Recently divorced and staring down the barrel of moving back in with her parents, Carrot really needs a break. And a place to live. So when her Uncle Earl, owner of the eclectic Wonder Museum, asks her to stay with him in exchange for cataloguing the exhibits, of course she says yes. The Wonder Museum is packed with taxidermy, shrunken heads, and an assortment of Mystery Junk. For Carrot, it's not creepy at all: she grew up with it. What's creepy is the hole that's been knocked in one of the museum walls, and the corridor behind it. There's just no space for a corridor in the museum's thin walls - or the concrete bunker at the end of it, or the strange islands beyond the bunker's doors, or the whispering, unseen things lurking in the willow trees. Carrot has stumbled into a strange and horrifying world, and They are watching her. Strewn among the islands are the remains of Their meals - and Their experiments. And even if she manages to make it back home again, she can't stop calling Them after her...

"An attention grabbing and keeping book. This is the first book that I have read from Aimee." Pat From the author of Best-selling Kindles, "Angelica, You Have Chosen Well," "My Name Is Not Saul" & "The Satan Seduction. "A PARANORMAL MONSTER APPEARS THROUGH A PORTAL SNATCHING AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY, FLEEING THROUGH A PORTAL. IN ONE SPLIT SECOND, THE CHILD IS GONE. THINGS HEAT UP WHEN ONE WEEK LATER, IT RETURNS FOR A SECOND KID. NO ONE BELIEVES THIS SINGLE MOTHER'S ACCOUNT, SAVE AN INFAMOUS CRIME JOURNALIST SUFFERING FROM BOREDOM, AIDEN JENSON. AND THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS. After digging into this case, and remaining at single mother Grace's house, the kidnappings occur every Thursday. One by one, her children are taken while they sleep in the night. Aiden soon discovers the mysterious pattern and seeks the help of a well-renown doctor. Aiden realizes the only way to find the missing children is to enter the gateway. (Thank you! DISCLAIMER 11-17 should have parental consent. Blessings readers!)

Carter is a quiet and melancholy dreamer with a sensitive disposition, prone to fainting during times of emotional stress. But he can also be courageous, with enough strength of mind and character to face and foil the horrific creatures of the Dreamlands. Randolph Carter is an antiquarian and one-time student of the Miskatonic University. Based on clues from various stories, he was probably born around 1874 and grew up in and around Boston. At the age of nine, he underwent a mysterious experience at his great-uncle Christopher's farm and thereafter exhibited a gift of prophecy. He is the descendant of Sir Randolph Carter, who had studied magic during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Sir Randolph had then emigrated to America and his son Edmund Carter later had to flee the Salem witch-trials. Carter also had an ancestor involved in one of the Crusades, who was captured by the Muslims and learned "wild secrets" from them. This volume contains all of H P Lovecraft's stories about Randolph Carter.

Charlaine Harris and Rachel Caine enter a shadowy world of demons and angels in "Dark Witness" while Sarah Rees Brennan, Cassandra Clare, and Holly Black look at three weird sisters who face challenges beyond magic in "Sisters Before Misters." Sarah MacLean and Carrie Ryan explore the exquisite agony of eternal love in "She, Doomed Girl," and "Welded" by Tom Piccirilli and T. M. Wright offers an unsettling vision of an evil that infects and destroys lives. Mixing the ordinary--parents, teenagers, lovers--with the extraordinary--angels, demons, serial killers--these captivating and vivid tales delve deep into the shadowy, unexplored realms of the imagination.