Lying dormant in the UK for several years, waiting to strike, are two cells of an extremist Islamic movement. Waiting, plotting, scheming, knowing that one day the time will be right to inflict a terror attack on mainland UK that is devastating and irreversible.

It's spring break. Demonology faculty have scattered to the four winds except for Neil Torecki and Teddy Whin, who venture into the alchemists' study garden to rescue a lost colleague.

Bill Danner, an executive with an Orlando, Florida software firm, flies to Pittsburgh a few days before Christmas for a conference. After checking in to his hotel, Danner, a Pittsburgh native, drives to a familiar haunt from his past and has a drink at a local bar. As he leaves, he is mugged, knocked unconscious and dragged into an alley.

The Hub was where all the knowledge of the Inner Planets was stored and Robyn had spent half her life inputting information into its electronic data banks. The Hub was infallible, everyone knew that. It never made mistakes and always told the truth.

Or, at least, that's what Robyn believed. Until the day she was asked to look into the history of Elanthia.

A taste of honey, a taste of blood, of strong liquors and far-away places, of people with skills and those who try to make others believe they do…

Michael Fletcher has the skill to bring you stories from different worlds, different places, heroes with different reasons to be at loose in the night or sometimes even during the day.

In John Klawitter's alternate universes ducks and turtles talk with humans, angels and muses co-exist with humans on the planet earth and aliens are inadvertently wiped out by the Neanderthals.

Some jobs are more trouble than they're worth ...

Hiram Rho, newest member of the Demonology department at the Royal Academy at Osyth, tries to gain his footing among colleagues with specialties like vampirology, classical lechery, and postmodern feminist demonology.

Nearly three months have passed since the plague of death had wiped out most of the world's population. The exact numbers, of course, could not be calculated, since there was no one left to work the computers or maintain the databanks.

Annie Garrow, a full-blooded Mohawk, was walking down a road she had walked down many times. With her were twenty-four dyed ash splint baskets. She was heading to Hogansburg, a small village in New York. She was still on the reservation, she had relatives that lived all around this part of Akwesasne, but she had crossed an invisible line.

When a young woman knocks on Palmer's front door one evening and asks him to find her an alibi for a particular evening sixteen months previously, Palmer thinks it will be an interesting case.

Time is of the essence and Palmer wastes no time in getting started. Within hours his worst fears are realised and he begins to understand that this will be anything but a routine case.

A dying astronaut reveals a secret that blows the lid off a government treaty with extra-terrestrials while other alien races have come to Earth with their own agendas. Meanwhile, an ancient alien race with a base on the Moon makes plans that could spell doom.

Almost Free is what some veterans were and what some were not. The Army Security Agency's highly-classified practice of compartmentalizing people, based on a need to know, keeps operations essential to national security secure, and it makes it impossible for any one person to know or write the whole truth about Freddy Crane's dangerous detour. After all, he wasn't there.

The Star Children are back to save America yet again. They're requested by the military and American patriots to help plan, launch, and defend a revolution in the USA to take back the country from a treasonous and corrupt government.

Through shear dint of effort, Ronald Lump the third, now in his fourth and last term as president, had with tireless campaigning and unprecedented cooperation in both the House and the Senate, been able to whittle away at the 3% who controlled 97% of the wealth. He got it down to 1%. Worse yet, of the 47 candidates who intend to run for office to replace him none are qualified.

What is time? Does it even exist or is it just a construct created in our minds to better understand the world in which we live? We place a great deal of emphasis on it, yet in accordance with what many physicists are finding, we can never know anything other than the eternal now. This paradox is investigated in "An Illusionary Myth", which explains what is time and how it is only an illusion.

It's the undetermined but near future. America's population is plunging, beset by a mysterious plague that robs individuals of their mental faculties before causing catastrophic respiratory failure. One by one, the institutions of society are also failing. Electric power, media, and law enforcement have become nearly nonexistent.

When anti-Semitism is associated with Germany, many think first of the Nazi period. However, anti-Semitism existed politically in the Imperial period and still exists in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Nevertheless, Nazism changed the perception of anti-Semitism socially and politically.

Incredibly, Mike Brannon wins the Power Ball Lottery of almost 300 million dollars, but he already knows how he will spend it. In point of fact, he had been given the winning numbers in advance by aliens for the express purpose of funding and building a survival community prior to Earth's impending collapse of civilization and fall into chaos.

The water world of Apsaran is dying and the humanoid inhabitants are near extinction. The last generation of one hundred, "Blue Team", are infertile and can no longer reproduce. They hope to escape and migrate to Earth, where the only other humanoid race exists. They hope to save their race, in part, by in-breeding with humans for the needed DNA diversity to reverse their infertility.

Hundreds of species, thousands of fears... the bravest person quakes at the sight of a spider, a beetle or any other running,. hiding, web building creature out to find prey... which it does, silently so you are unaware of the presence of the monster before it's too late...

These stories could be too late if you were aiming to overcome arachnophobia...

We all know their stories: Merlin, his prince Arthur and their eternal enemy, Mordred. Or maybe we don't. Arthur Rex reimages their legends as a story that leaps across time, over continents and deep into outer space for an ultimate confrontation which will decide the fate, for good or evil, of all humankind.

