Editorial: BookRix
A Multitude of Short Stories This is a book filled with Thriller short stories ranging from stalkers to ghosts. Take a journey with me through a very dreadful time with these people (or creatures) and see what happens. There's 45 short, thriller stories in this book. Photo by dev asangbam on Unsplash
Dead Men Tell No Tales Embalmer's assistant Imogene Lynch may or may not get the final sensations of the dead when she touches their hair. She used to, but something strange is going on. Her sixth sense disappears when the body of a local treasure hunter shows up at Greener Pastures Mortuary. But that doesn't keep her from becoming embroiled in two bone-chilling mysteries. Her boss's lover is awol, and a tipsy ghost is giving her the hiccups. Someone's obviously been murdered. She dearly hopes it's not the missing woman. All clues lead to Catalina Island where rumors of a pirate's buried treasure seem to have incited a gold rush. When Imogene stumbles into a viper's nest, she discovers the dead aren't the only ones with secrets. If you can imagine Agatha Raisin as a twenty-something, rockabilly, ex-hairstylist with a weird connection to the dead, this book is for you.Ver libro
A Little Girl. A Family Secret. A Devil in the Bayou... New Orleans, 1953. Eight-year-old Delphine Larouche only cares about three things: saving her stray puppy “Bandit”, ignoring the voices from the bayou, and understanding her father’s growing illness. As the voices in the bayou grow louder, and her father’s sickness becomes more severe, her mother is forced to call Miss Sabine Duroche-Laveau, a Voudou practitioner, who will cleanse him of his demons. But little does anyone know, the thing that has haunted her father’s mind for so many years has been trying to escape. Only it didn’t know how. Until tonight. And the consequences of this one night will change New Orleans forever. Devil in the Bayou is the soul-stirring prequel, the singular event that sets everything in motion, to The Spirit Hunter supernatural thriller series. If you like atmospheric writing, flawed characters, and dark urban legends, then you’ll love this heart-wrenching tale.Ver libro
Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists. As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women. Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years. Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921. Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery. In ‘The Night of More Weather’ Hunt once more brilliantly enters a character and describes a world that is compellingly real. But a very different turn of events is about to reveal itself.Ver libro
Everyone has a final secret. I collect them. My patients aren’t on my ward just to die - they’re here to confess. Before the body bag, there’s a final reckoning. Murderers. Serial Killers. Monsters in human skin. They tell me their truths because I don’t flinch - and because I’ve made a deal with death. These are the confessions no one gets to hear. These are the behind-the-scenes confessions that don’t make it into the Asylum Confession books, the ones I hear but wasn’t sure I’d share. Well, now I am. And you get to hear them. One confession at a time. Welcome to Only Jack Knows. What to expect: They say curiosity killed the cat—but in my case, it just gave me a job. In Origins and Death, you’ll find out how I ended up in the deepest, darkest ward of an asylum the world forgot existed. I’ll introduce you to Newman—the man who changed everything for me. A paralyzed rapist with a mouth full of lies and one dying wish: to be remembered. He was the first to confess. He wouldn’t be the last. This is a guided descent into the minds of the damned. And I’m the one holding the flashlight. Come closer. You’ll want to hear this. Because once the dead start talking… You can’t unlisten.Ver libro
The position of lady’s companion at the grand, isolated Hemford House was meant to save Estelle Glass from the scandal of her own making. But when she arrived at the mansion and was greeted by the stern, mysterious and intimidating Mrs. Blackwell, Estelle began to see what had been meant as a punishment might possibly become more like a reward…if only she could manage to find her place in the dreary household and the service of Mrs. Virginia Hemford, the childlike beauty Estelle had been sent to serve. Soon the secrets of Hemford House begin to reveal themselves, one by one, as Estelle tries her best to take care of Ginny and avoid her confusing feelings for the intimidating Mrs. Blackwell. Estelle finds herself caught up in a web of rules designed to keep Ginny “safe”…but safe from what, exactly? Or from whom? What accident claimed the life of Ginny’s previous companion? Why does Mr. Hemford avoid his wife’s company, no matter how charmingly she tries, and fails, to seduce him? And who’s reaching to take Estelle’s hand in the night with that dark, cold touch? Only when Estelle learns the deadly secret everyone at Hemford House has been keeping can she truly understand what it means to take care of Ginny Hemford…or to be cared for by Rachel Blackwell. Can the women of Hemford House escape the hauntings of its ghosts, or will the past consume them all?Ver libro
"Peppered with pop culture and brand name references to lend realism, these unnerving stories offer witty yet foreboding observations of humanity’s folly. Readers who relish the blending of genres will be pulled in by the humor, humanity, and horrors." ~ Booklife Reviews by Publishers Weekly Readers' Choice Award-winning author Stacey Longo is back with a collection of darkly funny, spine-tingling fiction that will haunt your dreams long after you've turned the final page. Journey across the Donner Pass with young newlyweds whose dreams of grandeur turn gruesome. Dare to venture to a carny retirement community, where the echoes of past tortures still resonate. In Tempered Glass, Longo masterfully weaves together a tapestry of dread, seamlessly blending psychological terror with supernatural horror. Can you handle the horrors that lie within?Ver libro
