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Oscar has finally had it. The vermin have done enough damage to his yard, and it's time to settle the score. But extermination isn't enough. He wants revenge. So during the winter, while the creatures are sleeping, Oscar has come up with a plan to exact his revenge in the most satisfying way. But some creatures aren't so easily gotten rid of, and soon it will be more than just a few vegetables in his backyard garden that Oscar risks losing.

Mandy is about to start as a caregiver at the Mertland Childrens' Home in Angel Hill, Missouri, a town that keeps its secrets by hiding them in plain sight. For the Mertland Home, this means ghosts. Word around town is the place is haunted, and for the workers at Mertland, they make no bones about it: it is. There are menacing reflections, the third floor hallway, and a dark force lurking in the woods out back.

Up and down the only highway into Angel Hill, men are being found with their mouths torn open and their organs shredded inside their bodies. Chuck Rayburn is a cop who knows that, sometimes, the answers lie outside the normal realm. Out of his depth, Rayburn enlists the help of Stephanie Garcia and William Kirby, one a former cop, one a retired MD. Together the pair now investigate Angel Hill and its peculiarities. Can the trio solve these crimes and stop the killings before they reach Angel Hill? Or will The Organ Grinder tear a path straight to their door?

Welcome to Angel Hill, Missouri, a town that shot blood from the ground at its own groundbreaking. There are only two roads in or out of town, and everything within those borders is subject to the whims of reality. Those who grew up here are immune to the town's peculiarities. But Jack and Liz have just moved here, and for their young son, Joey, it's almost like coming home again.

It's New Year's Day, a time for new beginnings and setting the stage for things to come. Factory worker Kevin usually starts with a day off, but this year he's working the year-end inventory. He is disgruntled but doing as he's asked until he can get out of there and return home to his wife and kids.

What qualifies a house as haunted? Brian is still grieving over the loss of his parents when something resembling his mother slithers out from behind the bed and screams at him to get out of the house. With nowhere to turn, he tries the empty house he and his partners have just started renovating. The house on Irving has never seen a death inside its walls, and there are no ghosts lurking in its shadows. But that night, Brian senses something waiting in the dark outside the bathroom door for him.

Paranormal investigator Will Castleton's psychic friend Mazie calls on Will to accompany her when she's forced to return to her horror-infested hometown of Angel Hill, Missouri - a town she fled decades before, having been psychologically shattered by a harrowing vision in the woods. A death in the family pulls Mazie back to Angel Hill, but soon after stepping foot on her native soil, she and Will are caught up by spectral forces that twist a ghastly crime from the town's past into an all-too-terrifying present.

David Reed is struggling. He's working two jobs to make ends meet, trying not to resent the fact his wife makes so much more than he does, and to top it all off, he's just totaled his car after swerving to avoid hitting a very large animal in the middle of the road. But an empty bank account and no car soon turn out to be the least of David's worries, when he begins to think the animal he almost hit might be stalking him.

The Angel Hill Podcast explores the mysteries surrounding this strange Midwestern town, asking questions that shouldn't be asked, seeking answers best left unspoken. And someone, or something, has been stalking the podcast's host, hoping to stop his investigation.

Angel Hill has always been a place where the unexplainable is commonplace. The residents have accepted this in a don't ask, don't tell sort of way. But one man, Sean, feels these forces are out to get him. He can't go out. He can't make a noise. And when one of "them" walks into his apartment, he takes the only action he can in defending himself.

Fifteen stories of hellish horrors come together in C. Dennis Moore's latest collection, What the Blind Man Saw. Rudy finds a dead baby in his trash can. Another man will do anything to escape Hell and take vengeance on Heaven. Cody has done a bad thing, and a disfigured goblin is set on making him pay. Sean Leonard goes out for pizza one night, but on the way back home finds himself on an endless highway, and the clocks have stopped moving.

In a time when the undead bloodsuckers of legend have become a shadow of their former selves thanks to novels like Twilight and the Stackhouse series, horror author C. Dennis Moore returns the icons to their former glory with his collection of six short stories, Bloodletting (previously published as Icons to Ashes). Featuring three previously published stories plus three all-new tales, Bloodletting doesn't shy away for one moment from the bloodshed and ferocity of these killing machines.

The end isn't nigh. It's here. When Stacy wakes up one morning after a pretty bad night of drinking, she wonders where her husband and son have gone. Then she wonders where her neighbors have gone. Then the rest of the town. She wanders into the street, trying desperately to find someone, anyone. When she finally hears a voice calling for her, the story it tells chills her, confuses her, and leaves Stacy questioning everything.

There are many ghosts that wander the halls of the Mertland Childrens' Home in Angel Hill. The story of what happened to Carlotta Valdez has grown into legend, but the truth is very, very different. For one angry young woman, Mertland has a way of paying back what's due.

Oliver Mark has found the perfect house. Old, abandoned, on the outskirts of Angel Hill where no one lives - it's the perfect place for him and his girlfriend to make a life together. But when Oliver breaks into the place to explore his new treasure, he finds himself lost in a maze of confusion and spatial anomaly. After losing his job and getting kicked out of his friend's house, Oliver just wants a place to build a new life, but this house wasn't constructed using the physical laws we all take for granted.

There are countless “rules” about writing. Two spaces after punctuation, or one? To adverb or not to adverb? Do you talk about your work before it’s finished, or not? T.S. Eliot said you have to know the rules before you can break them, but the rules about the rules are constantly changing. Well, not all of them. Some rules are non-negotiable, and this short audiobook will give you a quick rundown of six of them. Part of his Writer’s Library of books, C. Dennis Moore presents the Writing Rules: 6 Rules to Follow to Awake the Writer Within.

Jim and his high school girlfriend Monica have just moved into a third floor apartment in a secure building to start a life together. Everything's going well at first, even though Jim finds adjusting to living with another person difficult. Then one night one of the residents in the building is murdered. With the security lock on the front door, and considering Jim was the only one in the building who couldn't prove his whereabouts at the time, all fingers point to him.

Horror author C. Dennis Moore returns to the short story form with this latest collection, The Dichotomy of Monsters, 15 terrifying tales of things that aren't what they seem. Moore's reality will leave you questioning your own senses and doubting the proof right in front of your eyes.

This audiobook is designed to help the struggling writer, no matter how far along in their journey, find their passion and confidence to sit down and put words on a page on a consistent basis. Through examples and experience spanning three decades, author C. Dennis Moore leads the listener through a series of trials and tribulations, from how to overcome the fear of failure to having the faith to take those first steps on your literary journey. Other topics include efficiency, productivity, morning rituals, finding your audience of one, and honoring your influences.

Angel Hill is home to The Lonely Man, the Ash Wednesday killer, and who knows what’s going on at the Mertland Childrens’ Home. But for 12-year-old Frank, the only evil he fears is his mother’s new husband Terry. The source of all the ridicule and shame Frank faces on a daily basis, the swats to the head, the laughter when Franks falls and needs stitches, Terry is the source of it all.