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| the playground book aron beauregard 1: The Slob Aron Beauregard, 2020-11-18 SOME STAINS DON'T COME OUT... Raised in a household so filthy it was stomach-spilling, Vera involuntarily evolved into a neat freak. Upon discovering she and her disabled husband Daniel are expecting, she needs fast cash. Her obsession with cleanliness sprouts the concept that her skills can be put to use in a unique way. She takes a stab at the booming door-to-door vacuum sales business of 1988. All is going well until she arrives at the steps of a house that will change her forever. The steps of an evil that resurrects the ghastly memories she so desperately tried to wash away. Nothing will prepare you for the nastiness, disorder and sickening horror brought forth by... The Slob. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Yellow Aron Beauregard, 2021 WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THEY TOOK EVERYTHING? Oliver Fitch has a troubling issue; he lives in a state of constant terror. After purchasing a convenience store in a once civil society, the streets around him have rapidly devolved into utter lawlessness. They're now festering with sinister gutter scum that only live to harass and intimidate him. His pathetic profits are gouged under the threat of violence and there isn't a damn thing he can do about it. Because in a city with no rules, where the sun never shines, the authorities are no help. In fact, they're an equal part of the problem. The relentless fear of confrontation is so obvious that even Oliver's wife Lydia has grown to resent his spineless existence. The absence of bravado opens the door to a horrific home invasion that leaves the miserable pair savagely maimed. From there, things only get worse until the criminal leeches have taken everything. Until there's nothing left inside but hate and the gnawing hunger for revenge. Until a switch finally flips and Oliver realizes that they all have to die. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Sew Sorry Daniel J Volpe, Aron Beauregard, 2021-10-09 YOU GET WHAT YOU EARN Henry's mother has enough money to live more than comfortably. But the only comfort she can concentrate on is her bizarre obsession. She can't help but constantly seek out the donation bins on the darker side of the city. The only problem is, she isn't putting clothing into them, she's taking it out. Until one frigid night when she accidentally unveils her selfish secret to everyone. After the revelation, the layer of shame left lathered on Henry becomes backbreaking. As Halloween approaches, macabre ideas manifesting in Henry's head spark a series of events that will lead to sins far worse than stealing. Garrison is hungry and cold. The only thing in his sights is finding a way to turn a dollar and his next foul meal. His own perseverance knows no bounds. His diabolical deeds are hidden in the shadowy alleys. He aims to survive, no matter who he has to trick or turn out in the process. But after burning too many bridges, he finds himself on an island. Alone, save for the salivating teeth of vengeance. When a tarnished teenager and heartless hobo collide, the streets will run red. Rich or poor, we all rot the same. WARNING: This book contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Dark Assembly Aron Beauregard, 2020-06-10 TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR DYSFUNCTION: This assembly of putrid tales will drag you into the darkest regions of humanity. It will push extremes and test the mental and moral boundaries of those who choose to participate. Meet a woman who carries a dead baby inside her womb and also the belief that her stillborn fetus will somehow find life again. Connect with a nomadic punk-rocker who's out to make a quick buck when he's presented with a sickening conundrum. Join two teenage psychopaths as they bring hell to the suburbs on Devil's Night. Follow a child of the streets who finally steered away from a life of crime only to be drawn back by a bizarre new drug. Take part in a gruesome and nefarious ritual that can restore one's innocence, or worm your way into the dark web beside a sadistic pedophile with a bottomless desire to kill and destroy. How should you feel after digesting these admittedly obscene and repulsive stories? Ask yourself if enjoying them makes you a horrible person or if hating them somehow justifies your journey into this storm of violence and perversion. For the sick and willing, please join in our Dark Assembly... |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Try the New Candy Aron Beauregard, 2019-05-09 A book may seem like a rather harmless form of escape or entertainment but fair warning, this volume holds a breed of abhorrence most would prefer to escape FROM. The repulsive revelations of a disturbed mind. Ten tales of torment portraying the ghastly and macabre. Outlining the lives of individuals that any sane soul would pray to never encounter, in reality or otherwise. Prepare yourself for a vile massacre that puts you so close to the carnage, you'll feel the splatter...Here's a little taste of what to expect: An imbecilic man is taken advantage of for decades before finally considering a sweet revenge. A single, soon to be mother experiences a bizarre sequence of events triggered from her artificial insemination. A budding teenager comes along to house sit with his poor excuse for a father, only to find out the house has some disturbing secrets. A newly married couple enjoys testing the limits of extreme and gets access to a special museum exhibit that is not quite finished. Two girls head out to the club to celebrate a 21st birthday, only to encounter some nightlife they couldn't have imagined.Your misery awaits.. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Beyond Reform Jon Athan, Jasper Bark, Aron Beauregard, 2021-09-16 EXTERMINATION IS THE ONLY SALVATION Most people, no matter how flawed, have at least one redeemable quality. But the foulest fraction of society is born broken, on a warpath, headed for mayhem. They don't feel, they don't care, they don't love. The deadness in their pupils reflects outward, ready to suck the blood out of everyone around them. They can't change. They won't change. They're Beyond Reform. Meet a meth-dealing maniac with his sights set on a score that could keep him out of the clink for good. An internet predator who can't resist his latest temptation. A couple whose relationship spirals into utter depravity when they encounter an arcane artifact. A group of women who come together bonded by their devotion to a serial killer. A funeral parlor director who spends a little too much time with his work. And a mass-murderer in a burnt out tower block who kills without touching his victims. Step into the path of darkness, meet those so wicked their souls should be evicted, in Beyond Reform! WARNING: This book contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Wedding Day Massacre Aron Beauregard, 2021-03-13 I NOW PRONOUNCE YOUR END OF LIFE... It's that special day. The day when everything's supposed to be perfect. The day when everyone is supposed to drink too much and party like it's nineteen-ninety-nine. A day when family and friends show their support for the beginning of a beautiful bond. But what if someone wasn't there just to celebrate and have fun? What if the extravagant isolated destination was chosen for a more nefarious reason than assumed? What if someone at the ceremony held a dark secret? One that would see those in attendance slaughtered and humiliated in ways so nightmarish, they're beyond imagination. What if most everyone at the celebration had unknowingly attended a Wedding Day Massacre? Splatterpunk Award nominated author Aron Beauregard extends his invitation to you. WARNING: This book contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Hallucinations Aron Beauregard, 2020-08-22 THE MADNESS IS MELTING BUT WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR In the grips of a bad trip, the hellish and overwhelming delusions are inescapable. Scarier than the overpowering visuals and boundless paranoia is the promise that there's no way out. Are you prepared to take that psychedelic pilgrimage?Are you ready to gaze upon an absurd growth that's gobbling up the entire world? Or take an unknown substance and hop on a private jet that spirals out of control? Would you let a young girl that spreads nasty rumors bend your ear to further her bizarre agenda? Are you willing to be paralyzed and stuffed into a coffin that's ejected into outer space, or overdose and have your consciousness transferred into a disturbed bird? These experiences merely scratch the surface of the lives you're set to live should you agree to take the trip... |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: In the Hands of the Heathens Aron Beauregard, 2021-05-19 STUPID SUPERSTITION? When a group of college students set out to a remote jungle in Madagascar to study a nocturnal endangered species for their thesis, things don't quite go as planned. After being saturated with supernatural folklore, an unexpected act of violence forces them to abandon their study immediately. In the midst of the chaos and terror, one of them doesn't make it back... Upon returning, things seem different. It's not just the anonymous calls and messages that they're starting to receive blaming them for the death of their friend, it's also the feeling that something may have followed them home. That something is watching them and waiting for the right moment to make them pay. Is it a mixture of trauma and paranoia, or is there a more carnal explanation for the evil stalking them? WARNING: This book contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Pizza Face Aron Beauregard, 2020-02-07 What if you were the cock of the walk in high school? Worshipped by all for your flawless appearance and arrogant persona, until you woke up one morning to find that your once pristine skin had been stolen and replaced with a pus-oozing malformed flesh-scape?What if shadows were given a will of their own? What if the family dog stumbled upon a new class of bizarre and highly aggressive animals? What if there was a way to still physically be with a loved one after they passed on? What if the plants around us found a different kind of solace in the affection we display?Find out the answers in Pizza Face. Five unfathomable tales of disturbing mutation paired with ten original, malevolent artworks trapped within. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: The Howling II Gary Brandner, 2011-08-01 The howling heralded the nightmare in Drago that had joined Karyn's husband to the she-wolf Marcia--a nightmare that should have ended with the fire. But it hadn't. Roy and Marcia are still alive, and deadly--thirsty for the most horrifying vengeance imaginable. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Lally's Game: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #1) Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra, Andrea Waggener, 2022-07-19 Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this collection of three chilling stories that will haunt even the bravest FNAF player... Some secrets are better left hidden . . . A forbidden artifact from her fiance’s past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children’s wing of a hospital. Maya can’t resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizza Plex. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay. In this first volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length tales from uncharted corners of his series' canon. Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to rattle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: The Cutting Edge C. J. Patton, 2013-08-14 If you were a fan of the SAW movies, you will love this book. If you weren't a fan, this will change your mind. The Cutting Edge: Philosophy of the SAW Films analyzes the SAW movies, revealing their deeper meaning, comparing their philosophical concepts to the views of many philosophers throughout history, and demonstrating that they convey a fascinating blend of traditional and innovative philosophical thought. The book also examines the primary characters of the movies and includes a comprehensive index of the infamous Jigsaw traps. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents Brent L. Smith, 2011 This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Explores whether sufficient data exists to examine the temporal and spatial relationships that existed in terrorist group planning, and if so, could patterns of preparatory conduct be identified? About one-half of the terrorists resided, planned, and prepared for terrorism relatively close to their eventual target. The terrorist groups existed for 1,205 days from the first planning meeting to the date of the actual/planned terrorist incident. The planning process for specific acts began 2-3 months prior to the terrorist incident. This study examined selected terrorist groups/incidents in the U.S. from 1980-2002. It provides for the potential to identify patterns of conduct that might lead to intervention prior to the commission of the actual terrorist incidents. Illustrations. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Cows Matthew Stokoe, 2015-10-31 Twenty-five-year-old Steven faces a bleak life with a sadistic mother and a job at a slaughterhouse where he is confronted with extreme violence and death. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: The Forgotten Fortune: The Jack Reilly Adventures Matt James, 2020-10-06 Unverified reports tell of a hidden treasure trove deep beneath the Owl Mountains in Poland. Many have tried, but all have failed to locate the legendary Nazi gold train.Jack Reilly mourns the loss of his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, and an esteemed historian. In memory of her, the retired Delta operator tours the place of her imprisonment, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, site of the infamous Nazi concentration camp.Suddenly, the crowded complex is taken over by a well-armed force. They're led by a woman on a personal quest. The mercenary commander yearns to uncover the lucrative haul with the help of a journal that once belonged to Heinrich Himmler, leader of Adolf Hitler's ruthless paramilitary organization, the Schutzstaffel. She shanghaies Jack into service after she learns of his past.With innocent lives on the line, Jack agrees to help. If he fails, people die. But if he succeeds, and he unwillingly helps resurrect the Nazi party, even more people will die. Never in his life has Jack been stuck between a bigger rock and a harder place.THE FORGOTTEN FORTUNE is the first book in international bestselling author Matt James' action-packed archaeological thriller series, The Jack Reilly Adventures. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: The Film Book Ronald Bergan, 2021 Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: My #1 Fan (Inspired by True Events) Sea Caummisar, 2020-05-06 Explore deeper inside the dark mind of Sea Caummisar.....Inspired by true events, even though some names have been changed.A blur of reality and fiction.As a new author, I enjoy having fans and getting fan mail from my readers. This story details my meeting with the first fan that asked me to autograph a paperback version of Deadly Reality TV Series Book #1 Easy Money.Dedicated to Marcy (even though I changed your name, you know who you are).In my experience, it wasn't the fan that became obsessed with me. I became obsessed with her. Despite this book being inspired by true events, it is still a tale of blood of gore. Reader beware: Don't let the title fool you.... This is extreme horror. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Death Sentence Alexander Gordon Smith, 2011-08-02 Alex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace. How can he escape when the darkness is inside him? How can he lead the way to freedom if he is lost to himself? |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Tampa Alissa Nutting, 2013-07-02 “In this sly and salacious work, Nutting forces us to take a long, unflinching look at a deeply disturbed mind, and more significantly, at society’s often troubling relationship with female beauty.” (San Francisco Chronicle) In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celeste’s terms for a secret relationship—car rides after dark, rendezvous at Jack’s house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming erotic encounters in Celeste’s empty classroom. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress of pure motivation. She deceives everyone, is close to no one, and cares little for anything but her pleasure. Tampa is a sexually explicit, virtuosically satirical, American Psycho–esque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose, Alissa Nutting’s Tampa is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Witch Iain Rob Wright, 2021-05-13 |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Dark Ride Iain Rob Wright, 2019-05-17 Terrifying new horror novel from acclaimed author Iain Rob Wright. Are you brave enough to ride?'Bright Lights' AJ Starr is a pro wrestler on the rise, and his life is about to change forever. Knowing this, he plans one last party with all of his best friends. The venue? Saxon Hills theme park, abandoned ten years ago after its flagship ride burned down and killed nine innocent people. Some people say the place is haunted, but AJ knows from his time inside the squared circle that fantasy and reality are totally separate things.Or so he thought.AJ has no idea how nightmarish things are about to get, and eventually he'll be left wondering whether he brought his friends to Saxon Hills theme park to have fun. Or to die.Brand new horror novel from Iain Rob Wright. Grab your copy of Dark Ride today because everyone loves a thrill-ride.WHAT READERS ARE SAYINGAn absolute wonderful read. Had me guessing from the beginning. Excellent fast paced story with an unseen twist at the end.Makes you wonder about the people you work with.One of the most unique, gruesome, and horrifying books I've ever read, and I loved every minute of it!Great thriller with a lot of twists and turns. Kept me on the edge of my seat.So intense I couldn't stop until I reached the end.If you enjoy Stephen King or James Herbert, then you'll enjoy this book too.I stayed up late and just kept on reading until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore.You just can't put this book down, a real page turner.An intense joyride filled with a solid shock and awe factor that will keep you turning pages.Spine tingling from the first line to the mind-blowing conclusion! A must read for thrill seekers.A great read - excellent plot and another one to keep me up well past my bedtime! |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Tender Is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica, 2020-08-04 Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Eurasianism and the European Far Right Marlene Laruelle, 2015-07-01 The 2014 Ukrainian crisis has highlighted the pro-Russia stances of some European countries, such as Hungary and Greece, and of some European parties, mostly on the far-right of the political spectrum. They see themselves as victims of the EU “technocracy” and liberal moral values, and look for new allies to denounce the current “mainstream” and its austerity measures. These groups found new and unexpected allies in Russia. As seen from the Kremlin, those who denounce Brussels and its submission to U.S. interests are potential allies of a newly re-assertive Russia that sees itself as the torchbearer of conservative values. Predating the Kremlin’s networks, the European connections of Alexander Dugin, the fascist geopolitician and proponent of neo-Eurasianism, paved the way for a new pan-European illiberal ideology based on an updated reinterpretation of fascism. Although Dugin and the European far-right belong to the same ideological world and can be seen as two sides of the same coin, the alliance between Putin’s regime and the European far-right is more a marriage of convenience than one of true love. This unique book examines the European far-right’s connections with Russia and untangles this puzzle by tracing the ideological origins and individual paths that have materialized in this permanent dialogue between Russia and Europe. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Dead Inside Chandler Morrison, 2020-03-31 A young hospital security guard with a disturbingly unique taste in women. A maternity doctor with a horrifically unusual appetite. When the two of them meet, they embark on a journey of self-discovery while shattering societal norms and engaging in destructively aberrant behavior. As they unwittingly help each other understand a world in which neither seems to belong, they begin to realize what it truly means to be alive...And that it might not always a good thing. