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Then There Was One: Stories of Suspense and Adventure
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When Kenny and his family move
into their "new" house built in 1789, no one suspects
that the house is haunted. While exploring the attic,
Kenny discovers a ghost of a slave who insists that
Kenny find out who murdered him. Kenny goes back in
time and finds not only a horrifying murder, but that
someone from his own time has committed the crime and
nearly prevents Kenny from returning to the present.
A mysterious call summons Jonathan
to Seattle from New York and pits him against a group
of murderous Nazi skinheads.
Based on a true story, this tale
recalls the long winter of 1692 when ten young girls
began acting as if possessed. Forced to tell who was
acting as the devil's agent, they began to name names
... anyone's name. Thus began one of the most frightening
periods of our history, the Salem witch-hunt.
Eight years before Denny was born,
his father was involved in a tragic accident that killed
22 children. Now on the 25th anniversary of the accident,
a woman named Lulu begins to haunt Denny as she has
his father, but with more devastating results.
Thirteen-year-old Eva wakes up
in the hospital unable to remember the accident that
left her in a coma. Why won't anyone let her look at
herself? Is she that badly disfigured? She senses that
some extraordinary efforts must have been made to keep
her alive, but she is totally unprepared for what those
measures were ...
Richie Perry, Lobel, Johnson,
Brunner and Peewee are all young and full of life. They
are also in Vietnam. They have been trained well, but
not well enough. No one has told them how to survive
the heat, the smell or the food. But worst of all, no
one told them how to survive the death that is always
around them. Their one goal, their one dream, is to
get out alive.
Stacy wakes up in a hospital room
and finds she has been in a coma for four years. She
was shot as was her mother. Someone killed her mother,
and when he finds out Stacy can recognize him, he will
kill her as well.
Peter, Lola, Blossom, Abigail
and Oliver are all sixteen-year-old orphans and all
living in state institutions. They have been kidnapped
and taken to a place with no walls, ceiling or floor
... nothing but stairs. Why they are there, who placed
them there, and what they want is beyond imagination.
Sixteen-year-old Prosper is a
shieldbearer to the Companions - 300 men summoned by
king Mynyddog to fight the Saxons. They all set out,
but very few return. Why? Like the movie "Braveheart,"
the answers lie in the hearts of men - the heroes and
those who will betray them.
When Hannah opens the door during
Passover Seder, she suddenly finds herself in Poland
in 1940. There she finds out first hand why her grandfather
wails when he talks of those days and how she got her
name.
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