Bøger af Catt Dahman

Elizabeth is attending a foreign university when she is kidnapped and brutally beaten into submission. Over the course of months, she is punished cruelly for disobedience and rewarded with luxurious gifts when she is compliant. Spoiled by opulence, she lives in fear, wondering about her captor's motives. His only requirements for her are that she improve herself and that she is the perfect dining companion. She is forced to accept and eat the most exotic foods in the world. Can she trade luxury and excitement for poverty and mundane? Has she been groomed to be another person entirely? How much does freedom mean to Elizabeth? What hellish secrets does her captive keep hidden? What is the end game, and what happened to the young women who failed his games? Elizabeth finds that the games go deeper than she imagined, and she knows that if she fails, she may end up the victim of a sex-trafficking ring that wants her. Psychological horror meets high cuisine. Bon appetit!

ACA Books is at it again with Volume Two of Dark and Evil.Scary stories, horrific stories, evil people and monsters, and just plain horror stories.Mike Lera and Brian Woods have returned to tell you some tales that can scare you from head to tail.Along with some familiar faces, you'll find some new tale weavers among the group and all are top quality.

Did you know Helen of Troy had fangs? No matter...the secrets of Helen are about to be revealed. Stories of Greek mythology are richly revisited and Helen finally tells all In this terrifying historical novel. Helen is revealed to be a huntress by night, seeking out blood-wine and seducing men as she is cursed to be the most beautiful woman on earth. As a succubus, she not only captures hearts but has a ten year war fought for her. Her plight and thirst for blood is woven into the mythological tales of Homer and we find that not only is she a vampire and beautiful. but she is also lonely and outcast; her fury will be unleashed on both Sparta and Troy.

Ten years after the initial outbreak, hordes of zombies are desperate for food and to spread the infection as they stalk east Texas border to shore. In their paths are several settlements of survivors and those who thought they could reclaim the earth. And in the peaceful and productive settlement of Port Arthur, the survivors find themselves with zombies on one side and a deadly hurricane on the other. With no place left to run, they have to face the natural and unnatural threats and the death toll will be large. When the rains stop and the winds die down, nine will be left standing.

The town sits alone. Empty. Overgrown. It's like any southern town that residents desert and leave to fall to ruins. What isn't like any usual small, abandoned town is that every twenty-odd years, anyone in this town falls prey to a strange horde of monsters that enjoy nothing more than hurting humans. When a group of urban explorers discover the ruins of an old school building, they face the monsters, and they will endure more than they could ever imagine. Hunted, the group will have to fight for survival as friendships are tested and terrible secrets are revealed about the creatures. Men are for food and women...well, that's another nightmare that the town hides within crumbling buildings. The tithonus are ready to make sure that everyone hurts.

Publishers Note: Titanic 1912 was previously published as Titanic QED In 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and over the course of a few hours, plunged to the bottom of the sea, leaving a fraction of the passengers and crew to bob about the frigid sea in small lifeboats. The others, husbands, fathers, third class passengers froze to death in the icy water, but they were the lucky ones; there was much worse in the sea that fateful night. Behemoths, leviathans, a hundred foot megaladon and other flesh-devouring creatures broke the boundaries that night, crossing over into our world to prey. As the Old Ones slumbered, the beasts of Lovecraftian lore broke free to terrorize and consume the innocent. Written as H.P. Lovecraft would tell the tale, Titanic 1912 explores the untold story of the night the Titanic sank.

Polar Knights is based on true events.In 1845, The HMS Erebus and Terror set out for a study of magnetism and the search for the Northwest Passage. Every member of the crew either vanished or was found as a mummy or a skeleton. Where were the 129 men? Search efforts proved confusing. Camp remains stretched hundreds of miles and gave credence to the belief that the men tried to man-haul sledges and walk to safety that was never within reach. Starvation, disease, the elements, and cannibalism chased the men every step of the way.The native people tried to explain what happened to the men and even claimed that some men survived and lived among them. No one believed them.In 2016 the world became interested in the story again after the ships were found, sunken far from where expected. (But exactly where the natives claimed they could be found). Just as the legends claimed, there is a skeleton aboard the Erebus awaiting identification.Were there truly European women lost with the ships' crews?Of what horrors did the men perish?Did some of the men survive? Polar Knights follows the terrifying, hopeless events the Franklin expedition's men faced but also celebrates heroism and those few men who became a rarity in the Arctic: knights.

