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The luxury starliner Sovereign of the Stars makes an unscheduled and unannounced landing at Armstrong Base, mankind’s first permanent facility on the moon. Armstrong’s commander, Colonel Michael Hansen, boards the vessel and discovers the mummified remains of the passengers and crew. A single comatose survivor is found. A team from earth arrives to begin an investigation. They are led by Lindsay Dwyer, a bureaucrat who far outranks Hansen and who becomes the de facto commander of Armstrong.

It was a day unlike any other in the town of Deacon’s Landing, Connecticut. It was the day Kenny Atkins cornered Matty Anderson in the locker room on what turned out to be the final day of classes at Deacon’s Landing Middle School. When the school is destroyed by fire, the teachers speak in hushed tones of “Dark Annie” Carlson, one of their own who vanished mysteriously shortly before the start of the school year. For nearly three decades the school remains dark and empty.

Whether it's history itself getting lost in the stone silence of a lighthouse or the time flow of medieval armor clashing from the grave into the now of your mind, this year's honor roll of top stories from Tell-Tale Publishing will pull you up in your chair and set your pulse racing. But that's what you want...isn't it? There will be thoughtful dilemmas to keep you pondering, moral choices and choices for the oldest of reasons - love - and, above all, the test of love versus fate.

In these six assembled tales of terror, you will witness how an act of unspeakable evil dooms the crew of a crashed German bomber in "Emet." A rookie trucker takes to a dangerous mountain pass and comes face to face with the legend of "The Highwayman." A suicidal woman who has lost her family and her arm experiences a bizarre and terrifying form of "Phantom Pain." An online gamer experiences horror when he is granted the ability to play his favorite game in "God Mode."

For Nick Wade, life was an endless series of heroin-fuelled highs and lows. Alienated from most of his remaining family, Nick leads a vagabond existence as one of West Philly's lost addicts. When his girlfriend is killed in a car accident, Nick is ordered to Springbrook Healing and Recovery Center. There he forges an uneasy friendship with his roommate, an alcoholic named John Curran, and meets fellow heroin addict Sarah McCallister.

Twins David and Diane Walsh, when together, can communicate with the dead. They have parlayed their gift into fame and fortune as the hosts/stars of the reality series The Cemetery Game. The inevitable excesses that come with their success lead the twins to a public relations disaster, and they are forced into retirement.