The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Bu Classics Books
Summary
A murderer frantically attempts to prove his sanity to the police, but his guilt manifests as the deafening, rhythmic beating of his victim's heart beneath the floorboards.
Publisher: Bu Classics Books
A murderer frantically attempts to prove his sanity to the police, but his guilt manifests as the deafening, rhythmic beating of his victim's heart beneath the floorboards.
I thought I had everything: a devoted husband, and a magnificent new house for us to start a family in. But the house had secrets. The former owner, whose stern portrait hangs in the library -- I swear I can feel him watching me. Touching me. Wanting me. I could convince myself it was all in my mind until I found out my husband cheated on me...but now, all bets are off. Rough Ghost Lover is a sizzling horror that does not have an HEA (because you shouldn't sleep with ghosts...mostly.)Show book
When news of an electrical disturbance reaches the Millers Fall Police Department, no one imagined the fate of the officers sent to investigate. Unable to contact their colleagues, the remaining officers plan their own search, but stop as the night sky turns to an amber haze. With five officers missing, Sheriff Mason Palmer is forced to investigate. Anomalies befall the town, worrying its residents. With no explanation of these events, Palmer’s only lead appears with Mitchum Hoyt, the leader of a backwoods cult living in isolation. As the investigation deepens, Palmer realises the relevance of Hoyt’s preaching. They’re coming.…Show book
On a snowy December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. She is at the end of her rope, out of money and food. Still, she refuses help from a man in a pickup truck—Rebecca’s adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered by anyone they meet. Meanwhile, Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has spent the better part of two years hunting down a gruesome serial killer who drains victims of blood before severing their spinal cords, leaving a trail of bodies throughout the country. As Agent Donner’s investigation brings him closer and closer to where Rebecca and Moonflower are hiding out, in the foothills of Colorado, the life that Rebecca has fought so hard to hold together for her daughter becomes increasingly imperiled. In this deadly, high-stakes game of cat and mouse, nobody is safe and nothing is certain—not even the line between predator and prey. DEADLY PLEASURES’ MOST ANTICIPATED MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS OF 2024 “A heart-pounding fusion of horror and crime thriller, Blood Like Mine redefines the roles of cat and mouse while packing punches both visceral and emotional. This propulsive, blood-spattered pursuit across the American Southwest will leave readers horrified and hungry for more.”—Luke Dumas, USA Today bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of FearShow book
One year has passed since a string of vicious murders shocked the quiet block of Goshen Street. While deep scars remain for the survivors, William Parson lays in his hospital bed tormented by the murders committed by his hand, but not of his will. Completely paralyzed, he has no means to communicate. Thought to be in a vegetative state, and utterly despised, he is deprived of music, books, movies or even a single soul to speak to him. Was he possessed? Did he just snap? At least he can't hurt anyone ever again. Unless he was telling the truth...Show book
Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods. Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved. Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love. However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange "scars" on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep. A story inspired by the "doomed" women in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" and "The Dunwich Horror." Contains mature themes.Show book
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