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Best-selling urban fantasy and paranormal suspense author M.D. Massey welcomes listeners back to the world of the Junkyard Druid for his third short story collection. Blood Bound includes "Voodoo Ball", "Prince Mark's Price", and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do".

A mother and her daughter come to the remote Orkneys to grieve and find themselves instead dealing with a ghostly Viking legend. A Dark Ages king doesn’t realise his wife carries another man’s child and she is desperate for him not to find out. A young woman, who has spent her whole life hiding her supernatural strength, discovers on the eve of her wedding that she is Odin’s daughter. Sir Percival’s sister finds herself trapped in a castle of bloodletting sorcerers with only her sexuality as a weapon.

Nach dem tragischen Tod seines Vaters führt Jack Deveraux dessen alten, staubigen Buchladen weiter. Es ist ein ruhiges Leben ohne jede Aufregung - bis zu dem Tag, als eine überirdisch schöne Frau den Laden betritt. Sie verlangt nach einem besonderen Buch, einem Erbstück von Jacks Vater, das natürlich unverkäuflich ist. Und doch kann Jack nicht anders: Wie in Trance greift er nach dem wertvollen Stück.

The Dancer is a simple story of a young woman in love, a young woman who is trying to find out who she is. While the story is simple, the manner in which it unfolds is anything but. And sometimes the ride is so wild it has everyone hanging on to their seats. The Dancer starts on the Stage and that’s where it ends. In between, it goes to the beach, to an Artist’s Studio, to a Native Village. We come to understand that the Artist’s Studio and Native Village are other worlds. Will the Dancer find true love? Will she find her place in the World?  

Er ist jung. Er ist mutig. Und er ist auf der Jagd: Jack Deveraux - der Dämonenjäger. Du wirst niemals in Sicherheit sein! Seit ein paar Wochen ist es verdächtig ruhig, doch Jack Deveraux, Buchhändler und Dämonenjäger wider Willen, wagt es nicht, aufzuatmen. Er weiß, dass noch immer übernatürliche Kreaturen da draußen lauern. Und richtig: Etwas greift seine Assistentin Emma an und verwandelt ihre Wohnung in einen regelrechten Dschungel mit Lianen, die alles in ihrem Würgegriff fesseln, was ihnen zu nahe kommt. Jack ahnt, dass nur eine dahinter stecken kann: Selina, eine Sirene, die grausame Rache üben will!

Er ist jung. Er ist mutig. Und er ist auf der Jagd: Jack Deveraux - der Dämonenjäger. Der finale Kampf steht bevor. Als Jack einen Laden betritt, geschieht das Unmögliche: Die Zeit bleibt stehen. Niemand außer ihm kann sich bewegen, selbst ein Paket, das gerade zu Boden fällt, hängt starr in der Luft. Gleichzeitig hört Jack ein seltsames Summen. Er folgt dem Geräusch und stößt auf einen Riss in der Wand, in dem es seltsam rot pulsiert. Jack tritt näher - und wird von einem grellen Licht geblendet.

A cantankerous old woman is charged with aiding a young girl. A male dryad finds his place in the world. Paralyzed from the neck down, a teenage sculpting prodigy is given a new opportunity to pursue her art again. A Victorian professor journeys across England to lecture on evolution, only to walk into trouble at every turn.

Welcome to a mystical age of cruelty, hexes, and treachery, where malicious magic rules, and you are but a single necromancer’s spell away from eternal terror. From malevolent medieval magicians to the Wild West witches, this spellbinding volume by a master of the macabre is packed with frightening fables guaranteed to send a supernatural chill down your spine.

There's something out there in the dark. There's always something watching. There's always something reaching for you. Always. And sometimes there?s someone you can call. Someone you can hire. Someone who knows these dark streets and back alleys. Someone who knows how things work in this part of town. Private eyes who are often as dark as the things they hunt. Investigators who know how to look in the shadows for the things that go bump. Good guys but not always nice guys. Hardboiled Horror collects fifteen original tales of noir mystery shot through with elements of horror and the supernatural.

Escape to worlds full of adventure and magic in the first-ever Terry Brooks short story collection, featuring both new and fan-favorite stories from all three of his major literary worlds: Shannara, Magic Kingdom, and The Word and the Void.

Dragons of every size, color, and temperament reside in this delightful collection of clever tales by Edith Nesbit. There are dragons big, small, friendly, and fierce. Let our family of narrators lead you on a journey of discovery and wonder. This collection includes one of Nesbit's stories not included in the original, "The Last of the Dragons."

Sparking myths and legends from Asia to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons are the most universal and awe-inspiring of magical creatures. Whether they are fearsome, rampaging monsters or benevolent sages with much to teach humanity, dragons bring creation, destruction, and adventure in stories told all around the globe. In this landmark collection, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan combines nearly thirty never-before-seen short stories and poems, written by modern masters of science fiction and fantasy, and illustrations by acclaimed artist Rovina Cai.

The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day singlehanded when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta. Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp.

Es soll Zechen geben, in denen sich stählerne Möchtegerndrachen verbissen ihre eigene Legende zu fauchen versuchen. Auch Märchen wie vom schlauen Papierfresserdrachen, der seine Artgenossen befreit, warten nur darauf, erzählt zu werden. Oder wie wäre es mit schaurig-schönem Grusel rund um plappernde unsichtbare Doppelgänger und sich verselbstständigende Killer-Navigationsgeräte?

Here are three of Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tales, including "The Happy Prince", "The Selfish Giant", and "The Nightingale and the Rose".

For an imperial assassin, assignment as a courtesan in the Floating World seems like a waste of her talents...until killers target her clan sisters. In the legendary Floating World, wars are waged with wit, the strongest soldier can be bound with threads of silk, and flesh is the currency by which life, death, and freedom can all be purchased. Half-elf Jie bemoans her temporary assignment as a Night Blossom in the most sought-after house, even if it's the perfect cover for her real work as an assassin in the emperor’s service.

This audiobook contains six fantasy and sci-fi short stories perfect for your morning commute. Each story is self-contained.

The angry drunk. The shameless womanizer. The coward who ran away and got his comrades killed. The ice-cold assassin for hire. And me, the girl with abandonment issues as deep and wide as the Southern Sea. The five us are all so different, we shouldn't work together. Most of the time, we don't. And yet, every once in a while, I get a glimpse of what might be, if we manage to move beyond our difficult pasts long enough to become the family our dragons need.

Emerging in the tides of strife and villainy is the swashbuckling legend of the smuggler and halfling Yalen Shenks, known eternally throughout the world of Aelorad through poem and epic sagas. Mixing with the likes of pirate lords, swindling barons, and gods of mischief, Yalen finds himself with just his wits and colorful tongue against a cast of foes, in five different tales.

Science fiction at its literate best with every story a little gem. Authors include Jack London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) and Nathaniel Hawthorne.