Beneath the shimmering veneer of the human world, there is a war raging. Fought between Vampires and Wraith, it has stretched over untold millennia. But the balance of power has shifted, and the Wraith now find themselves, and humanity, facing extinction.

The Wraith have a prophecy that states "A Saint's blood will create a new race.

Owen Roth's life has come to a screeching halt. His beloved wife Morgan, victim of a highway accident, has been in a coma for three months, and her condition has not changed. Owen no longer has the will to live. He decides to end the life of the man responsible for his wife's coma, and then put an end to his own life.

Something is very wrong in the United Prefectures of America - Mr. DeLuxe's Travelling Pleasure Show, that rolling monument to perversion and violence, is back on the road. Actually, that's just one line on the long list of heinous things happening within the giant colonial science experiment.

Way back in time, Cro-magnon man and woman lived in caves as part of a Clan. The Clan was led by a shaman and daily life was harsh and a struggle.

Meet Ky. Her full name is Ky-e-leron, which means Ky, daughter of Leron. Ky has broken through from the distant past to the present day to relate her story of life.

To unravel a puzzle that imperils civilization, the Galaxy's only self-aware computer and its enigmatic human handler must be enticed to abandon their prison planet. Only Computer (yes, that's its name) can solve the puzzle: Why did all humans in the Galaxy, in one searing moment, get back all their missing socks?

When Brad Ellis accidentally runs over a man one night on his way home after work, his life immediately changes. He has strange dreams and hears strange voices, and it isn't long before he realizes he is changing in other ways as well. His habits change, and he develops interests in things he'd never even considered before.

Twenty-two-year-old Laura Neilson lives with her mother, Barbara, in their home in Manville, a small town in southeastern Ohio. Laura hasn't seen or heard from her father since he left and moved to Florida to start a new life five years earlier.

Their quiet life abruptly changes one day when Barbara and Laura are victims of a mugging attempt as they are walking down the street.

Set four years after the events in Fallen Angels, FALLEN ANGELS BIOGENESIS picks up the story of Jake Silver and Alex Robison and their crusade to find the truth about the existence of alien intelligence!

SOMEONE HAS SURVIVED THE DESTRUCTION OF AREA 51.

The Black Opal, a mysterious gem of great power.

A city-kingdom hidden for centuries faces its greatest peril.

Princess Corrine the only heir to the throne is unprepared to deal with the many threats that face her kingdom.

The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy.

Josephine Mowbray flees the butchering of her family at the hand of the Isma'ilites and stumbles into the protecting arms of the Knights Templar. But the Templar are not what they seem, and their mystery will lead Josephine on a journey that changes the very blood in her veins and condemns her to the world of night.

One by one they walk to the podium to tell their story. Family members whose relatives became infamous for crimes of unspeakable violence and unbridled insanity. They unweave their tales to an auditorium filled with young medical students tasked with writing extensive essays on the criminally insane mind.

Welcome to the World You Live In.

It's a mess. It's diseased, polluted, over-populated and too close to the sun. But it's all we have and we're losing it fast, so we may as well have a good laugh before the sun reaches out and reclaims us.

In Blowing Up, Biff Mitchell shakes the foundations of a world gone bad with outrageous dollops of inappropriate humor.

In the tradition of the classic animal fantasy novels of yesteryear comes a new novel… a tale about a young mockingbird and his family and their struggles against prejudice and hate. At its heart, it is a story about the power of love and friendship -- and how a hero is born.

Sonja Slepsik hoped for a family reunion when an offer came to smuggle her out of Ukraine. Little did she realize she would be sold into the sex trade in Canada to help pay down her addicted brother's debts. His parting gift to her is information that she has an uncle living in Canada.

In the late 21st Century, A body is found in the headquarters of the world's largest fast food franchise, Barto Burger, creators of the world's first completely cloned hamburger. The president of the company, Gansheng Barto, has apparently eaten himself to death on his own burgers. Is it really suicide, or is it murder by burger.

When a nasty little plague of people turning into stone in coffee shops around the city threatens the bottom line of the Coffee Cartels and their highly addictive designer coffees, investigative consultant, Boston Jonson, is tossed into a world where everyone is out to either admire him or kill him, a world of annoying weirdoes who are probably better off turned into stone.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November/Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
but do we really know the truth behind that most famous of attempts to blow up the Houses of Parliament? Is Guy Fawkes the evil fiend we have been led to believe he is?

A horrifying glimpse into the not-too-distant future!

Spawned by the effects of Global Warming, those annoying household pests of old have been replaced by an infinitely more vicious species of hybrid insect and froth-spewing rodent…mutated bug and rat swarms which actually seek out and hunger for human flesh!

When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots.

One shop, two Tiffany style lamps, three people.

Here we are, five years later, known right across the island, visited by customers, browsers and dealers alike. We three became two, the shop became 'pretty' (according to some visitors) 'interesting', 'eclectic' ??

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...

Thirty years ago, Zachary Cane was held prisoner and tortured by an ancient vampire known as Caitlin. With the help of a local coven of witches, and a vampire hunting order called the Gwyliad Wriaeth, they destroyed Caitlin.

Or so Cane thought...

The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy's magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels.

