Download or read book The Doppelganger The Nightmare From Hell written by Drac Von Stoller and published by Drac Von Stoller. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Carter was a man of routine, his life a meticulously crafted tapestry of predictability. Every morning, he'd wake at precisely 6:30 AM, the soft glow of dawn barely peeking through his curtains. The aroma of freshly ground coffee beans would soon fill his modest apartment, a scent that once brought comfort but now seemed to carry an undercurrent of unease. As he navigated the familiar streets on his way to work, Daniel couldn't shake the feeling that something was... off. The world around him seemed slightly out of focus, as if he were viewing it through a smeared lens. He attributed it to stress, to the mounting bills and the looming threat of layoffs at the office. Little did he know that his mundane existence was about to be shattered. The first call came on a Tuesday afternoon. Daniel was hunched over his desk, poring over spreadsheets when his phone buzzed. He answered absently, expecting it to be a client or perhaps his boss. Instead, silence greeted him, broken only by the soft sound of breathing. "Hello?" Daniel said, irritation creeping into his voice. "Who is this?" The line went dead. Over the next few days, the calls increased in frequency. Sometimes it was a telemarketer, their rehearsed pitch grating on Daniel's nerves. Other times, it was just silence, heavy and oppressive. He began to dread the sound of his ringtone, each buzz sending a jolt of anxiety through his body. Then, on a rain-soaked Friday evening, everything changed. Daniel was alone in his apartment, the patter of raindrops against his window providing a soothing backdrop to his solitude. His phone rang, and with trembling fingers, he answered. "You're getting away with it," the voice whispered, a cold dread creeping into Daniel's bones. The voice was his own. Every inflection, every nuance – it was as if he were listening to a recording of himself. But Daniel hadn't spoken those words. He hadn't made that call. He hung up, his heart pounding so hard he could feel it in his throat. Sweat beaded on his forehead as he tried to rationalize what he'd just heard. It was a prank, he told himself. A twisted joke played by someone with too much time on their hands and access to voice modulation software. But the calls persisted, each one more chilling than the last. The voice – his voice – spoke of terrible things. Murders. Mutilations. Acts so heinous that Daniel felt physically ill just hearing about them. As the days wore on, Daniel noticed changes in the way people looked at him. Neighbors who once greeted him warmly now hurried past with averted eyes. Colleagues whispered behind his back, their conversations dying abruptly when he entered a rom. The local news was abuzz with reports of a serial killer on the loose. The anchors spoke in hushed, urgent tones about a predator stalking the streets, leaving a trail of brutalized victims in his wake. Daniel watched with growing horror as grainy security footage showed a figure that looked disturbingly like him near one of the crime scenes. It was on a crisp autumn morning that Daniel's world finally imploded. He was preparing for work, the TV murmuring in the background, when he heard his name. The news anchor's voice was grim as she announced that the police had made an arrest in the serial killer case. Daniel Carter was now the prime suspect. The pounding on his door came moments later. Daniel opened it to find a wall of grim-faced officers, their hands hovering near their weapons. As they read him his rights and slapped cold metal cuffs around his wrists, Daniel's mind reeled. This couldn't be happening. He was innocent. He had to be. But as he was led away, Daniel caught sight of his reflection in a hallway mirror. For a split second, he could have sworn he saw his own face twist into a malevolent grin, a look of triumph that sent ice through his veins. The evidence against him was circumstantial but damning. Security footage placed him near multiple crime scenes. A strand of his hair had been found on one of the victims. And then there was the motive – financial records revealed a man drowning in debt, desperate for a way out. As Daniel sat in the cold, sterile interrogation room, he realized with growing terror that his life of predictable routine had been nothing but an illusion. Something dark and twisted had been lurking beneath the surface all along, waiting for the perfect moment to emerge and destroy everything he held dear. The detective across from him leaned in, his eyes hard and unforgiving. "Why'd you do it, Mr. Carter?" he asked, his voice dripping with disgust. "What drove you to commit such horrible acts?" Daniel opened his mouth to protest his innocence, but the words died in his throat. Because in that moment, a chilling thought occurred to him: What if he had done it? What if there was a part of him, hidden away in the darkest recesses of his mind, capable of such atrocities? As the cell door clanged shut behind him, Daniel Carter realized that his nightmare was only just beginning. And somewhere out there, wearing his face and speaking with his voice, a monster was still on the loose. Daniel's world had shrunk to the confines of a 6 X 8 cell, the harsh fluorescent lights casting a sickly pallor over his already gaunt features. Sleep eluded him, his nights plagued by nightmares of blood-soaked crime scenes and the sound of his own voice whispering terrible things in the darkness. But Daniel knew he was innocent. He clung to this belief with the desperation of a drowning man grasping at straws. For each of the heinous crimes he was accused of, he had an alibi. Solid, irrefutable proof of his whereabouts. Or so he thought. The first murder had occurred on a Tuesday night, three weeks ago. Daniel clearly remembered being at work, burning the midnight oil to finish a crucial project. He'd ordered takeout, the greasy remnants of which still sat in his office trash can. The cleaning staff could vouch for his presence, as could the security cameras in the building. Yet when his lawyer presented this information to the detectives, they merely exchanged knowing glances. "Mr. Carter," one of them said, his voice dripping with false sympathy, "We have footage of you entering and leaving the office building that night. But we also have footage of you at the crime scene. Care to explain how you can be in two places at once?" Daniel's mind reeled. It wasn't possible. He couldn't have been at the crime scene. He remembered every minute of that night, the frustration of wrestling with stubborn spreadsheets, the acrid taste of cheap coffee on his tongue.

