Set in a 1920s institution, Gina’s insomnia has her witnessing strange happenings at night. Is it her imagination, or is someone playing a Halloween prank on the ladies inside? Gina’s about to find out about that paranormal creatures really exist… namely, werewolves. A historical horror mystery short story originally published in the Shifting Shards anthology. It has been lightly revised and edited, but the core story remains the same.
Apocalypse: Earth is a fast and furious table top skirmish game for squad, platoon and company- size battles, suitable for 20mm miniatures. Each model represents an individual trooper, drone or vehicle and an average size battle will last 1 - 2 hours. Combat is fast and lethal, with an alternating units mechanic which encourages fluid tactical play - easy to learn but hard to master, this ruleset ensures fraught battles with mistakes savagely punished! Choose between the noble Atlantic Alliance, the stoic League Of European Nations, the numberless hordes of the Asian Communist Federation or the evil might of the Holy Soviet Empire in a world gripped by a savage and ceaseless war.
Step into the world of the strange and the bizarre! Stories of a post-apocalypse world where a baby decides to trade his mother for a new one... A police officer makes a ghastly discovery inside and elderly woman's shed... A mentally challenged man has a monster in his closet... And a stranger enters a family's house, bringing a cicada dream... Short stories of the weird and bizarre by Mark Slade and illustrated by Ida Astero.
Fantastic Fearsome Beasts collects 44 beasts from mythology and folklore drawn from cultures all around the world, illustrated with outstanding new full-colour annotated artworks for each character. Alongside easy-to-follow accounts of each character’s story, there are factfile boxes, locator maps and size comparison guides.
A vampire, a witch, a pirate ship, and a kraken… The vampirates of the Blood Queen have discovered their prized pet—a kraken—has been disturbed. Time is of the essence, and they must find a witch who can calm the beast. Will Quartermaster Haskel Huntsman be able to keep his word and return Cicely to her home once the task is complete? Or will she be unable to leave once she steps on board? This short story was originally published in the Blood Tide multi-author anthology (now out of print).
The M'Nele family moves into their new home to discover that they are not the only ones living in the house. With the help of a powerful Seer, Laoise, the family try to discover who the others are and how to deal with so many coming and going, and staying in the house. After having learned to live with the dead, fear still lingers through Aine's bones, as the other Invisible Ones have yet to be figured out. Soon they would know exactly who these other Invisible Ones are, as the mother and daughter are abducted and forced to live aboard the spaceship! Aboard the spaceship the mother and daughter would befriend their captors, who would discover that they are captives themselves. Through the use of a geneticist lab these aliens were designed to be easily controlled. Through a discovery of their past, and with the mother now severely sick, the aliens seek to return the mother and child to their home. After returning to their ship they seek to start a rebellion to free themselves from their tyrant leaders, the Elders. A journey of twists and turns awaits you in this ghost tale like none told before. What becomes of the family? What becomes of the extraterrestrials and the deceased that inhabit the house on the hill?
A Taste of Blood Ever since his abduction by the Eternal Order of Vampires, Gray Donohue has finally found his true calling: vengeance. He will stop at nothing to bring his fellow Impure vampires the freedom they deserve. Now if he could just release his primal need for the beautiful vampire who saved his life--and rules his thoughts and desires... After nearly killing the senator she was assigned to protect, Dillon is now in mortal danger. The jaguar within her has been unleashed, and she can no longer control it. Sex is the only thing that can tame her shift. And Gray is the only man who can make her surrender to a passion strong enough to overpower her inner beast. But she doesn't want to surrender--she wants her life back. Because she is determined never to belong to anyone, especially not Gray--the male whom destiny claims is her mate...
It’s Christmas Eve, and Mila Bernabe has nowhere to be, no one to see. So when her handsome customer needs his order delivered, she offers to do it, even if it’s not in her job description. It’s only when she pulls up to his dark and foreboding mansion that she realizes she might be in over her head. Now, like Alice, who fell into Wonderland, Mila is about to enter a strange world, unlike anything she’s ever experienced before. This short story was originally published in the multi-author anthology, Holiday Bite (now out of print)!