A change is as good as a rest - says the old adage, but is that true in real life? Have the newcomers in your work/home place shown their true colours? Is there a risk in going from one place to another? Is the harmless pet all it seems to be and do you find yourself wondering who you can really trust...

One small change and your world can be turned upside down.

Life is a game of chess and we have been programming our computers to play it for generations; each time honing the programs to work smarter, faster, with more efficiency and higher accuracy than ever before.

A stroke of fate saw two memory cards being swapped.

Stan Boyko, an RCMP officer from Winnipeg, Canada, and his wife, Sonja, travel to Hungary on their honeymoon. Sonja also hopes to find her brother, Feri, who may still live in Budapest. The last time Sonja saw her brother he was involved with drug and human trafficker, Sipos Sandor.

After the shooting down of a Korean civilian airliner by a Soviet MiG over Sakalin Island, President Ronald Reagan, who believes his hand is guided by God, seizes the moment and embarks on a non-stop, no holds barred worldwide anti-Soviet campaign.

Chloe The Clone is a suspense set in the year 2020. Part Romancing the Stone (romantic, comedic, with inept bad guys), part Paper Moon (feel good, sentimental, and quirky), Chloe The Clone nevertheless poses a serious story question: what does a man do when he comes to love the child who was cloned to give him a new heart?

Clonal Transplants, Inc.

What would it be like if you woke up tomorrow morning and all computing infrastructure had vanished? It's a scary thought! Now move forward three decades, when quantum computing and artificial intelligence prevents collapse as the result of unsustainable development of an over-populated planet. A hacker attack that destroys this isn't scary, it's apocalyptic!

Lindsay Foreman becomes acutely aware of horrible dangers after helping an old woman struck by a car and left for dead on a Central Florida highway. As the old woman slips closer to death, she tells Lindsay she must give her something. Lindsay has no idea what the woman is talking about and assumes she is delirious.

In the mid 21st century, common mode failure results from a huge electro-magnetic pulse from the sun, dwarfing anything seen in recorded history. This destroys all unprotected electrical or electronic equipment which, with 70% of the world's population living in urban areas, effectively removes all services required to support them.

Six years have passed since Area 51 and S-4 were destroyed in Fallen Angels. It has been almost two years since the biological threat of The Yellow D

The Keeper has malfunctioned and the creators are returning to Earth to find out why...

In Egypt, an ancient prophecy is found dating back 5,000 years that points to something horrific. It's up to Dr.

On the remote grounds of an isolated Mississippi penitentiary, a long buried evil crawls towards the surface, the unbridled rage seething within it's rotted form matched only by the poisonous virus incubating inside it's surging veins.

Daniel Goleznovitch was born on the 16th November in the early part of the 20th Century in Potsdam in Germany; the last child of David and Eva Goleznovitch. There were already three children living in the small flat above the pawnbroker's shop: David Junior, Rosa and Solomon.

For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today's globalized society, if we could understand it.

Thousands of years ago Earth was visited, colonized and ruled by an immortal alien race from the planet Titan. These immortals were considered gods by the indigenous population ... humans. These gods ruled Earth from Mount Olympus, but they made a serious mistake ...

Private Investigators and lawyers fighting the world, the man-eating tiger fighting for food, this goes from one extreme to the other, all of it fascinating, all of it cold and bloody...

In this volume we have:-

Iced (Rie Sheridan Rose)
The Danger of Approachment (Dona Fox)
It's Quiet beneath the Music (Rickey Rivers Jr.)
Is Love A Funny Thing?

Claire Belmont lives in a loveless marriage and seeks solace in the arms of other men. When she and her girlfriend, Carmen Garcia, witness a murder, her life spins out of control. After being kidnapped, she is framed for a murder she didn't commit. She must rely on the only friends that believe in her and the good will of a detective to beat the murder rap.

The latest publication from Gravestone Press, Dark Tales Volume 1, brings you another superb collection of evil thoughts, nasty people, blood guts and torment, in no particular order.

Not For Late Night Reading.

In this volume we have:-

Night In Our Veins (Paul Edwards)
The Quiet Ones (Liam A.

The horror from Gravestone Press continues with Dark Tales Volume 2. This volume brings you another superb collection of evil thoughts, nasty people, blood guts and torment, in no particular order.

Not For Late Night Reading.

In this volume we have:-

Necrotic Epiphany ?(Paul Edwards)
Sunday Service (Rickey Rivers Jr.

The ancient vampire hunting order known as the Gwyliad Wriaeth has a dark secret. It's entwined so deeply in the order that very few know about it, but it threatens to unravel everything they stand for.

We are those who are to blame.

My name is Davy Fuchs and this is my story. I'm in my therapist's office. He's my fourth therapist. I liked what he said on his website: It stated that he believed the role of a therapist was to help a client explore the meaning one attaches to something. So, impressed with this, I had been writing to him for several months.

A man with no memory has only one clue to his identity: a four-sided insignia engraved on his sword and ring. He has barely begun his quest to learn who he is when he's confronted by a knight named Sir Borus Renovar, who demands his name and asks if he's signed something called a "fastle pledge," the work of someone known as the "Ordseer.

W

Return to the Steam Punk world of Magnellum for the second book in the "Witch-Born" series.

