The Nope Game and Other Stories
The Nope Game and Other Stories

Author: Javier Loustaunau

Publisher: Javier Loustaunau

Published:

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13:

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The Nope Game and other short horror stories is an anthology of experimental works of first person horror originally shared in the nosleep community and featured on the nosleep podcast. Expect reality glitches, suburban cryptids, Mexican folk stories and many unexplainable, terrible encounters with the supernatural. Each story is written as an internet post you have found by accident. As you read it, you wonder if this can be real. It descends into nightmare and grabs you and does not let go until the ending leaves you with a brand new thing to be afraid of, something you had never imagined before. Horrible viral challenges, haunted appliances, psychic pests, real life super villains and terrifying presences will be added to your list of phobias. You can find The Nope Game featured on The No Sleep Podcast with professional voice actors! Here is what some people from the NoSleep community had to say: "This is so creative and unique, and gives me the same kind of feeling I get from some Junji Ito favorites. Awesome work." "This made me a little sick. Good job. I usually feel disconnected from stories however this was immersive." "Your stories are amazing at how much impact they deliver in the space they have." "Actually stunned. It read like a Neil Gaiman short." "Love it. Too many stories force a twist ending. This just tells a scary story straight. Best vampire story I've read in a while". "That was probably the greatest and one of the most thrilling stories I have ever read!" "This is great, I love the atmosphere. I worked graveyard shift for awhile and I can relate to the drive on the empty roads at night, and sleeping during the day. Also I'm really happy to see a story set in Mexico. I lived there as a child and I appreciate this perspective as a place people are and do everything things."

The Everlasting Rose
The Everlasting Rose

Author: Dhonielle Clayton

Publisher: Disney Electronic Content

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1484780345

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Camille must save Orleans in this high-stakes sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller.

The Life and Death Parade
The Life and Death Parade

Author: Eliza Wass

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2018-06-04

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1368002447

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One year ago, Kitty's boyfriend Nikki Bramley visited a psychic who told him he had no future. Now, he's dead. With the Bramley family grieving in separate corners of their home, Kitty sets out to find the psychic who read Nikki his fate. Instead she finds Roan, an enigmatic boy posing as a medium who belongs to the Life and Death Parade -- a group of supposed charlatans that explore, and exploit, the thin veil between this world and the next. A group whose members include the psychic . . . and Kitty's late mother. Desperate to learn more about the group and their connection to Nikki, Kitty convinces Roan to return to the Bramley house with her and secures a position for him within the household. Roan quickly ingratiates himself with the Bramleys, and soon enough it seems like everyone is ready to move on. Kitty, however, increasingly suspects Roan knows more about Nikki than he's letting on. And when they finally locate the Life and Death Parade, and the psychic who made that fateful prophecy to Nikki, Kitty uncovers a secret about Roan that changes everything. From rising star Eliza Wass comes a sophisticated, mesmerizing meditation on the depths of grief and the magic of faith. After all, it only works if you believe it.

Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue

Author: Elizabeth Shreeve

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2024-06-18

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 153622880X

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Graceful, succinct prose and engaging illustrations trace the evolution of life on Earth out of the blue and back again. Clear and inviting nonfiction prose, vetted by scientists--together with lively illustrations and a time line--narrate how life on Earth emerged "out of the blue." It began in the vast, empty sea when Earth was young. Single-celled microbes too small to see held the promise of all life-forms to come. Those microbes survived billions of years in restless seas until they began to change, to convert sunlight into energy, to produce oxygen until one day--Gulp!--one cell swallowed another, and the race was on. Learn how and why creatures began to emerge from the deep--from the Cambrian Explosion to crustaceans, mollusks to fishes, giant reptiles to the rise of mammals--and how they compare to the animals we know today, in a lively and accessible outing into the prehistoric past that boils a complex subject down to its lyrical essence.

The Cresswell Plot
The Cresswell Plot

Author: Eliza Wass

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2016-06-04

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1484732502

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The woods were insane in the dark, terrifying and magical at the same time. But best of all were the stars, which trumpeted their light into the misty dark. Castella Cresswell and her five siblings???Hannan, Casper, Mortimer, Delvive, and Jerusalem??? know what it's like to be different. For years, their world has been confined to their ramshackle family home deep in the woods of upstate New York. They abide by the strict rule of God, whose messages come directly from their father. Slowly, Castley and her siblings start to test the boundaries of the laws that bind them. But, at school, they're still the freaks they've always been to the outside world. Marked by their plain clothing. Unexplained bruising. Utter isolation from their classmates. That is, until Castley is forced to partner with the totally irritating, totally normal George Gray, who offers her a glimpse of a life filled with freedom and choice. Castley's world rapidly expands beyond the woods she knows so well and the beliefs she once thought were the only truths. There is a future waiting for her if she can escape her father's grasp, but Castley refuses to leave her siblings behind. Just as she begins to form a plan, her father makes a chilling announcement: the Cresswells will soon return to their home in heaven. With time running out on all of their lives, Castley must expose the depth of her father's lies. The forest has buried the truth in darkness for far too long. Castley might be their last hope for salvation.

The Convict and Other Stories
The Convict and Other Stories

Author: James Lee Burke

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-07-13

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1451618476

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One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat—the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast—in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes

Author: Eric LaRocca

Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1803361506

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"Amongst the Top 50 Horror Books of All Time" - Cosmopolitan Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones. Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novella. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s—a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son’s death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm… And a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his back yard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game. Three devastating, beautifully written horror stories from one of the genre’s most cutting-edge voices. What have you done today to deserve your eyes?

Matrix Dreams & Other Stories
Matrix Dreams & Other Stories

Author: James C. Glass

Publisher: Fairwood Press, Inc

Published: 2004-05

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780974657318

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James C. Glass has been writing science fiction, fantasy, and dark fantasy tales for over a dozen years, haunting us with ghosts, aliens, and things far worse. These breathtaking and disturbing stories have now been gathered in his first collection. Also featuring new, unpublished work, MATRIX DREAMS offers something to every reader of speculative fiction. Peek inside and dare to discover the dreams of this talented, award-winning author.

Pure Hollywood
Pure Hollywood

Author: Christine Schutt

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 0802165656

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“Long and short stories from one of our most distinctive prose stylists,” the author of the National Book Award finalist, Florida: A Novel (New York, “The Best Books of the Year So Far”). Hailed by George Saunders as “a truly gifted writer,” with Pure Hollywood & Other Stories, Pulitzer Prize finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career and her inimitable style that John Ashbery once described as “pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful.” In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn love and hurt. In league with JD Salinger, Katherine Mansfield and Guy De Maupassant, in Pure Hollywood Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew. “Schutt’s haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page.”—Los Angeles Times “Think Gatsby with a twist of Didion.”—BBC.com “Schutt writes stories that don’t have an ounce of melodrama in them—they feel unusually alive and honest—and few writers capture bereavement with Schutt’s precision and elegance.”—Oprah.com