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The Signal is a taut and thrilling mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. When Luke Starr, aka DragonMan, and his friend, Dr. Bond, an ex-NASA scientist, discover evidence of an impending disaster, they are determined to uncover the truth. But as they delve deeper into the mystery, they soon find themselves up against a powerful force determined to keep the truth hidden.

This truly dark mystery story sees our protagonist Dragonman and undeniable friends and partners investigate a bizarre murder spree. The murders turn out to be far from ordinary when an investigation into the past brings untimely dread and danger for the future. This scary audiobook leads you on a trail of homicide that is more than meets the eye. John Logan has to look deep into Luke Starr’s past to find the answers he seeks. Nobody is laughing, because it turns out dying isn’t funny.

The president leaves office with a grave and deadly secret. He leaves his predecessor a written message outlining the clear and present danger about to befall humankind if he does not take action now. But, the message is quickly dismissed out of hand because of the hatred they share. No one can see the future. No one can see what’s coming. And, no one will be ready for what is about to happen.

An astronaut’s gloved hand lowering a thin wire into a hole cut in ice. We hear the howling alien wind reveal: Michael Thompson (40's) in a full spacesuit, kneeling at a 20 foot hole in the icy surface of Europa, Jupiter’s fourth largest moon. The planet is white, glass-smooth, desolate. He continues lowering the wire. We don’t really know what he’s doing, and whatever’s attached to the wire can’t be very heavy or this wire would break.

TV is on, movie credits role. Starring Brad Willoughby in The Laughing Assassin. The aging actor, but much younger than he looks, dark hair and fit physique (50s), hasn’t worked in many years. He watches as he sips on a glass of wine, and the movie plays.... He’s now lost in thought, staring at a younger version of himself. We can sense by the way Brad mouths his lines as he watches his younger self dominates each scene, just how much he yearns for those glorious days now gone.

The world is on the brink of annihilation, we just don't know yet. An invisible enemy is waging war under the shadow of a deadly pandemic. The threat comes by way of an alien life-form. They exist among us. They are not like us, like you and I, made up of carbon and nitrogen. But they are here, right now, we just can’t see them. But make no mistake about it, this unseen enemy sees us - and like a whisper in the wind, it brings death.

Why did the Anunnaki come here? Did they create human hybrids? What is their plan for Earth? And for us, the human hybrids? Why did some like the original humans (Bigfoot) resist? Will we survive; what is yet to come? Those who look for the truth already know; those who fail to search are lost; but those with an open mind will soon come to know The Descendants of Man.

EDITORIAL REVIEW BLOOD SKY expands the real 1977 Operation Prato investigation into a gripping, intelligent horror novel where the terror evolves from spectacle to something far more permanent and disturbing. Ted Lazaris crafts escalating dread with precision, transforming a coastal mystery into a chilling exploration of adaptation, infrastructure, and unseen presence. The result is a cinematic, psychologically unsettling work of documented terror that feels less imagined than uncovered. BLOOD SKY A Documented Terror Inspired by True Events — Operation Prato (1977) Colares, Brazil. “...

Editorial Review Names in the Snow is a chilling reconstruction of the 1930 Anjikuni Lake disappearance, rendered with documentary restraint and escalating psychological terror. Ted Lazaris strips away folklore and easy explanations, presenting a phenomenon that moves from silence to pressure to personal erasure with cold precision. The result is an unforgettable work of documented horror where absence becomes the most violent force of all. NAMES IN THE SNOW A True Documented Terror Case Inspired by the 1930 Anjikuni Lake Disappearance “The storm did not erase them. It chose them.” ...

Editorial Review A relentless descent into industrial terror, PRESSURE transforms a documented offshore tragedy into something far more disturbing—an unseen force that responds, adapts, and refuses containment. Ted Lazaris delivers literal, on-page horror with cinematic control, escalating from steel and ocean to a phenomenon that follows human proximity itself. Intelligent, unsettling, and disturbingly plausible, this entry in the Documented Terror collection lingers long after the final page. “They said it was an accident. The pressure said otherwise.” A modern deep-sea expedition ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW THE CERTAINTY THAT KILLS is a brutal supernatural horror novel inspired by a real 1942 medical case, where belief, silence, and unseen forces converge with catastrophic consequences. As calm becomes lethal and fear becomes survival, the story delivers relentless dread, unforgettable imagery, and a final supernatural revelation that refuses explanation or comfort. Disturbing, intelligent, and terrifying, this is horror that lingers long after the last page. In 1942, as the world learns how efficiently fear can be weaponized, people begin dying without wounds, without poison,...

