Download or read book The Fangs of the Hooded Demon written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln Blackthorne, reluctant Rambo, very private investigator, and adventurer in spite of himself, returns for a fourth thrilling caper. “Why, ” Blackthorne wonders, “does everyone seem to know what I’m going to do, or where I’m going to be, before I do?" The reason is simple: People manipulate him, giving him no choice. In fact, the only one who hasn’t succeeded yet is Carmel--she wants Linc to marry her. He might be better off. Instead, he finds himself ducking a knife in a room in the Waldorf as he begins the search for the Fangs of the Hooded Demon, a relic of supposedly wondrous powers, which has been smuggled into the United States by Dutch Burgoyne. The fangs are carved rubies which were once part of a statue of a white cobra. The artifact once belonged to Vlad Tepes. According to the legend, the jewels are capable of bringing the dead back to life. Lincoln Blackthorne doesn’t believe in legends like that; but there’s no questioning the fact that the hunt for the fangs is capable of killing people. That’s why, finally, he escapes the snowbound East Coast and finds himself stuck in a blizzard in Oklahoma...with people who knew where he was going to be before he got there. Why didn’t he just marry Carmel? Would he, he wanted to know, live long enough to change his mind about that? And who had the fangs now, anyway?

Download or read book The Fangs of the Hooded Demon written by Geoffrey Marsh and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fangs of the Hooded Demon written by Geoffrey Marsh and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth Lincoln Blackthorne book finds the adventurer on the hunt for a pa ir of ruby fangs. Legend has it the fangs once belonged to Dracula, but Linc doesn't care. All he wants are the artifacts before his friends wind up dead.

Download or read book The Bloodwind written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BLOODWIND IS SILENT It grows from hate and fear and jealousy, rising over Oxrun Station in a miasma of terror and anger. Its target: anyone who dares to speak or act against its master. To many in Oxrun Station, it is Pat Shavers who controls the Bloodwind, for it strikes down her enemies. But Pat is terrified of the mysterious destructive force. The earlier deaths have been accidents—hers will be murder.

Download or read book Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction written by Bradley Mengel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton's novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured.

Download or read book The Orchard written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm evening in Oxrun Station—a lovely time for a picnic. If only they hadn't chosen to visit the orchard … It was the last lovely time. The first death seems to be an accident. But there's no doubt about the suicide, or the mutilation murder, or the horror that seizes the movie theater, or the terror that inhabits the hospital … All are the fruits of that night in the orchard.

Download or read book Wingfeather Saga 4 Book Bundle written by Andrew Peterson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 1682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This convenient ebook bundle features all four novels in the beloved, bestselling Wingfeather Saga, with more than one million copies sold! NOW AN ANIMATED SERIES • Based on Andrew Peterson’s epic fantasy novels—starring Jody Benson, Henry Ian Cusick, and Kevin McNally. Executive Producer J. Chris Wall with Shining Isle Productions, and distributed by Angel Studios. This collection of Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga includes all four novels: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, North! Or Be Eaten, The Monster in the Hollows, and The Warden and the Wolf King. Janner Igiby, his brother, Tink, and their disabled sister, Leeli, are gifted children as all children are, loved well by a noble mother and ex-pirate grandfather. But they will need all their gifts and all that they love to survive the evil pursuit of the venomous Fangs of Dang, who have crossed the dark sea to rule the land with malice. The Igibys hold the secret to the lost legend and jewels of good King Wingfeather of the Shining Isle of Anniera. Andrew Peterson’s sweeping saga is full of characters rich in heart, smarts, and courage. It is a tale that children of all ages will cherish, families can read aloud, and readers' groups are sure to enjoy discussing for its many layers of meaning. Each book features interior illustrations from Joe Sutphin, funny footnotes, a map of the fantastical world, inventive appendices, and fanciful line art.

Download or read book Tales from the Nightside written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntings and enchantments, elegies of the macabre, dim-lit excursions beyond the bounds of reality—here are fifteen subtle tales of terror. A toll road lures wayfarers into another dimension... A mysterious white wolf appears as a portent of doom... An aged seamstress holds, in her needle, dominion over life and death... A bizarre world of dark fantasy awaits, strangely, horribly compelling. From the demon-cursed town of Oxrun Station to the terrifying byways of Hawthorne Street, prepare for fear as you enter the nightside... Stories included in this collection: Coin of the Realm Old Friends Home If Damon Comes A Night of Dark Intent The Gentle Passing of a Hand When All the Children Call My Name Needle Song Something There Is Come Dance With Me on My Pony's Grave The Three of Tens Digging From All the Fields of Hail and Fire The Key to English White Wolf Calling

Download or read book The Mystery Fancier written by William F. Deeck and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.

Download or read book He Told Me To written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first it seems like an ordinary street in an ordinary neighborhood. But kids sense there’s something different about Midnight Place. It's nothing tangible—just an eerie sensation that won’t go away. Walk down the street, a street like Midnight Place, and all too soon the terror is real. What’s happening to the teenagers in Ashford? Suddenly crimes are being committed by the nicest kids. Honor-roll students have become juvenile delinquents and petty criminals. Sophomore Jo Latera is shocked by her friends’ actions. In her opinion the kids seem hypnotized—almost brainwashed. She is convinced that someone else is behind their bizarre, hostile behavior. But who could be responsible? Who could have such power? Jo thinks she’ll find the answer on eerie Midnight Place. Will Jo be able to save her friends—or will she become a zombie, too?

