Kirjahaku

A right wing news host discovers a cover-up and is haunted by a specter to reveal it.

Underneath the ice. Underneath the skin.Mary Jensen, a trained medic, needs a new start and she's getting one at Research Station Tau, in remote Antarctica. Called in as an emergency replacement, Mary soon finds out Tau's mission: to find a lost elementary particle, deep down in the ice.Dr. Ian Schuller, the station lead, thinks the particle is the key to humanity's evolution. As they drill into the ice, complications arise and Mary starts to worry about his sanity. As he pushes harder and harder for results, the group begins to fracture.And then the hallucinations start.Something is in the ice, and it is changing them.Now Mary must survive, and face what's underneath.

In the small run-down European town of Krav, the cult of soccer dominates. And losing a game could cost you your soul. Referee Tyler Kensen is a scapegoat. Framed in a scandal, Tyler is hired in Krav to lay low. But Krav is more than just another sport-obsessed town. Fans take to the streets at night in red hooded robes. They chant in an unrecognizable language. The faithful conduct strange rituals, all in service to victory on the field. And one symbol hangs over everything. The split circle. The sigil hangs throughout the town, revered by young and old alike. It represents the town and its team, and after seeing it, Tyler is having visions. Visions of sacrifice and blood. As the season wears on and the mysteries stack up, Tyler finds himself tighter in Krav's grasp. Tyler must unravel the secrets of Krav or face what awaits inside the split circle.

This Halloween, hell comes to Laurel City.Laurel City doesn't celebrate Halloween and Mike Dawson wants to change that. New in town, he's going to throw the biggest Halloween party the town has ever seen. But Reverend David Laurel stands in his way. Laurel is a direct descendant of the founder of the town, and Halloween is more than just a celebration of sin. It is a direct attack on control of his city, and he won't surrender it without a fight. Mike and his children are drawn into a feud over the holiday, and Mike won't back down despite pressure from Laurel.And then the killings start.The town is thrown into chaos by brutal murders, and Laurel blames them on the sinful holiday. But Laurel has a secret. Deep in his church lies an ancient book, bound in red leather. It contains terrible power, written in an inhuman language. Reverend Laurel will do anything to stop Halloween.Including summoning demons.The question isn't if Laurel City will have a Halloween. The question is if the town will survive it.

With the world on the brink of collapse, the last thing Jon expected was a call from the richest man on Earth.Scientist Jon Matthews is sitting on his couch, locked out of his lab, until he gets a call from Eaton Shaw, the billionaire tech magnate. Shaw is inviting the best and brightest to an underground facility, with a simple mission. Save the world.Jon joins the lab, hoping for a breakthrough on his research. He's attempting the impossible: regrowing limbs in humans. But he's not alone in his quest. The lab is filled with cutting edge science, working to solve all of humanity's problems. Shaw presses harder and harder for results, even in the face of deformity and mutation, and Jon begins questioning Shaw's motivations. The lab, once a sanctuary, starts to feel like a prison.As Jon's research spins further and further out of control, the cost is tallied in trauma and blood. Still, Shaw wants more, even as the lab becomes a slaughterhouse. Both Jon and his research are pushed to the brink.What will be the price for regrowth?

The newest residents of Fleet, Texas are out for blood.The town of Fleet, Texas is dying, and long-time resident Ebner Graves can only watch. Ebner grew up in Fleet, fought for it in Vietnam, grew old there, and now it's drying up.Until the addition of Sunny Meadows, a planned community on the city's outskirts. Built by foreign investor Oskar Fuchs, it's bringing wealth back into the area, and Fuchs wants more. He's buying up property all over town, and making generous offers with old money. But Ebner's not buying it. Fuchs isn't what he seems, and Ebner won't see his town become something he hates.And then townsfolk start dying.Everyone who stood in the way of Fuchs, all ripped apart in gruesome murder. Suspicious, Ebner sneaks into Sunny Meadows and finds the source of the killings.Vampires.Sunny Meadows is their den, and Fuchs their master. Now Ebner must stop him, before Fleet is bled dry.

