There wasn't anything unusual about the house. At first glance, it was as normal as any other house in the suburban central Massachusetts neighborhood. Small and blue, it was shaped like a box with windows and doors. It was the type of house you might expect to find window boxes overflowing with brightly colored geraniums and a festive garden flag that said welcome! Nothing about it suggested it was haunted. Events would transpire over the next eleven years, tearing our family apart and nearly stealing our souls. True paranormal story by the author of Bones in the Basement and The Soul Collector.
Andrew Fox shows how to predict and assess the most dangerous terrorist threats likely to emerge in the near future in order to focus on countering them.
The spookiest Issue to date with every article featured being based on Halloween, with real life ghost pictures and ghost stories to send shivers down your spine - Features on witches, traditions, sleep paralysis and even ZOZO. It is certainly not a issue to be missed!
A Promethean technology is one that allows someone of average resources, skills, and intelligence to carry out actions that were once only doable by governments, militaries, or institutions with considerable resources. Essentially, Promethean technologies allow users to create their own weapons of mass destruction. These emerging technologies are increasingly affordable and accessible--and are no more complicated to operate than a satellite TV control box or a smart phone. Although these technologies are a terrifying prospect, the more we know about these dangers, the better we can prepare to head them off. In The Devil's Toy Box, Andrew Fox lays out seven decades of preemptive analysis and shows that while homeland security has explored, in depth, the possible Promethean threats the world faces, it has failed to forecast the most likely attacks. Using fictional scenarios Fox teaches how to predict future threats and how to forecast which ones are likely to be used by bad actors within the next five to ten years. Combining the skills of homeland security experts and the imaginations of speculative fiction writers, he then offers an analytical method to deter, counter, or abate these threats, rather than adopting an attitude of resigned fatalism.
‘I was on the edge of my seat every time I turned the page!! One of the best crime books I have ever read!!!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review You don’t want to play their games... All around Albuquerque, New Mexico, young women are going missing, seemingly vanished into thin air. With no link between the victims, Detective Alyssa Wyatt is quickly plunged into a horrifying case with no obvious clues. And when Jersey Andrews, the best friend of Alyssa’s teenage daughter, Holly, joins the list of vanished girls, the case becomes personal. But this investigation will lead Alyssa and partner Cord into the most sinister depths of humanity; an evil place where life is expendable, and where the depraved can fulfil their darkest desires – if they have the money to pay for it. As the first bodies appear, abandoned on the streets, Alyssa is forced into a frantic hunt to track down the killers – before more innocent women lose their lives. But when the truth comes out, it seems that the key to solving the case was hiding in the last place anyone expected... A dark, tension-filled and absolutely nail-biting crime thriller with a twist – this one will have you reading until the small hours. Fans of Robert Bryndza, Melinda Leigh and Lisa Regan will not want to miss this addictive read. Readers can't get enough of The Toybox: ‘This book is, in short, incredible... I was completely invested in all the main characters and didn’t see the twist coming.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘Don’t plan to do anything else until you finish reading this book... intense, suspenseful and realistic... Excellent read.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘OMG!!!... an edge of your seat page turner with lots of action...and many twists and turns with one that most won't see coming.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘I was blown away...I don't think I took a breath the whole time I was reading.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘There were many twists in the story that really surprised me! This was a book that I wished hadn’t ended!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘OMG WHAT A READ!!!...Plenty of heart in your mouth moments and packed with tension and suspense. This crime series is one of the best I have read’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘a dark and thrilling crime read that will have you on the edge of your seat... This is a book you NEED to add to your TBR pile.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘HOLY COW! This book will take you for the ride of your life...I was left stunned when the truth was revealed’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘There is just so much to love about this series..A dark and chilling read that will have you hanging on for dear life!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘raw, gritty...one of the best crime fiction novels I’ve read this year.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘what a gritty fast-paced novel, I couldn’t put it down!...gets your heartbeat racing’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘I have not read a thriller that I felt so physically and emotionally connected to...started with action and didn't stop until the last page... I will be recommending this one for fans of thrillers and crime reads for a long time.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘Creepy, spooky, and fill of adrenaline... Highly recommended!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘a very tense and nail biting book...I ended up reading the book in one night - didn't want it to finish’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘Page-turningly brilliant...can't recommend it highly enough’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘kept you guessing until the end...It was a dark story that never let you catch your breath.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review
A Promethean technology is one that allows someone of average resources, skills, and intelligence to carry out actions that were once only doable by governments, militaries, or institutions with considerable resources. Essentially, Promethean technologies allow users to create their own weapons of mass destruction. These emerging technologies are increasingly affordable and accessible—and are no more complicated to operate than a satellite TV control box or a smart phone. Although these technologies are a terrifying prospect, the more we know about these dangers, the better we can prepare to head them off. In The Devil’s Toy Box, Andrew Fox lays out seven decades of preemptive analysis and shows that while homeland security has explored, in depth, the possible Promethean threats the world faces, it has failed to forecast the most likely attacks. Using fictional scenarios Fox teaches how to predict future threats and how to forecast which ones are likely to be used by bad actors within the next five to ten years. Combining the skills of homeland security experts and the imaginations of speculative fiction writers, he then offers an analytical method to deter, counter, or abate these threats, rather than adopting an attitude of resigned fatalism.