The waters of the world erase all but the mountaintops; within hours, few are left alive. The Trident, a hotel resort styled to look like a cruise ship, sits at the top of the Ouachita Mountains and may be one of the last dry places left on earth. Survivors discover that besides having no hope of rescue, they must face growing desperation and violence as supplies begin to dwindle. Different groups struggle to take control while right and wrong become blurred. A doctor, a undisciplined Marine, a divorced police officer, a little girl, a blue-haired pole dancer, and a Heavy-Metal playing bartender are among the few who will try to stay alive, unsure of what the future holds. Religious fiends, cannibals, and newly formed gangs fight back, but the seas are not finished dealing misery as legends and heroes wage war. The Trident is the ultimate battle between good and evil as sorrow, hope, and dreams take unfathomable directions. While there appears to be no real future, many are not giving up. They'll fight Poseidon himself to control the hotel and escape.

By now the Hopetown survivors might have learned that their rescue plans rarely go as planned and usually have a high body count but no, off they go again wading in before they have a chance to realize just how dire their situation is. When curiosity about how events turned out at a local mall leads a team to investigate, they find that movies only showed a slice of the horror that arises when zombies rule the earth- and the mall. The question of how to react to the Hybrids is finally addressed as the Hopetown survivors are forced to admit some home truths. Namely, that one amongst them has been a Hybrid all along and that some of their number have been concealing the fact that they knew! Harsh words are spoken, some tough decisions made and all this spells a lot of trouble for the future the survivors might have hoped for! Join Hannah as she becomes a true avenging angel.

The old west was not as most think. Hidden in dark corners and acting in secret, vampires hunt in saloons and small towns. Fortunately, there are Hunters on their trail: Tell Starr, Kit Darling, the notorious Paris Fallon, and Doc Holliday. Wild Boys explores the loves and losses of Doctor Henry Holliday, famed gunslinger, but also delves into the mysterious blood suckers and their insatiable thirst. Tombstone, Arizona has more trouble than the men who fight at the O K Coral and stalk Wyatt Earp; the town has an entire pack of vampires who intend to drain the town dry, in more ways than one. A little old west, a little vampire action, and a lot of gun slingin' fill the story, and many will die from six shooters or fangs. Let the Wild Boys ride in the first of a series of epic tales.

Alice is in Wonderhell. Transformed into a formidable warrior, Alice and her friends join a rabbit-like guide on a mission to stop the dead walking the earth. On their epic quest they meet an amazing caterpillar, the King of Hearts, an infernal Duchess, and more demonic delights as they fight through the horrific nine circles of Wonderhell. Will Alice save herself, her world and her dearest friends from the Big Boss Down Under?

The troll has long been with us, a beast that dwelled under the bridges and in the dark hollows of our world. Often cruel, misshapen, and always hungry it came and went on its own terms, a monster which took and hid. He was a beast we left behind in the dark ages, the mark of an era of superstition and darkness-- or so we thought. Here you will find trolls of many sorts, monster, man, and gentle, if conflicted, ally all of them very much a part of our modern world.

Itzpapalotl, the Aztec goddess and warrior, haunts the Clutterbuck house. She and her butterflies are cruel creatures that have piercing claws and teeth and dig into the brain. Although they try to protect Clara, the youngest of her family, they cannot fight pure insanity. In Clara's safe, loving, family home, love is used to hide sins and secrets. As life moves forward in the Clutterbuck house, layers of mysteries are peeled back, each more horrific than the last. Held prisoner. Used as sexual bait. Turned into a psychological experiment. Clara doesn't even know her own age or what she looks like. Each time Clara regains hidden memories of her childhood, those she loves most die. Amid total isolation, she finds that no one can be trusted, certainly not her family. Her beloved father tells her that she is precious and salvageable, her siblings appear to dote on her, but only her butterflies remain loyal companions. As she faces her brutal past and fights to survive both mentally and physically, Clara must decide if sanity is what she really wants and what price she will pay.