Magic is gone and Valeda Quinlan knows it, she just can't prove it. Determined to learn the truth, Valeda finds herself at the mercy of Elsie Delgora, the last known Witch to have ever seen Magic.

When the dead rise they stop being nice. They're not your friend. They're not your relative, acquaintance, lover, neighbor, or that person who says hi to you at work. The dead have one desire; the blood of the living. They come in the night, and they don't stop. Only the sun holds them back if you can make it to dawn.

When Professor Jake Stoughton and Dr. Jenna Corey dive to the Andrea Doria, 250 feet below the Atlantic, it's a recovery operation for a reward placed on the remains of the 17th diver to the shipwreck, Thom Richards--last man to lose his life in the effort. The motivation is to create a documentary on the seemingly unluckiest place below the waves.

The Wars of the Roses were terrible years when armies swept back and forth across England and kings were the pawns of arrogant nobles. In these savage times, three royal brothers defeated all those who would rob them of the throne but then, from within, they faced a new enemy.

A financial advisor and amateur rock collector gains control of a ski resort only to discover the person he's outsmarted is better at murder than money.

Thus begins a web of intrigue, action and adventure where greed comes up against deceit and crime.

Could the South have won the Civil War? This question has been asked and answered affirmatively dozens of times. But how likely was it, in reality? Now Andrew J. Heller (Gray Tide in the East) explores this fascinating subject using the tool of counterfactual analysis, instead of uninformed opinion, to look for an answer in Decision at Antietam.

Extensively revised and re-written in a more professional and experienced style, Fiction4all proudly presents these second-edition versions of Charles J. Schneider's two debut novellas in a single volume.

In the year of 1972, Delilah, young hippy girl from Iowa, wanders over to tour Europe. Traversing the Aegean Sea on a rusty old ferry, Delilah falls overboard unseen and vanishes without trace amidst the archipelago of Greek islands.

Although she is feared lost, Delilah is, in fact, rescued although by somebody quite outside her experience.

When Frank Langley learns that a childhood nuisance has died, he makes the mistake of driving to the cemetery to look at the grave. The next day, he hears a voice in his kitchen and realizes that the voice belongs to the man he visited the previous day. From that day on, he is teased and tormented relentlessly.

Sexy, sassy and dead, Tiffany LeBouf is pulled into Hell by the incompetent demon Gutril. Paired with the demon Chip, she is sent to find Gutril after he is summoned to Ohio by a teenage girl goofing off with a spell she'd found online. They are given three days to find Gutril and bring him back before he can select a mortal host and remain here.

After successfully sending Gutrillus Canus back to Hell, Tiffany LeBouf and her sidekick Chip, the mischievous inferior demon, are sent to Central Florida on a brand-new assignment??"to find a delinquent inferior brought up by Braithwaite, the super demon who has come up from Hell to replace Balberith.

Sexy, sassy and dead, Tiffany LeBouf, aided by her dead friend Chip, the trickster, continue their wild adventures in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they've gone to help their friend Ashley escape the powerful super demon Braithwaite, who wants revenge for how the three of them sabotaged his Central Florida multi-billion-dollar land deal.

After triumphing over Andras, the subordinate demon assigned to hunt them down in Pittsburgh, Tiffany and Chip make their way to Peoria, Illinois, where Tiffany was born and raised. Tiffany wants to settle the score with her stepdad, the man responsible for destroying her relationship with her mother and also for forcing Tiffany to leave home and move to Hollywood, where she was later murdered.

In this fifth and final episode of the series, Tiffany and Chip return to Hollywood, California, where Tiffany's life had tragically ended six months earlier. In the process, they encounter three demons who intend to take them back to Florida, to face the wrath of the super demon Braithwaite, who has been chosen to control America for the next hundred years.

Vogel is a spy for the Teutonic Order, rulers of the city of Rittershafen, who spends his time chasing down villains and indulging his love of good beer.

Life is good and uncomplicated.

Framed for a murder he didn't commit, second-tier superhero Ben Thomason, known in the trades as 'Desolation Outlaw', is convicted and sentenced to life in prison at Eagle Island Detention Center, a top secret, billion dollar penitentiary that houses only the elite of super-villains and super- hero's gone bad.

Tucked cozily away within the majestic mountain ranges of Northern Wyoming, the Jasper Outpost serves as a federally mandated rehabilitation facility for superheroes gone to seed; a desolate yet picturesque rest stop on the road to recovery for specially-endowed types having fallen from grace.

On the brink of a religious war between Makeem and Novo Femina, Celeocia Prosser's struggle for gender equality leads her to Reesa Zimms; the one woman in all of history who can identify the first Mavirus victim. Believing the information surrounding this patient zero to be pivotal in the fight against the Makeem, Celeocia sets her sights on Reesa Zimms, also known as Caresse Zimmerman.

The point is, with DEVILS, that scene in the doctor's office really did happen to me. The doc, who was a pretty good pal of mine, actually said I had a small implant near the joint of my left thumb.

Inspired by a true story.

Is there life after death? It's a question best-selling horror novelist Jack Devlin is desperately trying to answer since his wife's suicide.

This book is a tertiary source coming from a course I taught on Rethinking Pre-history and the possibility of Atlantis existing. It is a compilation of information, investigations and research.

What this book doesn't look at is UFO's, aliens or the supernatural. If you are looking for that, this book isn't for you.

