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In a matter of seconds the sun, moon, and stars disappeared from the sky, replaced by an inky, infinite blackness. Global communications were disrupted, and chaos reigned worldwide as panic set in, and humanity reset to its basest of behaviors and most primal of natural instincts.

High in the skies over Michigan, Frank and Susan have a few precious hours alone - safe from the chaos below. Alone in the cockpit Frank tells his lady love a tale of adventure, terror, and heroism in 1963 Las Vegas.

At the dawn of the twenty-second century, the human race is poised for greatness. The Solar System is being rapidly colonized, and the stars are almost within reach. The future potential seems limitless.

This short piece of nonfiction is important to me. As a writer, I have been influenced by many things, none of which more than "Star Trek".

In the dark days of WWII a group of soldiers and scientists embarked on a secret expedition to the ice sheet of Greenland. The truth about what happened there was buried for seventy years. Now it can be told.

Everyday I watch Johnny walk home from the bus stop, and everyday I watch him be tortured...it stops today.

The first 24 stories of the Free Story Friday series are collected here for the first time in audio. Includes "Under the Bed", "Into the Tall Grass", "Down the Slope", "The Quality of Life", "Letters from Galileo", and more.

Mindy Jellico never believed in the supernatural. But on a dark and stormy night she will be confronted with an ancient horror thatwill change her life forever...or end it.

They arrived without warning, raining death and chaos across the surface of the Earth. Humanity fought back, and although we didn't win, we did cripple them, fighting them to a standstill on the planet and in orbit. Now, more than a hundred years later, the world is a very different place. Technology varies wildly from region to region as does which race dominates the other. After so many decades of détente, the enemy is once more on the move; but not just against the surviving enclaves of humanity, also against members of their own species.

Shattered Earth is the tale of Meg Carson, a woman jerked from her place in time and space and thrust into a horrific future. Once there Meg becomes ensnared in events set into motion long before the age of human civilization, by beings once thought to exist only in the realms of fable and mythology.

My name is Darren Eddington, Lord of Bluestone Manor, Colonel in His Majestys Special Air Service, Deputy Director of Section Nine, and the last living descendant of Dr. Henry Jekyll, also known as Mr. Hyde. I am the last hope for the survival of the United Kingdom. You already know the story of what my Godfather Franklin Castle, known to some of you as Frankenstein’s Monster, did in the hours following the end of the world. But you don’t know what my new partner the beautiful Weretigress Niyati and I did in those same hours.

The Dark Musings Collection contains six stories of horror and suspense.

In the second season of the Preserve, first contact is made between several contestants, questions are answered, and new questions are posed. In the outside world, a lone reporter is leaked information from within the Preserve. Among the Cabal members, the strain of unforeseen anomalies cause fractures to appear.

Five strangers dropped alone on a mysterious island littered with strange debris and horrific creatures. A cabal of five powerful shadowy men controlling the life and death "Trials" of these poor souls. This is the world of "The Preserve". In season 1.0 (Episodes 1-6) we are introduced to the individual players in our drama.

In the tradition of Max Brooks' amazing and seminal Zombie Survival Guide, The Risen Dead is a fictional handbook written by a survivor of the Zombie Apocalypse in "The Shores of the Dead" universe. This is intended as a companion piece and a bridging tome between the first cycle of stories and the second.

The end has come as the various groups and factions race to the apocalyptic climax. As the people of White harbor struggle to shore up their defenses the Rangers and Wolverines make a stand at the Mighty Mackinac Bridge in an effort to thwart the crossing of the Army of the Dead. Some will live and some will die but in the end it will all be decided with the courage of the living on the Shores of the Dead.

In this novella five friends enter an abandoned library in the city of Detroit and find themselves unable to leave.

Bryan is the oldest youth Ranger in his troop and Martha is a Junior Counselor at a summer camp for young children. When the dead begin to rise these two young people and their friends find themselves thrown onto their own devices with no adults to help them and dozens of small children to care for. Can these teenagers overcome the tropes of their age and rise to the occasion at The Summer Camp of the Dead.

Jimmy and Tiffany have been best friends since before they were out of diapers. One night Tiffany calls Jimmy begging for her best friends help.

When the world is ending and monsters of myth and legend roam the land there is only one person the human race can count on to stand on our side: Frankenstein! From his fortress deep in the arctic Frank gathers the information needed to determine the threats facing the world. Contacting friends and colleagues from his centuries of life, he prepares to ride out the storm of death and chaos.