EDITORIAL REVIEW TIME SLIP is a chilling work of documented psychological horror that replaces spectacle with quiet inevitability, revealing what happens when history is allowed to remain instead of disappear. Through classified reports, institutional language, and human loss stripped of drama, the novel builds dread by showing a world that adapts rather than resists. Unsettling, restrained, and deeply original, this is horror that lingers because it feels inevitable TIME SLIP Temporal Displacement Incident Report The village was intact when the patrol entered. The first body was found ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW Relentless, intimate, and profoundly disturbing, this novel delivers literal terror without relying on monsters, mythology, or comfort. Ted Lazaris constructs horror as a physical violation—where the body betrays the mind, awareness survives without control, and truth appears only long enough to leave permanent damage. What begins as scientific unease escalates into undeniable, on-page terror that cannot be rationalized away, culminating in a final act that shocks not through spectacle, but through erasure. This is documented terror at its most refined: precise, plausible...

A series of savage and brutal murders is taking place by a killer that might not be human. A secret brotherhood first discovered this baffling mix of man and God in 1970. Now, this Son of God, or Satan, is about to proclaim its divinity, through a ritualistic series of slayings. Can Luke Starr, aka DragonMan, a new superhero for our times, stop its relentless threat to mankind? Only time will tell...

Editorial Review Only a Scratch is a masterwork of documented psychological horror that transforms the real 1938 Halifax Slasher Panic into something colder, more intelligent, and deeply unsettling. Ted Lazaris strips away folklore and spectacle, revealing a force that does not kill recklessly—but studies, calibrates, and stops precisely at the edge of fatality. The result is a terrifying exploration of fear, restraint, and invisible correction that lingers long after the final page. ONLY A SCRATCH A True Documented Terror Case Based on the 1938 Halifax Slasher Panic It began with a ...

Editorial Review: STATIC reads like a recovered archive — calm in tone, devastating in implication. By grounding its terror in documented signals, transmissions, and unexplained deaths, it erodes the line between coincidence and intent. This is not a book that scares you with monsters, but with the possibility that something has already been listening. STATIC Some signals end in death. When sound begins to fail, people assume it’s a glitch. Emergency alarms don’t ring. Screams don’t carry. Warnings die in the throat. At first, the silence feels calming—controlled, even beneficial....

We see a bright blue cloud-filled sky. Then we are zooming down, revealing what appears to be a swirling dust funnel in a clearing, surrounded by forest. Zooming farther down we see a young boy playing near it. Finally, we see him get swallowed up into a cosmic portal. We now zoom out, farther and farther until we see a large man dressed in regal garb, he is a wizard, searching desperately through a forest for his son. As he penetrates the trees he sees an ominous portal in the open field. A shoe lies on the ground near the swirling mass. He charges forward.

EDITORIAL REVIEW “Quietly devastating and deeply unsettling, The Last Thing They Heard doesn’t scare with monsters or gore—it terrifies by showing how easily comfort becomes control. This is psychological horror at its most disciplined, where dread accumulates through policy language, silence, and human compliance. A rare novel that lingers long after the final page, making readers wary not of noise, but of calm.” THE LAST THING THEY HEARD Silence Was Supposed to Save Us. It begins with a sound no one can quite describe—and deaths no one can explain. People hear something calming,...

Rating Request for The Viral Jury: When Justice Stops Asking Permission Thank You for Reading The Viral Jury If you enjoyed this story — even just part of it — I’d truly appreciate an honest star rating on Amazon. Your rating helps other readers discover the book and allows me to keep writing stories like this. Tap here to rate The Viral Jury https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0G6DSKH4W — Ted Lazaris The system promised fairness. It promised speed. It promised certainty. At first, it only watched. Designed to predict jury verdicts and reduce human bias, Viral Jury was...

EDITORIAL REVIEW DEAD SIGNAL is a chilling psychological horror novel that turns calm instructions, emergency systems, and institutional reassurance into instruments of dread. Inspired by documented, unresolved reports, it delivers terror through restraint rather than spectacle, making every quiet moment feel dangerous. Unsettling, intelligent, and deeply human, this is horror that lingers long after the final page. DEAD SIGNAL Inspired by Documented, Unresolved Reports In 1972, a police officer stopped his cruiser near the Little Miami River after seeing something move upright where ...