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An avid fan of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER takes a deep dive into the world of the Slayer -- focusing especially on the Bad Guys, Big, Medium, and Little, who have plagued Buffy Summers and her friends over the years

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 ...

DEVIL WITH THE DEAD FLESH ON The younger fell to its knees. "Will you help me," it begged, its voice very formal now. The elder traced a long, inhumanly jointed finger over the younger's cheek. The finger ended in a sharp, curved claw. The cheek bled from the caress. "I shall remove the flesh from your bones," the elder hissed, "leaving only your tongue, which you shall gratify me with for hours." The younger trembled. "Oh my darling," it whispered, "you truly do love me." The elder smiled. "Of course I do." It ripped the younger's throat open, and bent to feast. * * * Prologue The WKBW ...

18 stories of raw, primal terror, brought to you by award winning writer D.A. Madigan, the author of best selling urban horror novel HARVEST NIGHT and local zombie favorite DERBY CITY DEAD. THE DEAD BOX AND OTHER STORIES TO SCARE YOU SHITLESS delivers the goods with a bloody vengeance. Don't be far from your bathroom when you read it.

December, 1944: The Nazi supervillains in the SS Occult Bureau have learned that Glen Miller's trombone is actually an ancient Horn of Power... and Hitler wants it. 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 heap of ...

THERE ARE 12,843 WORLDS -- AND ALL OF THEM ARE DOOMED Dean Nydecker was just a middle aged unemployed nerd when he was recruited by an interdimensional group called Universal Maintenance to keep the Multiverse from falling apart. Genetically optimized, his brain full of artificially inducted, extremely useful skills, and loaded up with advanced tech weapons and gear, Dean successfully completed his first mission -- the recovery of another agent's ka-pod, the little device implanted in all UM agent's brains that stores their soul, in case of death. But there was much more going on in the ...

RAKAS A'GURDON DOESN'T HAVE TIME FOR A BATTLE TO THE DEATH WITH AN ANGRY WIZARD Unfortunately, somehow he seems to have one on his hands, anyway. Rakas is a pretty decent fighter and he's got a company full of mercenaries to back him up, but, still, a crazed sorcerer is nothing to fool with... especially one that seems to have all the legions of Hell at his beck and call...! Rakas is going to need all his wits, a great deal of luck, and some very strange allies to make it through this mess... and the strangest of all of them may well be THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER

BEFORE THE DAWN OF HUMANITY, THEY FELL FROM HEAVEN - NOW HEAVEN IS CALLING THEM BACK Four college friends get together 10 years after graduation to spend the weekend hiking and climbing. One of them, Caeryn, wants to introduce her fiancé Jenny to her three buddies (and ex lovers) Charlie, Ben, and Kirk. It's a potentially awkward situation, and then... An earthquake sends them all falling into the heart of Mount Hancock. Somehow they survive their falls unharmed. Trapped deep underground, they discover an ancient starship named Godspeed, which crashed down to Earth hundreds of millions of ...

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!

Unseasonable winter storms descend on the small central Florida city of Rey Mar, as an ancient Haitian vampire named Sangria-Maria spreads her demon's wings to cast a shadow of blood and terror over the entire community. Each man she takes becomes an Undead, bestial predator known as a loogaroo. Soon an army of these vicious beastmen is stalking the town, while a steadily diminishing population of terrified survivors can do nothing but huddle inside their homes and pray to an indifferent God. Now, five women -- a school teacher, an elderly museum curator, a jill of all trades, a tough as ...

LOST a million light years from Earth HUNTED by a horde of alien enemies ALL HE'S GOT - a stolen starship, a bloodthirsty crew of liberated former slaves, the love of a good woman who is only three inches tall, and the most devious mind in the universe HE'S GOT NO CHANCE - but sugar, he's going down swinging...

They woke up in the Labyrinth -- at least, that's what Devon calls it. A seemingly endless complex of shiny metal corridors with doors spaced along left and right walls. Some doors are locked, but so far, the ones that Kenya can't pick or bypass, Jordie has been able to rip off their hinges. Devon hasn't had to use her flaming sword yet... on the doors, at least. But some of the things they've found beyond the doors have given them all a chance to practice their new powers. They don't know anything about where they are or what they're doing here. But the doors can apparently lead ANYWHERE.....

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?

THIS SLAUGHTERHOUSE EARTH - For Lloyd and Megan, it was just another Monday at the office... until alien invaders took over their building and started eating everyone inside! And then, it got even worse... THE CREEPIES - When a vicious 'murder plague' sweeps over everyone on Earth, one man has to try to survive in a world full of roaming psychotic mobs! SPUN - In the near future, no parking spaces are needed - a click on your keyfob sends your car off to an empty parking dimension, and another click brings it back. But when it turns out the parking dimension wasn't so empty after all... ...

It's 1983 in New Sparta, NY, and Warren Dawson is beloved by everyone... his friends, his family, even random strangers on the street. Everybody loves Warren and wants to make him happy. The TVs only show his favorite programs, the radios only play his favorite songs, the movie theaters always have his favorite movies. And, naturally, all the women are beautiful, and all of them love Warren unreservedly and uninhibitedly... When Warren's best friend Jimmy starts to notice just how strange the reality he and all his friends inhabit truly is, he becomes a threat to the odd, timelost Utopia ...

BILLY JOE SHOT A MAN WHILE ROBBING HIS CASTLE Young, in love, and on the run, young lovers Billy Joe Ventura and Bobbi Sue Gentry only want is to be left alone by the entire rest of the world -- especially that grabby handed needle dick Deputy Sheriff Joe Redmont, who first grabbed Bobbi Sue's ass when she was 13 years old (and got kicked in the nuts for it, too) and who has also already set up Billy Joe for one three year jolt in prison and will be happy to put the little creep back there again... or in a pine box, whichever is easier. But Billy Joe knows too much about Redmont's drug ...

A WORLD HAS NO NAME The longest Summer in the history of Newlandos has finally ended, and a brutally vicious Winter descends. The followers of Frost have once more awakened... and they march south, towards the Great Moat. And if the Long Stand that guards the Moat should fall... who, then, will ward the Mortal Realms from the choking grasp of final Frost? JANUS FROST, outborn son of High Lord Ibraham Grimm, has taken the Grey and risen to the post of High Commander of the Long Stand. But extraordinary times require extraordinary measures, and by throwing open the ranks of the Stand and ...

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...

IN THE WAR BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL, THERE IS ALWAYS COLLATERAL DAMAGE * * * I got Inga back onto the edge of the bed with my legs around her waist and my fists locked together just under her breasts. I pulled in, careful not to crack anything, just enough to make her breathe out. I let up so she’d breathe in. Crooned in her ear “Take it easy. Don’t pass out.” After a minute or so of that, her respiration shallowed, then steadied. “Now tell me,” I said, pulling her naked body back against mine, keeping my mouth warmly against her ear.. She relaxed, and then stiffened again. “I ...

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 ...