Like the Winchester House, the Kingsborough House was built over the course of many years and also was known for mysterious disappearances. As the total of vanishings goes over 100, Virgil McLendon and his team of investigators are called in to solve the case. They profile possible suspects, investigate the house and staff, interview witnesses, and seach the house to find what secrets are hidden away bother beneath its surface and in its past. Instead of what they expected, they find a history of hatred and cruel punishments. The house was built for retribution and is still taking victims with its unusual clock-work mechanisms and traps, secret rooms, and enormous layout. When some of the team learn the truth of the house in the worst possible way, they will have to fight to survive the real secrets of the Kingsborough House. Over the years, not all the vanished people have died, and trapped in a terrifying world, they want their vengeance as well. Discover what lied beneath, in this book that lulls you in before plunging you into the deepest of insanity. Some things are better left lost...

Hearts can be broken, and mouths often spout lies. Deeds can be deadly, and life is a nasty surprise. A tribute to author Richard Laymon, Heart and Mouth Deed and Life begins with nine best friends who plan to vacation and relax on a seemingly deserted island. Only the island isn't deserted, and the women quickly learn that they are in the midst of a deadly game that they didn't agree to play. A conveniently found diary, a ship graveyard, and old, decomposed bodies in cages are just the beginning. The women are being brutally hunted by cannibalistic savages. As revenge fills their souls, the women will discover staying alive isn't enough.

Dinosaur: 65 Million is the newest reality television program. If you can survive it, you can win it. How much? Sixty-five million dollars! All you have to do is carry sixty-five pounds of gear, work with seven team mates and travel sixty-five miles in the land of hungry tyrannosaurs, pteradons, triceratops, and carnotaurs. The audience will cheer you and watch your every move as you entertain them with your struggle to survive. Run, fight, and hide. You're the star...

The nightmare began when a group shipwrecked on an island in the Bermuda Triangle and found themselves stalked by troodons and other beasts from the past. The horror continues as feral cannibals, hungry dinosaurs, and more terrible creatures hunt the survivors. Just when the physics of the island start to make sense, a major storm blows in, threatening any chance of rescue and bringing time to an insane loop. Scott, Helen, and the rest face raptors and titanasaurs as time circles and spins with the mega-storm. There is hope, but that hope may come with too high of a price...some things are meant to stay extinct.

Shipwrecked, a group of survivors find that they are in the midst of a graveyard of ships and airplanes from years past. They have the answers to what becomes of those lost in the Bermuda Triangle, but it's not what they hoped. There is no peace or salvation, it's a place of terror, claws, and teeth. And blood.There are nests of raptors and every creature on the island just wants to eat. In a place where the lost come to rest, there is no rest...there is only the fight to survive on extinction island.

What happens when an author uses blurred reality, extreme horror, and expert manipulation not only on the characters to tell a disturbing story but on the reader as well to ensure total acceptance of a dysfunctional idea? Alice and Friends is the result. On a lonely, dark, Texas road, women disappear after being stranded in their cars and then saved by two friendly strangers. Alice is one who has been saved, but then shackled, and left in a basement to discover that she is not the first, nor will she be the last one imprisoned . In addition, at a nearby carnival, a prophetic ghost ride is the draw and where women, feeling the thrill of being falsely scared, are grabbed and taken to the same basement to face real, sadistic horror. The foreboding rooms upstairs, an abandoned well, and a smokehouse provide fearful places where Alice and her new "basement friends" are tortured, both physically and emotionally. Forced into unquestionable obedience by a dysfunctional family of brothers, the chosen women are re-invented using the male's warped ideology of a woman's place. Using cruel techniques, the men break down the human psyche to achieve total compliance of their captives. Using her shrewdness to fight back, Alice tries to hold onto her sanity and escape; however, her friends, one by one, leave the basement, and most never return. Alice discovers something far worse is awaiting her. With a nod to horror master Richard Laymon, the author leads the reader, along with Alice, to the edge of sanity, then plunges over with an ending that isn't just a tour de force, but will cause the reader to question his own complacency for days.... ...and to sleep with the lights on for weeks.

