Kuzz is a near-future novel about power, machine intelligence, and what it means to be human, narrated by 96 year old Nick Bautervich, semi-retired spy and confidante of the President of the Democratic Republic of Australia. When Chinese tech billionaire Wu Jing gifts Nick a hyper-intelligent android called Kuzz, Nick assumes that he is getting a glorified nurse, but he is very wrong. As Nick is drawn into a labyrinth of billion-dollar resource deals, rival AI factions, and a shadowy geopo...

From Richard ChizmarManuscripts found in a dark corner of his office, from a time long forgotten–the Eighties. Revived at the hand of two horror masters, these stories are a slice of the past brought into the present.The SculptorWith Ray GartonAn artist finds a block of stone in his home, ready to be carved. A creative dry spell now broken, but at what cost?Roses and RaindropsWith Brian KeeneA delivery to the old house on the edge of to...

Managing Your Scarcest ResourcesBusiness leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization--resources that are too often squandered. There's plenty of advice about how to manage th...

Psychotic killers, devious ghosts, alien monsters, howling storms, undead creatures, and other dark forces haunt the highways and the truckers who drive them in these 18 chilling tales. A ghostly voice on a trucker's CB radio knows more about his life than it should… Two drivers find their cargo gives them inhuman appetites… A boy in a truck stop encounters a supernatural force that threatens to destroy the world… The hypnotic singing lulling a driver to sleep might not be coming from the ...

What is Europe?As the old world order crumbles, it has never been more important to understand the epic story of Europe – the world’s smallest and largest, oldest and newest continent.‘A lifetime of learning condensed into 160 pages – full of fascinating nuggets and insights’ SAM FREEDMANEurope is at once vast and intricate: you can have breakfast in Germany, coffee in the Netherlands and lunch in Belgium. It invent...

Predatory eyes flicker in darkness, a legion of abominations seeking human destruction.Slashing claws and gnashing teeth, hungry for flesh, eager to kill.Clutch onto hope and pray for dawn. Creatures rule the night.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror— shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madnes...

This revised and updated second edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1990, the year when the horror boom finally went bust. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Poppy Z. Brite, Jonathan Carroll, Harlan Ellison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Peter Straub, F. Paul Wilson, Gahan Wilson and Gene Wolfe, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightm...

Four teens. One cursed town. And a time portal straight to 1689—where witchcraft isn't a secret, it's a death sentence! Marcus Ballantyne the rebel with a sharp tongue, Chad Zuzansky the tech wizard, Jillian Marshall the beauty with the brains, and Peyton Sansavong the rich girl with an attitude, are four modern day teens who are dragged into a world of witches, whisperings and curses. Each must overcome their own personal demons by travelling back to history's darkest hour, for the sake o...

Lance has loved Arthur for nearly a thousand years but has never had the courage to act on it—‘til now.After being away at college for a year, Lance Lotte returns to Avalon, Kentucky for the summer. Due to self-imposed isolation, he hasn’t seen anyone in months, but all that changes when Arthur – his closest friend, and the love of his life – shows up to his new job with a big toothy grin. The last time Lance saw Arthur, the two had not parted on the best of terms – with A...

ENTER DARKNESS IN THIS BRAM STOKER AWARD®-NOMINATED VOLUME OF HORROR.Just beyond the veil of perception is a darkened plane where ultimate evil resides. DARK VISIONS: A COLLECTION OF MODERN HORROR - Volume One is thirteen critically acclaimed tales of terror written by some of the most visionary authors writing genre fiction today.-- A boy comes face-to-face with evil in 'the most haunted town in America'...-- A series of gruesome murders are linked to religious fana...

One portal. Two outcasts. Three days. Four Kingdoms.A breather–that's what Eddie needed. A serious break from everything.When Eddie agrees to spend Easter weekend at her dad's rehab with the rest of her family, nothing could have prepared her for the perilous trip to come. After falling asleep somewhere off-limits, Eddie suddenly wakes to find herself in a distant land–her only guiding light, a tall boy with a devilish grin and hair that shimmers in the moonlight.A miracle–that's w...

Almost forty years ago, a literary movement forever changed the landscape of the horror industry. Splatterlands is a collection of personal, intelligent and subversive horror with a point. This illustrated volume of dark fiction honors the truly revolutionary efforts of some of the most brilliant writers of all time with an all-new collection of visceral, disturbing and thought-provoking work from a diverse group of modern minds.Exploring concepts that include serial murde...