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  Short Stories About A Deal with...

  Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel...

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  It’s really very simple.  You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life.  Or maybe even eternity. 
   
  For an atheist it’s a great deal, though it does suggest atheism may have a weak point.  For those of faith it’s a matter of jam now and purgatory tomorrow.  A bargain many artists feel is something they can live with.  For agnostics it’s usually a question of can the afterlife really be that bad, would workplace regulations reach all parts of heaven and hell. 
   
  However, in this volume the terms are agreed and the Devil pays his fees and the character his dues, each happy to wait a few decades for the eternal payback. 
   
  For us, it’s all a moot point.  We would never offer up such a deal.  After all just listen to the stories of those who have. 
   
  01 - Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil - An Introduction 
  02 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  03 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  04 - Belphagor by Niccolo Machiavelli 
  05 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol 
  06 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  07 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 
  08 - The Generous Gambler by Charles Baudelaire 
  09 - A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan 
  10 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff 
  11 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  12 - Madam Lucifer by Richard Garnett 
  13 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach 
  14 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

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  Druid's Due - A New Adult Urban...

  M.D. Massey

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  When Colin goes on the run from the feds, the young druid’s plans to hide in the wild quickly go awry. Now he’s at odds with a murderous specter, bloodthirsty skinwalkers, and an elusive cryptid that might be the key to it all. As each new showdown brings him closer to the truth, he realizes he’s facing a much deadlier enemy… and a fate worse than death itself! 
  After surviving my time in the Void, I just wanted a little peace and quiet. But a pissed-off special agent from a mysterious federal agency thinks I’m to blame for a recent string of magical disasters. So to avoid indefinite incarceration, I have to go on the run... 
  No problem, right? I’ll just head to the wild reaches of West Texas and hide out until things blow over in Austin. Drink some brews with my buddies, sing campfire songs, do some hiking and stargazing, and chill. 
  Or so I thought. 
  Unfortunately, creatures lurk along the border that are just as sinister as the monsters back home. A murderous specter is haunting the Rio Grande, revenants are prowling the park, and a legendary cryptid looks like it’s to blame. To complicate matters further, an ancient skinwalker is calling in a debt I owe—one that could cost someone their soul. 
  In the end, I’ll play a deadly game of cat and mouse before I finally face the person behind the schemes and lies. But my enemies don’t know what they’ve bargained for, because at the end of the day, a druid will always have his due… 
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  Druid’s Due is an urban fantasy novel featuring druids, wizards, skinwalkers, magic, necromancy, gods, demigods, witches, ghouls, revenants, shifters, and fae. If you enjoy urban fantasy books with kick-ass characters and plenty of snark, action, and suspense, then you’ll love reading Druid’s Due. Grab your copy today!

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  Contamination

  John Vornholt

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  The U.S.S. Enterprise™. is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation's highest honors for their achievements in scientific research.  Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. their routine investigation of the ship's science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge -- for whom murder is only the beginning...

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  A Bad Place to Be a Hero

  Jerry F. Westinger

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  "There is no bigger bastard than a man who thinks he's a hero." 
  Thessa is a young noblewoman who has an unfortunate run-in with a werewolf on her engagement night. Lokenn is a fugitive necromancer, out to restore the reputation of his maligned art. Corlis is an innkeeper with a dying aunt and rapidly mounting debts. 
  In a string of bad luck and worse decisions, the three of them land neck-deep in an undercover investigation. Soon enough, they’re skulking in warehouses, dining with crime lords, and occasionally bleeding in alleys. The powers that be give them three days to find answers, but the real question is whether they can put up with each other that long.

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  Eve of Darkness - A Marked Novel

  S. J. Day, Sylvia Day

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  From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Bared to You.Years ago, Evangeline Hollis spent a blistering night with a darkly seductive man she can’t forget. But that evening of addictive pleasure has become a disaster of biblical proportions: She’s been branded with the Mark of Cain. Now Eve is thrust into a world where sinners are marked and drafted to kill demons. Her former one-night stand, Cain, is now her mentor — and his equally sexy brother Abel is her new boss. And Eve has become the latest point of contention in the oldest case of sibling rivalry in history... Cursed by God, hunted by demons, desired by Cain and Abel...all in a day's work.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Chasing Whispers

  Eugen Bacon

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  Chasing Whispers is a unique Afro-irrealist collection of Black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, longing, hybridity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds, and folklore. It contains thirteen stories, eleven of which are original, with a commanding introduction by D. Harlan Wilson. The collection is aligned with the themes of Eugen Bacon's other fiction, and her recognition in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for "doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction."Chasing Whispers casts a gaze at mostly women and children haunted by patriarchy, in stories packed with affection, dread, anguish, and hope. The connecting theme is a black protagonist with a deep longing for someone, someplace, something… and a recurring phrase in each story: "a deep and terrible sadness."

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