Have you ever felt like you were teetering on the very brink of insanity? Have you ever had a dream that felt so intense that you thought it was actually real? Here are four short stories that take you to the fringes of reality! A man is lost in a time limbo. An evil billionaire is reincarnated. A teenager is haunted by the ghost of a classmate who isn't even dead yet! Enter the warped world of "Lost Minds, Wandering Souls, Volume 2
A group of party girls are haunted by a murderous spirit!An ancient demoness infiltrates a modern condo building!A nasty executive is tormented by a cemetery full of ghosts!An army of garden gnomes come to life to protect their owner!
Can a haunted mirror protect a young girl from her murderous predator father? Will a chance encounter with a primordial creature change a student's life forever? Can an internet shopping spree leave a girl possessed by an ancient demon? Will a mysterious vacation lead a modern warrior to his ultimate destiny?
A woman finds her new experimental meds have nightmarish side effects. A drunken partyer stumbles into an all-night taco stand run by a satanic street gang. A desperate woman contacts her dead sister on a Ouija board. And three more phantasmic tales.
An engineer working in the Middle East discovers ancient relics. Will he be able to control the evil lurking inside them?A man follows his ghostly dream girl to her shallow grave. What supernatural force can help him avenge her murder?The chance at a hook-up leads a grifter to a creepy little town. Will it end up in a threesome or something far more gruesome?Luminous phantoms take command of a young woman's vehicle. Is there any way she can survive this demonic joy ride?An irresistible vampire drives a stake between a concerned father and his beautiful daughter. How will he break the death grip the evil bloodsucker lords over her?
A man battles a demon for control of his mind. A writer awakens in another dimension. A bullet sends a teen into an astral plan. A very strange boy has his first Halloween. Enter the warped world of Lost minds, wandering souls.
Vampires . . . they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers, and your worst fears. “A major new voice in horror fiction . . . an electric style and no shortage of nerve.”—Booklist At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, look for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds—Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah, whose eyes are as green as limes—are on their own lost journey, slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh. They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself. . . . “An important and original work . . . a gritty, highly literate blend of brutality and sentiment, hope and despair.”—Science Fiction Chronicle
Karlin relates the moving story of one veteran's search for redemption in Vietnam, as he seeks forgiveness from the family of the man he killed 40 years ago.
The man who would become S. An-sky—ethnographer, war correspondent, author of the best-known Yiddish play, The Dybbuk—was born Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport in 1863, in Russia’s Pale of Settlement. His journey from the streets of Vitebsk to the center of modern Yiddish and Hebrew theater, by way of St. Petersburg, Paris, and war-torn Austria-Hungry, was both extraordinary and in some ways typical: Marc Chagall, another child of Vitebsk, would make a similar transit a generation later. Like Chagall, An-sky was loyal to multiple, conflicting Jewish, Russian, and European identities. And like Chagall, An-sky made his physical and cultural transience manifest as he drew on Jewish folk culture to create art that defied nationality. Leaving Vitebsk at seventeen, An-sky forged a number of apparently contradictory paths. A witness to peasant poverty, pogroms, and war, he tried to rescue the vestiges of disappearing communities even while fighting for reform. A loner addicted to reinventing himself—at times a Russian laborer, a radical orator, a Jewish activist, an ethnographer of Hasidism, a wartime relief worker—An-sky saw himself as a savior of the people’s culture and its artifacts. What united the disparate strands of his life was his eagerness to speak to and for as many people as possible, regardless of their language or national origin. In this first full-length biography in English, Gabriella Safran, using Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and French sources, recreates this neglected protean figure who, with his passions, struggles, and art, anticipated the complicated identities of the European Jews who would follow him.
Wandering Souls is the remarkable true story of an ordinary man. Author, Stuart Hawley, only began having experiences with the spirit world at the age of 57. Here he reveals how his life changed, as his amazing gift continued, bringing him and those around him wonderful messages from those who have passed over to the other side. Stuart recounts the contact he had with several “wandering souls” in need of help to find their families and allowing them to pass over and be at peace, the research involved and the reunions he was privileged to witness, and the relationship he was fortunate to build with his own spirit guides. This is a lovely collection of stories that skeptics, fence sitters and believers alike will enjoy.