Pushing a '40 hot rod Ford to the limit, sensible Freddy, wise guy Rafferty, and the incandescent Neal McCord race over the border to borrow a Canadian flag but run smack into a wicked brooding mass of ugly, stone-faced Mafiosi wanna be's. In a 'refusing-to-die' game, they end up with a bank bag that leads them to the Jungle Inn Casino.

The wild vivid imaginations of Gravestone authors cannot be expressed in a short blurb, it is revealed in all its violent gory in this wide ranging anthology, stories of all kinds written by authors from around the world. They have come together in a collection which truly leaves the reader dipping into blood...

In this anthology we have:-

Imminent Signs ??

Born of the smokeless flame in the wilderness of prehistoric Arabia, a djinni comes into being. A creature of pure energy, he takes the form of a green-tinged blue flame that feeds off the life forces of human kind, taking pleasure in death and terror. A chance encounter with a shepherd on a mountain alters the course of his existence.

Earth is Ours, a fresh and uniquely original story line, bridges many genres. A symbiotic relationship develops between a self-aware female computer and an American Indian man dying of old age. This is a forced relationship dictated by mutual needs for survival in a world stripped of technology by aliens.

Earth's Dragons is the continuing saga and greatly anticipated second sequel of the award winning book, Earth is Ours, Best Fantasy/SciFi 2005 from the prestigious San Diego Book Awards Association. The first sequel, Target Earth, placed Finalist in the same awards for 2006. The beloved characters developed in the original story evolve and begin an exciting new adventure in the sequel.

What might the grey, part tumbled Cyclopean stones of Mycenae, a city said once to be rich in gold, tell us of her past if they could speak? The great wall surrounding the city, standing proud to keep out her enemies some three and a half thousand years ago, today proclaims in silence the depredations of men and of time.

Emergence is a science fiction thriller set in the near future, when supercomputers are ubiquitous and the knowledge engineers who manage them have inordinate power. Two such engineers, Fallon and O'Neil, are the main protagonists in a battle to control "backdoors" that allow computer systems to be hacked without trace.

Lynn Monroe finds herself out in the middle of the woods in Southeastern Ohio, miles from civilization, being chased by two half-drunk country boys bent on raping and killing her. Her only means of escape lies in the steep, weed-choked hill straight ahead. At its crest, a large weather-beaten house overlooks the eerie hillside.

Hank Lee, a field representative for a large construction corporation in Orlando, Florida, is having a drink in a bar one night when he spots a woman who reminds him of someone he'd loved seven years earlier and foolishly let slip through his fingers.

An amazing discovery has been made on Jupiter's third largest moon that could lead to the extinction of mankind.

An alien artefact sits quietly under five miles of ice and ocean on Europa. It has been inactive for millions of years, but as humans reach out into space and begin to colonize, it is accidentally woken.

Exposure tells the story of Dante Addison, a shy academic, and Giulia, a bold, sexy artist and model. Dante falls in love with Giulia when he is a graduate student, after she asks him to pose as the nude model for her photography class. She breaks his heart, and his unrequited love for her changes his life forever.

Sensitive things, necessary things, how would we cope if our sight was taken from us? Come inside and explore the blood soaked world of Eyes - and see (ha!) where the story can take you.

This epic volume of horror contains the following:-

Where the Crow Flies - Wendy Lynn Newton
When Eyes Don't Close ??

Jake Silver is an ex-FBI agent who just wants to settle into the quiet life of being a private investigator in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Christina Anderson, the daughter of Jake's newest clients, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Anderson, is an average high school student who appears to have been abducted and raped.

Far from Paradise is the continuation of the story begun in Jagged Edge Horizon.

Colonel Hanssen and the Norwegians have emerged victorious in their war with the corporate army, but it has brought them troubling revelations about Oslo and the truth behind the Singularity.

In the course of an investigation, Private Detective Adam Brooks encounters a beautiful woman whose mysterious past points to serious intrigue. Meanwhile, Richard Warden, CEO and owner of WarCo, Inc., the Orlando-based software empire, meets a beautiful green-eyed young redhead in one of his favorite bars and is immediately taken by her beauty and sophistication.

In this latest installment in The Funny Detective series, Ralph Deacon once again enlists the aid of his faithful partner, the beautiful and very dead Mike, to find out why the niece of his friend Neil Haversack, Chief of Detectives in the Orlando Police Department, was the recent victim of a kidnapping attempt.

Gratification is the new religion. Countless temples cover the last remaining city, Scelus, filled with sex-bots to accommodate the faith. Mira, the figurehead of the resistance, is awoken by her long time team-mate Horatio as a bot. This confirms their worst suspicion, that humans are somehow being used to create the lifeless machines.

Flotsy is cursed.

Dark, violent visions assault her dreams, visions that foresee the future. For a young girl in a small fishing village this is taboo. At seventeen, she boards a bus to somewhere no one knows of her and her curse. The city is at once alarming and exciting, and her visions are quiescent for a time.

Charles I is one of those enigmatic monarchs whose life story never fails to fascinate historians and readers alike. But, like so many historical figures, mention his name to most people and they will remember so few things about him: in this case, that he caused a Civil War; was held prisoner in Carisbrooke Castle, was tried as a traitor and beheaded.

