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From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, from boot camp to the end of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, here are more of the stories that we can’t afford not to hear, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today. World War II brought out the worst in humanity, but it also brought out the best; in these narratives you will draw your own lessons. Here are the stories that a special generation of Americans told us for the future when we took the time to be still, to listen, and to draw strength.

Vincent Donnelly’s fractured mind is filled with strange voices: souls trapped inside him, wanting to be set free. And he has no idea who he really is or what led him to his fate. But the key to ending the wrath of chaos itself may lie in a twisted deal with Razul. It's a bargain that could cost Vincent his mortal soul.

The barriers have fallen. The war has begun. There is revolution on the streets and an invasion building in the north. Drynn’s new powers might be the key to crowning a new king and stabilizing the realm, but at what cost? Is embracing the darkness the only way to bring back the light?

Royah’s destination is in sight, and the answers to all her questions about why humans were abandoned in deep space, how they can survive, and how they can avoid extinction are within reach. All of the answers are at her fingertips. But she encounters a deadly new foe at the worst possible time - a man with all the power in the world and an army at his back. If she refuses his demands, he will unleash a weapon of mass destruction, forever ending Royah’s quest - and her life.

After waking in a field surrounded by corpses, Vincent Donnelly was forced to confront the spirit of a deadly necromancer. Now another lost soul, Selena, speaks to him. And if Vincent is to have any hope of solving the mystery of his past, he must heed her ghostly call. As they travel to the quaint town of Burnham, Massachusetts, Selena informs Vincent that she was once a witch, and claims he brutally murdered her. Vincent has no memory of hurting anyone, but someone killed those people in the field.... Could it have been him?

Isabelle Berger is a beast with the power to kill over a hundred people. She uses her new power to defend her village from rogue wolves, but starts to lose her humanity in the process. When outside pressures of the war-torn country seep in, Isabelle must choose between defending herself as a wolf or being a woman with the man she loves. Will Isabelle find her true heart within the beast?

Enter a time when a once-great nation is broken into three. Where a Congress of Governors supports the three new leaders, where a think tank controls the progress of technology, and an entire state has become the shared military complex for the three nations. In this time after the Parting, the world needs a new generation of heroes - ones who really aren’t trained for this shit and, to be honest, are too old for it, but they’re doing it just the same.

Wizards and drow are set to ravage the world between them, just as they had in the past...As Drynn travels back to the forest, rumors of drow haunt his steps. His brother may have killed a wizard, leading many, even among his friends, to demand his death in return. Desperate for another solution, Drynn is relieved to discover that another bearer has been called, Princess Josalene. She moves with a confidence Drynn lacks, calling an army to her side and making herself the Queen of Kalum. She has a solution for the drow problem as well.

What happens when the apocalypse is over; to love, strained and torn? How do you pick up the pieces, when life stabilises? It's a question our heroes must ask themselves, when they're no longer fighting off swarms of monsters, no longer struggling for Credits and Levels. Valentine's in the Apocalypse is set four years after the System Apocalypse has arrived, between books 5 and 6 of the System Apocalypse and features new characters. The story is set in Vancouver, BC.

Scare Street is proud to present the best in skin-crawling supernatural horror. This volume contains three macabre tales of monstrous creatures, foul fiends, and mysterious beasts that go bump in the night. As a child, you learned to fear the monster in the closet and be wary of the creatures hiding under your bed. But somehow, as the years went by, you forgot those simple lessons in survival. Now, the monsters are back to remind you. And this time, there’s no escape....

An elite Reichswehr unit is crisscrossing India in the spring of 1922 on the hunt for a rumored treasure that would be enough to fund and ultimately reignite the war-starved German army. Join freshly minted Intelligence Officer Richard Halliburton as he staves off assassins at sea, battles ferocious beasts in the jungle, braves the dangerous Khyber Pass, and explores an ancient Indian castle in search of a vast fortune - all while trying to stay one step ahead of the Reichswehr soldiers.

Something strange is happening in the Oklahoma desert. Harv Reardon is the owner of Oklahoma Salvage, an enormous graveyard for trucks, cars, planes, shuttles, and space ships in various states of decay. With the help of his great grand daughter Alex, they help a mysterious stranger rehab a ship for space flight. Something just doesn't feel right to Harv and Alex....

A set of figurines unleash a stampede of terror on a pair of unsuspecting murderers. Christmas takes a sinister turn when a mysterious present under the tree begins attacking family members. And a mesmerized suitor gives his fiancée an antique necklace that literally takes her breath away. Scare Street is proud to present the best in skin-crawling supernatural terror. This volume contains three darkly macabre tales of gift-giving gone wrong.

Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three tales of fickle fate and dark destinies, each guaranteed to have you looking over your shoulder and checking both ways before you cross the street. Life is precious, and accidents happen all the time. None of us are immune to a streak of misfortune. But sometimes, it’s better to accept your fate than to cheat destiny. Because when you try to swindle death, death fights back. And the deck is always stacked against you....

After being hunted by humans and transformed into a demonic creature called a drow, Drynn believes his family will be safer in the forest. Problem is, more drow are waiting for them there. When his brother is taken by the same drow who burned his home, Drynn is told that he needs the ashes of the phoenix to defeat them. It only would require him to return to the human kingdom and all the dangers he thought he left behind.

Safe within the magical kingdom of Havenwood, Bella Birch studies in earnest to become a Necromancer. For her final exam is only a few years away, and she is determined to be ready for it. But when General Craven, an invincible living statue, is sent by the queen of the Pentad to arrest Gideon for painting without a license, Bella can only watch as Gideon is captured...and brought to the capitol of the Pentad to stand trial for his crimes. Now Bella must gather her friends and travel to the capitol to save Gideon from the most powerful kingdom in the world.

The magical kingdom of Havenwood is everything a girl could want...except a girl like Bella. While everyone else there loves painting dragons, fairies, pixies, and other such creatures of light, and bringing those paintings to life, Bella finds herself drawn to the darkness. To death and rot and the undead. Her best friend is an undead dragon called Nemesis, after all. She just doesn’t fit in...and she knows it. So when Gideon offers to take Bella to a faraway city to meet Petrusa, the Queen of the Dead, Bella jumps at the opportunity.

Bella was sixteen when she discovered the truth: For the last decade, she’d been lost in a book. Literally. For the world she’d known her whole life was a fiction, everyone she’d ever known merely a character created by the magic of a powerful Writer. Bella discovers that she’d been sent into the book’s world by her late mother to escape the clutches of a murderous villain known as the Collector, the man who murdered Bella’s mother...and will stop at nothing to destroy her. Now Bella must learn the art of painting to fight back against the Collector.

Things look different in the moonlight. Old trees become gnarled claws. The howling wind transforms into the cry of a hungry beast. And jagged tombstones turn to fangs, eager to devour new flesh and drag fresh bodies into their graves....Scare Street brings you volumes 11 and 12 of Short Horror Stories in a single edition. Five diabolical morsels of fear, brought together for your listening pleasure. And each tale packs enough scream-inducing terror to keep you listening all through the night.

Demonic shadows, savage beasts, cursed paintings...in the twilight world of your darkest dreams, there are so many sinister delights to sample, it can be hard to choose just one. Luckily, you don’t have to...Scare Street brings you volumes nine and 10 of Short Horror Stories in a single edition. Six macabre masterpieces of fear, brought together for your listening pleasure. And each tale packs enough bone-chilling terror to delight the most devoted horror fan.