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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov.Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre, from ...

He has fallen.The Binder in Chains.An archangel of immeasurable power, cast from heaven, arrives to threaten all that our heroes know and care about. Only an unlikely combination of former enemies can stop him and send him back to where he belongs.Can these desperate forces come together in time to save the kingdom or will the world fall under the Binder’s brutal rule?Listen to the conclusion of Chains of the Fallen Arc now.

It all comes down to this.While Marcus is visiting Iaka on Alpha 114, a message arrives from from Marcus’s adopted father, Vlad Valcor. He needs help and Marcus never says no to family.Soon he and Solomon are off to Pleasure Planet 4 and a meeting that will hopefully bring peace between Vlad’s organization and the Jade Dragon clan.The meeting is going well until a void warship shows up and attacks.It’s a race to survive and figure out what their most hated e...

Following the final battle with the Devil Man, Daisuke is enjoying a little rest and relaxation. At least he is until he gets an unexpected call from his cousin Natsumi.It seems his Uncle Rio has gone missing and Natsumi needs his help to track him down.Daisuke wants few things less than to deal with his family, but Natsumi isn’t so bad and he sort of owes her for her help capturing Vorgon. She also offers a valuable bit of magical knowledge that the Circle of Sorcery is ea...

Betrayed!The battle with the Demon King was fierce, but in the end, Danny emerged victorious and alive.At least, he was alive until his teacher and ally, the elf-blood Lyra, stabbed him in the back, literally.Unbeknownst to those who wanted him dead, Danny had made prior arrangements to return should the worst happen. Though he’d expected the Demon King to be the one who killed him, the magic worked just as well when Lyra did the killing.Alive once more, Dan...

The combined military forces of five city states have arrived outside of Audin.They’ve come to punish the arrogant Lord Governor and restore the land’s precious balance.Despite their combined power, Audin has a secret weapon. Built by Ilsa Wright, the greatest magical engineer since Lord Colt himself, the Mark V magical armor is a nearly unstoppable force on the battlefield.But will it be enough to turn the tide and save Audin?The people better hope so, beca...

Damien St. Cloud is a failure.Born into a family of warlords and blessed with the most powerful soul force in history, he’s unable to make his powers work.A disappointment to his legendary father and a weakling compared to his sister, Damien’s life is miserable.Then his life changes forever when a visiting sorcerer proclaims Damien isn’t a warlord at all but a sorcerer.Thrust into a world of magic and danger, can Damien master his power in time to save his f...

Joran and his companions have returned safe and sound from the wasteland that was The Black Iron Empire.But they aren’t the only ones.The fallen White Knight Samaritan also survived and he’s grown even more powerful and determined to destroy everything Joran cares about.The race is on once more.Can Joran find a way to defeat Samaritan, or will mad man succeed in claiming his long sought revenge?All the answers will be revealed in the fifth and final ...

War is Hell, especially when you’re surrounded by enemies.With the king of Garenland dead and the people eager for revenge, Otto and Wolfric turn their sights north, to Garenland’s ancient enemy, Straken.The Northern Army marches into enemy territory while back in the capital Otto rushes to train as many war wizards as he can.Outside forces refuse to leave them alone and Otto is forced to deal with an ever-growing array of foes, unreliable allies, and an enemy that ...

Otto Shenk is the youngest son of a minor baron.He’s also a wizard.Abused by his family and considered less than human by his kingdom, Otto does his best to survive.But everything changes when Otto stumbles across a tower hidden deep in a dark part of the forest near his home.A tower that was once the home of an Arcane Lord, the immortal wizards that long ago ruled the world.Otto’s life will be changed forever.And so will the world.

“I’m picking up a life form reading. Something’s alive over there.”Those two sentences will change Captain Marcus Drake’s life forever.When a distress beacon far off the main trade routes appears on the scanner, they stop to investigate. The source, a large ship with a gaping hole in the hull, drifts dead in space.Aboard the derelict ship, floating millions of miles from the nearest civilization, a single woman, Earth Force Agent Iaka Kazumi, survives in a sealed cr...