The Kentucky State penitentiary opened its heavy iron gates to the condemned over 100 years ago—yet many of them, long deceased, still walk its corridors. Noted paranormal researcher Steve E. Asher provides true, first-hand accounts of the paranormal as well as his own personal experiences at the state’s most violent, controversial—and haunted—prison. He uncovers the shocking testimonies of the men and women who have actually worked behind the prison walls and their encounters with the spirits of dead inmates.The compelling facts found inside this book will leave you questioning everything you ever thought possible about life after death.
The darkest stories from the nefarious “Castle on the Cumberland” from a former prison guard and paranormal expert. “The place sits on blood as surely as it does on stone and earth.” The Kentucky State penitentiary opened its heavy iron gates to the condemned over 100 years ago—yet many of them, long deceased, still walk its corridors. Noted paranormal researcher Steve E. Asher provides true, first-hand accounts of the paranormal as well as his own personal experiences at the state’s most violent, controversial—and haunted—prison. He uncovers the shocking testimonies of the men and women who have actually worked behind the prison walls and their encounters with the spirits of dead inmates. The compelling facts found inside this book will leave you questioning everything you ever thought possible about life after death.
Kentucky is known primarily for horse racing, bourbon and fried chicken, but the "Dark and Bloody Ground" has a mysterious side as well. Kentuckians talk about their own "Hillbilly Beast," believed to have frightened campers at Mammoth Cave National Park. The gnarled and twisted Witches' Tree is a favorite on Louisville ghost tours. Kentucky's UFO incidents--like Thomas Mantell's mysterious plane crash, the Hopkinsville alien attack and the Paintsville train-UFO crash--are as puzzling and frightening now as they were when they happened. Folklore writer Alan Brown chronicles these strange stories and others that are very much a part of the unique culture of Kentucky.
Athena will pay dearly for her determination to die in peace. Athena’s time grows shorter by the day. The fresh pain in Athena’s chest tells her she’s nearing the end of her journey—one way or the other. But she and Michelle are closer than ever to their goal. After finally crossing the Rockies, the pair soon find themselves in the middle of a pitched battle between the vile Iron Cross and a military group called the New California Republic. The NCR claim to want to restore order to the wasteland through their New Eden project. Athena agrees to help them—if they can help get her to California. But a calamitous attack on an NCR stronghold sends those plans awry and Athena finds herself relentlessly hunted by the leader of the Iron Cross and his goons. Her only option is to floor the gas and keep the Hellcat going, get back in touch with the NCR, and help them in their war against the Iron Cross. Athena’s determined to get to New Eden and the redwoods—but she’ll pay a hefty price.
"The zombies have escaped from behind the wall. As they sweep across the northeast the zombies' path is marked by havoc and death as they destroy everything in their path. World leaders turn their backs on their North American allies and institute a full quarantine against them. Former allies fire on planes and sink boats full of Americans fleeing the carnage. Into this nightmare world are thrust several unlikely heroes. Captain Mike Miranda, a full-time National Guard soldier, leads his company of tanks on a harrowing journey from New York City towards the Appalachian Defensive Line, dealing death and destruction to the zombie horde while battling bureaucracy and incompetence at the highest levels. Shawn Ford, a restaurant owner from Newark, becomes the reluctant leader of a small group of refugees trapped behind the zombie advance as they fight for their own survival and end up facing demons of a different sort. Grayson Donnelly, the hero of the first zombie war six years ago, must rise to fight again. This time it's against marauding Mexican drug cartel attempting to establish their own enclave in the Texas desert. Donnelly has to fight against the first invasion of the continental United States in over two hundred years. Retired CIA operative Asher Hawke, aka the Kestrel, is compelled by vengeance to return to the Dead City to settle old scores against the zombies. This time, he will stop at nothing to destroy the Master of the Chosen and eliminate the zombie threat--and save the nation that he's dedicated his life to protect."--Page 4 of cover.
2099 A.D. With billions around the globe jobless, a spiraling crime rate, and an unquenchable demand for offworld human labor and soldiers, Earth’s rulers implement voluntary and forced transportation to other planets. Among those compelled to go offworld are criminals and the unemployed. Serve your sentence and maybe you will get the coveted “Second Chance at Life the Way It Should Be.” Condemned killer Mace Christopher is just another piece of human flotsam lost among the hopeless majority of humanity’s teeming billions. The odds are against him and getting worse. He’s had at least one memory wipe and his wife and former life are both lost to him forever. When he is sentenced to Test Group Six on the hell planet known as Baachus III, he knows his chances of survival—let alone a Second Chance—just got slimmer. Some people like a challenge.
"Kat doesn't know whether she and the crew can survive the apocalypse--or be doomed to stagger woodenly about, slowly assuming room temperature. Just ask Katherine Cho and her friends. The unlikely crew of the Screamin' Mimi thought they'd seen everything. Hungry corpses rising from the dead, chaos in the streets and people treated as hors d'oeuvres. Unfortunately, that was just the beginning" -- Amazon.com.
Badass bikers and National Guard soldiers fight for survival against the savage victims of a mysterious infection. Minty McInness, former Marine, Gulf War veteran and the right-hand man of the charismatic madman who leads the motorcycle gang The Locusts, has seen it all. When the badass bikers raid a drug dealer’s house for fun and profit they find a lot more than crack cocaine and piles of money. The drugs are contaminated and they turn the users into bloodthirsty monsters with a contagious bite—sparking an apocalypse of bloodshed and terror that threatens to engulf the nation. A National Guard recon team on a desperate mission finds the city awash in panic and bloodshed and joins Minty in a fight to survive against the growing legion of infected. On a desperate mission for answers before the outbreak spreads, Minty and his people are going to have to fight their way through Hell.
Xavier Delacroix must travel back into the Dark WOrld to take back the Great Vampire's sword. But he finds the Dark World has changed since his last visit, and the one who holds the sword is not ready to give it up.
Everything will burn. With magic restored to its rightful place, Dracula’s secrets push Xavier to leave The Order of the Dragon behind. He strikes out on his own—driven by the sultry voice that continues its heady call through his mind. Pulled to the one Creature that can give him answers to the many question he seeks, he takes matters into his own hands, and uncovers what could be a greater threat than Elite Creatures—the once-subdued Enchanters are on the move, for their leader has finally awoken from his centuries-long slumber, and he is angry, determined to end the Vampires’and Lycans’ existence once and for all. But there are beings in the clouds who have been kept from the Dark World by stronger forces. Now that Alexandria Stone’s beaming red light subdues Vampire, Lycan, and Elite Creature alike, they can return. —And their wrath is greater than anything The Dark World has ever known.
