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Ebenezer "Eerie Eb" Edwards is ready to hang up his rifle. After years in the military and security contracting, he's set on leaving his tactical profession behind and focusing full-time on podcasting. But when a lucrative final contract crosses his path, Eb agrees to one last mission—a search deep into the heart of Savage River State Forest for the missing sister of Cora Rhodes, a wealthy heiress with a fierce determination.

Perennial favorite, William Wasserman is back. His newest book recounts his early days as a state game warden beginning with his acceptance to the Pennsylvania Game Commission Training School for fifty weeks of intensive training followed by his initial assignment to southeastern Pennsylvania. Ride along with him as he travels into the city of Philadelphia to hunt down big game poachers on their own turf. His investigations lead him through a fascinating cast of intriguing outlaw personalities, some of them so crazed you will shake your head in wonder. But the book is not just about poachers.

Robbie has been having nightmares. . . terrible, bloody dreams of a monster in the woods. That monster kills every night. Its bloodthirst never satiated. As bodies began to turn up in the real world, Robbie realizes his nightmares are more than they seem. Can Robbie and the local sheriff find and stop the monster or will the killings continue to grow in scope and number?

As a Pennsylvania Game Warden for more than three decades, Wasserman investigated thousands of game law violations and arrested many violent career poachers. But another big part of his job was in the public relations and education field where he penned a weekly newspaper column entitled It’s a Wild Life. Hence, the title of this audiobook, which contains twenty-six of his most notable stories selected from more than seven hundred published over a fifteen-year period.

Some seaweed, a jellyfish, and some material brought back from the Peabodie expedition to Antarctica. An innocuous enough blend you might think. But when a storm in the North Atlantic frees a sample that has been dormant inside an old wreck, the new creature finds that it is hungry. Our plastics-orientated society has given it an abundant supply of food...more than enough for it to grown, and build, and spread.

A thunderous roar echoes through the ages as a Tyrannosaur fossil is unearthed in the same geological stratum as Native American artifacts, signaling the beginning of Marshall Stanton’s transformation from history professor to prehistoric adventurer. He is a stranger in a strange world that time forgot, and his only hope is unraveling the mystery of returning home.

A deep sea fracking operation in the Arctic Ocean breaks through into a world hidden for 15-million years, an undersea cavern from the Pliocene Epoch of the Cenozoic Era. Among the prehistoric terrors unleashed is a giant megalodon, a shark so efficient it had no need to change for 20-million years. Asa Iverson was the only survivor from the Global Kulik incident. Now, the nightmares haunt him. Did he see a colossal shark long thought extinct, or was it a hypothermia-induced hallucination?

Terror crawls from the shadows and Scott Ward emerges from his mundane existence into a waking nightmare. Mutant camelback crickets with razor-sharp teeth prowl the streets, turning the village of Stones Throw into a battleground where survival becomes the only instinct and due process is a bullet. As the infestation grows and the town’s charming facade deteriorates, fear tightens its grip and Ward is forced to grapple with the primal choice of flight or fight. Scuttling horrors hide in every shadow, and each move plunges him deeper into the harrowing abyss of his once-familiar world.

For centuries, stories had circulated of an Aztec city so rich that precious gems adorned the buildings and the streets were paved with gold. But like so many Aztec locations, this one had been abandoned and swallowed by the jungle. Since the time of the conquistadors, expeditions have set out to find it. None have ever returned. At their antique shop in 1938, Rick and Rose Sinclair come across what may be a map to the lost City of Gold in an Aztec artifact. The adventurous husband implores his more level-headed wife that this is their opportunity to become rich.

Religiously raised Cyril Hayes spent most of his life believing that he should love his neighbor, but that gay people were sinners and would ultimately spend eternity in torment. His whole faith becomes unraveled when he meets the new kid in school—Avery Branson—who not only happens to be gay, but is also Christian. To Cyril, these two things are unable to coexist. But can they?

Mount Aire is a secluded enclave on the Kenai Peninsula where folks do their best to live quiet lives away from the chaos of civilization. The town’s peace is shattered when a musher is killed during the annual Terimore 200 sled dog race, and signs of a strange creature are found at the murder scene. Murmurs recalling the year of the beast percolate through town. Six years ago, three died, five the cycle before that.

Meet Chuck Tanner; soldier, explorer, adventurer, and famed treasure hunter. He has diced with death countless times and uncovered ancient artefacts and lost treasures the world. Chuck has seen it all… or so he thinks. Chuck’s interest is piqued when he is offered a place on an expedition to South America to find a mythical relic beyond even his wildest imagination; the mystical Stone of Qualbec, hidden in the Lost Valley of Vincabamba.

In his fourth book about his life as a state game warden, Wasserman writes about his experiences tracking down wildlife poachers from the city streets of Philadelphia to the rugged mountains of northern Pennsylvania. Join him as he encounters some of the most unpredictable—and interesting characters under the sun. Track of the Poacher contains eight of his most memorable tales to date. In A Question of Proof two hunters are discovered with a trophy ten-point buck. They seem like easy-going fellas and admit to using illegal bait to lure the deer onto their property.

The undead have claimed the world with tooth and nail and now death stalks from behind every corner and from every doorway. Beset by the horrors of this new planet, living humans must now rely on their most formidable weapon: Courage. Having traversed a ravaged and infected United States in the slim hope of acquiring a vaccine, a dwindling group of mix-matched military and civilians finally achieved their goal. Safely secured in a hardened and well-stocked underground complex, rescued scientists may now continue to work on a vaccine for the most brutal plague in human history.

When the five friends stumble onto an ancient, underground cult known as The Midnight Gospel, they realize the danger is far worse than anything on the nightly news. The cult isn’t just spreading fear—it’s planning a ritual to summon something far more evil than anyone could imagine: Belial, a demon from the depths of the abyss.

In the remote desert town of Black Hollow, Arizona, something ancient stirs. People are vanishing, and the ones who return... aren’t the same. Their skin peels away to reveal fur, teeth sharpen into fangs, and yellow eyes burn with hunger. When Jesse, Dana, Ty and Holly encounter the creature responsible—a cursed Skinwalker trapped between human and beast—their lives spiral into a nightmare they can’t escape. As the curse spreads, warping animals and townsfolk alike, they race to uncover the truth buried deep in the desert.

Damien Crowe is an acclaimed horror writer known for his chilling tales that blur the line between the imagined and the real. But as he retreats to a secluded cabin to confront the shadows in his past, he begins to suspect that his creations may be following him.

Eleanor Frost never knew her aunt, but she inherited everything—a decaying Victorian manor deep in the woods, along with the weight of its secrets. The house looms like a wound against the sky, filled with whispers that crawl through the walls and shadows that seem too aware. What slumbers within is not finished with the living, and Eleanor is about to awaken something that should have stayed buried.

A winter hike through an untouched forest should have been peaceful. But for Sarah and her friends, it becomes a nightmare they can't escape. Trapped in the frozen wilderness, they are hunted by something twisted, a family that has lived in the forest's shadows for generations—deformed, ravenous, and driven by an insatiable hunger.

Whether death arises from the legions of ravenous undead which now roam the planet, or at the hands of villains unchecked, the result is the same. The finality of death has fled, however, and the Reaper no longer holds his sway. The greatest plague in history alters life itself into something that cannot be, killing the infected, but only briefly. Victims return as one of the undead to seek out that which they once were, infecting and consuming anything alive.