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The rain remembers everything. On a Thursday, a weeping drizzle begins to fall over the town—but it doesn’t just wet the ground. Each drop carries a memory. Not the dark, invasive whispers of the past, but something more seductive: a perfect, preserved fragment of joy, love, or longing. The town is soon swept into a gentle, haunting nostalgia for lives they never lived. For Mirabelle and Everleigh—the Keepers of the Cradle, who once mended the world’s broken stories—this is not an attack. It’s an invitation. To drown in yesterday. And someone is sending the invitation: B. Ligeia...

Trapped by a storm that feels alive, Chief Mike Hale faces the last ferry off St. Agnes Isle. But the ferry isn't the only thing that arrives. A stranger with empty eyes and a long wooden case steps ashore, bringing a secret older than the island itself. Now the power is failing, the winds scream with a child's forgotten song, and something ancient stirs in the deep. The villagers hid their past behind a bargain of stolen memories. The final payment is due. And the storm won't stop until it collects.

Back for one more bite? You survived the first course. You told yourself it was just stories. Just words on a page. A safe little thrill before bed. You were wrong. Now it's time for the encore. Five fresh terrors, served in the dark by a narrator who knows your deepest fears taste the sweetest. You'll meet a mirror that doesn't reflect—it replaces. A spare tire found on a lonely road that pays for itself in the worst kind of currency. A library where the books read you, and the late fees are permanent. The world's most perfect dog, who loves his family too much to ever let them leave. ...

FIVE AFTER MIDNIGHT is a chilling collection of five interconnected tales that slither into the dark corners of human longing. A bereaved man discovers a mirror that doesn't reflect—it remembers, and it wants his life in exchange for a perfect past. A stranded driver accepts help from a tire with a taste for misfortune, paying a terrible price for its protection. A lonely librarian learns that some books don't just contain stories—they are alive, hungry, and they’re starting to read him. A couple rescues the perfect dog, only to realize his love is a gilded cage. And when all sound ...

Beneath the rain-soaked streets of Elderwood, a new kind of nightmare is setting up its tents. When a strange ticket appears during a relentless downpour, Milo, Tess, and Leo know something is terribly wrong. The Grinning Gallery has arrived—a traveling carnival that doesn’t trade in tickets, but in the very fabric of the self: a laugh for luck, a memory for a moment, a scream for a wish. But this is Elderwood, a town already awake to magic and mystery. The Elderwood Kids have faced ledger-keeping monsters and reality-warping balancers. They’re not about to let a predatory carnival ...

A single broken window. A town slowly coming apart. For fourteen years, the cracked pane in the old Varney house has watched over Castle Rock. It’s just a local curiosity, a ghost story for kids. No one bothers to fix it. No one notices the changes, either. The librarian’s kindness curdles into cruelty. The barber’s steady hand begins to slip. Arguments flare over nothing. A low, mean mood settles over the town like a poison fog. They call it The Grinding. The Loughlin family doesn’t know any of this when they move into the house on Willow Street. David, the history teacher, just ...

When Baggy the Barber goes missing on the eve of the Moon-Glow Festival, the Bamboo Grove feels all wrong. No morning snips, no tidy trails—just an empty den and a trail of strange clues. Mandy Pandy and her glowing firefly friend Flick won't rest until they find him. With the help of Whisper, her quiet shadow, they follow tufts of fur and drops of lavender oil into the Tangled Thicket—a place where lost things gather and knots have feelings of their own. There they discover Baggy stuck in a glittering mess of glimmer-goo and old vines, on a quest to find holly-berries for a prickly ...

Mandy Pandy's hard-won peace is shattered when the stars begin to blink. In the Bamboo Grove, a new harmony had taken root—one woven with memory, loss, and the quiet beauty of a garden grown from fear. Mandy, a gentle red panda keeper, finally feels safe with her firefly friend Flick and her shadow-companion Whisper beside her. But when constellations start vanishing from the night sky, returning with cold, alien light, a deeper terror unfolds. Cracks are spreading in the Glass-Hidden Sky—the crystalline barrier that protects their world. Through these fractures falls the Glaze: silent ...

A single moment of distraction shatters a quiet town. Royce Gable looks down for a penny and a childs life is forever changed. But in Whistling Pines, an accident is more than a tragedy. It is a bell ringing in the deep, waking something ancient that feeds on pain. Now, shadows whisper from the walls. Coins appear where they should not. A voice that is not human calls from the dark water beneath the town. As Royce is branded by a force he cannot understand, he must uncover a century old secret buried beneath the foundations a bargain made in blood to keep a hungry darkness asleep. With a ...

The Better Off Dead series delves into the furthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness!