Blat (an unfortunate name for a singer) is a young farmer boy recruited by the Minstrels' Guild. Fourteen years later, he has completed his studies and been a Touring Minstrel ever since. Blat needs material for a new song and follows clues in an ancient text. While travelling near Whitecap Island's glacier, silent assailants herd him into a cavern within a mountain.

Danvedi Garwal is the highest peak in the Toribol system; a magnificent stratocone volcano rising high above the surface of the tiny Lochlon moon, Utha. The mountain remains unconquered after repeated attempts by climbers from dozens of worlds where alpine climbing is an interplanetary obsession.

Wanna be film producer Matt Havoc is a veteran struggling to recover from war injuries when he gets the opportunity of a lifetime - the chance to do a docudrama telling the life story of NFL superstar Ripper Brown. But some dangerous gangsters will do anything to stop that story from being told.

Looking like a white-headed weasel, hunched over the steering wheel of a 1950 red Mercury, socially incompetent Fast Eddie impatiently waits. Escaping from horror-filled corridors of frustration and despair, Breed lifts a hand in farewell and slides in. Eager for what is about to happen, his bright-faced friends pile in. Doors bam shut. Tires roll.

Freedom is a small word with far ranging implications for those who crave it... Gravestone Press writers have brought blood guts and mayhem to their stories and given a new look and meaning to the word...

Jessica Teasdale has a problem. Actually she has several. Jessica is a survivor of the Uptown Fever. Uptown Fever was a whole host of crap that rampaged through Uptown Town on the L-2 colony. The main part was a virus that caused fever that could fry your brain.

The only lesson we learn from history, is that we are doomed to repeat it. A third world war devastated the planet but from it, a new order emerged along with a different way of governance. Chemical warfare had wrecked havoc not only with the earth and the sources of food, but also with the animals and humans that survived.

Fifty one contestants, each over forty years of age and having earned the distinction of representing their state of birth, vie for the ultimate prize in a futuristic foot race that will stretch the limits of sanity and endurance.

Capt. Nick Johns, a wounded and quadriplegic Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War, is approached by assertive government officials, who, unbelievably, recall him to active duty to serve humanity. He is chosen because of his self-sacrificing war record and his unique ability to survive depression resulting from his debilitating injury.

The arduous 200 light year space journey from a destroyed Earth is finally over. Now Captain Nick Johns and the crew of the spaceship Genesis must carve out space on a new world to colonize. Unfortunately, their new home planet, Genesis Prime, is already inhabited by three sentient races, one of which is human transplanted from Earth in the 3rd Century BC by aliens needing slave labor.

Do not play this game. This is the standard disclaimer given to anyone who wishes to encounter the supernatural through a potentially dangerous ritual, or "game." It sounds innocent enough, as each one is named after an everyday object: the closet game, the elevator game, the telephone game…how scary can it really be?

As it turns out, games can be terrifying. And even deadly.

This is a compelling and utterly riveting story of fully fledged women's fiction, with an enchanting theme of intrigue and sensual passion running through it.

The story is about a young Columbian girl who lived in poverty until she was sixteen and a half when she was adopted by a famous photographer who takes her to New York.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a man who held the ultimate powerful position and who paid the ultimate price, is still regarded as a hero by some and the last gunslinger in the west by others. Countless books, countless conspiracy theories, none of them from the man himself until now.

Tidal Effects is the sequel to Gray Tide in the East, the popular alternate history of the First World War. In Gray Tide, the Germans cancel their planned invasion of Belgium in 1914, turning their armies eastward to crush Russia without interference from Great Britain or the United States. Tidal Effects picks up the story in 1923. In High Tide, the U.S.

August 1, 1914, Berlin: Kaiser Wilhelm II cancels the German invasion of Belgium over the objections of his generals, sending his armies East against Russia instead of West to France, and sets off a chain of events that will radically change the course of modern history.

Meeryle, a blooming chubby cook, and her friend Leena, an apprentice-Healer, never knew how strange and interesting life could be until they met a dragon. Much to their surprise, the creature is not a ferocious carnivore, but a gentle giant caring for a particular aspect of their world, the forest.

Halloween has been done to death (excuse the pun!) over the years but the brilliant Gravestone Press authors ignored that and came up with exciting and suitably horror laden stories for your Halloween reading treat. Children versus adults, spooks versus anyone they can find, the stories range far and wide, resulting in an anthology Gravestone Press is proud to add to its catalogue.

Dr. Wilson not only reveals what a shaman does to heal; he provides specific instruction in how to detect your flow of energy and how to replenish your loss of energy.

Do you know certain herbs help you heal? Do you know crystals can help you sleep better? Do you know essential oils can build your immune system?

When her flirtatious boss takes her for a drive to the Southeastern Ohio woodlands on a Friday afternoon to look at a real estate investment, raven-haired Bobbie Marsh realizes that this is just another attempt on his part to get her alone. Little does either of them know that this half-hour drive will quickly turn into a nightmare.

Open the door to Hidden Worlds where the light of day is gone and fear arises to stalk the unsuspecting.

It can happen any time - in the shopping centre, a country village, a desert land or a holiday - when the invisible portal swings aside in silence and the unsuspecting passer-by unknowingly passes through.

