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A small town in Virginia is blindsided by the military's latest viral experiment, classified as Project Anubis. While tactical teams are sent in to handle the mess, civilians must fight to survive in the midst of what they perceive to be an outbreak of bloodthirsty werewolves. This is a 2023 rewrite of the 2016 novel of the same name, featuring entire pages of new material, deleted dialogue, abridged narrative, altered scenes, interactions, and the correction of technical inaccuracies for a more realistic, but still engaging, immersive, dramatic reading experience.

A crew of salvagers desperately evades law enforcement until their ship crash lands on an unknown planet in the process. The biggest mistake of their lives. Dense with mystery and horror, their new environment tests their reliance on each other, and an unprecedented tenacity for survival.

Forked Tongue: Lithic is an "immediate prequel" to its predecessor, Forked Tongue, in that it occurs mere days before the climactic events of that book. Thus giving an insight into a new, terrifying side of humanity's worst enemy in over a century. Nonetheless, Forked Tongue is the recommended starting point for new readers - albeit not required - for its expansive lore into the world of the Dreaded Five, as well as the history and functions of the private military contractor itself. Days before the cambion uprising on the East Coast, long-unseen enemies emerge from the Earth's crust in ...

A leading private military contractor, Forked Tongue secretly specializes in fringe threats that humanity considers myth. The story follows Viper Three, a Forked Tongue fire-team from North Carolina, as they tackle various ops both foreign and domestic. But their virtues are tested most when they confront a brazen new evil, intent on conquering Earth.

BECKON is a collection of three short stories that occur in the presence of an ancient entity of horror and awe known as Kythog. Though these stories span different characters and experiences over half a century, they are all intertwined to detail the path of humans affected by Kythog. First on a subconscious level, then a mortal one, and at last, a glimmer of hope in a sea of ruin and despair.

An extrasolar mining crew is rerouted to a dwarf planet whose readings display promising potential. A small world devoid of life, according to their bio-scans, but rich with lucrative ore. When the crew lands, however, they realize that the planet harbors a terror that surpasses their concept of life, and not only feeds on their fear, but propagates from it.

Neither extraterrestrial nor demonic, but something certainly evil, has awoken beneath the earth. The question is, can one man's anger and determination, with the right technology and help, save humanity from certain doom? ~ "Dark Heart of the Earth" is an action-packed, thrilling journey of hardship, survival, horror, and unprecedented mayhem.

Ursa Steel is a collection of three stories in a distant future where humanity's military complex and space exploration has flourished. In "Harvest Death," witness the horrors of war as infantry clash with a savage alien race during an invasion of their planet. In "Cauldron Quarry," join the exploits of a Mech crew known as the Mud Wolves as they fight on various planets and encounter something unexpected during their latest contract. In "Warrior First," follow a solo pilot's daring escape after he's forced to eject from his Mech and be hunted by those who outnumber and outgun him. Whatever...

The arrival of a militarized, indiscriminately cruel alien race called the Lukura throws the world into havoc. Follow the traumatic survival of retired Navy SEAL Hudson Clarke through southern Virginia during a quest to find his son.

A mad geneticist unleashes his creations—a pack of aggressive, mistreated, featherless Deinonychus—on his own security team, as a test of their capabilities.

Gaia, a biospheric terrestrial planet, is home to both humanity and war. Eleven years after a civil conflict wrought havoc on the society that was GAW—the Gaian Alliance of Welfare—a fresh threat has resurfaced. Utilizing a military fronted by human-controlled mechanized exoskeletal combat hosts, or MECHs, GAW hopes to claim victory yet again. Luther Varone, a veteran of the civil war and an experienced MECH pilot, is called back into service to form a team comprised of his sister, a longtime friend, a potential love interest, and a novice pilot to engage the enemy. This time, things ...

A voracious parallel dimension. Earth, its next meal. 2066. Mankind's best technology, men, and women will war for its people. But will it be enough? *** The Alliance of Mechanized Forces, or AMF, is the only thing standing between the ravenous dimension and humanity's extinction. "DEVOUR" follows the Ember Wolves, a team of devoted Mech pilots based outside of Sacramento, during the war for Earth.

A militarized alien race invades Earth to pillage its resources and cull its people. Armed forces around the world work under the radar to deliver an effective counterattack. Recovering from shattered family lives during leave in Texas, estranged SOG operators Kit, Jace, and Marco reunite to prove that humanity is not so easily conquered.

A collection of five short stories - spanning 1200 to 2600 words each - depicting bad people in dark situations. Some receive justice for their horrible deeds, but not all, which is ultimately the worst crime. "For you can tell the badness in a man, if he carries the sickness responsible for doing wrong upon others. It's in the eyes. The shadows that do not wander off, but linger, staying and festering."

When an underground government facility’s genetic experiments escape into the sewer systems, a Texas town’s unsuspecting populace become their menu. Mutant sharks with forelimbs instead of fins, capable of crawling on land, these creatures require human blood to breathe air. The military’s answer? Operation Redgill. A story ripe for the B-movie market, Operation Redgill delivers satirical humor without sacrificing the dramatic weight and intense thrills of such a disaster, along with the gruesome consequences.

"Coven of One" is a suspense-driven novella of mystery, horror, and spiritual adventure, surrounding the morality of man in the face of nature's ruthlessness, and the dark beauty of this turmoil.

Lucas and Leila, two lovers enjoying the isolated serenity of a getaway cabin in the woods, cherish unbridled intimacy. Culling warmth with every touch, even with the cold knocking at their door. But when strange things start to happen, and sanities begin to slip, a terror all too familiar forces them to face the chilling truth. A reinvention of the author's 2010 short story of the same name, this edition offers improved narration, dialogue, imagery, and emotion. Whole passages have been cut in some places, abridged in others, and entire pages worth of narrative have been added. A favorite ...

Mattia Rosso wakes with no recollection of what's happened, except that he's part of a colonization team on Mars. The year is 2038, and for the past 4 years a facility has existed on the surface, responsible for mapping the terrain and planning colonization. Except now an ancient, cosmic horror threatens not only those on Mars, but possibly Earth too.

When a crew of interstellar pirates investigates a seemingly abandoned spacecraft of colossal proportions, they soon discover that they have become unwilling participants to a malicious experiment.

A mysterious gunslinger known only as Raine stalks members of a poaching crew in present day Idaho. Her motive? Their worst nightmare.