A POPSUGAR BEST MYSTERY OF 2022 A BOOKRIOT BEST MYSTERY OF 2022 A CRIMEREADS BEST MYSTERY OF 2022 Perfect for fans of T.J. Klune, Becky Abertalli, and David Levithan, this hilarious, big-hearted LGBTQ+ mystery follows an unlucky in love—and life—gay relationship blogger who teams up with a take-charge lesbian and a fiesty bull terrier to find a missing go-go boy and bring down an international crime ring. Seattle teacher and part-time blogger Hayden McCall wakes sporting one hell of a shiner, with the police knocking at his door. It seems that his new crush, dancer Camilo Rodriguez, has gone missing and they suspect foul play. What happened the night before? And where is Camilo? Determined to find answers, pint-sized, good-hearted Hayden seeks out two of Camilo’s friends—Hollister and Burley—both lesbians and both fiercely devoted to their friend. From them, Hayden learns that Camilo is a “Dreamer” whose parents had been deported years earlier, and whose sister, Daniela, is presumed to have returned to Venezuela with them. Convinced that the cops won’t take a brown boy’s disappearance seriously, the girls join Hayden’s hunt for Camilo. The first clues turn up at Barkingham Palace, a pet store where Camilo had taken a part-time job. The store’s owner, Della Rupert, claims ignorance, but Hayden knows something is up. And then there’s Camilo’s ex-boyfriend, Ryan, who’s suddenly grown inexplicably wealthy. When Hayden and Hollister follow Ryan to a secure airport warehouse, they make a shocking connection between him and Della—and uncover the twisted scheme that’s made both of them rich. The trail of clues leads them to the grounds of a magnificent estate on an island in Puget Sound, where they’ll finally learn the truth about Camilo’s disappearance—and the fate of his family.
Angelic Child She was a beautiful child, a perfect child. With her blonde hair and baby doll prettiness, she was the picture of angelic innocence. Phillip Baxter pushed aside his uneasiness about his strangely self-possessed daughter. She was just an ordinary kid. And, to his relief, she did act like an ordinary kid when he brought home a special present just for her . . . Devil’s Toy Alone in her room, Nora couldn’t wait to open the antique jack-in-the-box. She couldn't wait to watch the hand-carved clown’s head bob back and forth, its glass eyes staring at her, its lips drawn back into an insane grin. Any other little girl might have cringed in horror. But as Nora’s wide eyes mirrored the grotesque wooden face, her pink lips were curving into the same malicious smile . . .
BRAMBU DEZI is a deep reading of late twentieth-century mind. Along with Black Mountain poetry, Beat poetry is one of its antecedents, and Beat poet John Wieners might well have been prophesying this poem when he wrote, "Poetry is a trance of make-believe...a condition of gradual loss / of reality until there's only left / this shattering of the world." Not to know Berry's work is to miss something essential and stunningly beautiful about the late 20th Century, what has been called a "century of horror," yet Berry, in this great visionary work, mirrors this millennium not only as an end but a beginning.
