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For Bennett Wilder, every day is the same-head to work, do his job, and come home to his increasingly distant wife. As a man who values routine, Bennett surprises even himself when he picks up Liz Messina, a pretty hitchhiker, on his morning commute. As he quickly learns, she's got a young child, a dark past, and a debt that needs to be repaid-or else.
Even though he knows it's risky, he decides to take a chance and help Liz out. But when her trouble turns out to run even deeper than he realizes, Bennett and Liz find themselves facing off against dangerous drug dealers and fighting for their lives. Bound by bloodshed and facing a road full of wrong turns ahead, Bennett calls on an old friend with ties to a past he would rather leave hidden, as he and Liz try to decide how far they'll go to turn the tables on their pursuers-and, if they're lucky, save their own lives.
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After Aisha is traumatized by a stalker, her parents decide to move to a property in the outback.
They say it's in her best interests.
But they don't know something dangerous is imprisoned in the subterranean caverns beneath the house.
Something that hungers for freedom. And blood.
When three masked thrill-killers assault the property, they open the wrong doors, and Trog emerges.
Only blood and chaos will be left in his wake, unless Aisha can fight off the intruders, save her family, and survive the night.
Trog - an intense home invasion creature feature from award-nominated Australian author, Zachary Ashford.
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Desperate times often demand dastardly deeds.
The eighteen stories in this collection follow characters on quests for likes, love, friendship, fame, respect, retribution, mojito money, and more. These people are willing to get their hands bloody and strike deadly deals to achieve their darkest desires.
Some evils, while nasty, are nothing short of necessary.
A collection of short stories.
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If you discovered a peephole to your erratic and elusive neighbor's living room, would you look?
When Lenora, a black trans woman in her thirties, finally finds a decent apartment in Los Angeles, she's excited to have a safe place to live and focus on her music career. But that all changes when she discovers the peephole.
Next door is Jane, a sex worker who stages creative and violent scenes in her living room for her LonelyCams channel. As Lenora and her band mates become obsessed with watching the increasingly extreme and gruesome performances, she starts to question: is Jane really just putting on a show, or is something more sinister happening next door? Why doesn't anyone else in the building seem to notice? And why is there a peephole in the first place?
Discovering the answer plunges her into a world more brutal and depraved than she could have ever imagined, and a desperate struggle for survival.
CHASERS is the powerful splatterpunk novella by Mariah Darling and Eve Harms. If you like queer horror, fun characters, gripping suspense, twisted villains, and devastating tragedy, you will love this book. Buy CHASERS to take the horrifying thrill-ride today.
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Back Woods Lodge has re-opened its doors. Thanks to The Anvil Group, hunting is off the table, so the proprietors have shifted direction, turning the old place into an artists' retreat.
Things aren't going great for Paul Webster, once an artist of some acclaim, so he accepts a job guiding the first group: skilled painters who have been through a divorce. The point of the retreat is art, but Paul still finds a fresh love interest in Carla Moore. Before their love has any chance to bloom, a monster creeps from the thick forest to feed on the artists.
...And you know what they say: if you see one monster, there's probably more hiding in the shadows. But maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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Three suspenseful, horrific, and bloody novellas...
SKIN DEEP
Victoria MacDonald wants to die but finding a way to go beautifully is difficult. She's tenacious, and vows to find a way to leave this world with the beauty she fought so hard to attain. Somehow, her search for the perfect suicide turns into murder...
Detective Amos Christianson answers a call about an intruder at Victoria's house. It's her second home invasion in less than a month, but this time she kills her attacker in "self-defense." Something about Victoria's story stinks, though, and Amos can't let it go.
He can't let Victoria go either.
As they spiral into separate obsessions, their paths twist until neither can untangle themselves from the other, and Victoria's desperate search for a beautiful death forces Amos to make a drastic decision.
But is the price for freeing himself of her insanity too high?
SHE AIN'T PRETTY
Blake Swanson answered an ad for a job as a farmhand, but when he arrives for his interview, Lily, the widow who placed the ad, seduces him. He forgets everything but Lily as he falls down a rabbit hole of sex and terror.
Eva Bright is following a true crime scoop for a book, and infiltrates a cult run by a woman named Lily Maenad via a job posting. Working as Lily's assistant, Eva knows she's stumbled into something bigger than a doomsday cult. Lily isn't just some nut in the woods trying to convince people she's the next Messiah.
Eva teams up with a hopeless young man who has been drained by Lily, but are they enough to stop the terrors going on?
CHURCH
Ray is a Christian, but he loves a woman who follows a god called Zabir. Determined to save her from eternal damnation, he joins her church.
Ray doesn't realize that indoctrination into the Zabian way is a process that not only breaks a man physically, it strips his identity and shatters his mind. He holds onto his faith at first, but as his prayers for mercy go unanswered, and the pain inflicted on him becomes too much to bear, the void of nothingness promises relief, and tempts Ray to do the unthinkable, even if leaves his soul as damned as the one he tried to save.
A young woman's fears regarding the gruesome photos appearing on her cell phone prove justified in a ghastly and unexpected way. A chainsaw-wielding Evil Dead fan defends herself against a trio of undead intruders. A bride-to-be comes to wish that the door between the physical and spiritual worlds had stayed shut on All Hallows' Eve. A lone passenger on a midnight train finds that the engineer has rerouted them toward a past she'd prefer to forget. A mother abandons a life she no longer recognizes as her own to walk up a mysterious staircase in the woods.
In her debut collection, Christa Carmen combines horror, charm, humor, and social critique to shape thirteen haunting, harrowing narratives of women struggling with both otherworldly and real-world problems. From grief, substance abuse, and mental health disorders, to a post-apocalyptic exodus, a seemingly sinister babysitter with unusual motivations, and a group of pesky ex-boyfriends who won't stay dead, Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked is a compelling exploration of horrors both supernatural and psychological, and an undeniable affirmation of Carmen's flair for short fiction.
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Camp Neverland is special. At least that's what it said on the mysterious brochure. But when Max arrives to discover her tormentor Chuck Snyder is there, too, her hopes for a magical summer are dashed. Still, the bond she develops with her cabinmates feels almost too good to be true. And when kids start dying in gruesome ways, Max hides a frightening secret. She soon learns just how far she'll go to belong.CAMP NEVERLAND is SLEEPAWAY CAMP meets CARRIE, with black magic, blood, and an eternal death cult of angry teenage girls.
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*Next Generation Indie Award Winner for Horror*
A beauty pageant veteran appeases her mother by competing for one final crown, only to find herself trapped in a hand-sewn gown that cuts into her flesh. A journalist falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman but discovers his beloved can vanish and reappear hours later in the same spot, as if no time has passed at all. A cash-strapped college student agrees to work in a shop window as a mannequin but quickly learns she's not free to break her pose. And what happens when the family pet decides it no longer wants to have "owners?"
In the grim and often horrific thirteen tales collected here, beauty is violent, and love and hate are the same feeling, laid bare by unbridled obsession. Entering worlds both strange and quotidian, and spanning horror landscapes both speculative and real, Unshod, Cackling, and Naked asks who among us is worthy of love and who deserves to die?​​
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The morning Jessica Ramage has arranged to leave her unfaithful, conniving husband, she learns he's been in a terrible accident, putting her escape plan on hold. As the facts of the accident fully come to light, Jessica accepts her fate and moves to an old farmstead with a big house and laboring quarters, both in need of renovations to deal with her husband's disability.
What Jessica doesn't know, is that the original farmhouse and barn are haunted by a violent, electrifying figure. If she sticks to the smaller, newer house on the property, she's safe, but it's not as if she can warn her husband or adult daughters.
An impromptu coming home party, one unbeknownst to Jessica, puts her daughters, and possibly the entire world at risk. Finally, the truth of the farm is revealed to her and all that lies ahead of her. Jessica must face-off with the electrifying figure on his eternal turf to stop his plan and perform a rescue mission.
She's never been enough before, could she possibly be up to the task?
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Someone is killing girls in the small city of Delson. Local law enforcement is useless and the detective the RCMP sent is not much better.
Jaqi Bazinet isn't in town for long before the mystery of the missing girls (and why they are returned at vastly different intervals but always have their nails and makeup done) sinks into her soul, demanding that she follow what clues she and her boyfriend can drudge free.
But is she up for the fight she's been chasing?
Or will she become just another painted dead girl?
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Books are magic. Lance knows this, which is why he wants to be a writer. His stories, however, never seem to quite capture that sorcery...until his uncle buys him an antique typewriter for his fifteenth birthday. When Lance sits down to create stories on the machine, he finds himself touching parts of his imagination he never knew existed.
Tales of grief and loss, forgiveness and redemption, mortality and immortality, and, above all, the overwhelming power of stories. He begins to think of the typewriter itself as a magical relic, the muse from which the tales spring.Is he right, or has the typewriter merely helped him access the magic in himself? And ultimately, does the distinction even matter?
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It's Ben's twenty-fourth birthday and his estranged dad-the great but egotistical film talent advisor, Oliver Baring-has invited him to celebrate at The Moth & Flame, a fancy restaurant south of London's Hyde Park.
Ben, having once thought himself too practical and modest for a career in the arts, wrote a script for his dad to read-more for attention than aspiration. But thanks to the latest rumours about Oliver Baring, whether Ben can get Dad to read it is soon the least of their problems.
In a world where everyone's got a story idea in them, and no one can keep it there, Ben wonders if words will be enough, or whether he'll resort to violence to make his mark on the world.
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Centuries after Earth has become uninhabitable, the planet has rejuvenated itself. The Union, the organization governing the diaspora, sends a team to the mother planet to inspect liveability.
For months, activity on Plantation Earth has been irregular, the results, unexpected. The Union had been receiving strange transmissions, until finally they lost contact altogether.
Lay Watt is a member of the second team. She's an outsider, being added to the mission along the way to Earth.
Lay follows the crew as they traverse humanity's ruins, eventually coming to trail after an undefinable signal.
As they explore, a figure from the periphery of their dreams stalks the edges of their reality, threatening to destroy all they know to be true.
A novella plus three bonus shorts of cosmic terror.
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For Chaos, ghosts have always been part of the scenery, like birds or old buildings; as long as she didn't get too close, they were nothing to worry about. That is, until recently. With a mysterious, spectral trumpet player stalking her across the country, Chaos winds up in Carver, California, an old railroad town with more than its fair share of hauntings, making it the last place she wants to be stuck.
With her ghostly entourage growing and her new friends threatened by a malevolent force from Carver's twisted past, Chaos must face its demons. To save Carver's lost souls-not to mention her own skin-she'll go toe to toe against a raging matriarch, a vengeful pig, a sadistic cowboy, and a pack of possessed dogs, drawing on what she knows of the town's history to pit its ghosts against each other in a final spiritual showdown.
Can one woman slay a town brimming with the supernatural, or will she become just another piece of the local phantasmagoric puzzle?
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Eli Nelson's farm is on the verge of ruin, and the last thing he needs is a dead cow. But when an animal expert from the local university investigates, she makes a horrifying discovery: whatever killed this cow has a horrible disease.
Is it a bear? A wolf? Locals believe it's the Beast of Bray Road, a legendary monster that roams this quiet Illinois county-a county notorious for its haunted past, one filled with accusations of witchcraft and Satanism.
Eli Nelson and Dr. Mackenzie Wright must find answers before the killer's disease progresses...and before one of the worst storms in Illinois history reaches them.