Open the door to Hidden Worlds where the light of day is gone and fear arises to stalk the unsuspecting.

It can happen any time - in the shopping centre, a country village, a desert land or a holiday - when the invisible portal swings aside in silence and the unsuspecting passer-by unknowingly passes through.

An Exciting New Matinee Episodic Thriller by John Klawitter

Clever and energetic Matt Havoc thought he'd seen everything. As long-time assistant to B-movie Hollywood film mogul Vinnie Berger, he's learned to think quick and move fast.

'I want to be a writer.' Words that come easy for a life that isn't. Writing can be all consuming, all demanding, taking time away from normal interests, sport, TV, visiting, you name it, writing can interrupt it.

Are you tired of trying to manifest your intentions into realty?

Here is the answer to why you fail.

Making an intention is so much more than just "wishful thinking".

This little book spells it out for you, and provides activities to help bring success in getting what you want from life.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could try out various ethical and moral decisions without getting into trouble? How to make Ethical and Moral Decisions, A Guide provides you with specific philosophy-based case studies covering a wide range of topics: sexual, business, property rights and environmental issues.

What do you think of when the word HUNTED comes to mind? Someone running, or a different take, someone searching for miracles of life - there are many interpretations and the talented Gravestone writers found a good many of them...

Lose yourself in the blood, guts and dangers of being hunted.

Ralph Deacon has been arrested and charged with the violent murder of a local Orlando stripper. Although the evidence against him is meager at best, he knows he must solve this case to clear his name.

As a medium I am used to spirits walking in and working with me. There are a lot of books out there with my name on, all of which have been dictated by spirit authors. Richard Laymon arrived some time before we actually began work on the novel he wanted to write: he was just there, a companion whilst I fought my way through the process of getting the first channelled book into the public arena.

"28th June, 1491 was a momentous day for England. Sadly England did not realise it at the time. I came kicking and squalling into this world, full of vigour, full of strength and hearty of lungs. God be witness to this, what was the first thing they did? Put me to the breast. Now I ask you... what chance did a man have of growing up to be indifferent to women when they did that!

Living in the herd mentality of 1957, not only are Breed and his friends treated like the scum of the earth, a child molesting psychopath wants to cut their ears off. If they do nothing, they will be imprisoned in Traptown's drudgery and live in fear for the rest of their lives.

Jason, a proven warrior, wants to experience more of life so foolishly accepts a wager from Pelias, king of a rival city, committing him to undertake a perilous voyage to obtain the fabled Golden Fleece from the little known land of Colchis far away to the east. Jason is, unknowingly, a pawn in the hands of Hera, wife of almighty Zeus, who intends to use him as a means to destroy Pelias.

Blond hair flowing from a gorgeous girl's head caught his eye. A red dress accented her sensuous curves, and her tanned legs flowed down to her baby doll shoes. With her hair swaying lazily behind her and her face partially hidden by sunglass, she slipped lithely past and stopped at the door of a 1962 white Cadillac convertible.

Jack Clarkson wakes up and finds himself in a beautiful meadow filled with flowers and lush green grass, and a giant pine forest looming a hundred yards straight ahead. He has no idea how he got there, nor does he remember seeing such a place before. The last thing he remembers is driving to work earlier that morning.

Ernest R. Rugenstein has a Ph.D. in Cultural History. He teaches honors courses at a local college and investigates archaeological sites in the Adirondacks. His specialities include Historical Research, Native American History and Archaeology.

This is his compilation of inspired writings by Dale.

Fifty years after first contact, Earth has entered a golden age of technology and space exploration … Until a singularity erupts and a rogue AI destroys a capital city. Now the Earth is mired in depression, and humanity is distrustful of technology and suspicious of its alien allies.

In the broken state of Norway, Colonel Hanssen must protect his city??

Chief Inspector John Alker was inside his home when a large section just vanished, with him inside. A gas explosion was the official conclusion, but Billy, a good friend to John, knew better, he suspected that the time machine had taken the house and John away, but where?

At long last he accepted that John would not be returning, lost in the annals of time.

Ralph Deacon is back at it, this time to do a small favor for his ex-wife, which should take him less than an hour. But he soon finds himself in the middle of murder, kidnapping, drug smuggling, and a brand-new escort service starting up in the Orlando area. Can he handle this tiny matter on his own? Or will he once again need help from his mysterious friend Mike?

Detective Jim Holmes moved from the London Met to Tokyo in order to widen his experience, working with the fabled Chief Inspector Stella Koide. This turns out to be much more than he bargained for, when the murder of a Kabuki-cho prostitute leads to identification of a series of sadistic murders far beyond his worst nightmares.

They say everything comes in threes. Here's three rib tickling tales featuring three characters in three very different time periods and situations.

Kelly's Full House is a great short story collection that will lift your spirits and help get you through your day by dealing with some of the most taboo subjects ??" The Press, death and politics.

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The key is the empowerment, those who hold the key to the car has the keys to the highway... here are stories of haunted roads and strange vehicles, of wild driving and those driven by the need for revenge... follow the wheels, see where they take you - just beware which way you come back...

Matthew is just trying to hold the wreckage of his life together after his girlfriend left him for another woman. A chance to review a West End play seems like a lucky break, until it turns into an X-rated nightmare. The next day London tears itself apart, people make love in the streets and kill each other over a dirty sandwich.

Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner's youngest son run away to live together.

When Robert bumps into Julie at Orlando National Airport, they instantly become attracted to one another. Later, as they share a cab, Julie senses immediate danger. She quickly alerts the driver, who manages to prevent them from being involved in a fatal accident.

Marie Benjamin has arranged to meet her son and daughter whom she hasn't seen since they were children. Arriving at the hotel in London very early we're privy to her candid thoughts as she recalls the traumas which played a big part in her life.

Alex and Anne end up working in Washington D.C. at a Catholic Church. A new anti-religion group is gaining momentum and becoming much more violent. Alex is positive the Dark is behind this new group and sets forth to stop them. During her investigation, she meets up with a Secret Service Agent who was injured during one of the attacks.

Without warning, the Dark is starting to tip the scale to rule over the humans. God needs to activate a new Lite Sentry. This chosen human is asked to battle the Infiltrators and Demons the Dark is sending to Earth.

Osiah has a special insight to the Dark and is asked to train the newly activated Lite Sentry.

The Dark challenges those who accept the Lite in all forms; most are physical, some are not, but they are all a matter of life and death. Salamor, the Dark Myst, is putting forth Vandor's plan to permanently keep the balance in favor of the Dark. Lite Sentries protect the lives of people who have the blissful ignorance of not knowing the danger from which they are protected.

When it rains, it pours! Alex successfully thwarted the Dark's plans to tip the Balance. In the aftermath, the Catholic Council finds itself running short on trusted members within the assembly. Alex embraces her role as a Lite Sentry not knowing that Kameron is confronted with a life-altering decision. In the meantime, Anne is hiding in the turmoil of dealing with life without Kale.

DCI Julie Ashton arrives at her new posting. She is booked into a hotel, and as she is settling in, her phone rings, alerting her to a suspicious death.

Lady Sophie Mac Adams has collapsed at a dinner party having been poisoned.

Julie needs to work out if she was the intended victim? Was her husband to blame to avoid a divorce settlement?

The Archangel Gabriel walked the earthplane with Jesus during his lifetime. This is the story of how that all came about, what happened, how the archangel felt during that time and how he coped with this unusual and very precious assignment. The story is told with humour, emotion and overwhelming love.

Fourteen-year-old Tabby Kendrick believes she sees a mugging and possible kidnapping. Unable to get satisfaction from the local police department, she seeks out the help of Private Investigator Ralph Deacon.

Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today's up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. Award-winning author Karen Duvall sends a Millennial Alice through a very different looking glass, and acclaimed author Lee Barwood sends the Sight-gifted bard of her upcoming series into the passionate world of faerie to hunt for a child ??

Lieutenant Harold Tecumseh Anderson is watching a very attractive data tech in the reflective face of her computer monitor. Suddenly the face he sees isn't hers, but a stranger ??" a mirror-walker who is entering the room through the monitor's mirror-like surface.

In 2344, Terra is the most backward planet ever granted membership in the Galactic Confetory. It has two exports: the consumingly immersive medium called "senso" … and Earth religions, which jaded Galactics just can't get enough of.

From the planet Vatican, Roman Catholicism teaches that God sends his Son to world after world.

In Milo's Burden, a wooden carving is brought to life by the ancient and forgotten Lifefire. But the new-born woman, Malissa, has a terrible flaw: her only emotion is rage. It feeds the power that surges through her and will not let her rest until she holds the entire world in a vicious death grip. The crew of the Pride and the inhabitants of mythical Uamh struggle to thwart her plans.

The word pandemic tends to cause fear, based mainly on experience with COVID ??" a highly transmissive but relatively mild disease compared to others such as Ebola and Black Plague.

The year is 1143, the setting the beautiful Isle of Skye in medieval Scotland. Rhys MacAulaed is a handsome, powerful Gaelic warlord who often travels the countryside disguised as a commoner. During one of his excursions, he meets and falls in love with Gwen, a beautiful peasant maiden. Rhys decides to make Gwen his wife and lady, but he is coerced into entering a politically expedient union.

Eight long reads from very different writers for you to enjoy.

In this volume we have:-

Woodenhead Haunts My Dreams ??" David Turnbull

The Death Of Each Day's Life ??" Brooke MacKenzie

DJ vs. the Corona-Dogman - Edward R. Rosick

Hellen On Earth ??" R W Goldsmith

The Ghost Of Christmas Past ??

Monstrous Tales 3 - looooong stories with loads of room for blood and gore... a few of our top writers bring you the nightmares which must haunt them by night... and which will give you nightmares by day...\r\n\r\nIn this volume of longer stories we have...\r\n\r\nAll Hail The Melon Heads - Edward R. Rosick\r\nOne Long Hot Deadly Month of Summer - SJ Townend\r\nBlood Worms - Jason R.

No. 4 in our series of MONSTROUS TALES is here. Our longer stories collection is appealing because of that small factor, longer stories - tales to spend time walking in different areas and lands. This issue has stories from some of our top writers. If you've not tried their fiction before, discover some 'new to you' names. We're sure you will be back for more.

MONSTROUS TALES VOL 1

Six long reads from six very different writers for you to enjoy.