Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm . . .Unrivalled master of suspense Stephen King takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark shadows of our innermost fears.Do the dead sing?In this bumper collection of chilling tales, which includes the brilliant story adapted into the acclaimed movie The Mist, we meet: a woman who has never crossed The Reach, th...

Dominic Thompson becomes an Infernal dungeon core and is given one task: honor the dark goddess by killing adventurers.Choosing an avatar is merely the first step. To become the greatest, he must make the other dungeon cores submit to him. And that means shattering their jeweled hearts.Or seducing their avatars.Lucky for Dom, the dungeon's avatars are beautiful monster girls. But they're also the fiercest warriors in the realms, and there's a fine l...

"This is a book of stories intended to describe that hand of mortal destruction in 16 utterly different, yet all apocalyptically stunning ways!" — Harlan Ellison, from the Introduction.These compelling visions of post-apocalyptic societies and dystopian worlds include short stories by some of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Among the noteworthy contributors and their works are Stephen King's "The End of the Whole Mess," "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke'...

Jack Rourke left a dangerous life behind when he walked away from Wall Street and the predictive trading system he built—code so powerful it frightened him. Now he keeps his world small: living aboard his Bertram 46 in the Florida Keys, fixing problems quietly, and avoiding attention whenever possible.But attention has a way of finding him.When Jack helps with the buildout of a new squash center in Key West, he notices things other people would miss—subtle wiring anomalies,...

"Now, we become adventurers...."Von Dominus continues to build Zagorath into a lair worthy of an evil overlord. When a new item brings another realm to his fingertips, it's time the dungeon did a little diving of his own.Warning: Contains harem elements and mature content.

Some bugs aren't in the code. Some are chasing you down the dock.Jack Rourke didn't plan to vanish—he just needed to stop being found. After walking away from a high-flying tech job, a dangerous algorithm, and a boardroom full of liars, Jack flees to the Florida Keys. There, he trades his startup hoodie for sun-bleached shorts, docks an aging Bertram 46 named Code Freeze, and tells himself he's retired.But paradise has bugs of its own.When a battered sat phone turns...

The Home Distiller's Workbook tackles the often misunderstood and misrepresented world of moonshine and distillation and reduces them to such simple concepts that even a first time "Shiner" can understand.The HDW will introduce you to the three basic steps in making your own artisan-crafted spirits: brewing, distilling, and ageing. We will be tackling these steps one by one in a way that will have you saying "I just can't believe it was that easy." And the...

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. It’s a story that plays out in sport after sport – te...

SouvenirsBy: TC KingShort stories may not often need explanation. Yet, in their brevity, the short stories of Souvenirs: Inside, Out, will bring laughter, remembrances and infuse an otherwise dull day with philosophy. Many of these stories are small quips, using author TC King’s children and various individuals she has encountered of the years as the leads in various scenarios.Relax, sit back, and read a quick story out of the pages of Souvenirs: Inside, Out. Let you...

Bizarre, compelling, terrifying and authentic true crime stories of murder and mayhem. In these pages you will find a story about a tormented serial killer and how he resorted to cannibalism, a celebrity's fan with an obsession to murder her, torture murders, crimes of passion, among many others—chilling crimes that could only be perpetrated by the twisted minds and gruesome obsessions of coldblooded killers, the stuff that horror movies and novels are made of, brought to you from the vaul...

WHEN this work first appeared, three-and-twenty years ago, it became at once an object of unmerited abuse, and of equally unmerited praise. Small divines mistaking it for an insidious attempt to overthrow opinions "as by law established," spurted at it with pens dipped in the milk of the Gospel; whilst, under the very same hallucination, "Friends of Light" lauded it to the skies--either party equally ignorant both of the subject, and of the purpose of my labours. One noted Zoilus (whose re...

A critical care nurse marries his patient’s widow only to later poison her in this true crime story by the author of Stolen in the Night.A Woman with A Passion For Power . . .Kathy Marie Augustine was not out to make friends. In politics, she rose to the top by playing hardball—and pushing her way through the old boy’s network of the Nevada legislature, rising to the rank of State Controller. When she died, only a few people shed t...