Melissa: 3186 books

"And here you enter my darkness. Are you ready?"These 10 short horror stories highlight the moments people entered into darkness - voluntarily or not.Fans of dark fiction and horrors both real and imagined will find something to occupy your time in your own darkness.

Prisoners have a choice in the future: extermination or space. The Earth-based Government of Nations turns once violent offenders into scouts, searching planets that are mere hundreds of years old. Government scientists keep pushing the scout ships to collect and transmit data but are vague about...

Meet Bazu, a young girl who lives in Ghosthadow. The town is built high on a hill and is surrounded by a tall fence that separates it from the rest of the world. The people of Ghostshadow believe in creatures said to live throughout the Pumpkin Woods, but Bazu scoffs at such stories. Bazu tells her...

Ten-year-old William meets a peculiar flying boy one night and is plunged into a dark world that leaves him with a lifelong fear of Peter Pan.Adult William has two boys of his own now, but the shadow of Peter Pan falls over his happiness. Something was left unfinished when William was ten.Leave...

Zombies aren't just zombies anymore. Two tales of the Exsanguinous, beings who have risen from the grave, are offered here. The Ex-Sangs, as the world calls them, are integrating into society, hiding what they are with makeup and latex. Many of them speak, have memories, and hold down jobs.In...

Everyone has a secret fear. Something that envelopes you in terror. In this collection, nine short horror stories explore those fears. Read these stories if......you are afraid of aliens...or your mother...or the dead...or are afraid of clowns...the back roads, perhaps?...how about cemeteries?...or are you afraid of cannibals?...the old gods?

Story 1: Discordant - a woman seeks the help of a demon to fight a serial killer.Story 2: Night Secretary - The Night Secretary directs the thoughts and actions of serial killers. She wants to create a truly horrific human monster whose deeds will be remembered forever.

DIAL IT UP!In our third volume of Traveler’s Tales, journey with Teyla Emmagan to the ruined city of her ancestors or travel with Sam Carter as she returns Selmak’s remains to the Tok’ra. Join John Sheppard as he guides the Atlantis team through the streets of New York City, or follow SG-1’s...

2017 Finalist for Literary Fiction, Foreword Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2017 by Chicago Review of Books One of 19 Books You Should Read This September by Chicago Review of Books The small plains town of Ingleside, Nebraska, is populated by down-on-their-luck ranchers and new...

Be careful what you bet on... Betting is all fun and games until you have to pay up when you lose. Within these three short stories we follow the ones who were on the losing end of a bet. The price they paid? They have to wear a pink Lolita dress. Luckily for them, sometimes paying up...

JANE Voilà trois ans que je travaille dans une maison d’édition new-yorkaise où je passe mes journées à relire des biographies de pseudo-stars. Ma vie sentimentale ? À presque trente ans, pas la moindre relation sérieuse en vue ! Et ma famille, au lieu de compatir, a les yeux braqués...

Ashley Spencer’s birthday is an occasion for serious scheming in the third book in The Ashley Project series from bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz. Ashley Spencer, Ashley “Lili” Li, Ashley “A. A.” Alioto, and the honorary Ashley—Lauren Page—are preparing to set a social scene:...

An psychological thriller about the past intermingling with the present and future.  You must read to believe!

The Rosary is an extremely popular traditional Catholic prayer which is in fact a series of individual prayers repeated in a specific sequence. The rosary also refers to an object known as prayer beads.Rosary prayer beads are used to help pray the rosary and count the series of prayers or meditation.This...