Hired to babysit a stolen painting in a rundown motel, a desperate woman soon realizes the skulls in the artwork aren’t just art—they’re a countdown to when the Collector arrives to claim his next one.

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On a dark, empty motorway, one distracted glance at a ringing phone turns an ordinary drive home into a nightmare that refuses to stay in the rear-view mirror.

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At a secret bar hidden inside abandoned train cars in an Alaskan national park, a midnight drink becomes a guided tour through humanity’s buried massacres. By sunrise, the mountain’s hunger awakens—and one innocent visitor is no longer innocent at all.

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A woman who looks normal in the mirror starts realizing that every stranger sees a different face—and with each passing day, even her own reflection can’t agree on who she is.

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Raised in an isolated doomsday cult and sealed inside a bunker for the apocalypse, a terrified sibling slowly realizes the end of the world isn’t coming from above—but whispering up through the pipes, wearing the face of a child.

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When police swarm a cluttered Yorkshire flat and accuse her hapless son of being a notorious serial killer, a sharp-tongued old cat lady bristles at the mistake. As the investigation tightens and an election looms, she begins to consider just how far a devoted mother might go to set things right.

Author: Dave Kavanaugh

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A blind woman escaping prison by rope and trust discovers that the deep West Virginia woods measure freedom in blood, not steps, and something ancient is counting her every breath.

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A terrifying vision of her own murder comes true step by step, forcing a grieving girl to stop the night from repeating—or die in it.

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When a weekend role-playing game at a remote camp turns into a waking nightmare, a young woman must outwit a delusional game runner who believes he’s a knight—and who’s willing to kill in order to claim her as his bride.

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A family’s fresh start in their dream home unravels into terror when their young son befriends something sinister hiding inside a locked trunk in the basement.

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