Africa needs power - to grow its economies and enhance the welfare of its people. Power for all is still a long distance away - two thirds of the population remains without electricity and enterprises rank electricity as a top constraint to doing business. This sub-optimal situation coexists while vast energy resources remain untapped. One solution to harness these resources could be to tap into the concept of anchor load. Mining industry lends itself to the concept of anchor load as it ne...

Darkness, our most primitive fear since shadows first stirred.Within the pages of this horror anthology you will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and aimless stoners. You will journey into the darkest house on the darkest street, wander hospital basements, and take a flight in the comfort of first ...

Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Caítlin R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Mich...

The Mediterranean. Sun-bleached ruins, azure seas, foaming wine. But history’s cruellest tyrants reigned here, delighting in blood and torture. Myths tell of snake-haired harridans and one-eyed giants, of humans cooked on spits, of curses, scourges, and devious deities who played with men’s souls like pawns in chess …The poison apples of AegleThe human sacrifice on CreteThe beautiful predator of PalermoThe damned souls on PovegliaThe evil artefact at Koy...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Skin and Bones" by Gary McMahon"No Mirrors Here" by A. Katherine Black"Window" by Charlie Hughes"The Sisters" by E.M. Linden

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.This month, we have original fiction from Nino Cipri (“Dead Air”) and G.V. Anderson (“Crook’s Landing, by Scaffold”), along with reprints by Terry Dowling (“Mariners’ Round”) and Gary McMahon (“Kill All Monsters”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Nadia ...

Horror is everywhere......in the shadows and in the light. It takes on every shape, comes in every conceivable size. But most of all it's right where you live. With the Where You Live short story collection, Gary McMahon delves into the depths of dark and brooding horror in every day events, objects, and the ghost of human nature.Horror is everywhere…It's waiting behind a closed door, sitting in an ordinary chair, or following you on a coun...

Behind urban life, weird and horrific things fester.The whispers and chills of things long gone... the promise of power from the darkness... the seduction of those that lie in the shadows… the occult is all around us: in town houses, in mansions, and in your very own street.Editor Colin F. Barnes collected together fifteen stories by a cast of critically acclaimed authors from around the globe who look into the stygian gloom, explore the dark corners of our...

HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW... Life is fleeting. Things happen quickly. One moment you're at the office, or maybe sitting in your living room; more of the same old, same old. And the next...You're gone. Forever.For the brave, Dark Arts Books presents sixteen tales of those sudden moments when life goes from light to dark, laughing to screaming, bad to worse. Scary to...unspeakable.Four of horror's brightest talents light up the corners, illuminate the shadows and show you rea...

THOMAS USHER HAS A MOST TERRIBLE TALENT.Following a car crash in which his wife and daughter are killed, he can see the recently departed, and it's not usually a pretty sight. When he is called to investigate the violent death of the daughter of a prominent local gangster, Usher's world is torn apart once more. For the barriers between this world and the next are not as immutable as once he believed.Mashing together the grittiest British police procedural with dark supernat...

Beware the March of the Undead!The masters of flesh-munchingly, gut-wrenchingly, eyeball-poppingly great zombie fiction bring you three more of the best stand-alone books from their critically-acclaimed Tomes of the Dead line.Tide of Souls: When flash-floods devastate Britain and an army of the undead rise from the waves, three broken people – escaped sex-slave Katja, burned-out soldier McTarn, and crippled biologist Styles – may hold the ke...

In a world torn apart by hunger, the only thing colder than death is love…Rick Nutman is a rookie policeman. When the city of Leeds erupts into blood-spattered chaos he must fight through hungry hordes of the living dead to return home and protect Sally, his new wife, the only woman he has ever loved.Daryl lives with his dying mother, and views the apocalypse as the perfect opportunity to put his long-held plans into action. Daryl has always wanted to be a ...