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The Kings have been in their new home--a creepy old place with doors to other worlds--for only a few days, but they've faced enough terror to last a lifetime.

From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson, over-televised game show hosts, and late-night comedians, to the title story, where terminal punk ni

To find their mother, who is lost in time, the Kings must turn the tables on Taksidian, the menacing stranger who wants them out of their mysterious new house so he can use it for his own twisted p

A bomb set in one of New York's busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation.

David and Xander's search for their mother has led them on terrifying journeys as they've stepped through the portals of their creepy old house and into some of history's most turbulent moments.

Three teenagers in period garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. Inspector Kurt Wallander has only one clue: a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know.

To rescue their mother from an unknown time and place, Xander and David have lunged headlong into history's greatest and most volatile events.

Trollope examines the Victorian woman and her predicament. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor, who vacillates between two suitors, and each woman has her own answer.

Sam Capra is living the life of his dreams. He's a brilliant young CIA agent, stationed in London. His wife, Lucy, is seven months pregnant with their first child.

Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources.

When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra's offer to visit her relatives t

There's trouble in Sharon McCone's quiet San Francisco apartment building. Madame Anya, with her cards, her tamed crow, and her candles, had predicted evil for Molly Antonio.

A young Indian boy in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve-inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place.

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults.

Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess.