This is a short story about the strange deaths originating at a science lab in Antarctica, caused by a radioactive alien-like fish with red glowing eyes.
For most the date 12/02/2021 has no real significance. The fact that the number is a palindrome and an ambigram are interesting, but nothing more. For most.
For one historian, however, the date becomes an obsession. Popping over and over in strange tales from the past, each linked by the black-eyed speakers, the tales of resurrection and that awful, fabled, date.
At first, he believes he has stumbled across a strange historic quirk, a mystery to be unraveled, but as time goes on and the date creeps closer and closer, the number’s dark implications become more and more immediate and all the more terrifying.
When Judas Iscariot betrayed Christ, he was paid in sliver. Thirty pieces to be exact. Where those thirty pieces ended up has fascinated historians and theologians for centuries. It has also fascinated those with darker interests.
When a ‘procurer’ of religious artifacts is presented with the locations of these ‘Judas Pennies’ and the reason they were dispersed in the first place, he sets out on a shadowy endeavor to bring them back together, not realizing as he does that his excavations will dig up far more than just the past.
A tale of obsession, black magic and vampires, ‘Judas Pennies’ is a terrifying lesson in being careful what you wish for.
Detta är en novell om ett antal mystiska dödsfall vid ett vetenskapslaboratorium i Antarktis, orsakat av en radioaktiv utomjordisk fisk med röda glödande ögon.
Soleil Burns was born to be an exorcist. Since meeting Valerie and Jerome Dusdain, the previous summer, her life has been chaos, good chaos, but chaos. Soleil has started her own private exorcism company, in preparation of becoming the guardian of the most powerful wizard in the world, who also happens to be only fourteen years old. With Valerie’s cancer getting worse and the archangel Michael’s dire warnings regarding her impending death, the possibility of becoming Jerome’s guardian is now more of an eventuality.
While helping Jerome with his homework, Soleil notices her normally energetic werewolf neighbors aren’t up and around like usual. Then she notices they have a package on their doorstep, which is strange since it’s a Sunday. When she goes to check on them, she finds the house full of silver particles and the five werewolves barely clinging to life.
Soon, she finds herself chasing a serial killer. A serial killer who knows her every move. She must stop him before anymore supernatural families are murdered. How do you stop a killer who knows what you intend to do nearly as soon as you decide to do it? How much of her soul will he take before he’s safely in handcuffs? Soleil Burns finds out early on you can’t chase a serial killer and not have it change you.
Soleil Burns works for the Bureau of Exorcism. Paired up with a US Marshals Fugitive Recovery Team they will try to bring back an escaped convict possessed by a demon and hiding in the slums of Chicago.
It immediately becomes apparent that there is more going on than a simple case of a possessed escaped convict. The entire Division of Magic in Chicago has also been possessed. It’s a feat that could only have been accomplished by a very powerful witch or wizard.
As Soleil digs deeper into the mass possession of a critical part of the police department, she will need all her skills as an exorcist and an investigator. It will also require an open heart and some sage advice from friends and family, to help her face down some of the most powerful beings she has ever dealt with. Both human and demonic.
Soleil Burns is adjusting to being a single parent to the most powerful wizard the world has ever known. She’s in training to get her private investigator license to accompany her private exorcist license, and she’s now also a small business owner.
Into the chaos of regular life comes an ancient artifact of incredible power.
Soleil’s family tells her demon boxes haven’t been seen on earth for nearly ten thousand years. Soleil needs to find out how and why one has shown up in modern day St. Louis before someone gets killed by the hordes of demons and other spectral beings pouring forth from it.
As more boxes appear around the city, Soleil’s exorcism business is booming, but she must discover who is sending them before the hell princes take over the city. Ensuring even her magic isn’t strong enough to send them back across the Stygian Divide. She will have to get help from her family and friends to help solve this mystery before it’s too late.
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Aislinn Cain's life is a horror story.
When the US Marshals Serial Crimes Tracking Unit comes knocking at Aislinn Cain's door, she is given a chance to use her past to save other people's futures. She has survived attacks by two different serial killers and devoted her life to studying the darker side of human history.
A new killer is using medieval torture methods to slay his victims. She can give them a glimpse into his twisted world, but not without a cost. If she opens herself, she risks falling into the depths of her own darkness. Can she afford to help, knowing that the cost could be her own humanity?
Content warning: This audiobook contains detailed descriptions of violence which some listeners may find upsetting.
-En Español Latino- Un cuento a imitación del alemán fue el primer relato corto del escritor y poeta estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe en ser impreso. Al principio fue publicado en las páginas de la revista 'Philadelphia's Saturday Courier', en 1832.
-En Español Latino- unas de las primeros cuentos cortos de Poe. fue publicado en 1831 bajo seudónimo y fue descubierto su verdadero autor mucho tiempo después.
Captivated by the allure of his own portrait, Dorian Gray gives his soul in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. His friend Lord Henry Wotton draws him into a double life of secret vice, while to the world outside he preserves his immaculate facade. As his hidden portrait becomes uglier with each new sin, Dorian begins to lose control, and his past comes around to haunt him.
Oscar Wilde's only novel is half gothic horror, half morality tale, and is as timeless as his plays and poems. First published in 1889, this unabridged audiobook edition narrated by Jake Urry captures the wit, the charm and the horror of Wilde's most controversial work.
Esta es una historia corta sobre las extrañas muertes que se originaron en un laboratorio de ciencias en la Antártida, causadas por un pez radioactivo parecido a un extraterrestre con ojos rojos brillantes.
