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Plunge into the water, accompany Antonio Argüelles on his Oceans Seven adventure, and, along the way, find out how to achieve your own dreams and goals. On August 3, 2017, Antonio Argüelles swam 35 kilometers from Northern Ireland to Scotland. When he arrived on the Scottish shore after a swim of nearly 14 hours through hypothermic currents wearing only a speedo, cap, and goggles, he became just the seventh person ever to conquer the Oceans Seven, an aquatic achievement on par with the Seven Summits.

The young son of a popular children's book author vanishes into the dangerous fictional world his father created. And it's going to take more than a vivid imagination to get him back alive.

In Graveyard of the Lakes, Thompson suggests that most of the accidents and deaths on the lakes have been the result of human error, ranging from simple mistakes to gross incompetence. In addition to his compelling analysis of the causes of shipwrecks, Thompson includes factual accounts of more than 100 wrecks. Graveyard of the Lakes will forever change the listener's perspective on shipwrecks.

Jeremy Gunn was a young child when he first used his gift. He touched his father's cheek as he peered into his casket and cried. That's when he saw it, his father's darkest secret. Tormented, he seeks to act on the secrets of the dead. To right the wrongs of people passed, to find the missing, and to avenge the fallen. Jeremy comes for you when you die, but that's not his gift. His gift is stealing your secret, the one you died with and never told a soul.

The things that live in the Earth...A haunted computer...A fragrant flower that signals the end of the human race...Billy the Kid's killer beginnings - in the womb...In Hornets & Others you'll find a murderous jar of moonshine, a blood-red wind, a green face that commands carnage, a possessed coat that turns its wearer into a psychotic slasher. Plus two brand new stories, about a man made of glass and a horror beyond the stars! And much more...

From the subway tunnels of Boston to the rain-swept streets of Quebec City to the deepest snow-filled forests of Hilton, Maine, no one in these chilling stories by horror master Rick Hautala is safe from the darkness or the dangerous things that lurk in the shadows. Waiting for us. Reaching for us....

Something alien is stalking residents of Lakehaven, New Jersey. It can't see them, hear them, or touch them, but it knows them - their fears, insecurities, and secrets. It knows how to destroy them from the inside out. And it won't stop until each of them is dead. Dave Kohlar has never felt like he was good for anything. But when his sanity, his life, and the safety of his only family and friends is in danger, he has to look inside himself for a strength that his otherwordly enemy can't touch - strength that can hopefully save them all.

In the town of Lakehaven, New Jersey, an evil has returned from between dimensions. It is looking for vengeance. It is looking to destroy, body and soul. Dave Kohlar and his friend Erik fought an evil like it once before, and they were nearly killed trying to defeat it. They had hoped that it was over, and their lives could be peaceful and happy. But this kind is different; it is hungrier, it is angry, and it is very, very strong. With loved ones falling prey to its all-encompassing hate, Dave and Erik and some new friends look to close the door on it for good.

November, 1694. Rachel Parsons, an accused witch, is hanged at the Gallows Tree in Summerfield, Maine. Before she dies, she curses all who live on her land. Autumn, 1963. A handicapped boy is chased into the old, abandoned mill. But it is one of his tormentors who ends up at the bottom of a shaft. Summer, 1994. Brian Fraser has heard stories about the old mill. They say it's haunted, filled with the whisperings of long ago, including something that his own father won't talk about. But Brian is drawn to the mill. Drawn to an evil so hideous, so apocalyptic it threatens one's sanity.

In the summer of 1975, a group of young men known as "the boys" make their stab for freedom harvesting wild hemp, or marijuana, on the Kansas plains. Several are Vietnam vets, and all are somehow marked, at odds with their time. They see themselves as inheritors of the mythic West, like buffalo hunters in league with their captain, Frankie Sage. As long as they remain unarmed, their crime is counted only a misdemeanor. But a rival gang led by Valentine LaReese is prone to gunplay.

In the mountains around the small town of Silver Gap, Colorado, bark beetles - aided by a warming climate - are decimating the pine forests. That environmental degradation has brought Alex Converse, wealthy heir and would-be documentary filmmaker, to town. And his arrival coincides with another - the reappearance of wolves, long thought to be extinct in the state.

From master mystery author John Lutz comes this collection featuring a gripping man-on-the-run novel and four of his best pieces of short fiction. In The Truth of the Matter, Lou Roebuck is a successful advertising man with all the trappings - prestige, position, a flashy car, money, and a beautiful woman on his arm. He's also a compulsive liar, and what begins as a fib on his expense account leads to trouble that compounds like loan shark interest. His past, and the people in it, has caught up with him, again.

The future of experience is digital...even in death. No one knows this better than Ray Garret. In a world where the human brain can connect directly to the Internet, human beings become the target of a mass-murdering computer virus. Ray's an Antivii agent in charge of tracking down the source of digi-human viruses. When a recorded experience from his dead wife is left for him, Ray has no choice but to play the file, changing his life forever.

Doctor John Varnum’s reign of terror is over, or is it? Handcuffed and bleeding, John Varnum needs to pay for his sins. While in custody, he leads an unnamed man to bodies while others search for the governor’s daughter, Julie. The bodies are piling up. Yet, the discarded license of the governor’s daughter brings light to her absence. Where is she? What did he do with Julie? Time is running out as the governor abuses every ounce of his power to save her! When the bones are collected, will John Varnum pay for his sins?

From Germany come rumors of a mad man threatening to rule Europe and maybe the world. On the Night of Broken Glass, his browns shirts and storm troopers move into Baden-Baden and begin their methodical termination of the Jews. In America, so far away, the violence is nothing more than a protest over a Jewish boy who murdered a German diplomat because the Third Reich had removed and maybe killed his family. But word is leaked that one Jewish photographer took pictures of the rampage of brutality and murder that night.

Now in its fifth incarnation, Tell-Tale's horror anthologies have become an annual benchmark of emerging talent and well-told stories. The select seven featured here will yank you backward and forward again in time, visiting the exotic and the seemingly mundane, at a pace and a pulse calibrated for Halloween chills. Beware of a cat named Sabrina and a Celtic goddess with a passport to Salem—yes, that Salem. An old farmhouse could hold more vivid memories than just its mortal foundations, and think twice about rescuing the sister of a young boy if you find yourself in a desert.

Decades after the Massacre at the Stadler House Group Home the survivor, Emily Stephens, attempt to move forward with her life. But her past will not give Emily up so easily. Her desire to help others has guided her to a career as a Hospice Nurse. But something goes horribly wrong when she finds herself going out on her first individual assignment.

Ever see one of those seedy-looking hotels in the middle of nowhere and get reminded of Psycho, even as you wonder who might actually stay or work there? Or perhaps you’ve traveled on business and found yourself in the wrong part of town—and the natives are restless.

Somewhere, lurking in Mecklenburg, Jeremy Gunn is uniquely collecting another body. He is the Body Remover. Jeremy comes for you when you die, but that's not his gift. His gift is stealing your secret, the one you died with, the one you never told a soul. But the daring story isn't about him taking your secret, not at all. Explore two absolutely addictive stories detailed with terrifying regret, pulse-racing revenge, and a haunting decades in the making.

This collection marks the ninth book by Fangoria and Dread Central writer, Thom Carnell. In this volume, we present 14 tales - some old, some new - designed to mesmerize and astonish. From “high adventure”, to quiet stories detailing the darkest corners of the human experience, Thom Carnell presents them all with an unflinching eye, toward both terrifying and entertaining the unsuspecting listener.