Evil hides is the shadows of modern life. Mythic monsters lurk among the refuse of city streets. Wizards that peep and mutter seek unholy power in the present-day. Unfortunately, there aren't enough kindly sorcerers, children of prophecy, or battlesuit-powered billionaires to go around. So when average people are swallowed up in supernatural trouble, sometimes they have to stand against the darkness by themselves.Included in this volume are twelve new stories of regular people faci...

Supernatural evils lay hidden, deep in the shadows of society. Be these dangers man or beast, they will strike at unsuspecting, everyday people. What if there are no selfless wizards around when a demon steps from the alley? What if there are no supers to be found when the ancient demigod awakens? What if there is no prophesy and no chosen one to stand in the way of the dark forces? In these cases, the regular people must must courage to face the foe. The protagonists in these stories have...

StoryHack Action adventure is a fiction magazine in the style of the great pulps of years past. It includes stories from a wide variety of genres.In this issue, you'll find:New Rules for Rocket Nauts by Michael DeCarolis. A recently dismissed recruit watches in horror as an alien race betrays and massacres his former classmates. Now he may be the only person capable of stopping the first wave of an interstellar war.The Price of Hunger by Kevyn Winkless. A desperate ...

The dead man had threatened her with all maner of atrocity, so she didn't feel guilty about checking his body for coin. She should have been watching out for his conjuring partner.A sword & sorcery novelette.

A desert city. A fake vaccine. A virus that doesn't just kill—it takes over.After a brutal thirty-hour shift in the ER, nurse Corbin St. Laurent wants only one thing: sleep. Instead, he notices a suspicious "free vaccination" trailer outside a grocery store in the isolated desert city of Oasis.By morning, the hospital is locked down. The power is dead. The roads are blocked. And the infected are loose.They don't feel pain. They don't stop. They don'...

Space pirates murdered his crew. Time for some payback.Cavalier Burns is the first mate on an interstellar freighter, and his only goal in life is to someday become the captain of his own vessel. That dream is shattered when pirates assault his ship. It is only by accident that he is left alive. Burning with hatred toward his shipmates' killers, he is willing to throw his life away if it means exacting revenge on the brutal aliens.All that changes when he l...

Brace yourself for the next exciting issue of StoryHack Action & Adventure. Taking cues from the greatest pulp magazines of a bygone era, StoryHack publishes all-new stories of bravery and derring-do in a wide variety of genres. There is something in here for everyone, and each story includes art.Here's what you will find in this issue:Predator/Prey Relationships by Julie Frost. When Ben’s ability to shift into a werewolf is stolen, he must play a most dangerous game ...

The zombie virus destroyed Oasis. Now it may be the only thing that can save the world.ER nurse Corbin St. Laurent barely survived the fall of Oasis, the city where a government-engineered virus turned ordinary people into violent, mindless killers. He thought the worst was over.He was wrong.The ruins of Oasis hid a secret bigger than the outbreak itself: aliens are real, they are hostile, and the government has been quietly negotiating with them wh...

This ebook edition contains a special preview of Dean Koontz’s The Silent Corner.In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears—and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their nei...

“An epic reading experience.”—San Diego Union-TribuneAcclaimed, New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. Feist gets his masterful Serpentwar Saga off to a spectacular start with Shadow of a Dark Queen. Feist’s classic epic fantasy adventure returns readers to ever-imperiled Midkemia, a breathtaking, richly imagined realm of magic and intrigue, where two unlikely heroes must rally the forces of the land to stand firm against a malevolent rac...

-a Firehawks Hotshots romance story-Candace Cantrell fights forest fires as a lead member of a hotshot crew. When she lands the opportunity to build a brand new crew of her own, she ends up with more than she bargained for.Former Navy SEAL Luke Rawlings struggles with a past he can’t leave behind. A past that blinds him to the future, until the moment he tries out for a new hotshot crew.Most people wish upon a star. Hotshot crews do it differently:Fire Light ...

Accountant turned professional monster hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, managed to stop the nefarious Old One’s invasion plans last year, but as a result made an enemy out of one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Now an evil death cult known as the Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition wants to capture Owen in order to gain the favor of the great Old Ones.The Condition is led by a fanatical necromancer known as the Shadow Man. The government wants to capture the Shadow Man ...