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Into the Wolves' Den Jon Athan, 2019-08-15 What would you do to protect your family? Keith Klein, a beat cop in the small New Mexico town of Montaño, sets out to find his missing daughters after they vanish on their way home from school. He enlists the help of Gerald Greenwood, an old friend and a private investigator. When their investigation stalls and desperation creeps in, Keith's methods become unorthodox, illegal, and extremely violent. Meanwhile, Keith's daughters, fourteen-year-old Carrie and eight-year-old Allison, witness horrors beyond imagination at the Wolves' Den, a house in the middle of nowhere. In that house, a group of psychopaths in animal masks produce snuff films and other disturbing content for clients across the globe. Jon Athan, the provocative author behind Dr. Sadist and Lovesick, delivers another dark and disturbing horror novel filled with mystery, suspense, and gore. Can you handle a visit to the Wolves' Den? WARNING: This novel contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: May Bird and the Ever After Jodi Lynn Anderson, 2006-05-23 Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters The Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogey Man. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Nun Massacre Puppet Combo, Regina Watts, 2020-06-23 |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: The Male Brain Louann Brizendine, MD, 2011-01-25 From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain. Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the male reality is fundamentally different from the female one. Exploring the latest breakthroughs in male psychology and neurology with her trademark accessibility and candor, she reveals that the male brain: -is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine. Faced with a personal problem, a man will use his analytical brain structures, not his emotional ones, to find a solution. -thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rank and hierarchy. -has an area for sexual pursuit that is 2.5 times larger than the female brain, consuming him with sexual fantasies about female body parts. -experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceive others' faces to be more aggressive. The Male Brain finally overturns the stereotypes. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Man Cave Angel Gelique, 2018-07-21 Because bad things happen.... When Sophie and Amber leave their college campus and travel across the state in pursuit of love, they find lust instead. Or rather, the lustful, sadistic man they know only as Ben. Abducted and held within Ben's dirty garage, things rapidly turn grim for Sophie and Amber who are repeatedly tortured, raped and abused in horrific ways--physically, mentally and emotionally. With an unquenchable thirst for savagery, Ben's brutality increases with each passing day, leaving the poor young women entirely at his mercy. Unfortunately for them, his ability to be merciful is about as limited as his supply of morals. Will Sophie and Amber find a way to escape? Will they survive the depravity? Or will their lives end there in Ben's deplorable man cave? |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Press Start to Play Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams, 2015-08-18 IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be—and what they can become—in smart and singular ways. With a foreword from Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One, Press Start to Play includes work from: Daniel H. Wilson, Charles Yu, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, S.R. Mastrantone, Charlie Jane Anders, Holly Black, Seanan McGuire, Django Wexler, Nicole Feldringer, Chris Avellone, David Barr Kirtley,T.C. Boyle, Marc Laidlaw, Robin Wasserman, Micky Neilson, Cory Doctorow, Jessica Barber, Chris Kluwe, Marguerite K. Bennett, Rhianna Pratchett, Austin Grossman, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente, Andy Weir, and Hugh Howey. Your inventory includes keys, a cell phone, and a wallet. What would you like to do? |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Lockdown Alexander Gordon Smith, 2009-10-27 When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: The Hunted Gabriel Bergmoser, 2021-05-05 Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide - an electrifying, heartpounding, truly unputdownable thriller - a bestselling debut from talented newcomer, Gabriel Bergmoser. 'A truly terrifying, breathlessly exciting novel. It gut punches you in the first few pages and doesn't let you recover until the final, thrilling climax. An extraordinary book.' M W Craven 'An original and high-octane read, it makes Deliverance look like Picnic at Hanging Rock.' The Times/Sunday Times Crime Club Frank is a service station owner on a little-used highway who just wants a quiet life. His granddaughter has been sent to stay with him to fix her attitude, but they don't talk a lot. When a badly injured young woman arrives at Frank's service station with several cars in pursuit, Frank and a handful of unsuspecting customers are thrust into a life-or-death standoff. But who are this group of men and women who will go to any lengths for revenge? And what do they want? Other than no survivors ...? A ferociously fast-paced, filmic, visceral, tense and utterly electric novel, unlike anything you've read before. Set on a lonely, deserted highway, deep in the Australian badlands, The Hunted is white-knuckle suspense matched to the fast-paced adrenaline of a Jack Reacher novel and the creeping menace of Wake in Fright. This is unmissable reading. 