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Urban legends have their basis in fact. Some people know that better than others. That story about the hook teenagers tell each other at parties? I...

People fear Judge Esmé Morell. They call her The Hanging Judge because she actually uses the execution chamber she travels with from colony to col...

The Front Porch: the place, literal or figurative, where Americans watch the world go by. Journalists help expand America’s front porch to a worldw...

The dream vanished with the picture.Lena loves her life, being alone, until reminded that she killed a boyfriend in college. Self-defense, since...

Talia and Max seldom work together at a crime scene, but on this one they must, not just because of the lives lost or the way they died, but becaus...

Former PGA Golf Professional and USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith walks you step-by-step, club-by-club from your car to the first tee...

Harvey DeLeo spent most of his long career working on one thing: a time machine. Now, he fears he might run out of time to use it. And if that hap...

The novel sputtered, not starting. Nothing worked. All her previous novels came easily. But now no word, no sentence looked right. She needed to s...

Six really, really, really weird stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean presen...

Fifty years after a stormy sea swallowed Spencer Chadwick at the treacherous Devil’s Churn, his old sweetheart, Addy, finds herself face-to-face w...

Vi thought trying to teach complicated choreography to inexperienced middle-aged men made for a bad day. But when a Portland homicide detective sho...

When a creature appears and offers the feral cat the Bargain—24 hours in another form—the cat forms a plan. He must use the Bargain to his advanta...

All serious runners know about snot rockets. At least in pre-pandemic times, they did. But one particularly talented runner relishes snot rockets ...

Andersonville. The name strikes horror in the memory even now. But before Lieutenant Nathaniel Garrison lost two years of his life to that place, ...

To cope with his wife’s death, Petras must come to terms with the reality of it. He needs to see her body, visit the place where she died...underst...

Do you risk your life, your safety, and the women you love for a dream? Sometimes just a single step from a moving train can provide the answer. A...

When Ben’s wife leaves him, taking little Casey with her, he feels lost. Ben just wants to read to Casey, to tell her stories, and he knows just th...

John Lundgren loves the challenge of defending his clients. As a public defender in the great city of Chicago, he defends them all: the guilty, the...

The second Nick Carraway in a family where the name Nick Carraway has a certain mystique finds himself in New York, just like his grandfather befor...

Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s alternate history stories have won or been nominated for every award in the sf field. “The Arrival of Truth” shows why. In...

Darren has a secret identity. At night, he becomes the Amazing Quizmo, the Great God of Answers. He presides over bar trivia contests and no one ca...

In the years after the Abandonment, the event’s survivors face yet another devastating struggle. Michael does his best to treat the persistent ill...

Light-hearted holiday stories abound, but when the days turn cold and bracing, darker tales tempt the senses. This collection of five stories from...

Christmas: a time of family, tradition, togetherness—until your family shatters. With no grandparents to spoil her daughters, one single mom faces...