her sick, all along.

Heinrich Wilson takes you on a fast-paced journey through time travel, the multiverse, glitches in the matrix, déjà vu, funny coincidences, and the Butterfly Effect — showing how the past may not be fixed, the present may already be patched, and the future isn’t waiting… it’s multiplying. This is not a dry science book. It’s a witty, unsettling, and eye-opening exploration of the idea that our world might not be the first version of reality — just the one that survived.

Oiwa's beauty was the stuff of legends, captivating all who laid eyes upon her in the bustling streets of Edo. With her long, flowing hair and delicate features, she embodied the ideal of feminine allure in 17th-century Japan. However, her stunning appearance served as both a blessing and a curse. While many admired her, it was the shallow affection of her husband, Iemon, that ultimately sealed her fate. He was entranced by her beauty but devoid of any genuine love or respect, viewing her merely as a trophy rather than a partner.

In a land scorched by sun and stained by secrets, one man walks a path below the reach of law, hope, or mercy. William Cash—once sheriff, now a ghost in his own story—emerges from the ashes of Johnson’s Corner to confront the evil that festers beneath the soil. But the devil wears many faces, and redemption runs as dry as the riverbeds. In the aftermath of fire and betrayal, a new darkness takes root. Children vanish, shadows whisper in the trees, and a woman with no past holds the key to an ancient curse.

The air was thick with anticipation as the group of friends gathered around a weathered table in their rustic cabin. Their holiday, meant to be a thrilling adventure filled with laughter and exploration, took an unexpected turn when a mysterious package arrived on their doorstep. Wrapped in coarse brown paper and tied with frayed twine, it bore no return address, only the chilling words, "For those who dare enter the Cavern of Lost Souls." Their curiosity piqued, they exchanged glances, excitement mingling with trepidation.