This book is innovative. A plethora of genealogy books primarily assume that family history research is by adults, for adults, marking family history as an 'adults only' sphere of life. This book establishes a new dimension in family history research. It is written in the belief that engaging in family history is a venture for all of the present-day family, regardless of age and, sometimes, because of age. To assist those of all ages who venture into...

When 23-year-old Allan Schleppegrell is accepted into police school, it's a dream come true. A chance to become a kind, compassionate police officer like the one he idolized as a child and to make the world a better place. At the busy Station Charlie in downtown Copenhagen, Allan gets the opportunity to patrol with one of the station's legendary officers, who is strong, charismatic, and willing to get the job done by any means necessary. As Allan...

In my family, the wendigo is not spoken of as a myth, in fact, if we can help it, it isn't spoken of at all. For to even use the word is to invite things more horrible than you can imagine into the thoughts and into the home. Instead of the word, we have the doll. A small, hideous, figurine that has lived on our mantlepiece for generations. As a child I was forbidden to touch that figurine. As an adult, I found out why. The Wendigo Doll is a tale...

For most police officers, dealing with 'crackpots' is simply part of the job. The people who call up confessing to murders they couldn't have committed or which might never even have happened, the obsessives with nothing better to do than report non existent crimes or exaggerate run of the mill occurences into major events. As far as Tony is concerned Clark Dornan is one of these 'crackpots'. For years Clark has been coming to the station with accusations...

When a vial containing a strange liquid is sent to police headquarters, there is immediately some caution. Could this be poison? Some chemical attack? The vial is carefully packed away and sent for testing. Despite the caution, nobody guesses the vial's true significance. Where it came from, what the liquid inside might be or how it is connected to the strange flyers that have appeared all over town, flyers bearing the image of a curious little goblin,...

Room 206 is a room with secrets. As always secrets bring questions. Why is the owner of the hotel meeting with known criminals? Why are the walls around that room four times as thick? What causes the strange sounds of scratching and shifting that seem to come from that room and why do some who enter, never seem to come out? The answers to these questions lie behind the room's locked door, though of course there are some secrets that are best left...

In the west, the 'genie' is a figure of fun. A pantomime character made of primary colours and cartoon features. An example, if ever there was one, of how the West tries to tame its terrors by laughing at them. In the East, in Nusaybin, people do not laugh at such things. Here the word 'djinn' is whispered in reverential hush. The things to which it refers are considered not only real, but dangerous. For in these places and to these people the djinn...

The day the quarantine was announced, the only thing I could think of was mother. Yes, behind that, the memories crept closer, shadows and dark things, not forgotten but suppressed, the knot of fear in my belly that had been tied long ago, but more than that, more than anything, I thought of her. In the fifty-six years since she arrived in Britain from Turkey, not once had she spent an entire day inside. In fact, it was rare to see her spend more...

What would you say if someone told you they had come face to face with God? That God, in physical form had told them the mysteries of the universe, the details of his divine plan. Would you want to know? At The Ritzy, just off Oldham Street, there is such a man. The Ritzy itself is the kind of place that the wise avoid and the desperate always seem to find. A dive that calls itself a casino and which is really nothing more than a smoky, converted...

When artist Julian begins to turn green, his friends assume its something to do with the paint he is using. If not that, then perhaps stress, since he always reacts badly whenever a new show approaches and deadlines loom large. As time goes on, however, Julian's friends come to realize that this year, the changing of the seasons will have far stranger and far darker effects on him. Shades Of Autumn is a tale of desperation, horror, and nature at...