Download or read book The Hour of the Oxrun Dead written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WELCOME TO OXRUN STATION Oxrun station could be a spooky place, especially out by the Windsors', right next to the graveyard. At night Natalie heard eerie sounds out in the fog, among the tombstones, unnatural sounds made by unearthly things. Natalie's husband had been born in Oxrun Station. He loved the town, and served it well—and in return it killed him. Ben's death had left Natalie isolated in a strange town she could not call her own. How strange and how deadly Oxrun Station could be, Natalie Windsor was about to learn. Once each year an ancient ritual was recreated, an ancient pact reinvoked—and Natalie Windsor was this year's sacrifice.

Download or read book The Shadow of Alpha written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Parric: an ordinary civil servant being ground up in a mill of paperwork, who is given a chance to work on an experimental government project — to live secretly in a town entirely populated by androids — whose very existence, if it were known, would disrupt society — something the repressive society does not want. But Parric is happy in his secret village, protected by a force-field from outsiders, in contact with only a few others in similar positions in other secret villages. Protected, until war breaks out and civilization outside calls in the horrifying Plaguewind. Then the experimental androids, affected by the plague in strange ways, become killers! Parric must escape his village, then trek across the desolated countryside, in danger from the surviving mobs of plague victims, to the control center of the secret android project, in an attempt to join other men in starting a new civilization.

Download or read book Legion written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village had been called Town Central, where people learned to live with androids, and androids learned to live like humans. It had been an experiment to bolster a dying population, and it might have worked, given the chance. But there was the Plaguewind. And there was the Dying …

Download or read book Something s Watching written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEWARE OF MIDNIGHT PLACE At first it seems like an ordinary street in an ordinary neighborhood. But kids sense there’s something different about Midnight Place. It’s nothing tangible—just an eerie sensation that won’t go away. Walk down the street, a street like Midnight Place, and all too soon the terror is real. Fifteen-year-old Tara Fraiser is scared. Lately it seems that everyone she is close to has been the victim of a mugging. The victims never see their attacker, but strangely enough they all remember the eerie tune he whistles. What scares Tara even more is that she recognizes the tune—her dad had mesmerized her as a child with tales of an evil, whistling monster named Old Beithir. Tara is afraid that she’s next. How can she protect herself from this evil creature?

Download or read book The Patch of the Odin Soldier written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patch of the Odin Soldier marks the return to action of the intrepid and irrepressible Lincoln Blackthorne. Rambo, Woody Allen, and Indiana Jones all rolled into one, he’s a reluctant adventurer and soldier of fortune who masquerades as a mild-mannered New Jersey tailor. Although he’d rather be home taking the measure of a new suit, there’s always some new high-tech, high-powered criminal ready to take measure of him. Lincoln’s latest adventure takes him from the green mountains of Maine to the white shores of Hawaii in search of the Odin Soldier, an ancient Viking statuette. The small wooden figure is the source of miraculous supernatural power, and if it falls into the wrong hands, it could lead to an age of destruction and dictatorship on a global scale. The wrong hands belong to one Florenz Cull, a white-haired, one-eyed, seven-foot giant, whom Lincoln has killed once already, but who keeps coming back for more. Cull has devised a diabolical plan to seize the statue and turn the world into a vast empire under his control. All Blackthorne has to do is stop him… Whether he’s cruising at nine thousand feet in a pilotless plane filled with poison, risking his hide in a red-hot bath of lava, or taking his chances with a red-haired seductress, it’s all in a day’s work for the misfit spy and master tailor out to sew up this case—before it unravels him. If you have an eye for fun, fantasy, and futuristic firepower, Lincoln Blackthorne is the man to watch. (previously published as written by Geoffrey Marsh)

Download or read book North Or Be Eaten written by Andrew Peterson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPA BESTSELLER • Now in paperback! First they found themselves On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. Now they must make their way North! Or Be Eaten . . . NOW AN ANIMATED SERIES: Based on Andrew Peterson’s epic fantasy novels—starring Jody Benson, Henry Ian Cusick, and Kevin McNally. Executive Producer J. Chris Wall with Shining Isle Productions, and distributed by Angel Studios. Janner, Tink, and Leeli Igiby thought they were normal children with normal lives and a normal past. But now they know they're really the Lost Jewels of Anniera, heirs to a legendary kingdom across the sea, and suddenly everyone wants to kill them. In order to survive, the Igibys must flee to the safety of the Ice Prairies, where the lizardlike Fangs of Dang cannot follow. First, however, they have to escape the monsters of Glipwood Forest, the thieving Stranders of the East Ben, and the dreaded Fork Factory. But even more dangerous are the jealousies and bitterness that threaten to tear them apart. Janner and his siblings must learn the hard way that the love of a family is more important than anything else. Full of characters rich in heart, smarts, and courage, North! Or Be Eaten is a tale children of all ages will cherish, families can read aloud, and readers' groups are sure to enjoy discussing for its many layers of meaning. Includes interior illustrations, a map of the fantastical world, inventive appendices, and a reader's guide with discussion questions and writing activities.

Download or read book Black Oak 3 written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HUNTING THROUGH THE PAST Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor. From everyday illegal activities to encounters of a more questionable kind, Proctor has seen it all. Now, summoned to England to investigate an ongoing missing person case, Proctor stumbles upon a legendary forest—and a specter who dwells there … HAUNTED IN THE PRESENT The hamlet of Pludbury, England, is a forgotten village, a farming community dating back to the War of the Roses. It was also the home of Sir Jarred Battle, am ambitious lord who was executed during England’s famous feud. His ghost is purported to roam the Battle Wood, granting favors to the townsfolk—in exchange for their souls. The people of Pludbury are rather protective of their spirit, and although he’d like nothing more than to forget the ghost tales, Proctor soon suspects Sir Jarred Battle may be the key to his case—or the very Devil himself …