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How long can one sensitive youth tolerate the incessant shelling and mind numbing shockwaves of bombardment? How much terror can a soldier endure before he takes that last short walk beyond the trenches and coiled barbed wire into no-man's land? This is the bloodiest war of the bloodiest century in human history. For some, it never ends.

Within each human being lingers a mischievous child, but each of us also cages an unformed primitive. We keep our individual id-monster within the tempered bars of civility, yet it remains our secret delight of a darkened, unobserved evening and we make it our fondest fetish at every available opportunity. No matter how mightily we struggle, history scrawls with endless tales of failed self-control, so each scandal both titillates and disgusts depending upon personal sensibilities. Indulge your inner-beast. How it roars! Such twisted threads weave life’s strange tapestry. Of abnormalities...

If you listen long enough, you may be convinced of anything. Provided the voice you heed is sufficiently provocative... provided you are prepared to ponder its lies or truths... provided it gets to you early enough. What are the origins of human evil? Is it guaranteed from birth, or is it visited upon us via infantile nightmares?

Tarn is a water world, covered from pole to pole by an incredibly deep ocean. Humankind built only one city there. Situated directly on its equator, terraformers strategically emplaced this massive port to continuously exploit the planet's boundless fisheries. Unfortunately for the common sailor, adult fish are many times larger than the tiny boats that hunt them, and so the death toll climbs relentlessly.

They visit night after night, decades on end. The countless anonymous people that populate our dreams and plague our nightmares. Who are they? What becomes of them when we lay violent hands upon them in lividity of dreams?

Every ten years, a lottery draws them from all over the country. Four boys and three girls, each with an exceptional mind and each mired in a neglectful or abusive life, which is sure to eventually destroy them. Neglected by his addicted mother, this mysterious lottery is the one chance a misfit boy has for a future. Trembling with a strange mixture of terror and excitement with all his hopes in hand he reports to 472 Malign Terrace.

Black eyeliner. Black lashes. Black lips. Black hair. Through it all, peers the white cake face of Darling Girl Jones, orphan. From time to time, she awakens in her academy dorm room to find an ethereal spirit haunting her bed. Although today is a special day at her Academy because today is Christmas Eve - and that means all-you-can-eat pancakes with real maple syrup - Darling Girl's holidays are never so easy and a ghost with a serious problem is certain to spoil her fun!

During the summer of 1823, fortune called from the frontier of North America’s Great Plains. Alternately rowing or tromping along the Missouri River from Saint Louis through Fort Mandan and then beyond to Fort Henry and the Upper Missouri Breaks, countless traders gambled their lives to exploit the bounty of an untamed wilderness. All dreamed of easy profits. Herds of buffalo perished to feed them. Whole populations uprooted to serve them. Virulent diseases followed. Inevitably, a disturbed balance of nature collapsed. Then compensated. By fang and claw.

Follow five odd characters through benighted crevasses of the nation on a quest to recruit their sinister counterparts from the ranks of underworld outcasts, vagabonds, and felons. A career burglar, doomed prostitute, football player rapist, psychotic teen, and precognitive child. An unholy alliance of evil.

Nobody can change his mind and nobody can save him. After a terrible crime, Maxwell Deem chooses the divergent pathway of revenge. A machine programmed for violence, he will roll through the city with a wrecking ball. No one is safe.

This is a new approach to criminal rehabilitation. This is tough love at its toughest. Here, complete isolation and unending hours of boredom act like an acid drip against the tough granite exterior of its recalcitrant inmates. Though it is a humane system, it offers no mercy to the incorrigible, and it has no patience for those who refuse to learn. Only the strongest can long resist, but no human being can resist forever.

She takes her job seriously. Whether it be unruly school children or an armed madman, she tolerates no mischief aboard her school bus. When confronted by her worst nightmare, this bus driver will pull out all the stops to make certain her young passengers get home safely while her unwanted passenger cashes a one-way ticket.

On the verge of a bloody and catastrophic defeat, a lone surviving robot tech risks life and limb to activate an army of machines. Though these metallic monsters have failed in the past, this time their success will be utter and complete. Too complete. The robots are coming!

He is Hate Equinox. She is Loathing Solstice. He is dark of eye and complexion, while she has ivory skin, white hair, and a diamond blue gaze. Though they both come from the same community of pagans, they are polar opposites. Given the conspiracy of proper circumstance and much time, mortal enemies may occasionally become violent lovers. When Hate and Loathing collide.

On Friday of Easter weekend in Juglan, Texas many strange events distract from the festivities. Telephone service is sporadic and failing. Fires burn out of control. Police services are nonexistent. The dead and dying accumulate on city streets. Before the village’s clocktower chimes midnight, many of its citizens will perish and the city itself will lie in flaming ruins. This is the terrible revenge of Nelson Sedgewick. Tonight, he and his Animal Emporium will redefine ‘family fun’.

The Korengal Valley of Afghanistan was one of the most dangerous places in the world during 2008. Deployment there became a crapshoot of possibilities. The hapless gamblers rolling snake-eyes would die or suffer life-altering injury. Nobody served there unscathed.

His heritage long since withered pitifully beneath shadows of boastful legend and shades of neglectful disregard, he will claim the familial patriarchy many years before his dying grandfather can fully prepare him for its dangers and demands. His reign will begin as it must end, with violence and a vast letting of blood.