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Unfolding through fourteen short stories and one novella, DARK WORLDS WE WANDER offers a fresh take on Earth's last, desperate survivors who will do whatever it takes to keep from starving through a nuclear winter; a woman trapped in her laundry room who battles something terrifying in the clothes dryer; a convicted criminal who picks up an odd companion on his lonely walk to prison across a desert planet; a woman whose new tattoo suspiciously multiplies like an alien virus; and more.
From the most crowded cities to the loneliest reaches of the galaxy, in the now and in the future, exploring humankind's darkest depths and noblest aspirations, DARK WORLDS WE WANDER is a trip not to be missed.
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Following a traumatic accident, ceramic artist Hesper Dunn trades life in Chicago for the enchanted deserts of New Mexico. But not all is quaint, and it's far from what it seems. There's a mystery buried deep in the heart of her new home.
Love, guilt, and grief demand that Hesper remain within the haunted pueblo. To free herself, she must free the trapped spirits...but the creatures lurking in the shadows are not what they appear. Hesper dares to wade through the murky fog of tragedy to uncover the truth. A truth that will be harder to handle than she ever dared imagine.
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Fear can spring forth from the most unlikely of places.
Professors Micah and Ryan ditch out on another boring faculty in-service and head to a local bar for a little day drinking. When bodies start dropping and an oppressive wind storm sweeps into town, they find themselves trapped in the bar for the long haul with a small group of terrified patrons and an attractive headstrong bartender.
As time runs out, and hope is wearing thin, the group needs to decide whether to wait for rescue or face the malevolent hungry winds.
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The voice inside Veronica Mattingly's head urges her to do violent, unspeakable things to the people she loves...it's not easy to ignore.
Returning to rural Kentucky following the suicide of her dissolute brother, she learns she’s not alone in hearing the voice. It's a voice from the past, one demanding that she act, but is Veronica up for it? Can she exhume the root of this evil and right a historical wrong.
What follows is a descent into madness involving ghosts, sacrifice, a reclusive, a cult, and a decades-old secret that lies at the heart of a mountain. Sloe is a story about family: mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, and the ties that bind us all—even after death.
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The mysterious box opened…changing all who come into contact. Two janitors have escaped the research facility on Farley Island, carrying the mutation to the mainland.
The small, remote town of Winterstone, British Columbia is awakening to a curious sickness that leaves people confused and sleepy, very interested in kissing. It isn't until the second stage of the sickness is triggered that the true breadth of the situation comes clear. The neighbors are rabid freaks and sticking around is a death sentence.
To the citizens of Winterstone, survival means running. To the military presence racing to the scene, survival means battle, it means blocking that first invasion toehold on Earth's soil. It means survival as a species.
The Breach is a gruesome 250-page novella of one small town’s battle against a putrid, festering alien apocalypse.​
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Three suspenseful, horrific, and bloody novellas...
BLOOD LAKE MONSTER
Maribel Daniels is weeks away from escaping her hometown but vanishes while walking home from work. The same night, a truck overturns on a bridge, spilling chemicals into the lake and turning the water red.
Her sister, Anya, returns years later to find out what happened to Maribel, but every truth she uncovers reveals another lie. When she finally solves the mystery of her sister's disappearance, Anya realizes she's the only one who can put an end to the Blood Lake Monster.
Is she willing to sacrifice everything for the town that ruined her life?
HOWL
Three friends, an empty fuel tank, a desolate dirt road, and a hike through the woods in the middle of a snowstorm; what could go wrong?
Only everything.
A mysterious beast stalks Fred and his friends through the snow, forcing them to seek shelter with two strangers in a remote cabin. And so begins a waiting game. Food dwindles, tempers flare, and survival of the fittest becomes more than just a saying as the beast closes in.
STRANDED
Six contestants pair off into three teams of one man and one woman as part of a pilot season for a new reality show called Stranded. The challenge: Survive thirty days in a hostile and brutal environment for a chance to split a half-million-dollar prize.
Victor, the show's creator, chooses the northern Arctic as the first location, but after a single day, his mistake is clear: They are not alone.
