Instead of enjoying the fall celebrations and renovating the mansion, Mina and her friends find themselves investigating a serial killer who claims to be a real vampire in disturbing letters to the press. Caught between investigating the killer and trying to stop the group’s destructive plans, Mina’s third mystery might be her last . . .

She was planning a divorce. Her ex was planning a funeral. Hers. Painted as a gold-digging scarlet woman by her powerful ex, the darling son of their town, Julia Collier is despised by all. She can't even shop in the local store without suffering abuse from her fellow townsfolk, and that's before the late night calls or her ex's bully-boys following her. When her home is broken into, Julia realizes that there are worst things out there in the night. Things like the vampires holding her and other women captive in some kind of sick breeding experiment. Bitten and wounded, she needs to escape, survive, and bring help for the others & hellip;Help comes from an unlikely source. Soldiers who claim to be from the same facility that created the vampires who took her. Soldiers who claim not to be human at all but the undead. Hot, ripped zombies? And she's rapidly falling for one & hellip; what woman would fall for a zombie?Unless the undead aren't dead at all, but something more than human, from a world she'll need all her wits and new abilities to survive the battle between the undead ... and the dead. There is life after death. No one told him it would be the same one ... Brett was a soldier, until the Project killed him. Now he's finding that life after death isn't so hot. With the Project base destroyed, he and his team have been tasked with running down and destroying a group of rogue vampires. Unfortunately the vampires always seem to be one step ahead. Then they start kidnapping women. Whatever reasons they have, Brett knows it can't be good. When team catch a break and arrive just after the last victim is taken, they pursue with a vengeance. If they can get to her before the creatures kill her, then they might just figure out what the vampires are up to & hellip;Until she drops into his arms, half converted, and he realizes that, vampire or not, he'll kill to protect her & hellip

This collection merges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theories and debates. Set in the past, present, and future, science fiction landscapes and technologies sometimes constrain, but often expand, agentic expression, movement, and collaboration.

Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically—every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come up with another twist—it has been one of the most often-dissected genres. Here, author Kendall Phillips selects ten of the most popular and influential horror films—including Dracula, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, The Silence of the Lambs, and Scream, each of which has become a film landmark and spawned countless imitators, and all having implications that transcend their cinematic influence and achievement. By tracing the production history, contemporary audience response, and lasting cultural influence of each picture, Phillips offers a unique new approach to thinking about the popular attraction to horror films, and the ways in which they reflect both cultural and individual fears. Though stylistically and thematically very different, all of these movies have scared millions of eager moviegoers. This book tries to figure out why.