Many of us have had the experience of finding two nice young people with white shirts knocking on their door and finding out they are Mormon missionaries. The Mormon faith is uniquely noted for sending such missionaries all over the world. The founder of Mormonism was Joseph Smith and the study of his life, though complex, is most interesting at the same time. To his followers, Joseph Smith is considered to be second in importance only to Jesus Christ in all of Church history. How Smith ca...

The culling took most of the men from Cochran Texas away to a dusty old town that exists between this plane and the next called Cocytus. Run by a maniacal power-hungry man named Lycus and his adopted proté gé daughter Alastor, he conducts chaos with the help of a group of bandits called Calamity Three. His goal: tip the cosmic scales to bring the Void crashing into the world and claim the place of power to which he believes he is owed. Loyalty is a flimsy commodity in Cocytus, and with Beh...

Description—Dogs of War“Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war.”—William Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 1, Julius CaesarThey’re here. In America. Thousands of Islamic terrorists committed to a rabid jihad that ends only when they’ve butchered the last man, woman, and child. Worst of all, they have nukes. The Day of Jihad is at hand. The odds of Western civilization being snuffed out grow stronger each day.Compounding the threat, the Chinese are solidifying the...

Good does not exist. There is only the ever-swirling chaos of evil lurking just beyond the veil of our perception waiting to strike arbitrarily without purpose or reason. When evil throws its wiry tentacles out into our world leaving an inky black sludge of death, sadness, and destruction in their wake it's done not out of maliciousness but at random with no forethought, no agenda. There is no prayer you can say, no spell to cast, no totem, no god benevolent or otherwise to provide protect...

After the hurricane, Reggie and Betsy discover a portion of their backyard has begun to sink. Fearing the ground will open up and swallow their house sooner rather than later, Reggie calls the city to come fix it, but push back from the local Sheriff slows the process down by a day. Come nightfall the power goes out, the sinkhole opens, and a busload of ghoulish children crawl to the surface for their first meal in fifty-two years.

Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive, weird, and entertaining works.Breaking Bizarro is a twenty-six story melting pot of weirdness from some of the best authors in the genre.Contributing Authors: John Wayne Comunale, David W. Barbee, Patrick C. Harrison III, Chris Miller...

THE CLUBHOUSE VOLUME IIICOMPILED BY CRYSTAL COOKWITHIN THESE PAGES YOU WILL FIND TERRIFYING SHORT STORIES FROM FIFTEEN OF THE HOTTEST HORROR AUTHORS OUT THERE.THIS ANTHOLOGY IS A GRAB BAG OF TASTY TREATS, A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING THAT THE GENRE HAS TO OFFER.JOHN WAYNE COMUNALE – BRIAN BOWYER - JAMES G. CARLSON - LUCAS MILLIRON - DANI BROWN - THOMAS R. CLARK - CHASE WILL – AARON LEBOLD - TOM DEADY - ASHLEY LISTER - GARRETT COOK - C.M. SAUNDERS - BEN FARTHIN...

It could be your neighbor, your coworker, your son, or the woman sitting next to you in church. When combat veterans return from war, they’re often confused. They struggle to reconnect with their families; the cheering crowds and smothering hugs make them want to jump out of their skin; and sometimes they even long to return to the hell of deployment.What they’ve experienced in combat can radically change how they view themselves, others, and the world at large. Th...

An election is coming and the majority of American voters don’t want either party’s candidate. A popular third-party challenger is gaining on them. He's a highly decorated, universally admired former commander of all U.S. special operations forces and has an earned Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. The Deep State is in a panic. It arranges for the general and his wife to be kidnapped and assassinated just as he begins his campaign.Only a few specially trained, uniq...

What can 800,000 kilometres on a motorcycle teach you about living a meaningful, courageous, and fulfilling life? As it turns out - everything.For over fifty years, Wayne McDonald has explored Australia and beyond on two wheels and has also spent four decades coaching people to grow, lead, and live with greater purpose. In this inspiring blend of memoir, personal development guide, and philosophical reflection, he takes readers on a journey that begins on the open ...

The Chinese believe world domination is their destiny. To cripple the West, they’ve armed Islamic terrorists with tactical nuclear weapons. One already has been used to destroy the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the surrounding town. The terrorists have moved the remaining weapons to a point just over the border in Mexico and plan to smuggle them into major American cities within days.To avoid the widespread panic that public knowledge of the situation would cause, the presiden...

Tonight’s forecast calls for terror…Survivors trapped in a sunken vessel find themselves hunted through the depths by a deadly adversary. A skeptical journalist discovers the sinister inhabitants of a fake haunted house are all too real. And a husband commits murder to protect his wife, only to learn he has created something even more dangerous…A dark and stormy night of terror awaits in Scare Street’s latest bone-chilling collection. This sinister...