Sarah learns that she has a long lost nephew living in an orphanage. She is able to re-unite with Tommy, who lived in constant fear of the people who were supposed to take care of him. Especially those who served the man called Morgan. They were capable of any manner of cruelty that a child had to endure. Sarah learns that he has lived as the victim of a sadistic cult group that regularly performed gruesome acts of violence. Their world is turned upside down when Morgan, and many of his followers, pursues the boy to bring him back into their control. Tommy had something Morgan wanted. Something Morgan would kill for. Even when Tommy had been taken as far from the place of evil as he could, he was not safe. Morgan's followers were everywhere. They would stop at nothing to bring him back...to The Unholy Cult of the Blood Rose.

Childhood Drama - Jack lived in constant fear of two bullies at his school, though he could tell no one about them. When he could no longer hide their beatings from his mother, and the court system turned the two boys loose, Clarissa decided to send her son away to live in rural Texas with his Uncle Kevin. Uncle Kevin, a widower, had never had any children of his own and knew very little about how to help Jack out, but they discovered they needed each other. Uncle Kevin used the work and life required of a farmer to teach Jack valuable life lessons. As Jack grew physically and spiritually stronger, he learned how to deal with bullies as he struggled to defend the farm animals from a menacing hawk.

Die Narkotica * gehoren zu einer speziellen Gruppe unentbehrlicher Pharmaka. In der Bekampfung schwerer Schmerzen sind sie uniiber troffen. Obwohl sie eine Anzahl unerwiinschter Nebenwirkungen her vorrufen und auch zur Sucht fUhren konnen, werden die Narkotica in fast allen Disziplinen der Medizin haufig angewandt. Die zahlreichen Ver anderungen, die an den Molekiilen natiirlich vorkommender Narkotica vorgenommen wurden, fiihrten ebenso wie Tausende der syntheti sierten Narkotica zu Pharmaka von groBer Wirkungsbreite und Wirkungs dauer. Dennoch sind trotz groBter Genialitat und Anstrengung einiger der besten organischen Chemiker alle Versuche, die gewiinschten thera peutischen Effekte der Narkotica von den unerwiinschten Nebenwir kungen zu trennen, bis jetzt gescheitert. Foiglich ist das Erkennen und so weit wie moglich die Verhiitung und Behandlung der Komplikationen, die bei ihrer Anwendung auftreten k6nnen, fUr eine sichere therapeutische Applikation der Narkotica von groBer Bedeutung. Schon vor der Ara der Allgemein-Anaesthesie wurden narkotische Analgetika zur Schmerzausschaltung vor, wahrend und nach chirurgischen Eingriffen verwandt. Seit der Entwicklung der Anaesthesie als Spezialgebiet spielen sie eine bedeutende Rolle in der praanaesthetischen Medikation, der postoperativen Schmerzbekampfung und als integraler Bestandteil vieler anaesthetischer Methoden. Mit der sich stets ausdehnenden Interessensphare und klinischen Tatig keit der Anaesthesiologen eroffnen sich ihnen fUr die Anwendung der Narkotica und ihrer Antagonisten zahlreiche neue Moglichkeiten. In vielen Instituten wird die Anaesthesie-Abteilung mit Problemen konfrontiert, die sich auf die Analgesie in der Geburtshilfe und die Behandlung chronischer Schmerzen beziehen."

Tommy lived in constant fear of the people who were supposed to take care of him. Especially those who served the man called Morgan. They were capable of any manner of cruelty that a child had to endure. Even when he had been rescued from the home for delinquent boys, he still had to worry. He had something Morgan wanted. Something Morgan would kill for. Even when he had been taken as far from the place of evil as he could, he was not safe. Morgan's followers were everywhere. They would stop at nothing to bring him back...to the Circle of the Rose.

Jack lived in constant danger from two bullies at his school. When his mother has had enough, she sends him to live with a distant relative in rural Texas. There Jack learns valuable life lessons from Uncle Kevin while he makes friends with the farm animals and defends them from a menacing hawk.

A collection of short stories and novellas by respected Belgian horror writer Eddy C. Bertin. In a writing career spanning over forty years, his stories have been published in such prestigious books and magazines as The Pan Book of Horror Stories, The Year's Best Horror Stories and Cemetery Dance. Fourteen tales are included in this volume, from strange, hauntingly dreamlike stories, to tales of madness and madmen, to powerful horror yarns in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos." Published in English, Shadow Publishing is the first to bring together a selection of the author's stories under one cover.