It should have been a fatal accident Amanda Poole believes her life is almost perfect. She loves her job as curator of Pittock Mansion, and Leland Worth has just asked her to marry him. Then she inexplicably vanishes out of her car an instant before it crashes. She is shaken, but untouched, except for certain strange and unwanted abilities that she now possesses. And the fear that someone, or something, wants her dead. He should have died in 1934 Michael Northwood plunges into the Willamette River, his last memories of horrifying screams aboard the luxury liner Morro Castle as it floundered, ablaze in a raging sea off the New York coastline-over seventy years ago. His one thought is to find his wife, who sailed with him on the doomed ship. An ancient stone may hold the key The threads that bind these two impossible events will stretch back to Amanda's troubled childhood, to Michael's idyllic marriage, and to lost legends of angels and demons. As their nightmares become real, as every belief is tested, they find that all paths lead to the Angel's Key. Will they learn its secret in time?

A Chilling new anthology of all-original tales of horror Includes New Stories by: Ray Bradbury Graham Joyce Peter Crowther Kim Newman Sara Douglass Thomas Tessier M. John Harrison Gahan Wilson The anthology market these days is awash with small, themed works focused on very specific markets, like vampire erotica and tales of werewolves, or it features best of the year reprints. It has been years since anyone has dared to bring out a broad-reaching anthology that seeks to define the current state of the genre with all original tales from both masters and hot new writers.

Written by known experts and edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter, this reference work with its full bibliographies and cross-references to other volumes in the series is the best for researching the New Testament in its ancient setting.