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James Crowley met his mortal end in a hail of gunfire. Now, he finds himself in purgatory, serving the White Throne to avoid falling to hell. Not quite undead, though not alive either, the best he can hope for is to work off his servitude and fade away. His not-so-sacred duty as a Hand of God? Use his new abilities to hunt down demonic beings that have infiltrated the mortal realm. This time, the White Throne has sent him to the middle of nowhere: a Western town called Dead Acre with a saloon, a moldy church, and little else worth talking about. There isn’t even a sheriff.

Deadwood, late 1876. A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in? Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead...and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone who steps out of line. But when a couple Santa Fe sidewinders ride into town searching for their missing uncle, they land neck deep in lethal gunplay, nasty cutthroats, and endless stinkin’ snow.

Grant Stockton is the devil incarnate. The cowboy turned casino-owning crime boss has been the bane of my existence for as long as I can remember—first as my older brother’s best friend, then as my guardian when my brother died at his side, and now as the rival bar owner and landlord running me into the red. He might be the head of The Quiet Horsemen, the man everyone else in this town fears, but I’m not about to cede a single inch of ground to him. If I have to lie, cheat, and steal to keep him from finding out my bar’s underwater—well, that’s exactly what I’ll do.

Sharpshooter Melinda West, 29, has encountered more than her share of supernatural creatures after a monster infection killed her mother. Now, Melinda and her charismatic partner, Lance, offer their exterminating services to desperate towns, fighting everything from giant flying scorpions to psychic bugs. But when they accidentally release a demon, they must track a dangerous outlaw across treacherous lands and battle a menagerie of creatures—all before an army of soul-devouring monsters descend on Earth.

Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn’t exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle’s nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set out together to track the monster down so they can use its blood in an alchemical formula that will bring Liam back to life.

Eve wants to be a nun, and Peter a priest, but is their attraction for one another stronger than the call to serve? Eve becomes possessed by a demon and this sets off a trail of murder, sex, and fire across Texas, and Arizona as the couple head to California for an exorcism.

"Wenn die Lebenden nicht mehr stark genug sind, die weißen Hunde von unserem Land zu vertreiben, werden es die Toten tun." - Nana Weiße Feder, Medizinmann der Chiricahua-Apachen. Um den Bau der Eisenbahn zu verhindern und die verhassten Weißen zu vertreiben, beschwört ein Medizinmann den dämonischen Geistervogel. Wenig später erwachen weitere grauenvolle Bestien. Der Texas Ranger Jack Kane und sein Blutsbruder Caddo, ein Apache, nehmen den Kampf gegen die Mächte der Finsternis auf.

Auf einem Viehtrieb verschwinden Cowboys. Die Spur der Vermissten führt in eine mysteriöse Geisterstadt. Jim und Andie müssen gegen Dämonen und Höllenkreaturen kämpfen. Ihr Leben ist nichts mehr wert, denn die Bestien versuchen mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern, dass die beiden aus der Stadt der Toten fliehen können.

Three families traveling through the mountains of North Carolina to claim their share of the gold rush become stranded deep in the forest, overwhelmed by the unrelenting snow and frigid temperatures. It doesn't take long for the food supply to run out, for desperation and harmful intentions to set in. When one of their own dies, they commit a depraved act to survive, a depraved act that unleashes a curse that will not stop until every one of them is either devoured... or dead!

In den Weiten des texanischen Llano Estacado treibt ein Monstrum sein Unwesen, gegen das keine gewöhnliche Waffe etwas ausrichten kann. Das ungleiche Duo Hardin und Jackson trifft auf einen Mann, der die Grenzen zwischen Wahrheit und Wahnsinn verschwimmen lässt. Ist er die Rettung oder das Verderben?

Die Witwe Helen Burkfield lebt auf einer kleinen Pferderanch. Als ihre Tochter Crystal verschwindet und die Spur direkt ins Indianergebiet führt, macht sich Helen auf die aussichtslos erscheinende Suche. Sie nimmt die Hilfe von Threefeathers an, einem Krieger, der dem gleichen Stamm angehört, der ihren Mann ermordet haben soll. Gemeinsam folgen die beiden der mysteriösen Fährte. Schon bald muss Helen erkennen, dass Crystal von einem blutrünstigen Dämon entführt wurde.

"Es heißt, jeder Mensch trägt ein dunkles Geheimnis mit sich, tief begraben in seiner Seele, das nur darauf wartet, aus ihr auszubrechen." Für Town Marshal Gerard riecht es gewaltig nach Ärger, als der narbengesichtige US-Marshal und ein einarmiger Comanche in Bond eintreffen, um dem mysteriösen Mord an einem Siedler auf den Grund zu gehen. Die Tat soll ausgerechnet dessen Tochter begangen haben. Gemeinsam folgen sie der Spur nach Deer Creek und finden den exzentrischen geistlichen Führer der Siedlung. Hinter alldem steckt ein unglaubliches Geheimnis.

Malechai ben Pallache, a Ukranian-Jew and soldier of fortune who has made his way through the world fueled by blood and pain has been enlisted to hunt down Dragan, the bastard priest who kicked off the pogroms before fleeing to California. But the profane holy man has more than blood on his hands, he has also stolen a box that holds terrible evil. Brodie is infested with hungry demons and dangerous men, gold and vice drawing in the worst that humanity or demonkind have to offer, all standing between Malechai and the priest. But, he does not travel alone.

The culling took most of the men from Cochran Texas away to a dusty old town that exists between this plane and the next called Cocytus. Run by a maniacal power-hungry man named Lycus and his adopted protégé daughter Alastor, he conducts chaos with the help of a group of bandits called Calamity Three. His goal: tip the cosmic scales to bring the Void crashing into the world and claim the place of power to which he believes he is owed.

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As Americans move west towards their manifest destiny, they disrupt lives, steal, and murder. What happens when that brutality clashes with witchcraft and the supernatural in the small town of Soledad. A powerful witch goes to the extreme to protect the land. A young woman weaves protective spells into clothing, but what she wants to do more than anything, is soar with the vultures. An ex-soldier accompanied by her dead friend looks for another battle to fight and will do anything to make the American invaders pay in the bloodiest ways possible.

Every man walks with a shadow...but what happens when he acquires a second one? Just ask Brazos, a cold-blooded killer for hire with blood on his hands and a posse on his tail. Desperate for cash, Brazos accepts $200 to gun down a local man named Brant. He’ll earn every penny...but in the end there’ll be the devil to pay. Because to put a bullet in Brant means putting one in his partner as well - an eerie stranger schooled in the black art of witchcraft. This is one killing that brings with it a deadly curse - and a second shadow.

Lynn Taylor and his kid brother Frank may not be angels, but they’re not devils, either. They’re just a couple of men - two-fisted Texans who have landed on the wrong side of a corrupt lawman. Young Frank’s been framed for robbery, rustling, and murder, and if Lynn doesn’t think fast, his brother’s going to end up the guest of dishonor at a hanging party. Lynn cooks up a daring plan to clear his brother’s name and rope in the real outlaw.

An unplanned murder during a bank robbery has another sheriff on the trail of those on the lam.

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