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  Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box

  Mira Grant

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  A new short story from Mira Grant, the author of Feed. Every week five friends get together to play a game-- a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before.Word count: ~3,900  Newsflesh Short FictionApocalypse Scenario #683: The BoxCountdownSan Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California BrowncoatsHow Green This Land, How Blue This SeaThe Day the Dead Came to Show and TellPlease Do Not Taunt the OctopusFor more from Mira Grant, check out:NewsfleshFeedDeadlineBlackoutParasitologyParasiteSymbiontChimera

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  The Monk

  Matthew Lewis

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  The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads the monk Ambrosio, into temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt.   Written when Matthew Lewis was only 19, The Monk was criticised when first published in 1796 for its lewdness and impiety, but this criticism only added to its popularity

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  Lend Me Your Ears

  Rachel Lawson

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  When Fate's assassin Lance, the Necromancer, quits job his job when a ghost follows him home leaving actor Fate to do his job and his friend the Reaper king Blake to cover for him on the stage. 
  "The Necromancer was spooked apparently a ghost of a victim followed him home and terrorized his family, so he went on strike," said Blake. 
  "Terrorized his family, that's enough to make anyone break," said the Fox. 
  "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 
  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." said Argent Lumiere who was playing Marc Antony in a production of Julius Caesar. 
  A man walked from the auditorium on stage dropping a pile of ears out of an old wooden bucket at Argent's feet. 
  "Mind I'm only lending them," said the Necromancer obviously amused. 
  "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" said Juliet In a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 
  Romeo had just dematerialised she was sticking to the script. 
  "Where did he go?" asked audience member Angela Alexander. 
  "To do Lance's job I think," said her husband Blake. 
  "He complained he's being run off his feet doing the Necromancer's killing and paperwork. He has to run off at odd hours," 
  Blake materialised on the stage in the Romeo costume. 
  "I am Blake Fire will be filling in for Argent as Romeo, He is on pressing business which he deserves" Blake announced. 
  "Hi all, I'm Marcus Brutus," said Blake. 
  "I'm Julius Caesar," an actor said, "I'm on, bye, Brutus!" 
  "Kill you later," said Blake smiling.

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  Scent of Roses

  Kat Martin

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  From a New York Times–bestselling author, a woman goes ghost hunting with a handsome stranger in this “genuinely chilling” romantic suspense (RT Book Review). Elizabeth doesn’t believe in ghosts. But this time she has no choice. Family counselor Elizabeth Conner isn’t sure what to think when Maria Santiago comes to her for help. Pregnant and terrified, Maria claims to be visited each night by the ghost of a little girl, warning her to flee. Her husband, Miguel, a migrant worker at Harcourt Farms in the San Joaquin Valley, dismisses her fears as hormonal changes. Sympathetic to the young woman, Elizabeth agrees to help by contacting Miguel’s employers, who own the cottage where the young couple lives. Elizabeth immediately picks up on the deep enmity between the two Harcourt brothers: Carson, the handsome scion running the estate for his incapacitated father, and Zack, the rebellious black sheep. While Carson is more interested in Elizabeth than in her concerns, Zack grudgingly agrees to help her look into the history of the house. But even as unexpected desire draws them together, Elizabeth and Zack feel something dark and disturbing at the house. And when the cloying scent and lingering chill of pure evil surround her, Elizabeth knows something terrible has happened here before, something that has its roots in murder. . . .

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  The Castle of Los Angeles

  Lisa Morton

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  Theatre director Beth Ortiz is the newest resident of The Castle, an exclusive Los Angeles artists' community. Anxious actors aren't all Beth has to worry about in her new space, however, for The Castle has a secret history of madness and murder, and a celebrity artist who develops a strange fixation on Beth.... 
  And The Castle also happens to be haunted by some particularly uneasy spirits.... 
  Written by Lisa Morton, Bram Stoker Award-winning author, and narrated by horror icon Amanda Wyss, star of A Nightmare on Elm Street. This is horror at its finest.

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  Remains of the Dead

  Iain McKinnon

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  In this post-apocalyptic horror tale, a team of zombie catchers must determine the fate of a band of survivors they find hiding in an urban wasteland. 
   
  The world is dead, devoured by a plague of reanimated corpses. 
   
  Cahz and his squad of veteran soldiers are tasked with flying into abandoned cities and retrieving zombies for scientific study. Deep in infected territory, hundreds of miles from their support vessel, the ever-present dangers weigh heavily on Cahz’s mind as he shepherds his team to make quick, clean extractions. 
   
  Then the unbelievable happens. After years of encountering nothing but the undead, the team discovers a handful of disheveled survivors in a fortified warehouse with dwindling supplies. 
   
  Surrounded by hordes of ravenous corpses, Cahz is faced with the terrible responsibility of determining the five passengers who will escape in the helicopter. While those left stranded must continue to fight off the infected and starvation long enough to be rescued. 
   
  Praise for Remains of the Dead 
   
  “Absolutely superb.” —Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Dead City and the Deadlands series 
   
  “Believable characters trapped in a nightmare scenario—Remains of the Dead is a breathless, high-octane zombie thriller. [McKinnon has] written another great book here.” —David Moody, author of Hater and Dog Blood

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