Deep below the water, something waits.Journalist Moira Bell is in the Florida Keys to cover climate change, but her investigation soon reveals a series of unreported disappearances on Blackwell Key. Disappearances noteworthy only because the missing people always come back. Come back as something else.Moira ties the disappearances to Butch Blackwell, chief of police and direct descendant of the original settler of Blackwell Key. He's hiding something on his private island, just offshore. With a massive hurricane approaching, Moira has little time.When Moira sneaks her way onto his island, she finds a dark obelisk. A bloody ritual. Worship of something beyond our world. Something long asleep.Moira must stop Butch before he awakens something that will undo the Earth.

Ain't nothing fair about killing an innocent when they got their whole life ahead of 'em. Fair is taking Billy out to the Wastes and burying him deep enough that he gets sent straight to Hell.Emma Burns thought she'd left her outlaw past behind her. She had moved to The City, to civilization, to find peace with her husband and raise their young son as the world rebuilds in the wake of a terrible, forgotten war that left humanity in chaos.But she can't escape her bloody history. An old partner, Billy, finds her, commits an unspeakable crime, and then flees into the night.Now, Emma thirsts for vengeance, but his death is not enough. Her heart craves a darker revenge. She must bury Billy's body in the radioactive hellscape that is The Wastes, ensuring he gets sent to the deepest, darkest Hell. It won't be easy. She has wolves on her tail. Ghosts from her past and present who want to stop Emma and her ruthless quest. Nothing will stop Emma from delivering justice to Billy.Whatever the cost.

Gutsy is the new mascot of the Baltimore Brawlers, and he's a viral sensation. Big, red, and full of mischief, he's taken the world by storm.Tom Reynolds needs to pay his bills, and the job of playing Gutsy has fallen into his lap. He's deep in debt, and if playing a hockey mascot is what it takes, he'll do it. No one mentioned how playing Gutsy would change him. Or the strange feelings that persist even after he takes off the costume for the night. Or the sudden spate of brutal murders near the arena. But no job is perfect, right? And then the nightmares start.Nightmares where he's stalking people, seeing with a cursed red gaze, and filled with a terrible urge to feed an insatiable hunger. Tom quickly realizes these aren't just nightmares. He's made a connection with Gutsy, and he's watching Gutsy's late night slaughters in his sleep.Gutsy isn't just a costume.Gutsy is alive, and he must kill.Now, Tom must solve the mystery of Gutsy's origin and stop him, before the death toll rises and Gutsy grows into something unstoppable.

Can love triumph over evil from Hell itself?Donald Leal is slowly losing himself, and Beverly, his wife, is trying to hold on. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Don's mind is falling apart. Married for 40 years, Bev will happily shoulder the burden of caring for Don.But it's more than just foggy thoughts and forgotten memories. Something dark lurks behind Don's eyes, and drives him to despicable action.It calls itself The Other. When it's in control, Don changes into something unrecognizable, a stranger in their house, who laughs at trauma and relishes in death.Bev soon realizes her husband isn't just facing dementia.Her husband is possessed.The Other delights in pain and misery, and feeds off the love between Bev and Don. It surfaces more and more, hurting Bev whenever it can, and she desperately searches for a way to cure her husband. As it pushes Bev closer and closer to the breaking point, she must answer a terrible question.How much will she sacrifice to send The Other back to Hell?

They're coming. I have to stop them.Mike Dawson has returned to his family with ominous words, warning of a potential invasion. He carries The Book, an arcane, sinister tome, with incredible power, and it's made him and his children targets.Targets of the government. They can't let the Book, or Mike's knowledge of it, out in the wild, and Mike finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between multiple secretive agencies. He doesn't know who to trust as the threat of invasion looms, and a terrible discovery only complicates it more.They've found a second Book.It's an identical copy of Mike's cursed artifact, with the same terrible potential, and it must be found before it's used to invite hell into our world. Now, Mike and his family must find the second Book, avoid capture, and stop the invasion before it's too late.