Download or read book The Nightmare Game written by Raymond Johnson and published by Spectrum Publishing. This book was released on with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game designed to shatter the minds of the people who play it. A thief on a mission to save his sister. An ambitious demon masquerading as an artificial intelligence When Ramzan steals from the Chechnyan Mafia to create a better life for his sister, he knows he’s pissing off the wrong people. They want their money, and they’ve created a diabolical method of extracting information from their enemies. Full Immersion Virtual Reality sounds great, until he learns the horrors this incredible technology can cook up. Now, he must keep his wits up and his sanity points high as he battles hordes of fearsome abominations on his quest to escape. Zombies, lycanthropes, slime monsters and more stand in his way, controlled by a devious programmer that doesn’t play fair. Can Ramzan protect his secrets and maintain his sanity against this psychological onslaught? Will he succumb to the terror, and become the monster he set out destroy? He’s gotta stay sharp, and he’s gotta stay sane, if he has a hope of escaping… The Nightmare Game System. The original MMORPG Murder, Mutilation, Offensive, Repulsive Player Game

Download or read book The Doppelganger Protocol The Remnants of War Series Book 2 written by Patrick Astre and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post 9-11, the CIA began developing "Chupacabra"—genetically engineered animals—to track and kill insurgents in Afghanistan. Now the program is complete... and in Russian hands. The first mission: eliminate an undercover agent before he can hand-off secret information. But now every person who came in contact with the body is dying, and the virus is spreading. When ex-Special Forces operator Richard Daniels is asked by the victim's sister to investigate her brother's gruesome death, she hands Richard an encrypted CD that arrived shortly after her brother's death. Daniels turns to Chantal Latour, a member of his old army squad in Afghanistan, for help. While Daniels and Chantal investigate, and the CDC chases after a weaponized strain of the Ebola virus with no known cure, the Russians find and kidnap Chantal's daughter. The ransom: return the CD or witness first-hand what a "Chupacabra" can do. THE REMNANTS OF WAR, in series order The Last Operation The Doppelganger Protocol The Devil's Eye Twilight of Demons

Download or read book The Doppelg nger written by Andrew J. Webber and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-06-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkäs (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal - but nonetheless significant - manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siècle and transfer to the silent screen. The book features an introduction to the practice and theory underlying the use of the Doppelgänger, with particular reference to psychoanalysis, followed by chapters on Jean Paul, Hoffmann, Kleist, poetic realism (Droste-Hülshoff, Keller, Storm) and modernism (Kafka, Rilke, Hoffmannsthal, Schnitzler, Meyrink, Werfal). This study shows that the often underestimated figure of the double may provide a key to the epistomological, aesthetic and psychosexual structures of the texts it visits and revisits, with a particular focus on its effects in the fields of vision and language.

