"Haven't you always wondered what slasher monsters - the masked home invasion family, the mindless unkillable monster, the serial killer trapped in a doll - what they do for those couple of years in-between their murder sprees? They're at Wilmhurst - a gated community in the middle of nowhere where they relax - or try to-until they get the call to go out and kill again. Connor Hayes survived his first slasher in summer camp. A handful of years later...

Her name is Valla. She is a vampire who hasresided on the bottom of the ocean for a century. When her aquatic paradise isdestroyed by a dark liquid plague, she travels to the surface in search ofanswers. What she finds is a world threatened by climate change and acivilization powerless to stop it. Eventually mankind will be wiped out and Valla will have no food supply. If she is to survive, then the fossil fuelindustries must fall--Provided by publisher....

The Great Tokyo Earthquake. Ten years ago, it destroyed lives as it tore buildings asunder. Among those who lived through the disaster was Ganta Igarashi, now a middle school student finally getting a footing in his own life-- that is, until the day the 'Red Man' appears at his school and turns his world upside down again. Ganta's entire class is brutally murdered, and although innocent of the crime, Ganta is sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

Rupert Giles [returns] to high school! But this time--as a grown man living in a teenage body--Giles will be a student instead of a teacher. At an inner-city LA-area school, when a mystical influence is detected and teachers start to go missing, Giles enrolls to investigate. With the help of a new friend from class, Roux, Giles finds something more than vampires and demons. Something unusual and frightening is happening here. If Giles can get through...

"In the waning days of World War Two, with the Allies advancing, a desperate Nazi officer unearths an ancient force of evil that he hopes will turn the tide of battle: a vampire. To test the power of his secret weapon, he unleashes the monster on an unsuspecting group of Allied POWs. It's up to Nocona, a Comanche language expert, to communicate with the vampire to find out what it really wants."--

"An omnibus of award-winning interwoven tales of witchcraft. On a visit to a city in the far west of Asia, a British girl named Nicola falls in love. The object of her affection is Mimar, a man who works at the city's bazaar-- yet despite her attempts, he turns her down. Upon returning home to England, the ache of her unrequited love festers. After years spent obtaining wealth, fame, and the Secret of the World, Nicola returns to the bazaar to exact...

"The world's magic is fading, and new enemies have appeared to take advantage of Earth's weakness. Doctor Fate has assembled the Lords of Order, trapping the magical community on Earth. In order to save magic, the Justice League Dark must escape Doctor Fate's snares and fight the Otherkind. But can they do all of that without calling on even more dangerous powers for assistance?"--

It's a typical night in the town of Raven Brooks. Eleven-year-old Regina relaxes at home, her father and stepmother on a date while her older stepsister Pris babysits. But when an emergency alert comes over the airwaves, the two must grab their things and head out of town - a flash flood is coming, cellphone towers are down, and they are on their own. And to make things worse, a freak car accident leaves them stranded on the side of the road. Can...

"Here comes the Ice Cream Man for another helping of bitter sweets: four more cavity-inducing stories of suffering and surviving--with unlimited sundae toppings. Just try not to rot your teeth on these sickly sequential morsels, which, if you're not careful, could lodge themselves under the the gums, deep into the roots, far beyond the reach of even the best dentist"--