Security Horror

Social Security admits it has made $21.6 billion in incorrect benefits payments! Now it wants its money back—from widows, orphans, retired schoolteachers, and even young children whose parents received disability benefits on their behalf. Often with no explanation, they send threatening letters clawing back amounts ranging from several thousand dollars to more than $100,000. Learn how to make sure you get the correct Social Security benefits, avoid frightening clawbacks, and how to deal with the opaque bureaucracy of Social Security.

Ignore the tapping on the window. Don't leave the guardhouse after 3 AM. If you hear your shift partner calling out for help - run. These are only some of the rules the security guards that work for The Company need to follow in order to survive their shifts. A veteran guard recounts the grim experiences on his job that he narrowly survived - and those of the other guards who weren't as lucky.

Acclaimed throughout the underground horror world, J.R. Hamantaschen’s stories push the boundaries and refuse to conform to the usual conventions. A mix of nihilism, cosmic horror, and weird fiction, this collection is a must-read for anyone who craves the dark and disturbing.

When the gleaming new Manderley Resort opens in 24 hours, Santa Barbara's exclusive beachfront hotel will offer its patrons the ultimate in luxury and high-tech security. No indulgence has been ignored, no detail overlooked. But all the money in the world can't guarantee safety. As hotel manager Tessa and her employees ready the hotel for its invitation-only grand opening, a killer is in their midst. One by one staff are picked off with ruthless precision.

She sang to the lonely abyss, and a god of the deep answered the call. Thea is the solitary keeper of a remote lighthouse, her only companion a haunting melody that rises from the waves. Believing it to be a strange whale song, she sings back, weaving her voice with the lonely sound. But the singer is no whale. He is Maelon, the last of an ancient race of tentacled guardians, a king who has protected his deep-sea domain for millennia. Her voice is the key to strengthening the ward that holds back mindless, devouring leviathans. He pulls her into his breathtaking, bioluminescent world, ...

By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada – only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land...

Every city is watching. Cameras on street corners. Microphones in elevators. Sensors tracking movement, faces, and patterns—always recording, always collecting. But what happens when the footage doesn’t match reality… or when it disappears entirely? Urban Legends of Surveillance Cities explores unsettling stories from places where observation is constant and privacy is an illusion. These are tales of security cameras that capture things no one remembers seeing, recordings that erase people who definitely existed, and systems that notice patterns long before humans do. From missing ...

What if the government said that your missing wife never existed? Intrigue and conspiracy from Munich to the burning sands of Saudi Arabia. "As he sat there, he became one gigantic spasm. His body jerked involuntarily, without interruption, and he began to spin. The world was upside down, sideways—because what couldn't possibly be, inexplicably was. Blobs of perspiration fell onto the book. B.J. slammed it shut. He pushed the terrible pages aside. He was in such a state that the librarian looked up at him from across the room, frowning disapproval his way as sharp as Arabian swords. But ...