Download or read book Nightmare Chronicles written by Frank Amaya and published by Frank Amaya. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a world where fear and fascination intertwine, where nightmares lurk just beneath the surface of reality. Within these pages, you will be drawn into the depths of terror, where each turn of the page drags you further into the macabre. Haunted houses with creaking floors and chilling whispers will lure you inside. Supernatural entities, born of ancient curses and malevolent desires, will emerge from the shadows to hunt you. The line between reality and illusion blurs, and the horrors that dwell within the human psyche are more terrifying than any external threat. Explore the threads of terror woven into the human experience. Personal phobias and unspoken fears lie at the heart of each tale, ready to send shivers down your spine. Summon your courage, for the path ahead is perilous, filled with ominous whispers and relentless dread. As you journey through these chilling narratives, remember that true horror lies not only in the monstrous and malevolent but in the fear that resides within us all. Take a deep breath and step forward. The nightmare awaits, and the terror calls. For once you enter, there is no escape. Welcome to the realm of spine-chilling horrors.

Download or read book An Urban Nightmare written by Neil Leckman and published by Thirteen Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everything happens a long way from home... most horrors happen right on the doorstep or at least as far as next door... again, the talented Thirteen Press authors let their imaginations run riot on this one. Watch out for your neighbours, they might have read this book before you...

Download or read book We Are Where The Nightmares Go and Other Stories written by C. Robert Cargill and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed screenwriter of Doctor Strange and author of Sea of Rust and Queen of the Dark Things comes a hair-raising collection of short fiction that illuminates the strange, humorous, fantastical and downright diabolical that tantalise and terrorise us: demons, monsters, zombie dinosaurs and Death itself. In the novella 'The Soul Thief's Son' C. Robert Cargill returns to the terrain of the Queen of the Dark Things to continue the story of Colby Stevens . . . A Triceratops and an Ankylosaurus join forces to survive a zombie apocalypse that may spell extinction for their kind in 'Hell Creek' . . . In a grand old building atop a crack in the world, an Iraq War veteran must serve a one-year term as a punisher of the damned, condemned to consume the sins of others in the hope that one day he may find peace in 'In a Clean, White Room' (co-authored with Scott Derrickson). . . In 'The Town That Wasn't Anymore', the village of Pine Hill Bluff loses its inhabitants one at a time as the angry dead return when night falls to steal the souls of the living . . . And in the title story, 'We Are Where the Nightmares Go', a little girl crawls through a glowing door beneath her bed and finds herself trapped in a nightmarish wonderland - a crucible of the fragments of children's bad dreams. These tales and four more are assembled here as testament to Cargill's mastery of the phantasmagoric, making We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories a collection of unnerving horror and fantasy will keep you up all night and haunt your waking dreams.

Download or read book Devil s Nightmare written by Robert Pruneda and published by Jagged Tooth Publishing. This book was released on with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to the bestselling horror novel Devil’s Nightmare, Robert Pruneda brings readers another horrific thriller full of twists, chills, and a shocking conclusion. Two years have passed since Aaron Sanders retired from the Austin Police Department after what the media has labeled The Saint Hedwig Massacre. He moves his family out of the capital city to start a new life as a small town cop in Lost Maples, Texas, where he is once again caught in the middle of a mysterious investigation that has an eerie familiarity. This time, however, something even more sinister is responsible for the violent deaths. Evil knows no boundaries, and it is up to Aaron to figure out how to protect the residents of his community, and his family, from becoming its next victims.

Download or read book The Master Key Keepers and the Doppelganger written by VL Levy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two thousand years ago, the sacred Ark of the Covenant mysteriously disappeared without a trace- prophesized to return to the people and be opened at some undisclosed date; symbolizing that the coming of the messiah is near. That time has now passed. Is the prophecy about to be fulfilled? If so, why is the Ark still missing? What will happen if the Ark is found and opened? More importantly, who among us in the modern day world, has God chosen to open it? Consider if you will, what you would do if Jesus, flanked by twelve great masters, mysteriously appeared before you, relaying that you were responsible for guarding and mastering the keys to the Ark of the Covenant? Armed with the knowledge that humanitys fate depended on their awareness that the prophecy was about to be fulfilled, would you have the courage to tell them why you were here? What if no one believed you? Every few hundred years or so, a messiah, messenger, or sage is sent to walk among the masses; assigned to fulfill a sacred mission that will alter the course of humanity forever. This time, a team was sent in to open the most sought after historical biblical artifact the world has ever known- the Ark of the Covenant! The Master Key Keepers and the Doppelganger is a compelling true story of one familys journey as they experience magic and miracles beyond their wildest imaginations! Find out how their mission will affect your future in this amazing book filled with page turning adventures! The time is much closer than you may think!

Download or read book Bring Me Flesh I ll Bring Hell written by Martin Rose and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son. Vitus is horrified to discover the photo of the couple's missing son is a picture-perfect reproduction of his long dead son. This leads him to question the events of his tormented past; he must face the possibility that the wife and child he believed he murdered ten years ago in a zombie-fugue have somehow survived . . . or is it just wishful thinking designed to pull him into an elaborate trap? Unfolding like a classic film noir mixed with elements of a B-movie, Bring Me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell is an imaginative spin on the hard-boiled detective genre and a new twist on the zombie novel. In Vitus Adamson, you will find a protagonist you can care about and invest in as he takes you through his emotional journey of betrayal and quest for redemption. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Download or read book The Nightmare Charade written by Mindee Arnett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for "magickind," sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart, a magical being who feeds on human dreams, and her dream partner Eli Booker fall in love and are sent on a dangerous mission to obtain the Death's Heart.

Download or read book The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger written by Lucy Banks and published by Amberjack Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thoroughly engaging read for anyone, whether new to the series or not." - BooklistOnly a few months have passed since the day Kester Lanner forced an angry ghost through the spirit door, but business prospects for Dr. Ribero's supernatural agency haven’t improved. Things are looking grim when the agency lands a contract which they must share with a rival agency headed by Dr Ribero’s sworn enemy, Larry Higgins. Desperate for the job, the team accepts and begins to investigate the seaside town of Lyme Regis, where elderly victims are dying. The same mysterious clue links the horrendous deaths: the victims all see a double of themselves before dying. The teams wonder if they are dealing with a rogue doppelgänger, one that isn’t content just predicting deaths, but carrying them out as well. The victims’ connection to an ancient grave site leads to speculation that they may have disturbed a spirit more powerful than the two agencies can handle. One thing is certain, the won’t stop unless Kester and the others can overcome their rivalry and stop this deadly spirit.

Download or read book Monster Hunter International Second Edition written by Larry Correia and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an all-new afterword by New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia! Welcome to Monster Hunter International. Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit. It's actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Business is good . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Lexile Score: 710

Download or read book Those With Virtue Dream For Better Nights written by Thomas R. Young and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tantalizing eternal dream for many is about to come to fruition by way of Shadowstar’s doing. Violet Diamond and the others in her group face ever increasing dangers and public ridicule in stopping a devastating world event. To wake someone up from their best dream to continue a bad day in attempts to overcome it might make a certain small-town tailor seen as the villain. A moral choice whose outcome has deep implications.

Download or read book The Irish and the Imagination of Race written by Patrick R. O'Malley and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the role of Irishness in nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States. Focusing on the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, Patrick O’Malley interrogates the bardic verse epic, the gothic tale, the realist novel, the stage melodrama, and the political polemic to ask how many mid-nineteenth-century Irish nationalist writers with liberationist politics declined to oppose race-based chattel enslavement in the United States and the structures of white supremacy that underpinned and ultimately outlived it. Many of the writers whose work O’Malley examines drew specifically upon the image of Black suffering to generate support for their arguments for Irish political enfranchisement; yet in doing so, they frequently misrepresented the fundamental differences between Irish and Black experience under the regimes of white supremacy, which has had profound consequences.

Download or read book A New History of German Literature written by David E. Wellbery and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

Download or read book Wes Craven written by John Kenneth Muir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Wes Craven has consistently and imaginatively scared movie audiences since the early 1970s. His films encompass a variety of styles, elements and themes, from the nihilistic existentialism of The Last House on the Left to the successful A Nightmare on Elm Street (which sent horror in a bold new direction), to the hallucinatory dreamscapes of The Serpent and the Rainbow. And in the nineties, Craven returned with the Scream films, which were simultaneously funny, clever and scary films that overturned the horror cliches of the eighties. The present work provides a history of Craven's film career since 1972, examining all the themes and techniques the filmmaker explored. For each film, a synopsis, cast and credits, historical context, and critical commentary are provided. Also covered in detail are Craven's forays into television, including movies such as Stranger in the House and work on such series as The New Twilight Zone.