'This slice of outback noir is .... at once exhilarating, gleefully vicious and totally, race-to-the-finish-line unputdownable' Observer 'An audacious walk on the wildest side of outback noir ... a vivid thriller.' Sydney Morning Herald 'A perfectly paced, thrilling read with an unrelenting sense of dread and menace ...building suspense at every turn of the page. Crime and thriller readers will love this savage Rottweiler of a novel that will clamp its jaws around their throat and shake them to the end.' Bookseller+Publisher 'Tough, violent, suspenseful and peopled with great characters, The Hunted could well be the Australian thriller of the year. This is Jack Reacher for adults.' Canberra Weekly |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Killing Time Brenna Ehrlich, 2022-03-08 An exciting and whipsmart mystery... Keep your eyes on Ehrlich. —Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie and The Project “Deathly smart, twisty, and at times wickedly funny, Killing Time is a pitch-perfect mystery.” - Kara Thomas, author of The Cheerleaders Summer in Ferry, Connecticut, has always meant long, lazy days at the beach and wild nights partying in the abandoned mansions on the edge of town. Until now, that is. Natalie Temple, who’s never been one for beaches or parties in the first place, is reeling from the murder of her favorite teacher, and there’s no way this true-crime-obsessed girl is going to sit back and let the rumor mill churn out lie after lie—even if she has to hide her investigation from her disapproving mom and team up with the new boy in town… But the more Natalie uncovers, the more she realizes some secrets were never meant to be told. Expertly-plotted and brimming with suspense, Killing Time is more than just a mystery. It's a thoughtful novel about true crime stories and how we tell them. Brilliant, fun, and utterly compelling. - Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of They'll Never Catch Us |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Exquisite Corpse Poppy Z. Brite, 1997-08-20 From the acclaimed author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes the provocative and thrilling serial killer novel that #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub calls “a guidebook to hell.” To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the ambition of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his own art to limits even Compton hadn’t previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London’s Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of New Orleans’s French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. With “intelligence, sweep, nerve, knowledge, and deeply unsettling erotic power” (Dennis Cooper, author of Frisk), Exquisite Corpse is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes Richard N. Kocsis, 2008-01-08 This book brings together an international collection of research literature on the topics of criminal profiling and serial violent crime by integrating the respected insights of both scholars and practitioners from around the globe. It explains etiological factors and psychological mechanisms to reveal criminal motives. |
| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Hemlock Grove Brian McGreevy, 2012-03-27 An exhilarating reinvention of the gothic novel, inspired by the iconic characters of our greatest myths and nightmares. Hemlock Grove is now a hit television series on Netflix. The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill. A manhunt ensues—though the authorities aren't sure if it's a man they should be looking for. Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a foreboding biotech facility owned by the Godfrey family—their personal fortune and the local economy having moved on from Pittsburgh steel—where, if rumors are true, biological experiments of the most unethical kind take place. Others turn to Peter Rumancek, a Gypsy trailer-trash kid who has told impressionable high school classmates that he's a werewolf. Or perhaps it's Roman, the son of the late JR Godfrey, who rules the adolescent social scene with the casual arrogance of a cold-blooded aristocrat, his superior status unquestioned despite his decidedly freakish sister, Shelley, whose monstrous medical conditions belie a sweet intelligence, and his otherworldly control freak of a mother, Olivia. At once a riveting mystery and a fascinating revelation of the grotesque and the darkness in us all, Hemlock Grove has the architecture and energy to become a classic in its own right—and Brian McGreevy the talent and ambition to enthrall us for years to come. |
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| the playground book aron beauregard 1: Maggie's Grave David Sodergren, 2020 The small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a mountain, forgotten and atrophying in the perpetual gloom. Forty seven residents are all that remain. There's nothing to do there, nothing to see, except for a solitary grave near the top of the mountain. 'Maggie Wall buried here as a witch' reads the faded inscription. But sometimes the dead don't stay buried. Especially when they have unfinished business. -- |
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