Beside the still water...the zombies roam. A slightly different take on the zombie genre, Smooth asks if the world be better if we were all neutral and complacent (without violence, greed, hatred, and yes, love and compassion) as parts of our personalities? The road to absolute peace is filled with more than just bumps and gravel when catt dahman tells it; heads will roll...literally. The town of Cold Springs is about to receive the gift of full serenity and some people intend to fight it (as well as the zombies) all the way to the end!

Let the voodoo roll! New Orleans will never be the same when a hurricane blows in hungry sharks controlled by bad magic.An uppity family is stuck on a houseboat with a family of swampers who have more secrets that you can shake a stick at. Beware as the swampers keep up the family tradition proving again why their gumbo always has that special taste... The sharks aren't the only ones with sharp teeth!

"I went back. By the time I got there, my best friend, Grief, had shown up and had brought along another pal, Self Pity. Then along came Misery. We partied." David lives in 1957, a time viewed as idyllic, but it wasn't. Descending into obsession and madness, he must face loss and ghosts of the past, while battling a curse that spans 500 years. The Time of Grace scrapes the nerves raw and reminds us that insanity may be right around the corner...any corner. David finds that the nightmares of his past are still haunting him twenty years later when he returns to his hometown and this time, no one will be safe from the monsters that haunt our dreams. This time, they are real. They are us. Based on the events of The Phantom Killer, who stalked Texarkana, Texas in 1946 and legends of Spanish explore Hernan De Soto.

Survivors have finally made a safe place to live and rebuild as they battle wandering zombies, but the walking dead are the least of the problems as an opposing army (The Reconstruction Army) threatens and the remains of the US Army both have other plans for dividing up the United States, Facing three factions, the members of the US Militia have to dig deeply to find the strength to deal with massive attacks. internal strife, and a secret that may shatter the future for all of them.

What do baseball, beer, lightning, and a trip to the future have in common? Nothing good. Consider this: if you could see the future, what changes would you make? Of course, you could make bets on events and get wealthy, but what if you saw your own death? What would you do to stop events from unfolding? Sam accidentally time travels when he is struck by a bolt of lightning, and finds out his fate and the future of a friend, Mark Banner. When Sam tells Mark the future, they enjoy the perks for a while, but Mark is worried about part of the vision. He is going to die in a brutal, bloody manner that he decides to change.He can only save his own life by murdering Sam's wife, Charlie, who kills him in the future. Still with us? They too can't get a grip on the slithering, sliding reality of a future that may or may not be set in stone. Is there a paradox? It's far too much for Charlie, Sam's wife, to understand. Mark is determined to try, and to live, Charlie must die. Charlie believes that the men are insane and dismisses the idea until she is almost slaughtered, Now, the game is on, and Charlie has to survive a few weeks to alter the future and escape the danger, or to at least make Mark think that the future is safe. Dealing with a madman isn't easy. Trying to escape the planned assassination, Charlie and her best friends flee on a hiking trip in the wilderness where no one can find them; it's like a college reunion and fun for the women, until they find that they are being hunted, one by one. Charlie finds there is no escaping her fate. The future is already set. She has no hope. She and her friends, running from those trying to kill them, find that nature also is unpredictable and unforgiving. Only one man can help, and he's mysterious and frightening as well. He's the Red Man. He will do anything to save her, but at every turn, the future is unchangable. Red Man is a frantic trip into the wilds where there will be a fight against men, nature, and time itself.

