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The Seer
Clifford Beck | Horror-Gothic
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Gordon Richards was only a few months into his practice as a psychiatrist when, after suggesting an unorthodox means of relieving stress, one of his patients commits suicide. In an attempt to find out why, Gordon chose to experience the same method. But something went wrong and his life changed forever. Now, with the ability to interact with the...
Novella: Blood of the Damned - Shadows Over Riga: The Nosferatu Experiment
Andre Michael Pietroschek | Horror-Gothic
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Latvia, overshadowed by the threat of a Russian invasion: A group of strangers find themselves as invited guests in a manor outside of the city of Riga. What starts as an evening being sweet-talked, money-milked, or drawn into inheritance issues takes a fiercer turn, when the manor's windows explode simultaneously, and murderous soldiers start...
Vision in Red
Sajjad Rasool | Horror-Gothic
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Amal thinks she knows how to survive in occupied Falestinam until she finds her daughter’s drawing: a soldier with eyes of rust-red crayon. At school, she discovers seventeen other children have drawn the same faceless figure. The "Hollow Ones" have arrived—monsters born of collective trauma who feed on silence.*Visions in Red* is a gripping...
The Onyx Seed - A Story of Survival
Clifford Beck | Horror-Gothic
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The world is no longer as it was. After a well orchestrated bioterrorist attack leaves civilization in ruins and humanity at the edge of extinction, Marty and Lucas are now on their own. And their escape is not without risk, as every step along the way holds the potential for catastrophe. Traveled by night is difficult, as the specters of the...
Evergreen
Clifford Beck | Horror-Gothic
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Evergreen is a small logging town in northern Maine. Out-of-the-way from the flow of tourists, the townspeople number only to a few thousand. But, Evergreen holds a dark secret. One that has sufficiently isolated from the rest of the world. But as Bobby and Katie, two of evergreens teenagers, begin investigating what has laid dormant in the town...
Heretic - The Life of Witch hunter
Clifford Beck | Horror-Gothic
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It is one hundred years after the Black Death. Now, young Aiden Selwyn is given up to an isolated monastery. After his escape, he meets Aelianna, a beautiful woman living in the woods. For a time, life is idyllic and Aiden has found peace. But the evil he has discovered in people finds them out. Heretic is a story of the things that scar one's...
Digger - The Doctor Will See You Now
Clifford Beck | Horror-Gothic
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Witnessing a terrible car accident on Portland's Congress St., Ryan becomes inspired to help others. The victim of an abusive father, he rises above his demons and earning a premed degree is accepted into UNE's medical program. All goes as planned, until the ghosts of his past return. And his subsequent instability results in his dismissal from...
Outpatient - A Story of Horror and Madness
Clifford Beck | Horror-Gothic
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Tragedy befalls Maine's Carrabassett Valley as Catherine Thomaston, a theoretical physics professor with a brilliant career at Bowdoin College, takes ill after the sudden death of her father. Forced into retirement by this terrible illness, she has been living a quiet life of isolation just north of Farmington, Maine. But, her illness falls into...
The Cool Room
Clifford Beck | Horror-Gothic
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This novel is based on a twenty-year-old criminal case from the author’s hometown. South of the New York State Adirondacks lays a small town on the edge of non-existence. Near the center of town is Frank’s Funeral Home, and has been in business for as long as the town’s people can remember. But Frank is harboring a secret. In spite of the...
The Facility
Clifford Beck | Horror-Gothic
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It is the year 2059 and Portland, Maine, like so much of the world, has become largely a war zone of crime and poverty. Resources are all but gone. And as the swan's song of civilization rapidly come to a close, the government develops a plan that officially does not exist. It is a plan designed to exploit the world’s last remaining resource...
