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Henry and Elizabeth Goddard lived in a beautiful castle overlooking the sea. Elizabeth and Henry were so in love with each other. They were inseparable, they always did things together. It seemed they had it all, until one day when Henry's maid came into his study and locked the door behind her. Catherine was her name and she had the most beautiful blue eyes and blonde hair on any woman around. Catherine had her eyes on Henry for quite some time. She couldn't control her feelings anymore and decided now was the time.

They came into the world as one - inseparably tied together at their chests - yet they were two. They became world celebrities, American citizens, married two native-born Southern sisters, and between them fathered 21 children, while acquiring respectable status as landowners, famers, slave owners, and pillars of their local community. "They" were the famous, the first, the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng.

This is a story about forbidden love between Abraham Lincoln and a Sasquatch.

What would happen if two complete opposites met under the strangest of circumstances? What if those two opposites happened to be Santa Claus and Count Dracula? And what if the Count wanted to take over Christmas and redo this joyous holiday into his own evil version of it? That's exactly what this story is about and it has some surprising turns of events for everyone involved including the Count, Renfield and even famed drummer Johnny Vatos.

We've all heard the legendary song "The Midnight Special" at least once in our lives. It's the fabled tale about how a mysterious train passes by a prison every night, and if the light of the train shines on a lucky prisoner waiting at his cell window, they'll be released But what happens next? Where does this prisoner go from here, and who is this mysterious conductor waiting on the train to meet with the lucky prisoner? You'll have to take this journey to find out!

Thirty years ago six miners were lost deep in the bowels of Shaft 29, trapped in the wake of a mysterious accident. Was this the result of a faulty section of earth giving way or were other forces involved? And who were those strange people with the red eyes working up at the site alongside the miners? And were the six miners ever found alive? This is the story of that mysterious event and of the historical implications it may have on our world if we don't stop these...beings. And where will these events lead next?

Have you ever, out of anger, wished someone dead or hurt in some way? This is exactly what happened in the town of Deadington. Sarah Phillips was teased by the townspeople because of her hideous face from a fire that destroyed her family. Sarah was placed in a foster home where she was abused on a constant basis by the sons of the family she was living with. Sarah finally reached her boiling point one late night when she was running from her foster brothers fearing for her life. Sarah came upon a cabin in the woods and fell to her knees out of breath knowing in her heart this was probably the last time she would take her last breath.

Kathy and Jim Patterson were just a little too eager to settle down and start a new family. They jumped into the first place they saw, Denmore Castle, unaware of what lay beneath the castle walls. Kathy was a school teacher and Jim was a chemist. Kathy and Jim had it all: money, love and the pursuit of happiness. The Pattersons felt castle Denmore would be a dream come true, but in actuality it would lead them both down the road of torment and death.

The Baron de Graff and his wife Dorabella lived in a beautiful castle in Scotland. The Baron de Graff and Dorabella were deeply in love, and it showed at the lavish parties that were held in their ballroom. The Baron was a jealous husband, and if any man should lay eyes on Dorabella in a way that made the Baron uncomfortable, he would be brought down to the dungeon and punished. If that didn't teach him a lesson, he would be put on the chopping block - thus losing his head.

After Drac Von Stoller, and Nick Maundrell's takeover of the world in 666 days, Nick and his wife Isabella lived a simple life in Drac Von Stoller's old Castle for many years, but Nick wanted to be what Drac Von Stoller was and all that was on his mind was being the King of the Vampires. Nick just couldn't shake off the thought of just being Drac Von Stoller's right hand Vampire the rest of his life, so Nick decided to invite Drac Von Stoller to his Castle and poison him and drive a stake through his heart.

Dr. Carvington worked countless hours down in his laboratory trying to perfect the greatest breakthrough in medical history. Most of his subjects were very unhealthy and barely made it through Dr. Carvington's experiments. Dr. Carvington wasn't about to give up his work on any poor useless specimen that meant absolutely nothing to him in a personal way. Dr. Carvington must have seen a half a dozen specimens before the right one came along. There stood at the doorway a dashing young man with blonde hair

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life. Includes: "The Premature Burial Grounds", "Dead Man's Chest", "The Castle of Black Shadows", "The House of Death", and "Rise of the Zombies".

A bomb hooked to a banker's back, a one-eyed busted-out former cop, hooker/biker bars on Airline Highway in New Orleans, drugs in the French Quarter, a 300-pound female bartender, an ex-con whose main goal in life is to have more expensive shoes than anyone else, a drug czar named Fidel Castro (a cousin of the more famous one in Cuba), money laundering schemes, and a criminal genius, who enjoys pulling his victim's fingernails out with pliers and who did everything right in what should have been the perfect crime save for one tiny mistake...

Frank and Jane Dennison thought they had found the house of their dreams. When they were able to acquire a beautiful Victorian mansion at a great price, they jumped at the opportunity. However, they had no way of knowing what they were truly getting themselves into. Will the Dennisons be able to escape the grasp of the haunted estate? Or will they too meet an untimely end?

Summer finally arrived and Ben, Susan and Mike were excited to close their textbooks and spend the summer at the lake. Their parents were glad their kids loved spending the summer at the lake because it gave them some time to themselves to not worry about what their kids were up to. Their parents dropped off their kids, waved goodbye for the last time. The camp had been closed for a couple of years because of a secret governmental experiment that went horribly wrong.

Countess York was a very rich mean spoiled woman who upon her husband's death inherited not only his wealth but his cold heartedness. The countess husband was a wealthy oil tycoon who handled all his affairs with an iron fist. The minute her husband died the countess had plenty of money to give her husband a very expensive funeral but being taught by a man with a cold heart and an iron fist he was lucky to have been put into a pine box and buried in the family cemetery.

When three friends decide to camp out at a supposedly haunted ghost town on Halloween night, they get much more than they bargained for. Terrifying, unexplainable things begin happening as soon as they set out. Their legendary tales told around the campfire prove to be much more real than they ever could have imagined.

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life. Immerse yourself into some of the best horrifying short stories ever told. 21 Short Stories from '31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead' includes "Don't Mess with the Dead", "Don't Go in the Woods", "Death Island Lighthouse", "I Just Couldn't Leave Her in the Cold Dark Ground", "Cannibal Lake", "The Red Room", "Death of a Writer", "Army of the Dead", "The Shadowman", "Knock Three Times on My Grave", "Worley Manor", and many more.

You agree to meet with a hit man, but the person you want him to kill is... YOU. You're dying of bone cancer and this is the only way to make the insurance company pay so you can take care of your family when you're gone. This cat-and-mouse story is not all it seems, but the hit goes down exactly as planned.

God wants us to love our neighbors. If this is the premise of being Christian, then why do thousands of denominations claim to be the "right and true" one, implying that all others are false? The author searches for truth and explores real-world issues concerning Christians throughout history and today, and the future of Christianity in this ever-changing world. Join the author as he challenges you to think outside of your comfort zone and questions what you might have been told not to question about the Word of God.