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  Welcome to Parkview

  Brian Paone

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  “Welcome To Parkview” reads the sign on the outskirts of town. You glance up at the invitation and wonder if getting on the inbound bus is a wise idea. Little do you know that this is a town built on deceit, soulless transients and restless ghosts, infidelity and temptation, and murderers that have no discrimination to the lovers pleading their final vows. Even vampires lurk in the shadows without you having the slightest warning. 
  You peer through the grimy window at the heart of the town as the bus turns each corner of these streets. The façade is peeled back just enough for you to see past the surface. You catch a glimpse of the darkness that put Parkview on the map. It’s then you realize that nothing is a coincidence. 
  In Parkview, it may be best to keep buried secrets quiet, because even the truth can be a deception.

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  The Ankardine Pew

  W. F. Harvey

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  William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres, in which many of his works are recognized as masterpieces of the genre. "The Ankardine Pew" is one of W. F. Harvey's most famous works. It is a curious tale of a house haunted by the tortured soul of a previous owner who had once committed a most dreadful and unusual atrocity.

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  Night-Gaunts - and Other Tales...

  Joyce Carol Oates

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  Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: “Oates’ spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.”―Booklist In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing all their secret tastes and poisons than Oates herself—as demonstrated in these six stories. One tale opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper’s Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In “The Long-Legged Girl,” an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgwood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband’s latest conquest? In “The Sign of the Beast,” when a former Sunday school teacher’s corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder—but is he really responsible? And another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in “Night-Gaunts,” a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft. “Consummately well-written, stylistically dashing...forthrightly nightmarish.”―Kirkus Reviews

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  Chesapeake Chaos

  Sherry A. Burton

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  In this tenth installment of the Jerry McNeal Series, Jerry and Gunter head to the Tidewater area of Virginia, which is the suspected home of the elusive Hash Mark Killer. 
  Once in Hampton Roads, the only thing more prevalent than sailors in this military town are white cargo vans such as the one the killer is linked to. Jerry soon finds his psychic radar jammed time and time again as each van seems to harbor something keeping him from homing on the one they are looking for. 
  It soon becomes apparent that if they are going to have any luck landing the killer, Jerry is going to have to agree to Fred’s plan of casting a wide net and using the most sought-after bait to entice the Hash Mark Killer into the open. Bait like Susie Richardson, the only living person who can positively identify the man. 
  It’s all hands on deck as Max and Savannah come on board to help Jerry and Gunter and to help keep Susie safe. 
  Will the gang be able to use their combined gifts to lure in the Hash Mark Killer? Or will he prove too slippery to be caught?

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  imPerfect Trap An - A Novella...

  C.N. Rowan

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  Reincarnating every time I get killed doesn’t help when the trap won’t let me die. 
  Getting trapped in a psychotic fae’s twisted game isn’t my idea of a fun Friday afternoon. When one of them shows up in my territory of Toulouse uninvited, I was never going to just let it slide. Now I’m stuck, in a locked room mystery in another dimension. 
  What does the faeling want? And what price am I going to pay to find my way home again? There’s never a pair of red, ruby slippers around when you need them. 
  An imPerfect Trap is a standalone novella introducing the world of Paul Bonhomme, a.k.a. The imPerfect Cathar, a darkly funny Urban Fantasy series arriving in 2023.

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  Lazarus

  Leonid Andreyev

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  "When Lazarus rose from the grave, after three days and nights in the mysterious thraldom of death, and returned alive to his home, it was a long time before anyone noticed the evil peculiarities in him that were later to make his very name terrible."    One of Andreyev's best-known short stories, "Lazarus" follows the Eastern Orthodox tradition that Lazarus never smiled again, and it explores what happened to the biblical figure after his resurrection from the dead. The unsettling coldness that exudes from the man who cheated death cannot be denied by anyone who meets him. As his notoriety increases, few can resist the chance of an audience with the man who has seen beyond the realms of life, but be they urchin or Emperor, none can stand to be in the presence of Lazarus for long.     "Lazarus", first published in Russian in 1906, deals with themes of faith, mortality and the human condition. This recording is based on a translation by Thomas Seltzer.

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