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AN ANTHOLOGY OF HORROR SHORT STORIESENDLESS HORRORMaria is a reporter who gets an interview with the survivor of a sorority house massacre. Six of her housemates have been murdered by a college professor wielding a machete before slicing his own throat. Then another mass killing occurs, this time a man sets off an explosive device in a hospital emergency room before turning the gun on himself. Then another killing happens, a grandmother goes crazy...
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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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Chad is a bored young man who spends his days hanging out with his going nowhere friends. He hears a rumor that the old man living in a house on top of a hill is rich...He has "buried treasures" inside his house, expensive heirlooms and jewelry from his own alleged criminal past. Chad recruits a few of his buddies to rob his house one night but they soon realize another rumor may be true...The old man is a werewolf in hiding...and the night they've...
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James is crime scene photographer with no life outside of work to speak of. One day, while sifting through old files, he finds a crime scene photo of a beautiful woman...and immediately falls in love with the picture. He then begins to research the woman's death as her crime was an unsolved mystery. Soon, he begins to see apparitions of the woman as she leads him on with clues to solve her murder. Is she a figment of his imagination or she his perfect...
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Mark is a cop with an attitude. But the chip on his shoulder leads him to accidentally kill a robber suspect while trying to get some information. With his back to the wall, he makes the incident look like a gangland murder. Will he be found out? Jesse is a loud-mouthed serial killer that murders on the spur of the moment. He has a chance meeting with Kelly, quiet and polite but a compulsive serial killer like Jesse. The two form an unlikely bond,...
6) 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...
7) 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
8) Bad Preacher
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Ellie Duncan is a young police officer assigned to work undercover as a serial killer stalks young runaways on the streets of Berkeley, California. Nicknamed "The Preacher' because of his affinity for carving a cross into his bodies of his victims, Ellie sees the opportunity to catch the serial killer as a huge opportunity to prove herself until she finds out that the "Preacher" may not be working alone.
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A collection of paranormal thrillers... SALEM'S SECRET Dani has her issues. Drugs. Alcohol. Even a jail stint. But she loves her father. When he is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, she doesn't know what to do. Following a rumor, she discovers a local witch in the mountains who can "fix" such things...for a price. The price is steep but Dani doesn't think it through. She never thinks things through but this time her decision has devastating...
10) Hexed
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A young female teacher accepts a live-in job with a woman who wants her to tutor her son. She soon learns that the son is actually dead and the mother is having considerable trouble accepting that fact. She escorts the invisible "ghost" boy in for lessons and expects the teacher to comply with her strange delusion. The teacher plays along..She needs the money... But she soon finds out that the mother isn't a victim of mental illness...there is something...
11) Seize The Dark
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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...
12) 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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Young women are vanishing and turning up dead weeks later. A serial killer is on the loose and a damn good one...he doesn't leave a clue behind...Heather has solved a lot of crimes but has never encountered anything like this. Her own dark past is brought to light as well as her own curse. She has enlisted the aid of a guardian angel throughout her career and now believes that he may know a lot more than he's letting on...in fact, he may not be an...
14) Unhinged
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Parsons is a mentally unhinged man working at a job that screams drudgery. He is abused daily by his boss, co-workers and the patients at the hospital where he's employed. Wanting desperately to be seen as someone worthy of respect, he begins to stalk criminals at night and bringing them to justice. This "work" becomes a viral hit as he becomes the anonymous vigilante that a crime-ridden city needed...But obstruction comes in the form of Detective...
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Jean is forced to enroll in a boarding school in Salem, Massachusetts. True to form, she runs afoul of a group of girls at the school who fancy themselves as wannabe witches. Jean, however, is a real witch. She has spent her life trying to hide some of her supernatural abilities, but he discovers that the school is the place where her cousin had committed suicide a few years earlier...Jean always doubted that her cousin killed herself and now seeks...
16) The Kidnap Club
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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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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....
18) 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...
19) 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...
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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.
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