This is the completed version of my short story Night. After realising their heritage, Connor and Jacob embark on a journey of love and pain. What awaits them on this journey is nothing short of terrifying...Upon realising their vampire and werewolf heritage Connor and Jacob are drafted into a war between humans (with vampires and werewolves) and demons. The two soon meet original vampire Yuuku Excrucio, who happens to run the organization that served as the front lines in the war. The two accept the offer of becoming soldiers in the war, however there are complications. On their first mission they fall in love! Demons continue to grow stronger, but so do the vampires and werewolves. Who will win? The Earth? Or the Demons? Read and find out...

This book has great zombie action and has been a constant fixture on many of the eBook best seller charts. Everything seems to go wrong when zombies invade the small town of Sigel. Join Max Talbot as he goes on a breakneck paced journey to save his uncle Jebediah. This book has been described as oozing Redneck and a Dukes of Hazzard like twist to the zombieThis book has great zombie action and has been a constant fixture on many of the eBook best seller charts. Everything seems to go wrong when zombies invade the small town of Sigel. Join Max Talbot as he goes on a breakneck paced journey to save his uncle Jebediah. This book has been described as oozing Redneck and a Dukes of Hazzard like twist to the zombie apocalypse, so break out your favorite flannel shirt and come along for the ride.This story was written as fan fiction and later posted on Mark Tufo's website. The zombies in this story are modeled after the ones from his stories.After reading this short story please look for my latest book series. The first is called, "Parasite; The True Story of the Zombie Apocalypse." It's not only a zombie apocalypse novel but it explains the science involved in the dead coming to life. As one reviewer stated, "Such good story telling. Zombielicious. I am remembering biology class as they explain why people are turning into zombies and clues to stop the infection. Adventure, politicians, lawyers and scientist * oh my *... Very good book."

*@*@* New 2017 Version! *@*@*In the footsteps of Poe and Montague James, this is a somewhat humourous but chilling ghost story set in the 1880'When Miss Margaret died, Jack and Elizabeth thought they were doing the right thing when they took care of her afairs, but the crotchy old widow had other ideas...even from the graveThis is an example of the stories contained in my book, The Ghostly Victorians (Author's Edition).*@*@*Note To Readers*@*@*‘A Good Deed’ was first published in late 2014. Thank you to the thousands who have downloaded it. This, the 2017 version, has been re-written with ‘a little something extra’ at the end. If you read the original, comments comparing the two would be welcome.

A lost child in a department store sets two men at odds. Short story. Horror. Thriller.A girl is snatched form a department store. Her father and a stranger become entangled in each other's lives. Horror. Thriller.

Sir Differel is slowly going insane! And no one in the Caerleon Order can help her. Aelfraed calls on Eile and Sunny, Team Girl, to get to the bottom of the situation. But can they solve the mystery without going insane themselves? This is a short story.Aelfraed and the staff of the Caerleon Order are worried. Sir Differel appears to be going insane: she can't sleep, she's hearing voices and having hallucinations, and she has become paranoid of and hostile towards her own people. Nothing they can do seems to help; even Dracula cannot break through her malaise.To make matters worse, she must appear at a meeting of the Privy Council within a week, and if she has not recovered by then, there is a real danger that they will depose her as Director and appoint someone else to replace her, who most likely would defer to them rather than follow his own judgment.In desperation, Aelfraed has turned to her best friends, Eile and Sunny of Team Girl, for help. They agree to do what they can, but they're not sure if they can do anything at all. Especially when they discover that Differel's trouble has been caused by a new enemy, one who will prove to be her most persistent, as well as her most implacable.

Alicia's research decimated the world's population and now it has come back for her.Three hard-boiled stories that hark back to the days of Black Mask and Astounding Science Fiction. The first tale is a novella that introduces private dick Jay Dafoe. He’s in a dirty business, and cold hard cash has always made up for twinges his conscience might occasionally feel, or so he thought until he’s hired to find a missing daughter. How does the amoral Dafoe handle the horror he unwittingly becomes entwined with? The second story finds Dafoe doing what he thought was routine work for a lawyer. What he doesn’t know is that he is the final pawn in a tragedy that was thirty years in the making. Some sins, Dafoe finds out, can’t be forgiven.The third story is a study of a thug with a badge. Ben Andropov is a cop. The bosses are management, and the beat is the moon. Management wants order and doesn’t care how it’s kept. Andropov is a low-level enforcer of the status quo, having used his natural brutality to escape the drudgery and poverty of the everyday citizen. Seventeen years he’s been a cop, and it’s starting to take its toll. Solving a simple murder winds up inflicting more damage to what’s left of his crippled soul and there’s no way out.Cold Pulp Trio is hard-boiled noir. American as hollow point bullets.

Christmas shopping can be murder....All Jilly Carson wanted to do was get a little Christmas shopping done with her best friend, Peyton. But when Peyton can’t meet her at the mall, Jilly finds herself feeling anxious and alone as her mother’s cautionary words echo in her head:“Don’t talk to strangers. Don’t put yourself in that position again. You remember what happened last time....” When a tall, blonde-haired stranger begins to stalk her, Jilly does everything she can to avoid him. Feeling scared and vulnerable, she finally decides to leave the mall. But the blonde-haired man won’t let her flee quite so easily….

