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This town's dark secret tried to be nice... John Weston has been living the good life. A successful relationship, a good business, and not one but several women on the side. Tonight, he found out why. Every seven years, the town where he lives chooses a sacred king. For seven years, he has everything his heart desires; at the end of the seventh, he is sacrificed to ensure the prosperity of the town. That's bad enough, but something weird is going on - well, even weirder. All of the people trying to kill John Weston tonight are being as nice about it as they can, and they act like they're ...

Who can tell sanity from madness when reality breaks? Something strange and terrible is happening to Randolph Stevens’s world. Pieces of it are disappearing, bit by bit. And he’s the only one who notices.

In love with death. The banshee are spirits of death. Some were once human; some are of the Good Folk, come up from the darkest shadows under the hill. In the end, it makes no difference. The banshee sing death, and that is the whole of it. When the banshee come singing, death follows behind, and there is no fighting it. No appeal, no bargains to be made. But tonight, Bridget Flanagan has an offer that the banshee have never heard before…

Rider on the darkest night. You think you know him. You don’t. He is so much older than you think. He has worn many masks and many names down the ages. But not matter how many masks he wears, no matter how many names we give him, how many roles he takes, he remembers the time before the ages began. And he remembers his first duty. In the darkest part of winter, he rides out to carry the light across the world.

Horror isn't always ugly. People have imagined a million ways for the world to end. Science warns of meteor strikes and endless time bloating the Sun until it burns the planet molten. Humanity dreams of suicide by disease or war or poisoning our environment until we can't survive it anymore. Prophets speak of angels and demons, while storytellers warn of unspeakable horrors from beyond the stars. But George Bradley knows that they're all wrong. George Bradley is watching the world end in a way that no one ever expected: in terrible, terrible beauty.

Medic in a greater war. On an Air Force base in the middle of the desert, Captain Eileen Brennan waits to treat the casualties of a war that everyone back home thinks is over. But today, she will treat the wounded of a war far greater than the one she thought she was fighting.

The cats keep the ancient bargain. They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of Freya, Bast and Hecate. They are the Guardian Cats. There is a place in the heart of the City where the lines of force converge. It is a place of peace that used to be a place of vengeance and horror. ...

The cats keep the ancient bargain. They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of Freya, Bast and Hecate. They are the Guardian Cats. Shin-Nephura is the Guardian Cat of the neighborhood of Inwood, at the northern point of Manhattan. And tonight, something terrible has crawled out ...

Magical knife fights in the city streets. Celia Rivera is a well-respected citizen of the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. She runs her own little shop, and she's respected by everyone from the old men playing dominoes on the corner to the young people who spend their days looking for trouble to get into. They respect her wisdom, her toughness... Oh. And she's a witch. Celia Rivera's shop sells more than candles and incense, and she keeps her little corner of the City safe for everyone. And when someone targets her family for magical retribution, it's time for the kind of ...

The Music of the End New Year’s Day is about beginnings. After a night spent saying goodbye to the past, you rise to greet the future. But for Melissa Haskins, there is no future. She has woken up alone in a city of the dead. Something vast and terrible moves across the world, and she has no choice but to hide when it passes overhead – she can hear it coming by the strange music that goes before it. But then one day, she hears a voice coming out of the big empty. A voice that gives her hope. A voice that may just inspire her enough to finally go out and face the music.

There's something beneath the City. Every time you go down into the New York subway, you take a chance that you won’t come out again. That’s just the way it is. Usually, the only thing to fear is your fellow passengers. But there are other things waiting down there in the dark below the City, and sometimes the only way to stay alive is to look the other way.

You only thought you knew the story of the song. Homecoming queen Deborah von Teufelsblut did some pretty nasty things to get her tiara, and now that she has it, things are getting even nastier. Yes, Debbie's picking off the cheerleaders one by one, but not in the way you think. The Homecoming Queen doesn't have a gun, she has black magic, and nobody can stand in her way. Or can they? Debbie is doing this rampage for Johnny, but in the end, Johnny may have called up something he can't put down.

The cats keep the ancient bargain. They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of Freya, Bast and Hecate. They are the Guardian Cats. Kodama is a young cat who lives in a quiet, peaceful neighborhood. He has heard the stories of the guardian cats and he dreams of becoming one of ...

The cats keep the ancient bargain. They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of Freya, Bast and Hecate. They are the Guardian Cats. Nar-Tali the Gull Hunter is the guardian of Coney Island. He walks the boardwalk after dark, protecting humans at play from the things that hunt the ...

The Legend still lives...for a little while longer... Zack has a secret. A secret that he’s kept hidden for a long, long time – longer than most people can easily imagine. But now he’s met Eileen, and the time has come for the secret to be told.

What would you do with another chance? Ryan Hall has been here before. He knows his way around. He knows what’s going to happen, and he knows what you’re going to do. The only thing he doesn’t know is what he’s going to do about it. Ryan Hall has lived his life over and over again, different every time, always trying to get it right. Every new choice is a different lifetime. But now, at the end, it all comes down to one choice: his own happiness, or the great love of his life?