Former ADA Alastair Maddox pursues Prohibition Chicago's most dangerous monsters after witnessing the deaths of his parents and grandparents as a boy. When a former colleague in Chicago PD comes to ask Alastair for help, he comes face to face with the mysterious Alexandra DeLane. But something's off. DeLane is way too calm and her eyes are the color of blood. After she escapes, Alastair goes on the hunt only to find himself the prey of an ambitious and mysterious mob boss who plots to have him murdered. The problem? Alastair doesn't stay dead and comes back as something else. Something more dangerous and straight out of a horror novel.
She never dreamed. Until the nightmares started.
Forced to flee the scene and the only home she ever knew, Yael finds herself in the shadows of the Ybor slums. For years she hid the truth from those around her, wearing her smile like a mask as she spiraled into the abyss.
With her whole life behind her, she has no need for hopes and dreams. Alone and beyond broken, she chases her nightmares to avoid her grim reality. So when she finally sees the chance to join the living, she can’t help but question if it really is the light at the end of the tunnel? After all, the last time she was this close to freedom, she lost herself.
Is redemption near? Will the terrifying curse that stole her innocence be lifted if she follows the light? Or will her double life catch up with her in the bitter end?
Violent and twisted. Cinematic and visually sumptuous. Enter the mysterious world of La Madonna Negra.
From the author: "Volume I contains graphic content some listeners may find triggering; discretion is advised."
Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in audio. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians.
When Santa Claus appears on Lance's autopsy table, he can't believe his eyes or ears as the not-so-jolly ghost accompanying the body tells Lance he's been murdered. Solving this murder will take time as the list of suspects is growing. For some, Christmas isn't the most wonderful time of the year, but it is the most profitable.To top it off, Lance's brother is in town visiting and he's not alone. He's got a ghost attached to him. Telling his brother that he sees ghosts just became even more important as this ghost insists Lance help him make things right before he moves on.While the rest of the world prepares for Christmas, Lance and Angus try to salvage what they can of the holiday as they work to solve Santa's murder and keep someone from stealing everyone's holiday spirit away.
Charles Allston Collins (1828-1873) was the younger brother of the novelist Wilkie Collins, and was married to Charles Dickens's daughter Kate. He is well known both as a painter and a novelist.In The Tête Noire, he describes a racy tale of a commercial traveller and his dog who stayed at a most disreputable French coaching inn, whose landlord would appear to be a cunning criminal, and his young daughter just as wicked.
H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain. You'll find more versions of these stories throughout LibriVox's short story collections and short horror story collections. (adapted from Wikipedia)
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