Obra de ficción inspirada en la vida de Joseph Mendes Nasi (1520-1579). La familia Mendes, como muchas familias judías, se convirtió al catolicismo durante la Inquisición, pero mantuvo en secreto sus prácticas judías. Estos conversos eran conocidos como conversos. A los dieciséis años, Joseph se incorporó al negocio familiar de comercio y banca. La Casa de Mendes tenía el monopolio de las especias importadas a Portugal. Se volvió experto en desenvolverse en los círculos reales y, finalmente, se trasladó a Constantinopla, donde entabló amistad con Selim, el hijo del sultán ...

La familia de Gracia Mendes Nasi, al igual que muchos otros conversos, aceptó la conversión forzada, pero mantuvo en secreto sus prácticas religiosas judías debido al riesgo de muerte si eran descubiertos. La labor de Gracia tuvo un gran impacto en la vida de miles de conversos, ya que desempeñó un papel fundamental al ayudarlos a reubicarse en lugares más seguros y a recuperar su antigua religión. Su historia se basa en su vida real.

Some houses are never empty. When journalist Ben Mears buys the old Fallon place in Samford, Maine, he is looking for a quiet escape from his own shattered past. Instead, he finds a silent Victorian with a history that breathes. The first night, he hears it a wet, tuneless whistle drifting up from the locked basement. A sound of someone, or something, working in the dark. The house holds its secrets in a sugar bowl key, in the frantic scratches around a locked door, and in the strange mound of lost things in the dirt below. The town elders know more than they say, speaking of a sour patch ...

Mandy Pandy's peaceful life in the Glimmerpond is shattered when the song of the Brook-in-the-Woods falls silent. The Water Singer is fading, her music choked off at its source. Guided only by a cryptic moss-map and a stoic stone-dwelling pika, Mandy ventures into the towering, silent Stone-Song Mountains with her loyal friends Flick the firefly and Whisper the shadow. There she discovers a deep wound in the earth—a fissure bleeding a hungry Silence that consumes all sound. To save the Brook, she must awaken the mountain's slumbering heart. But the only one who can help is the Weaver, a ...

This is the story of the life of Gracia Mendes Nasi, who was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1510. Gracia's family was Jewish and lived in Castile, Spain, for almost a century before being compelled to renounce their Jewish identity and convert to Catholicism due to the strict laws imposed by the Inquisition in 1478. The Mendes family, like many other Jewish converts known as conversos or new Christians, accepted the forced conversion but maintained their religious practices in secret due to the risk of death if discovered. Gracia's work undeniably and significantly impacted the lives of ...

Your existence is the epitome of normal…until it isn’t. In an instant, everything changes. The peaceful security you hold dear to your heart has been ripped away, and you are left fighting for your life. But don’t think for a second you have a chance in hell of surviving. Your odds are never good when staring into the face of pure evil. Join us for tales of savagery and slaughter, where the innocent, or not-so-innocent, find themselves in the most ferocious situations they have ever encountered.

After her life unravels, Elara Vance escapes to the wilderness of Whispering Pines National Park, seeking silence but finding herself utterly lost. Starving and desperate, she is saved by a quiet stranger named John, a man with an uncanny knowledge of the forest and a sadness as deep as the woods themselves. He teaches her to survive, guiding her back to the edge of the world and civilization. But when Elara returns, telling a story of a man in a red-and-black flannel shirt who vanished without a trace, no one believes her. Determined to prove he was real, she uncovers a decades-old mystery...

Her home was her prison. The ghost was her warden. And escape required a terrible price. Margaret Hayes is trapped. Not by the four walls of her old house, but by the malevolent presence that claims her as its own. It whispers to her in the dark, a constant reminder that she belongs to it. After uncovering a journal detailing the dark rituals that bound the entity to the house, Margaret fights back. But banishing a demon is one thing. Severing the bond that ties it to her home—and to her very soul—is another. To win her freedom, she must be willing to burn down her own prison. But will ...

He was the key to a perfect world. And its greatest threat. Aethelburg is a city of perfect peace. Its citizens are content, its streets are calm, and conflict is a forgotten memory. But for Mack Evans, a data analyst drowning in the grey monotony of his own life, that peace is a prison. After a series of unsettling coincidences, he uncovers a horrifying truth: a clandestine project has wired the city's population to his own brain, making him a living broadcast tower for human emotion. His joy brings the city bliss; his despair spreads like a plague. He is the silent maestro of five million...

Buzzy the Bee has always been a bee of precision—checking honey levels, avoiding spiders, and ignoring gossipy butterflies. But when Sunflower Valley’s precious honey starts mysteriously disappearing, Buzzy stumbles upon a conspiracy that threatens the entire hive. The sinister Black Ant Army is stealing their reserves, and worse—someone inside the hive is helping them. With time running out and the Queen’s trust in shambles, Buzzy must team up with an unlikely crew: a wisecracking spider, a nervous firefly, and even a disgraced outcast bee with a dangerous secret. Together, ...