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COMING SOON -- LILITH RISING, the sequel to HARVEST NIGHT! From the author of BETHLEHEM and THE PACT READER'S ADVISORY: This novel contains scenes that sane readers will find disturbing, including incredibly graphic descriptions of horrific violence and unimaginably depraved sexual acts. Obviously, this is a work exclusively intended for mature audiences. The small town of Redhaven is the perfect place to live and raise a family. The local houses are gorgeous and real estate is cheap, the local banks are generous with mortgages and small business loans, the cost of living is low, the school...

READY, PLAYER ONE? Had anyone asked Webster Madision, real world loser and superhero roleplayer extraordinaire, that question, he would have had to say 'no'. Last he knew, he was on his way home from a session of a buddy's RPG that had run really late. Now he's waking up in the strangest room he's ever been in, in the body of his favorite roleplaying PC, and an alien Big Head is telling him he's here to compete with 31 other transformed gamers just like him, for the biggest prize imaginable. To a real world loser like Webster, with no girl friend, a shitty job, and a bitchy landlord who is ...

In the tradition of Arthur Machen's classic "The Great God Pan" and John Farris' novel of creeping rural horror ALL HEADS TURN AS THE HUNT GOES BY comes award winning fantasy author D.A. Madigan's THE GOD OF HOOVES & ANTLERS Deenie hasn't seen the family farm where she grew up since she got the hell out almost a decade before. But the death of her hated grandfather imposes family duty. The disposition of his estate requires the presence of his only living relative. Intending to stay only long enough to take care of necessary legal details, Deenie arrives back at the creaking, ominous old ...

December, 1944: The Nazi supervillains in the SS Occult Bureau have learned that Glen Miller's horn is actually an ancient Instrument of Power... and Hitler wants it badly. Now, as Captain Miller flies to a USO concert in France in the same plane as stage magicians Tazara and Magerock, piloted by Commander Harry Bailey, a nefarious spell is cast to take mystical remote control of that plane and divert it to Berlin. But the ghost of Amelia Earhart has overheard this evil plot and carried a warning to the Allies, specifically to a former German pilot from WWI now incarnate as a shambling ...

Continuing the tale of ancient cosmic rivalries and interdimensional office politics begun in UNIVERSAL MAINTENANCE, UNIVERSAL AGENT takes the reader on a stunning journey into the hidden secrets of reality itself, as optimized Earthman Dean Nydecker begins to slowly grasp exactly which invisible hands have been moving him like a piece on some incomprehensible quantum game board. But what are the rules? What are the stakes? Is he a pawn... a knight... or even a king? All he knows for sure is that he is a UNIVERSAL AGENT... and the fate of the Multiverse seems somehow inextricably bound up ...

When Dean Nydecker is asked to become a Universal Agent and help save humanity across the Multiverse, he jumps at the chance and instantly finds himself over his head and out of his depth, inundated in more outrageous action, otherworldly adventure, and inter-dimensional intrigue than he could shake a Tech Level 30 plasma rifle at! Genetically optimized and mentally inducted with dozens of useful skills, Dean should easily be equal to his first assignment-a seemingly simple mission to recover the ka-pod of a deceased fellow agent. But nothing is what it seems, either on the seemingly ...

In a world not our own, where gods and demons, men and monsters walk side by side, and on occasion even dally together, two exiled immortal gods find their fates have become intertwined across the millenia with a pair of mortal siblings. When Vakashta, God of Storm and Battles, and his sister-lover Mirriti, Goddess of Fire and Beauty, meet the roguish Aros Longstaff and his beautiful yet treacherous sister Saralian Redblade, illicit passions ignite a flame that quickly blazes out of control. For the two mortal sibling-lovers have an ulterior motive in their divine dalliance -- they seek to ...

They appeared in isolated places, at first, and in small numbers... nobody knew where they came from, or why they were here, or what their intentions were. But their numbers quickly increased, and it even more quickly became obvious that wherever they were from, whatever they really were, they meant humanity no good at all...

Erberos -- a savage world at the far end of time and space where a state of perpetual warfare exists between light and dark. When Richard Burroughs, 21st Century Earthman, finds himself stranded on Erberos, he must immediately take up arms against an endless horde of slavering, inhuman enemies, battling not only for himself, but for the life and freedom of the woman he loves as well!

D.A. MADIGAN'S 22nd NOVEL!!!!! TEN YEARS AGO, a callow two timing 20 year old college sophomore named Kevin Ellman was magically transported to the savage alien world of Utmos 180 YEARS GO BY ON UTMOS - Kevin Ellman has fought his way out of the Imperial arena, married two Silverqueens, been exiled on false charges of regicide, become a barbarian warlord, ruled a city-state on the borders of the Imperium, become immortal, and mastered the arts of sorcery -- and then, through mystical means, he learns that his father, back on Earth, is dying. So he casts a spell and rides the currents of ...

When the call center she works at is overwhelmed by an army of zombies, Sheila Noyce finds herself stranded on the far side of Louisville, Kentucky from the home where she left her husband and daughter earlier that morning. Yet even if she can somehow make her way back to them, and even if her family is still alive -- how can they hope to survive, in a city that is rapidly becoming an open urban grave filled with screaming hordes of the ravenous dead?

Drug abuse. Demon worship. Governmental overreach. Child exploitation. The right kind of knowledge in the hands of the wrong kind of people. Cosmic catastrophes caused by super intellectuals meddling with closed entropic loops. The dehumanization that seems inevitable within a highly technologized society. These are vital issues with vast consequences for ourselves and our children and grand children. What will we do about these problems? How will we do it? Where, and when? Mad Paradise Publishing is proud and pleased to bring you NOWHERE STORIES, an anthology that proposes no solutions, ...

Jondy is a late 21st Century street kid in Newer New York City -- always hustling on her rollers, racking packets across the Big Square for anyone who pays, with bonus money measured in fractions of seconds, to earn enough cred-coin to buy food for her and her Gram. Tough as razorwire, smart as a multiplex processor and with laser-fast reflexes, Jondy has earned the title of Queen of the Rollerkids with bravery, brains, and sheer unbridled brass. But when Jondy and her Gram both fall into the hands of a ruthless hypercorps, they are exiled 150 million years in the past -- mining radioactive...

DON'T BE A WEINER DOG -- SNATCH THIS BOOK UP!!! You have a hot date with a SHE DEVIL -- or, actually, several -- Diana Stagg, young heir to her hated grand-father's farm and land, who wants nothing more than to burn it all to the ground and piss in the ashes... until she starts to learn the terrible secrets of her hidden, occult heritage... Mary Gunn, who battles back the forces of undead evil with the very silver that flows through her veins Valeria Warlock, last living member of a race of genetically engineered Demons, fighting to save humanity from the hundred meter tall emissaries sent ...

SOMETHING IS EATING THE CHILDREN OF FORRESTAL When high school student Calvin Pressley interrupts two grown ups in strange robes dragging a screaming young girl out into the woods, his life turns upside down and inside out. He'd just assumed all those stupid stories about 'the Pumpkin Patch Man' were pure b.s. -- the assholes hazing the new kid in town. But there's sure as shit something going on in Forrestal... something pretty horrible, from what he's just gotten involved in. But what can a high school kid possibly do about a secret -- or not so secret -- jack o'lantern headed monster ...