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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. Now they must not only visit the past, they must rewrite it.

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 purposes.

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. Now Xander, David, and Toria must venture through the gates to save their missing mother.

The Kings are focused on rescuing a lost family member, until a stranger comes to take their bizarre house. What secret is he hiding, as he hides the scars on his body? Can the Kings harness the house's secrets and discover who is watching their every move?

When the Kings move to a secluded small town, fifteen-year-old Xander and his siblings discover portals to far-off places in long-ago times, and Xander wonders if this is a teen's dream come true--or his worst nightmare.

On the Day of the Dead, at the Solona Music Hall, Altagracia Quintero meets John Burns--just two weeks too late. Grace, who works at Sanchez Motorworks customizing hot rods, loves John, but both of them have unfinished business. 

This classic thriller of human triumph over an alien threat inspired the acclaimed 1956 film directed by Don Siegel. This edition is read by Siegel's son, Kristoffer Tabori, and includes reminiscences of his father's work on the film.

The Show That Smells is the most SHOCKING story ever shown on the silver screen! It’s also the tale of Jimmie, a country music singer dying of tuberculosis, and Carrie, his wife, who tries to save him by selling her soul to a devil who designs HAUTE COUTURE CLOTHING! Elsa is a powerful Parisian dress designer, and a vampire. She wants to make Carrie look beautiful, smell beautiful – AND THEN SHE WANTS TO EAT HER! Will Carrie survive as her slave? Will Jimmie be cured?

Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends, and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. Naturally, she spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which just happens to border her backyard. And that backyard just happens to be the home of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past: there’s the dead United Empire Loyalist! The dead escaped slave who made her way north via the Underground Railroad! The dead quintuplet!

In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected 'Eternals' into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter.