During the first half of the twentieth century, the Peoria State Hospital was the premiere mental health facility of its day. Dr. George Zeller instituted the eight-hour workday for his staff, removed patient restraints, and made the asylum into a model for the care of the mentally ill.
Today, there are only a few buildings of the hospital left. Some of them are still in use, others are inhabited only by ghosts.
Our guide to these ghosts -- an...
There's a milk truck on the US/Canadian border with a detonated nuclear bomb that didn't explode and a pile of mummy dust for a driver. Vermont Homeland Security Agent Nan Carreira is having quite the morning and she hasn't even met her witness yet. Quinn Bolcan just got out of Vancouver, in a hurry and under a dark cloud. The last thing he was looking for in Vermont was trouble and that's the first thing he found. Soon, he and Carreira will b...
BEFORE I MET YOU, I NEVER KNEW WOLVES COULD SMILE..."Was ever any gentleman thus grieved as Baptista Minola? An Italian lordwith two daughters, the youngest of which cannot be married until the elder, Katharina, is wed...AND THEREBY HANGS ATAIL..."Because Katharina is cursed. She has a fearsome temper and a sharp tongue.And even sharper teeth...KISS ME KATE, FOR WE WILL BE MARRIED ON SUNDAY..."I'LL SEE YOU EATEN ON SUNDAY!"Petruchio is determi...
Music touches our hearts, molds our lives, strengthens oursouls. For Jessica Taylor, though, life has becomemonotonous, a simple tune played over and over to the point ofexhaustion.Then she meets Max, a gifted musician, who brings themelody back into her life. But Max is hiding his ownsecrets...like the fact that he's a three-hundred-year-oldimmortal.It's the power of music that gives Max his eternal youth, and the power of music that draws Ma...
1983. A Razorblade Boy, lead singer with an obscure industrial band. A Dead Girl, a wandering, bruised waif living on the edge of madness. One's the voice of youth - the other, the mother of the next Savior of the human race.
But there's a problem - the Dead Girl was only meant to produce the Savior, not fall in love with the Razorblade Boy. That means trouble for All-God - catastrophic trouble, with cosmic repercussions. The Dead Girl, All-Go...
At seventeen, Sherman Andrews has been accepted in the Missouri Scholars' Academy. Sherman has had a ten-year plan since he was eight, and he is determined to become an award-winning investigative journalist. He is going places, unlike his low-brow plumber father or his absent mother.
While researching his first project, a chance discovery of a mysterious photograph of four men, dated 1935, leads to Sherman uncovering records of deaths, disap...
