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High school can be a difficult time for a teenager, especially toward the end where one has to start making the sudden transition into adulthood. For Jimmy Hawthorn it is even worse. Not only does he need to successfully make that transition, he has to do it while hiding the fact that he is the one responsible for kidnapping two fellow high school students, both of whom are hanging from their wrists in a secret underground fallout shelter he discovered behind an abandoned house on the outskirts of town.
Being the teenage daughter of a serial killer is fun -- except when digging graves. Thankfully Misty has Bitsy to help her. Plus her daddy pays her with gift cards that she uses online to order things like books, video games, and new outfits to dress up Bitsy with, so really she can't complain. Now if he would just teach her how to drive, life would be perfect.
All Kimberly wanted was a fresh start, one that would allow her to finish college and move on with her life. Unfortunately, fate seems to have a different plan for her. Within days of moving into her new ground floor apartment, she starts to get mail for a girl named Nikki, and not just any mail, but items of a sexual nature. Not long after that men start to show up, all of whom seem to think they will be having sex with Nikki. Pictures of her follow, along with threats. Someone is not happy with Nikki and believes Kimberly to be her. Hoping to put a stop to this, Kimberly enlists the aid of the writer living above. Working together, they will attempt to uncover who this Nikki person is and end whatever game she is playing. Will their actions succeed and allow Kimberly to get that fresh start she desires? Only time will tell.
From William Malmborg, the bestselling author of the novels Jimmy and Daddy's Little Girl, comes a twisted thriller about family secrets, sexual depravity, and ultimate betrayal. Being the daughter of a successful porn star is fun, but then a car accident takes her mother from her and forces Penny to move in with her estranged aunt whose life seems to revolve around the catholic church. Fortunately, Penny's cousin Olivia has a secret side her fanatical mother doesn't know about, one that sees the two attending parties rife with sex, booze, and drugs. Unfortunately, one of those parties also has a Ouija board. Penny thinks losing her mother to a drunk driver and moving in with her aunt is the worse thing that could ever happen to her. And then she touches the Ouija board.
Jeff and Mindy McKay are young, attractive and willing to stop at nothing to have it all - even if it means murdering Mindy's little sister, Jenny, to collect her part of an enormous inheritance. With Jenny out of the way, Jeff and Mindy can begin to enjoy luxury beyond their wildest dreams. Then one day, months after Mindy and Jeff have buried the little girl, they answer a knock at the door. Standing there, staring at them with frightening blank eyes, is Jenny. She has returned -to their house, to their lives - to exact a revenge that goes beyond death.
Christmas Eve 2005: 8-year-old Michelle Harper is the only survivor of the horrific massacre that took the lives of her 4 siblings and mother; the words "Santa took them" scrawled in blood on the wall. Ten years later, Michelle is released from the psychiatric hospital for children, disappears, and her uncle and his girlfriend are found gruesomely murdered, with the same words "Santa took them" written in blood on the nearby wall.
BAG OF TRICKS Eleven-year-old Juice Smith's favorite place in the whole world was the old abandoned Wilner Theatre. There on its dark and dusty stage she could pretend to be "Juice the Magnifico" performing magic with her bag of tricks. Her grandfather, a long-time member of the local Sleights-of-Hand, had given her a special skeleton key, and to Juice's surprise it fit right in the lock of the ornate old trunk that had been left backstage … BLACK MAGIC The Sleights-of-Hand were furious when they discovered at their next meeting that Nat Smith had given his skeleton key–the skeleton key–to his granddaughter. Nat wondered what they could possible be afraid of after all these years. But one by one over the next few weeks, the venerable members of the Sleights-of-Hand would find their magical talents failing them at crucial–and gruesome–moments. And Nat would discover there was good reason to be afraid. Very afraid.
In JIMMY, he made you root for a teenage serial killer; in TEXT MESSAGE, he trapped you in a snowbound mall and asked how far you would go to save someone you love; and in NIKKI'S SECRET, he showed you what could happen when an unstable individual has their heartstrings teased to the breaking point. Now, in SCRAPING THE BONE: TEN DARK TALES, William Malmborg wants to show you worlds where everyday decisions can lead to unimaginable nightmares, good intentions can have torturous consequences, and digging into the locked-away parts of the mind can uncover horrors that are best left buried. So, don't resist, take his hand, hold it tight, and embrace the journey into the darkest, most disturbing areas of humanity.
From Wiliam Malmborg, author of the bestselling novels Jimmy, Daddy's Little Girl and The Girl Who Played with the Ouija Board, comes a new twisted thriller about a traumatized war veteran and the girl he keeps locked-up in a straitjacket. It was supposed to be a simple mission. Josiah was to go to Joel's home and kill him. But then Joel's daughter showed up while he was dismembering the body, changing everything. Mel went to her father's house thinking it would simply be for the night; a much-needed escape from her mother and her new boyfriend. Instead, it turned into a nightmare that she never imagined possible, one that now has her strapped into a straitjacket in a second floor bedroom of...
From award-winning author Gary A. Braunbeck comes Prodigal Blues, his first foray into non-supernatural horror. After he finds himself stranded at a truck stop in Missouri, Mark Sieber gets one of the biggest shocks of his life when he recognizes the face of a little girl on a Missing poster as belonging to the same little girl he saw only a few minutes before. Looking around for some sign of her, he comes back to his table in the restaurant to find the little sitting there, waiting for him. "I'm sorry, mister," is all she seems capable of saying. As the police and media begin to converge on the truck stop, Mark retreats back to his hotel room to call his wife and let her know what's going o...