Students are trapped in their school and find that the zombies are not nearly as dangerous as their peers. The teens, trapped in the building, must make it safe to stay in, but at the same time, deal with continuing peer pressure, violence among those trapped, flesh eaters, and concerns about their own families and the world itself. Great reading for anyone who recalls his high school trials and tribulations (with flesh eaters thrown in)

Told between two perspectives one based in the early days of the infection and the other immediately after the events in Book 7, the story looks towards the future and addresses many questions that, until now, have remain unanswered and, in some cases, unasked..... Hopetown survivors head out to track a couple down, both to avenge the death of one of their own and to rescue Hannah from making a terrible mistake, and discover other survivors who have news of what has been going on in the outside world since the last time some of them left the compound. The scenes of past battles and events are revisited, leading to a final showdown where one character has to make a decision that will affect everyone's future! Finally, a realization is reached leaving the reader wonder just what exactly is in the grand finale

Rage continues the Z for Zombie series with a group of the Hopetown survivors heading out beyond the confines of their safe walls to hunt down the two Hybrids that they invited into their home with disastrous results. Unfortunately their paths soon cross with what is left of the American military who take hostages and demand certain terms be met. Len. Kimball, Nick ( the president of the United States' brother) are tortured and are going to be crucified unless a really bad plan to save them works. There's no way the plan can work. They plan for a rag-tag group to provide rescue while a boy who can do magic tricks causes mischief and hopefully distract the bad guys from their actions. The rescue goes a lot different from what is planned, leaving many to die from wounds or to walk the earth as one of the moaning undead. Beth is also plunged into confusion as she deals with an infected child and must weigh her maternal instincts against her need for revenge. As the series slips into high gear and secrets are revealed about each survivor, Beth is pure rage and no one is safe from her fury.

Small town secrets that can destroy a town....Everdeen is a perfect town. There is no crime, crops are bountiful, and everyone is happy. Idyllic. Grand Harvest comes every five years, and this year, there is a problem deciding the Harvest Maid. No one wants the honor because Harvest Maids go away and are never seen again. Beverly Fontaine is in the middle when her sister is chosen, and then she discovers that someone has been molesting teens. Once a plan is in place to stop the abuse, she and a group of townspeople have to face a bigger problem: Cain is coming and demands a sacrifice. This year, the bravest will fight back while the evil influence seeps into the town, causing horrific crimes. With no inhibitions and anger, fear, and desperation ruling them, Everdeen's citizens will also fight each other. Cain is coming!.....cursed is the ground because of you;in pain, you shall eat of it all the days ofyour life; thorns and thistles it shall bringforth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of yourface, you shall eat bread, till youreturn to the ground.Homage to Twin Peaks and Peyton Place (with an evil twist).

In the epic adventure of Z is for Zombie, this, sixth book acts as a kind of reboot for the ongoing post-apocalyptic drama. What Lies Beneath is the tale of some characters we have already met and their back stories as well as some new characters. A little group of young people find an experimental inoculation that will prevent them, if bitten, from turning into one of the shambling dead. Will they take the shots and make themselves immune or will they fight to remain fully human? What does the inoculation mean to mankind? Hannah come into her own as we learn how she grew up and how she was inoculated with the Red hybrid strain against her will. When she takes revenge, it is a shadowing of what she had to do before, in the first days of the outbreak, but it defines who she becomes, Meetin Hannah before the outbreak, we learn what motivates her, what scares her, and what she wants more than life itself. Len, the strong former Marine who carries a terrible secret from his past that haunts him, reveals what he was forced to do before the outbreak and why his heart still aches.

Dr. Walter Hollingworth, noted criminologist and convicted murderer offers his help to Virgil McLendon and Tina Rant as they work to solve cases that look to be copycat killings based on those of Hollingsworth. Each murder is based on one of the doctor's own crime scenes, but the good doctor enjoys mind games and riddles as he pushes Virgil to find the answers, teasing and prodding at the investigators. The crime scenes are adding up and the body count is big, but Virgil and Tina keep finding more questions than answers, and know that the killer is several steps ahead of them. As McLendon and Tina Rant work the case, they find that Hollingsworth both helps and hinders the investigation with his endless questions. Some questions will take Virgil all the way back to his first case, as he feels that something then, in that case, may hold answers he needs now. Only by taking the cases apart and looking for the tiniest of clues will Virgil figure this case out in time to save townspeople and himself. According to Hollingsworth, the final crime scene it supposed to be his death, but Virgil has a few tricks left. The case is full of clues, but which are vital? Which are the ones that will point the true way? And why is each case staged to cause as much fear as possible? The answers may be where Virgil least expects because even copycats can be clever.