Their presence awakens a relentless and unforgiving predator that feeds on greed, lust and fear.
In this game, the lucky ones get to die.
Behind closed doors, down quiet streets, through the night fog rolling along the coasts, and deep within thick shadows the world over, criminals, opportunists, and maniacs roam; their hands, feet, and minds busy with Illicit Motions. Within these pages are fourteen crime stories; take a trip through the seedy side of the everyday world, the violence of professional hits, the chances to break away from the tedium of normalcy, and much more.
Illicit Motions includes stories from Charles Ardai (winner of the Shamus, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ellery Queen awards, and founder and editor of Hard Case Crime), Michael Bracken (winner of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award), Nick Mamatas (author of I Am Providence and The Second Shooter), Deborah Sheldon, (winner of an Australian Shadows Award), as well as Joe Allegretti, Serena Jayne, Chris Kuriata, Justine Gardner, Armand Rosamilia, P.M. Raymond, M.E. Proctor, Robert Petyo, Tom Milani, and Eddie Generous (founder and editor of Unnerving).
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Babe Ruth's glove, a bloody shirt, a diamond-encrusted bag: the score of a lifetime.
Drowning beneath a wave of gentrification, Drew Hackett wants only to support his family and grow his weekend business. When he learns that Boston sports legend Bernie Oakes has a memorabilia collection ripe for robbery, he thinks his problems are solved. Drew puts together a daring plan that-somehow-succeeds.
But nothing is ever as it seems.
Moving the goods only sinks Drew deeper into trouble, the kind of trouble that means spilled blood and an executioner's blade looming over his head and the heads of everyone he loves. He has one chance to make things right. He slips into a scheme that takes him from high society to a secret sex club, from a grandiose charter school to the sludge beneath the city, and finally into the relentless grip of a crime boss looking to squeeze him like a grape.
Drew must brave it all or there'll be No Score.
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Ten unlucky passengers on a flight to Alaska are plucked from their seats by the power of a vortex lost to time and find themselves at the dated and empty, but fabulous Camp Summit.
As a group, they seek answers; all the while, one-by-one, Camp Summit begins to reveal its nefarious plot to corrupt minds and entrap its guests...forever. The only hope to escape is a ghostly train stopping by the hotel's dedicated station on the mountaintop, but that's not for a week.
Days pass in mayhem: séances, supernatural attacks, cannibalism, spilled blood, coming to an apex in a horrific ball.
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Can you keep a secret? Sadie has a fetish. She likes it cold.
The only man who has understood and loved her for this perversion is her ambulance partner and boyfriend: Michael. So, when Michael unexpectedly gets run over by a snowplow, Sadie will stop at nothing to keep him alive, to keep bringing him back from the dead again and again for one thing and one thing only. But when Michael begins to deteriorate, when things that were once hard become loose and floppy, Sadie finds herself taking lives instead of saving them. In an effort to keep Michael’s organs pumping, Sadie has to go against her paramedic training and human instincts and kill instead of rescue. But she’s doing it in the name of love, so it’s okay. Right? Totally.
When does love turn to obsession? How far will Sadie go for the one she loves?
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I had just turned fourteen years old the night my best friends and I decided to kill Mr. Martinsen.
He was my friend. My mentor. I would even go so far as to say I loved him, as I looked up to Mr. Martinsen the same way I had looked up to my maternal grandfather, who died from a heart attack when I was ten.He was the best teacher I ever had. I will never forget him, or the knowledge he imparted to me, as long as I live.
But on that summer evening just several weeks before I began my freshman year of high school, he gave my friends and me no choice. Things had gone too far. We had put it off for too long. We knew Mr. Martinsen had to die.