Switching seamlessly between the chaos and bloodshed of 1940s India and the multicultural mélange of twenty-first-century Britain, Glen Duncan's sublime new novel finds love in both. Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for get-rich-quick schemes. Kate Lyle is a headstrong young woman desperate to escape a sexually predatory household. Both are Anglo-Indians, members of a race that helped turn the wheels of Empire for years. But Empire days are numbered, and as India sheds its colonial skin, the young lovers must face their own tryst with destiny. In twenty-first-century England, Owen Monroe is writing this story of his parents' lives in an effort to avoid the problems in his own: lost love, relentless libido, dreams of death, and a world full of headlines he can't understand and doesn't want to. But keeping past and present apart isn't as easy as it seems, and before long Owen is deep in the one story he never wanted to tell.... Epic in its scope yet never losing sight of the telling, gorgeous detail, The Bloodstone Papers is an extraordinarily rich and beautiful read that manages to ask the big questions without fuss and to accept that the big answers aren't always what we want to hear.

Bestselling author Christopher Golden brings his epic, innovative trilogy, the Veil, to an astonishing conclusion as the mythic realm of heroes and monsters becomes the site of humanity’s last—and greatest—showdown.In the world of the legendary, every myth and folktale is real. That is what Oliver Bascombe learned on the other side of the Veil, where humanity's legends have hidden away for centuries. But even legends have legends, and Oliver has learned of a prophecy that many believe he and his sister, Collette, have come to the Two Kingdoms to fulfill. Before they can discover the truth, the Bascombe siblings must help to stop an apocalyptic war that threatens to destroy the Two Kingdoms, unravel a conspiracy, and prevent a powerful sorcerer from severing the world of humans from the realm of the legendary forever.But first Oliver will have to plot an escape from an impregnable palace dungeon where he and his allies have been imprisoned . . . for regicide.As old heroes and friends ally themselves for one last battle, even older enemies stand arrayed against them. Is humanity ready to face its legends head-on? For Oliver Bascombe, the price may be dearer than even he could ever imagine.

Young Parker French is terrified on his first day in kindergarten. But in later years when God peeks in on him, and then he meets Mr. Gray, a ghost in a duster and handsome Stetson hat, he’s okay with it. Strange goings on at the edge of the forest, however, reveal a more sinister presence at work.Young Parker French is terrified on his first day in kindergarten. But in later years when God peeks in on him, and then he meets Mr. Gray, a ghost in a duster and handsome Stetson hat, he’s okay with it. Strange goings on at the edge of the forest, however, reveal a more sinister presence at work. Mr. Gray won’t be able to save him. And Momma . . . well, Momma can’t know. Parker learns that sometimes innocence is no protection against the dark.

An illusionary novel with an interesting virtual reality action rpg game that keeps us playing for hours! Mission Based, Mini-games, dark missions, and massively multiplayer with a unique level-up system and stunning 3D graphics!More haunting...more biting...more interrogating! All your favorite characters from 'Axe' are back in this explosive masterpiece. Play as a Hollownaut and stay plugged into over 15 maps, with an action RPG style combat system and risky gambling maps called 'deprivation' with a high stakes multiplayer rush! Don't get unplugged! Not only is the board game a thrill - the read is also an amusement ride! Marlynn Swanigan takes group reading to the next level with the Hollownaut film academy, which adds right to your level score and rank! All you have to do is connect, play Hollownaut film academy, and count the trophies at the end of the goal sequences to add them to your rank. If you haven't yet purchased this book, get it now, you don't want to be left out. Get it now, and race against your friends to become the number one Hollownaut. See why this book is not a book at all, unlock your inner nuke in this full-fledge RPG! Don’t like the nukes? That’s ok, play as a Dark Gawnden. In the lone-dark missions, you have no clones, but you only gain clones for the exiles in exchange for extra lives in deprivation, where you use their clones to earn respect. The dark saga actually has a great story behind it. You’re just putting in work to get money for the boss, just like the mobsters...

Psychological thriller/horror novella based in a medieval fantasy setting about Vincent Fane Dagabual, a soldier in the North Vellonian Infantry who gets knocked out during battle, and wakes up tied to a dead tree.Polite Temper Boy Book One: The Hermit is a psychological thriller/horror novella based in a medieval fantasy setting about Vincent Fane Dagabual, a soldier in the North Vellonian Infantry who gets knocked out during battle, and wakes up tied to a dead tree. Once awake he realizes he has been abducted by an elderly hermit, an ancient medicine man from a tribe thought to be extinct. The time spend captured gives Vincent a chance to look inwards at his own life, and he finds that he does not like the monster of a human being he has become. This new-found realization spirals him into the memories of his childhood at an abandoned city where he finds that his past, present, and future are somehow intertwined with the hermit, a blind woman, a mysterious beast, and an ancient jail-cell door.

Transgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images--nothing safe or dry. Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive stories selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process and hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, as the best of The Cult workshop. These stories run the gamut from horrific and fantastic to humorous and touching, but each leaves a lasting impression. Some may say even a scar.

A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son—beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill—vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark’s inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law’s funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain. With lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror. From the Hardcover edition.