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  The Policy

  Bentley Little

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  After his divorce, Hunt Jackson decides to start over in Tucson, where an old buddy fixes him up with his wife's friend, Beth. The attraction is immediate, and they're married a few months later. But Hunt's happiness is marred by his bizarre encounter with an insurance agent whose insistence that Hunt increase his coverage sounds, incredibly, like a threat. The agent — tall, gaunt, oddly dressed in an old-fashioned suit and fedora — is himself a menacing figure. And it soon becomes clear that whoever turns down his "offer" suffers catastrophic consequences: property destruction, fire, tornadoes — in tornado-free Arizona! What is going on? Hunt and Beth are determined to find out — never suspecting that the company's policy for life insurance will turn out to be more terrifying than death...

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  Scythe: Legions of the Claimed

  Mercy Hollow

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  What would you risk for a place to call home? 
  When loner motorcycle mechanic Sly Morgan lands in Chicago and assumes a false identity, he believes he can finally let his guard down. Finally stop running. 
  But no one escapes the Legions. 
  Brutally stabbed, Sly is enslaved to the Legions by the antigen they inject in his blood, putting all those around him in danger. 
  His forced role plunges him into a battle for loyalty, honor, and a new family he doesn’t believe he deserves, giving him a chance at a life and love with a woman that could fill his hollow soul with light. 
  Can he break free of centuries of sacrifice, or will he succumb to the darkness of the Legions forever? 
   “A soul for a soul, a death for a death. Your heart, blood run slow and remain dammed forever more. 
   I Claim you.” 
  Scythe is the first book in a series of dark urban fantasy novels. If you like broken heroes, gritty underworlds, and villains you long to hate, with a punch of sarcasm, then you’ll love Mercy Hollow’s modern-day Chicago series. 
  Buy Scythe Legions of the Claimed and get captured in this shadowy new world today!

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  Amour Dure

  Vernon Lee

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  A short story from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee. Written in diary entries from a Polish scholar, this short story features a mysterious femme fatale Medea who is responsible for the deaths of five men, including her husbands. The scholar is soon cast under her spell from behind the grave…

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  Mark and Sarah in the Mirror of...

  Francesca Robin

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  An evocative short story about lovers at a sensual crossroads (with supernatural overtones in a minor key). 
  After a vacation in Baja, Mark and Sarah decide to experiment with a little innocent ("tie me up") sensual play, and Mark, wanting their initiation to have the perfect beginning, brings Sarah a custom-made gift, wrapped in an unusual vintage box. It's not long before the two realize that they risk crossing a dangerous boundary of trust and desire as hidden, tantalizing secrets and appetites are exposed. 
  Original artwork by the author. Soundscape by Hypathia. 
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  Liquescence Stories is a series of short and long works about obsessions, darkly humorous, complex, adult relationships, supernatural fringe, bad decisions, comic road trips, and things you can't explain. Stories likely to punish and celebrate unfulfilled romantics, broken-hearted fools and love-hungry ghosts. Every story features original artwork and original music/soundscapes.

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  This Is How You Die - A Thriller

  David Jester

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  The violent, dark, and twisted journey of an emotionless, hate-filled, obsessive young man who becomes a clinical and prolific serial killer. Herman isn’t like other teens his age. He isn’t like the academic elite, the geeky students who get all the grades and are adored by their teachers. He isn’t like the extroverts, the socially adept and popular kids who never want for anything and always have a shoulder to cry on. And he isn’t like the bullies, the ones who taunt and beat him on a daily basis. Herman isn’t like any of his peers, or indeed anyone he knows. The person Herman identifies with the most, the person he idolizes and yearns to be, is The Butcher, a brutal and prolific serial killer. Following yet another beating by the kids he despises at a school he hates, Herman returns home to his inconspicuous existence with his solitary, silent, and coldhearted father. But life for Herman is about to change. The shackles that have held him to mediocrity and anonymity are about to be broken. Not only does Herman discover his father has died, but on further examination, he also discovers his dad was The Butcher, the very man whom everyone had feared and whom he had worshipped. Life had been cruel to his father and death had been cruel to his legend, but Herman decides that he will carry on his father’s work. He may not have his father’s experience, but with a little practice, Herman knows he can become the man in the shadows, the thing that everyone fears. Now, if only Homicide Detective Lester Keats would just leave him be. . . .

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  Masque of the Red Death

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  A deadly plague ravages the land whilst the nobles lock themselves away from the world, safe from harm. Or are they…

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