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Her doctor is giving her the body of his dreams...and her nightmares.Isa is a micro-celebrity who rarely shows her face, and can't wait to have it expertly ripped off and rearranged to look more feminine. When a successful fundraiser makes her gender affirming surgery possible, she's overjoyed-until she has to give up all her money to save her dying father.Crushed by gender dysphoria and the pressure of disappointing her fans who paid for a new face, she answers a sketchy ad seeking transgender women for a free, experimental feminization treatment. The grotesquely flawless Dr. Skurm has gruesome methods, but he gets unbelievable results, and Isa is finally feeling comfortable in her skin. She even gains the courage to ask out her crush: an alluring and disfigured alchemy-obsessed artist named Rayna.But Isa's body won't stop changing, and she's going from super model to super mutant. She has to discover the secret behind her metamorphosis-before the changes are irreversible, and she's an unwanted freak forever.TRANSMUTED is an outrageous and unapologetically queer body horror tale that will leave you gasping, giggling, and gagging for more.
Experience the freaky thrills of TRANSMUTED today!
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Running blindly through deep, dark woods, Callie Ireson thinks she's finally escaped her abductor and his cabin from hell. Reaching the highway, she flags down a passing truck driver, but things don't go as they should, and her torment is far from over. In reality, her torment is just beginning.
Dredged up from the sewage system below an abandoned research facility, a creature discovers a larger world, one full of scents, sensations, and the perfect location for a nest. All the movement and procreation requires fuel...and nothing satisfies like the taste of human flesh.
Callie has survived so much already; does she have the strength to survive her nastiest obstacle yet? Will she be just another item on the creature's insatiable menu? Will her torture, pain, and struggle be worth it? Will she ever get free?
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Swarms of powerful mosquitoes sucking victims dry. Insatiable horseflies feasting on living flesh. Huge roaches with a ferocious bite. No tent is safe at the Green Swamp Zip-Line Adventure and Campground.
Camp manager, Casey Lovitt, and entomologist, Dr. Phillip Edwards, must go up against powerful business interests and cover-ups from the local sheriff's department to stop the deadly infestation. And with the busy tourist season fast approaching, time is running out. Will Casey and Phillip stop the onslaught of hungry bugs, or will the bodies continue to pile up among the long-buried secrets of the Green Swamp?
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You may have been warned to beware the things that go bump in the night...but do not let this lull you into a false sense of security during the daylight hours. In this collection, you will find that many horrors await you even in the glaring illumination of the sun. A would-be hero who makes a tragedy even worse.
A young mother whose thirst for attention leads her to commit an unspeakable act.
A grieving widower who tries to hold on to his lost love.
A jealous ex who seeks revenge in an unusual way.
These and many other characters you'll encounter within these pages, and they will teach you the lesson that THE DAYLIGHT WILL NOT SAVE YOU...
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When Eddie gets a flat in the middle of nowhere, the last thing on his mind is death. Then as darkness falls and the storm worsens, he’s forced to seek shelter alongside his significant other, Banksy. Big mistake.
Bed and Breakfast, the sign said, but there are no eggs and bacon on the menu here. Instead, their host serves up four tales of terror with a little murder on the side. And as the other residents of the mansion gradually reveal themselves, Eddie and Banksy begin to wonder if they’ll ever check out alive.
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Sole Survivor:
An uninhabited island...Several hundred hidden cameras...Ten contestants who think they're stranded...One man employed to thin their numbers...One predatory species determined to feed...For the contestants of television's latest prime-time reality show, the plane crash is a mere inconvenience on their way to fame and fortune. Unfortunately, there's no rescue coming. Instead, the producers have other ideas, like watching them find the island's killer creatures for themselves...Like watching them die.Tune in and discover who will be the Sole Survivor!
Sole Survivor II: Drop Bears on the Loose:
The first season of Sole Survivor has aired, a traumatized December Foss is trying desperately to escape her fifteen minutes of fame, and everyone thinks the drop bears are dead. Everyone that is except The Ark: a radical group of eco-terrorists with an axe to grind, and Joseph Steinberg, who still has plenty of them in reserve. When the Ark release the drop bears from captivity, all hell breaks loose and December must face them again. This time, though, they're on her turf. This time, it's personal!​
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