The dead need nothing.Joe Amery is broke. He's sleeping on his ex's couch, and the bills for his mom's retirement home won't pay themselves. He doesn't want to work in Nile's fulfillment center, but it's the only place hiring. Nile is the largest company on Earth, selling everything, and their warehouse is infamous for its shoddy treatment of employees, but Joe grits his teeth and takes the job.But there's something suspicious happening at Nile. Joe learns of a new opportunity, in research and development. A promotion, that pays double his current salary. A chance to dig himself out of debt. One that seems too good to be true.Joe doesn't trust it, and discovers Nile is conducting horrific experiments on their workforce, to create the perfect employee.A worker that doesn't need to eat, or drink, or sleep.The undead.Now, Joe must stop Nile's gruesome science before they deliver this monstrous technology into the world.

This book is cursed. It always ends the same way.Bookseller Annie Maddox has stumbled upon the find of a lifetime. A rare book, one of one, and worth big bucks. A choose your own adventure novel, written by a reclusive author, before his untimely and gruesome death. After a terrible tragedy, Annie discovers the truth.This book is cursed. Choose the wrong path, and it kills you.Annie digs into the history of the book, and into its secrets. Because inside that curse is a tantalizing promise, one that can undo all its bloodshed.Read the book, choose the right path, and reverse the horror.Can Annie find her way through the book? Or will she be cut down by its curse?

Henry Collingsworth writes to his lost love, as he searches for her stolen heart. His hunt has brought him to the House, a gothic mansion located outside a cancerous town, built by the villainous Architect. The Architect has locked her heart inside and Henry seeks to reclaim it and deliver her unto salvation.But his quest is far from simple.Henry discovers the House holds much more than his Beloved's heart. Beneath it lies an unfathomable maze, defying time and space, the key to his fervent crusade hidden deep inside.If Henry is to find her heart, he must delve down a thousand hallways and through a thousand doors. Doors which contain a thousand thousand worlds, containing riddles, madness, mutation, and death.Can Henry survive the treacherous labyrinth, and save his Beloved?Will he emerge from the maze at all?

God is watching.The Holy Church of Sacred is rotting from within, and Pastor David Ingram's mission is to restore it. Young, charismatic, and hot-tempered, David moves with his husband and young son to Sacred, Georgia to preach God's Word. Following the mysterious, brutal death of the former pastor, David has been tasked with healing the fractured congregation.Eli Parsons leads the dissidents within the church. The Parsons founded the church, Eli's blood deep in the faith. He hates David for his unashamed sexuality, for stealing his church-and for seeing through his facade, into the secrets Eli keeps. Secrets like the grotesque, nude figure of Christ in Eli's basement and the suffering at the core of Eli's worship.Eli's presence in the faith strains David's belief, not only in his God, but in what shape he takes. Words turn to violence, and God's watchful eye is all that keeps David from losing himself in righteous fury and sacrificing everything he's built. When David is pushed to the breaking point, he must choose-be the better man, or sate his thirst for bloody justice as the dark shape of God watches.

Henry Collingsworth writes to his lost love, as he searches for her stolen heart. His hunt has brought him to the House, a gothic mansion located outside a cancerous town, built by the villainous Architect. The Architect has locked her heart inside and Henry seeks to reclaim it and deliver her unto salvation.But his quest is far from simple.Henry discovers the House holds much more than his Beloved's heart. Beneath it lies an unfathomable maze, defying time and space, the key to his fervent crusade hidden deep inside.If Henry is to find her heart, he must delve down a thousand hallways and through a thousand doors. Doors which contain a thousand thousand worlds, containing riddles, madness, mutation, and death.Can Henry survive the treacherous labyrinth, and save his Beloved?Will he emerge from the maze at all?