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Laura Reynolds is a career executive for Argent Mining, driven by one goal – to earn her promotion and win back custody of her daughter on Mars. Her chance finally comes when a company freighter limps into Aldebaran Gateway Station, nearly empty, carrying a single message from the colony on Tànjiu II: a doctor’s plea for help, a warning laced with paranoia.

Eight stories of terror and horror from Lovecraftian cosmic horror to creature features to a modern ghost story. These tales will spur the darkest recesses of the imagination. Put yourself in the shoes of a soldier from World War II, a single mother in her first home, a scoundrel turned prospector in the Old West or a Film Noir detective in the 1930s with a past that has torn holes in his psyche. And more! Listen to this audiobook in the daylight lest you be touched by tendrils in the dark!

A killer stalks the shadows. A detective dances on the edge. And the only thing more dangerous than the truth... is desire. Detective Sarah Murphy always believed in logic, evidence, and justice. But when a string of inexplicable, bloodless murders hits the city, her investigation plunges her into a twisted underground world of metal, sex, and obsession. As she tracks a elusive killer, Sarah finds herself drawn to a mysterious woman who awakens something dark inside her.

For a thousand years, the Dragonknights of Nahrea have maintained a steady peace between their nations and enforced the laws of their kings. A twenty year old woman named Jenna has always believed herself destined to be one of the twenty five Dragonknights of Abrea, just like her father before her. There's only one problem - she's a girl, and it is well known across the world that women are not strong enough to forge the Link necessary to control the great beasts.

After his unbelievable encounter in the Paderborn forest near Wewelsburg Castle ("Wewelsburg" from Tendrils In the Dark), Captain John Hartman of the OSS finds himself convalescing in Allied hands. Plagued by nightmares, he must convince his superior officer that Heinrich Himmler is up to something terrible while also trying to understand himself what it all means.

Jenna has learned so much in the last few months. After being discovered as a woman at the Trials to replace Sir Garond, she was forced to join the Protectresses of the South under Lady Ayn. She had to endure so many tests and chores, so much hazing, but she finally made it through. She went on her first mission, to the city of Portton, and fought pirates! She helped liberate the city, and actually killed their leader herself!

After surviving the dreaded d'kinde of the northern jungles ("Hunted" from Tendrils in the Dark), a young Thyss finds herself relying on the help of an idealistic king and his people. Their way of life is alien to her, completely unknown in a world where strength bolstered by the magic of the gods reigns. But what will she do when their kindness, their idyllic way of life is challenged by those outside of it. Where will she stand?