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It’s the hottest winter on record, but Raymond’s demanding, bedridden mother doesn’t mind. She likes it warm. Lately, however, control over the thermostat has become a nasty struggle. And each morning that she’s still alive is a suffocating new challenge for Raymond. How high can the mercury climb before he boils over?

“Anacrusis” is a unique work of fiction exploring the topics of musicality, anarchic hand, and the supernatural. This work allows the listener to take a seat behind the wheel of a professional musician as his burgeoning career swirls disastrously and inexplicably off course.

A trip to the Holy Land was a dream come true for Catharine Parks, but it was no ordinary vacation. It was a visit to Israel never to be forgotten. From Tiberias to Eilat she felt a supernatural presence that stayed with her every moment of every day. Go along with Catharine as she steps into the cave where Jesus was born and feel the power emanating from Christ's birthplace as it touched her, and let that same power touch you, too. In a life and death struggle, Arguing Against Prophecy will touch your heart and soul as you learn how to be obedient to God's calling.

Treat yourself to a glimpse into the dark future world of New Orleans, where humanity's base desires have overshadowed common decency, and very few are willing to stand in the way. With 10 stories by seven well-known independent authors, High Tech/Low Life is guaranteed to please.

Pyrotempest was considered too dangerous to publish. This is a what-if tale from the cross-hairs of the embedded American psyche. The manuscript has only been circulated from hand-to-hand and publicized by word-of-mouth. It continues to rivet audiences. Are you prepared to take the journey?

When an old girlfriend from the past comes back into his life, Logan finds time is not of the essence. She is lost, upset, and mute. To top it off, she is definitely not the girl she once was. Her loud, political ways from college are gone, leaving her a frail and extremely timid woman with extreme mental issues. After contacting the police, Logan is connected with the forensic psychologist. Seeing the woman in slight distress although Logan has offered her a meal, a shower, and clothing, Doctor Shiles insists they discuss her issues back at his office.

A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for Toronto Noir's corrosive exposés. Features brand-new stories by RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandad, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnet, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill.

The Mid-Metro Bridge is known by just one moniker nowadays: The Bridge. And everyone knows it. It's the place where people go to jump. But the Mayor has other ideas. Will it be enough? Or will it be too much?

The last Nazi is found in the American Midwest, where he has been hiding for 50 years! Born of German immigrants, he takes on the bitterness of his family from the defeat in World War I; sympathizing with Hitler, he wields vengeance on an unsuspecting Jewish merchant of a local farming community. Yet the ghosts of the past haunt him on his last night on earth in an eerie surrealism.

An eclectic selection of short stories.

Twenty-eight-year-old Kade hasn't been able to make it past his sidewalk in eight years. In this chilling short story, you will be given a glimpse into the inner workings of his mind as he goes through the process of trying to face his irrational but very real fears.

The Screaming Skull is one of F. Marion Crawford's Uncanny Tales, which was first published, posthumously, in London in 1911 and was issued two weeks later in America as Wandering Ghosts.

There's no question it was murder. But who killed whom? What begins as a typical corporate event for magician Eli Marks turns into a twisted mystery when he is called to the site of a recent murder/suicide.

Setting tales in the past and telling them with a predominantly pulp flavor, these stories find action and adventure in the annals of yesterday for listeners today! Take a trip to the past with authors D. Alan Lewis, Teel James Glenn, and Mark Gelineau as they redefine high adventure and history! Action, adventure, espionage, mystery, and horror abound in tales of days gone by in this thrilling collection. Relive the past with extra pulp in Pro Se Production's High Adventure History.

Sensible Redhorn by Tim Holter Bruckner collects four adventures of the title character, a six-foot-six, 300-pound crime reporter for the Flashburn. Redhorn has seen evil like no other. And when that evil wrenches its way into the lives of the people closest to him, he'll do whatever it takes to keep them safe, even if it means putting his own life in danger. A colorful cast of eccentric characters bring humor, intrigue and passion into each compelling tale.

The anthology for when the good guys aren't good enough is here! Black Fedora throws the spotlight on those in the shadows, the other half of every great story - the villain. Welcome to the dark side. Within this book you will find stories where the hero is the villain and one person's crime is another person's glory. Get ready to step out of the light and take a tour of various underworlds with three tales that give us a look at what secrets lurk beneath the Black Fedora.

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres.

A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is Death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued serial killer who hides his face under gauze in a hospital room, and a woman who loves the alien infant nobody else wants - these stories and 10 others make up this collection by award-winning author Ed Gorman. Here are stories that led him to be called "one of the best" by Dean Koontz and "one of the most original writers in crime fiction today" by Kirkus Reviews. Here, you'll find the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award.

Included in Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales are "Different Kinds of Dead", "Deathman", "A Girl Like You", "Loverboy", "Muse", "Riff", "The Brasher Girl", "Survival", "Masque", "Second Most Popular", and others.

This collection reveals the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award. His protagonists, gritty and gruff, are strangely likable, and his writing, according to Mystery News, is "powerful, disturbing, [and] often poetic".

Sins of the mother can really be the sins of the daughter. The First Kill is where family, sex and blood meet....

A blind obsession. A driving ambition. A relentless, unrestrained, single-minded pursuit of a shiny metal. These are the symptoms of a condition known as gold fever, and, like Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, American mining engineer Captain Humbert Reynolds has got it bad. Possible side effects include: temporary insanity, a propensity for violence, and death.

Dark and Twisty promises a collection of short, succinct, sometimes quirky short stories with a dark, emotive edge and intriguing twist.