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Four dark tales of the holiday spirit. In "Christmas Eve Gift", Old Bill sets out on her annual Christmas Eve journey to her niece's house and encounters an unexpected darkness along the way. In "A Dark Christmas", Alice, a dark daughter of the vampire, Elizabet, turns the table on a family of hunters. In "On the 7th Day of Christmas", Sunny finally gets to throw a party, only a monster shows up and twists a small kink into her New Year's Eve festivities. In "Twelfth Night", A 13-year-old encounters the Woman with No Face for the first time.

Si hay un escritor que con su literatura, en una metáfora de guerreros, magos, elfos, gigantes y bestias inverosímiles, haya logrado retratar los horrores de dos guerras mundiales, el desenfreno de la industrialización, la ambición desmedida del poder y el deterioro ambiental del presente, ese es John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, más conocido universalmente como J. R. R. Tolkien. Gracias a la magia del cine ha llevado El señor de los anillos a la pantalla.

When Haskell was young, his devoted mother, Mary, instilled in her son the values of character, faith, and honor by setting an example and asking him to promise to live his life according to her lessons. He did, and those promises have served Haskell consistently from his Mississippi boyhood to his long career at the venerable William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills.

My itchy feet drug me to the ATL one night for a light flirt, but I didn't get me no R and R. 'Stead, I found a hobo, a ghost, and a trio of vampires, and me with my best weapons locked in the trunk of my daddy's car. That'll learn me to drive down to the city, if I made it off the Gold Line alive.

“In einem Körper oder körperlos, tot oder lebendig, ungeachtet meiner momentanen Gestalt und Verkleidung schwöre ich hiermit, mich stets dem Bösen entgegenzustellen und der Furcht zu trotzen, um die Menschheit zu beschützen ...” Sobald Greys wahre Identität ans Licht kommt, breitet der gewaltige Schatten seiner Vergangenheit in seinem Rücken die Flügel aus und ruft die unsterblichen Truppen auf die Esplanade, um den uralten Eid der Ersten Legion zu erfüllen. Doch Macht wird nur ungern geteilt, und in dieser Hinsicht stellen die Archons der Stadt keine Ausnahme dar.

Join J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement-winning author Edward Lee and Madness Heart Press as we strive to bring you the very best of twisted, sordid, and sickening stories of Czech extreme horror from seven authors, translated and published in English for the very first time. With an accompanying novella from Edward Lee, this collection includes monsters, killers, perversion, terror, and splattery gore-soaked beauty.

While stress is a part of work, burnout shouldn’t be. Discover how to overcome burnout and find balance in your life.

ADHD IS OVER! is an eye-opening, perspective-shifting podcast for conscious parents - aimed at dispelling the typical myths of the current and incomplete narrative around this so-called 'disorder'. In order to provide parents with both sides of the narrative, we're questioning all aspects around ADHD with the help of scientific studies, logic, resonance, and with the contribution of internationally revered experts and public figures in the field such as Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. John Gray, Dr. Peter Breggin, Robert Whitaker, Thom Hartmann, Marilyn Wedge, Dr. ...

Ruth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. For nearly a decade, she has been studying the legendary sharpshooter, convinced that a scarring childhood event was the impetus for her crusade to arm every woman in America. This search has cost Ruth her doctorate, a book deal, and her fiance - but finally it has borne fruit. She has managed to hunt down what may be a journal of Oakley's midlife struggles, including secret visits to a psychoanalyst and the desire for vengeance against the "Wolves", or those who have wronged her.

A harrowing journey inside the hidden world of drug cartels by one of the top criminal informants in US law enforcement history. The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or CS 96, named for the year he confronted the sins of his life atop a massive drug distribution ring and flipped, becoming law enforcement's secret weapon. In Confidential Source Ninety-Six, Caribe tells the extraordinary story.

When the souls of the innocent cry for justice, one man hears their call: The Undead Avenger - Brother Bones. He stalks the Depression-era streets of Cape Noire, waging a never-ending war against the forces of darkness. Bones has never met a foe he could not defeat, but now he faces an enemy unlike any he has ever known. With a motley crew of unlikely allies - and his silver-plated twin .45s - Bones must stop an ancient evil that threatens not only Cape Noire, but the entire world.

Ernst Vogler is 26 years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer - the Third Reich's Sonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Fuhrer. Vogler is to collect a famous Classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned over to Gestapo custody. It is a simple, three-day job. Things start to go wrong almost immediately.

Er nannte sich Murat Cem. Doch in den Akten heißt er nur VP01. Unter welchem Namen er heute lebt, ist ebenso geheim wie sein Aufenthaltsort. Der Mann, der lange Zeit der wohl beste und wichtigste V-Mann Deutschlands war, blieb stets ein Phantom. Bis es den SPIEGEL-Reportern Jörg Diehl, Roman Lehberger und Fidelius Schmid gelang, ihn zu treffen, fast ein Jahr lang zu begleiten und seine unfassbare Lebensgeschichte aufzuschreiben. Im verdeckten Einsatz für die Polizei überführte Murat Cem nicht nur Drogen- und Waffenhändler.

Sam Czerny’s career as a xenobiologist was relegated to studying strange life forms deep in the oceans. Then a Chinese mining facility discovers an unusual artifact on the far side of the moon. A device which could change the way humanity sees itself and its place in the galaxy. Sam finds himself on the project of his dreams only to get caught up in a sudden war between the US and China. A war that prevents the two governments from noticing an even more dangerous arrival.

On the seventh day of Christmas, I and my buddy David Eckstrom finally got around to holding that shindig we've been talking about for so long. Only, we weren't the only bodies looking for a good time on New Year's Eve. There were monsters afoot on the lake, and the remedy for 'em was something I didn't expect at all.

Shooting stars don't land. They're meteors, bits of rock that burn up in the atmosphere. The meteors Lannes saw landed in the Kenned Valley and flew up into the stars. They weren't meteors at all. They were alien spacecraft. Until he peeked over the edge of the valley, Lannes had never seen a machine that could fly or people without fur. If the aliens had stayed in the valley, they might have been safe. But they didn't. They assumed the Cadorie were too primitive to be a problem. In an all-out war, the Cadorie don’t stand a chance against the invading aliens. They don’t even have ...

After my uncle Fame run his wife off for messing around with his brother, we thought for sure we seen the last of 'em. Good riddance to bad blood, right? Only, weren't no Happy Ever After in store for any of us....

BREE GALLAGHER- Wycked Obsession - my brother's alternative rock band. More than that, it's the story of my five-year crush on the band's lead singer, Ajia Stone. When things at home turn bad, I get the chance to spend three months on tour with the band. Finally, it's my chance to make Ajia to see me as more than the band's mascot. Their baby girl. Or will the ugliness at home, the parties, the groupies, and my over-protective brother ruin my transformation and turn it all into a nightmare?

A comprehensive guide for physicians to learn about medical marijuana from a clinical perspective. The Clinician's Guide to Cannabis teaches doctors what to recommend for their patients to treat specific diseases. It tackles forms of use and amounts to take. Doctors will learn to counsel their patients in particular clinical scenarios so they feel comfortable when instructing them.

Los retos son numerosos y resulta fundamental repensar cómo nos alimentaremos en el futuro. Foodtech es la guía de referencia para curiosos y profesionales del sector que quieran profundizar en los secretos de esta revolucionaria industria. En este audiolibro vamos a ver por qué se ha convertido en uno de los mayores focos de innovación y emprendimiento, que atrae a corporaciones, inversores e incluso a estrellas del cine o del deporte.