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Bumpy Johnson was many things in his life, to many people. He was a stick up man, a burglar, a pimp, a drug dealer, a numbers runner, a bookmaker, a hood and a thug. He was also a husband and a father and a doting grandfather. He was the conduit between Harlem and the Genovese Crime Family. He was a respected friend of Lucky Luciano. He was a man of Harlem, giving to the needy, the hungry, and children. He was a staunch advocate for education, urging...
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A serial killer is on a rampage in San Francisco, killing prostitutes and homeless people. Detective Pearson is battling depression and is the wrong man to be on the case...The only ray of light in his life is his girlfriend, Dr. Leila Maxwell...but when her drug addicted sister goes missing, Pearson feels the pressure to find the killer before it is too late.
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April is a female professional wrestler has moved out west to make a new life for herself. But everything falls apart when she's visited by one of her former partners who comes carrying bag of stolen cocaine and a rare championship belt. The two are then chased down by numerous low lines from the wrestling underworld, all of whom have been promised a bounty if they get the drugs and the belt back.
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Edgar was a once-successful horror writer whose latest effort has bombed out. But then he receives a package from a fan/wannabe writer which contains a manuscript which is one of the best stories Edgar has ever read. Edgar then plots to lure his fan to his home, kill him and then sell the book as his own work. Will he be able to pull off the the murder and get away with everything he has planned?
5) Dark Pink
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Detective Cain investigates a murder which began by the discovery of a disembodied foot. After the victim is identified, the victim's ex-roommate Nikki Drexlerbecomes scared that she may be in danger and stays at the detective's place until they can get to the bottom of the situation. Both she and the roommates were soft core porn stars and the detective finds himself becoming attracted to her with the more of her videos that he watches. Learning...
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A collection of thrillers and horror stories mark this anthology... Lowry can only hope to put the pieces back together in his life. A tragic car accident robs him of both his memory and his beloved girlfriend, Amanda. As time goes on, he slowly regains his memory....He was a medical student on his way to becoming a doctor like his father before him...Returning to medical school, parts of his memory remain dark until he enters his dissection class....
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Set in the 1970s, a young rebellious woman named Lyla hitches her way home back to college in California. She's picked up numerous times with no incident until she meets what she first thinks is a harmless looking man. But as the miles go on and the roads get more isolated, she becomes more and more suspicious of her driver who introduces himself as "Bob Crane"...Knowing that isn't his real name, she becomes especially concerned when she hears warnings...
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A Dark Comedy involving two desperate young women who struggle to survive in the new economy. They've tried everything, waitressing, stripping and driving for Uber. But one of them comes up with a plan after finding out that a successful televangelist loves in the town only miles away. They plan to kidnap his wife and hold her for ransom...Just one problem though...He doesn't care and will pay them extra if they kill her off...
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Jonathan is a mystic who specializes in killing poltergeists. He is a haunted spirit himself, having lost both parents, as he travels around the country, entering haunted houses and killing the evil spirits inside. He is then hired to enter a haunted building, one that has killed many a mystic before him...but inside he finds a ghost that he has never encountered before...a woman covered in blood who was killed over 30 years earlier...
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Two vampire tales are featured here: Someone is stalking the luscious redheaded vampire Lucille. Reynolds, a down on his luck detective, is hired as a personal bodyguard for her. He soon realizes, however, that Lucille's stalker isn't the ordinary run of the mill vampire slayer. "Red Head Vampires" is a short story that is half vampire horror, half pulp fiction.
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Two estranged sisters who show up at their missing mother's estate to settle her estate and collect the proceeds. But as they sift through her belongings, they find a board game that holds a connection to their mother's disappearance ...and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.
12) Her Worst Fear
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Danielle has worked at doing the impossible. She is a single mother trying to put her life together after her daughter was kidnapped and never found again. But one day someone leaves a note on her car. "Your daughter is alive". At first she believes that it is a sick joke. But other things begin happening as her tormentor starts to leave clues. Danielle is left with no choice. She must follow the instructions of this person as she hopes and prays...
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Rachel works at a suicide prevention center. Stuck in a loveless relationship with a man with OCD, she longs for something different. One night, she receives a call at the center from a strange man. He is distraught but not to the point of suicide. He describes what he wants in life and what he's missing. Soon they are talking every night and they develop a bond beyond that is strictly forbidden at the call center. Still, Rachel decides to meet the...
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John Burns has made his mark on the political scene...so much so that he is being groomed for mayor. Things could not be better. His wife is beautiful and doting, his young daughter adores him. He has managed to keep the secrets of his past just that...a secret that only he knows about...until his convict brother escapes from prison...he kidnaps his wife and daughter...John is then forced to confront the dark echoes of his past in order to safe his...
15) The Accused
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Sebastian Tomlinson is a successful defense attorney whose teenage son has been accused of murdering his girlfriend. He does everything he can to defend his son despite physical evidence which place him at the scene of the murder. Sebastian soon realizes, however, how little he actually knows his own son. He starts to believe his son is unstable as the young man insists that he can see the ghost of his now dead girlfriend...and she wants to lead them...
16) Mind Tricks
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Curtis was one of those guys who always suffered from depression. One day, he finally gives up on life. He climbs to the top of the roof of his office building and runs off...falling three stories down. But the fall doesn't kill him. With a few broken bones, he finds himself still alive. He's then brought to an emergency room then a psychiatric facility for some mental rehab. But as Curtis lies in his hospital bed, he becomes face to face with the...
17) Spooky
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Pastor Adams tries to welcome everyone who comes into his church. But when a weird stranger begins to attend his services, he struggles to balance his beliefs with his gut instinct. And when is daughter goes missing,he begins a frantic search to find the strange man that he suspects of
18) Jagged Edge
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Kent has spent his whole life being the good guy doing the right thing in the wrong place. He lost a limb serving his country in Iraq and spends his days trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together, both mental and physical. Bitterness, however, settles in and he becomes estranged from his family...until his sister goes missing. A troubled youth, the police drag their ass in looking for her as they think she's another drug addicted runaway. But Kent...
19) We All Fall Down
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Mark is a recently injured soldier who becomes a paraplegic after he was shot in his spine. Single and with no family, he is forced to live in a board and care facility located inside an old Victorian home. Ironically, the room he is assigned was previously occupied by a veteran of the Vietnam war who killed other members of the boarding house and himself years earlier. Mark then begins to experience visions of the Vietnam vet which lead him to believe...
20) One Dark Party
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Frankie is a teenage girl in a trailer park who spends her days trying to avoid the abusive men around her, her step father and a pair of brothers that live nearby. She goes to a carnival and meets a mysterious tattoo artist who promises to give her a tattoo that will help protect her in life. She soon finds out that the tattoo has given her special psychic powers which help her gain revenge against her stepfather and the other men who have abused...
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