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Captain Morgan Starling and her crew travel the stars, shipping cargo from one system to the next. Easy work, until first contact with another race devolved into all-out war. Now, they’re under attack from humanity’s mysterious alien foe, ambushed in the void between systems. When an unknown vessel comes to their aid, events spiral out of control, a twisted secret within its haunted corridors threatening to consume them, body and soul.

Cheating his way to the head of the line, Alex is one of the first to play Aether Online, the world’s first full-immersion VRMMO. Alex quickly learns that once you're in, you can't get out. Trapped in the Aether Lands, Alex must become an Aether Knight to survive. Struggling in a world under siege, Alex must learn to fulfil his new role, hunting the deadly machine beasts known as Machina for parts.

Captain Morgan Starling thought she was finally free of the nightmares that tormented her. For the last few years, she’s led a quiet life with a fellow survivor, travelling the stars and struggling to scrape a living on the edges of human space. Evil hasn’t been idle, though. When contact is lost with a colony, Morgan finds herself drafted to help investigate the threat.

Captain Morgan Starling is a survivor, and the last remnant of her crew. Morgan fights for every scrap of air, stranded in the bowels of her derelict ship. When she is picked up by an alien starship, Morgan finds herself a prisoner of war, forced to excavate an ancient ruin. She was not alone, and the nightmare that killed her crew is getting ready to begin its massacre again. As something awakes from within the earth, ancient enemies threaten to tear the world apart. Morgan and her fellow prisoners must try and escape amongst this maelstrom of horror.

Something sinister lurks in the town of Pontypridd, nestled between picturesque valleys. It whispers in Claire’s mind. It knows her secrets, her dark twisted desires. It can help her fulfil them, to complete her horrifying wish. All she needs to do is let it in. The detectives of the secretive special investigations department work tirelessly. They are the first and only line protecting mankind from the supernatural, and the supernatural from mankind. Detective Constables Jess Holden and Mark Curren head to the small Welsh town.

Forbidden love and fierce rivalry drive Jeff Hollister, a street-smart high school senior and gang leader of the Hurricanes, to the brink of disaster. Thinking he’s got the world in his back pocket, and the police at a safe distance, he and his scrappy gang of teenage delinquents come to discover they don’t always come out on top after all. A deadly vow by a member of the rival Tornadoes gang sets Jeff and his friends on a roller coaster of knife fray and gunplay, foot races and car chases, trust and betrayal, and murder.

Entering what he thought was the world’s first full immersion VRMMO, Alex found himself stranded in the Aether Lands. Thrust into danger as he explored this new reality, Alex emerged a hero. Gifted with strange abilities by his transfer, Alex became an Aether Knight. A defender of the Towers, the last remnants of a fallen civilisation. A guardian against the terrifying mechanical monsters lurking in the Aether Lands. With every hunt he grows stronger, forging new equipment from the creatures he kills and stealing fragments of their power.

You are what you eat. Unless your food eats you back. Detective Sergeants Jessica Holden and Mark Curren face the sting of consequences as their actions from previous cases come back to haunt them. Along with their colleagues in the secretive Special Investigations unit, they battle against the sins of their past. Across the country people sit down at their dinner tables, unaware of the taint awaiting within their microwaved meals. An eldritch horror lurks within, eager to add people to its malignant mass. To consume them. To reshape their flesh like clay.

Twelve tales of astrological anguish! What’s your horoscope read? A haunted Manor. An energy drink with horrific side effects. Proof it’s possible to be too popular. Horoscopes is a collection of short stories about the darker side of the zodiac. The first short story collection from the macabre mind of P.W Hillard. Dark and twisted, Horoscopes is a look at how fortunes can be more far more sinister than they first appear.

Detective Constables Jess Holden and Mark Curren are no strangers to life as part of the Special Investigations unit - a secret organization hidden beneath New Scotland Yard. They are the one thing defending mankind and the supernatural from one another. When supernatural beings start turning up dead and the cases keep piling up, the detectives lead a desperate chase to find the killer. After a gang of vampires becomes involved, the battle threatens to spill out of the shadows and into the streets.

They wanted a savior, what they got was a tour guide. Michael liked his nice, normal life. It was fine. Until aliens arrived on Earth, looking for their holy planet. But Michael adapted to life on an alien filled Earth. That is, until he’s kidnapped at gunpoint and whisked off to the stars by an alien who thinks Michael is his holy savior. Chased across the stars in a case of cosmic mistaken identity, Michael must face angry pirates, strange aliens and impossible worlds.

A dozen tumultuous years after the dramatic events at the Paris Opera House Raoul, Comte de Chagny is still haunted by the mysterious Opera Ghost - the creature of legend who held staff at the Opera House under his thrall, kidnapped Raoul’s lover, and murdered his brother. In Raoul’s troubled imagination the ghosts of the past are everywhere, and a strange and powerful music still calls in his dreams. Madness, obsession, and the legacy of the past weave their spell in this short, tragic tale based on the Phantom of the Opera.

What stalks the land cannot be, but is. Where magic is outlawed a troll Shaman calls from her deathbed to her heiress, Mirandra Var, daughter of the storm. Mirandra vows to find her missing kin, sort friend from foe, and claim the dangerous secrets guarded by unthinkable creatures. If she succeeds, she will become the leader of her tribe. If she fails there will be no tribe to lead. Please note 18 and up rated. This contains scenes of violence and sexual situations.

There's no rest for the weary in the afterlife. We all must earn our passage to the next world...or pay the ultimate price. Logan Leonard comes to his senses with his memory full of holes, and a half-familiar woman asks him if he remembers how and why he died. She tells him he must earn his passage to the next level, leads him through doorways to impossible places with surreal landscapes and bizarre inhabitants, and sends him into pictures that are portals to his past.

When murder and mystery begin at the Opera House, one woman knows who is behind it and what really lies beneath the mask. Secrets, lies, and tragedy sing a powerful song in this "might have been" tale.

The year is 1888, and the place is Whitechapel in the very heart of London. But the heart is bleeding. A mysterious killer is stalking women of the streets. His true name is unknown, but his legend will go down in history.

Collection is a series of volumes that follows several once-ordinary people as they are thrown into their now abnormal lives. Vampires, aliens, time travel, flight, superpowers - if you have any of these, then you will become property of the Collection, an underground containment facility that makes sure the world of the unknown stays unknown. But when Jerry attempts to transport himself through time, a freak storm wreaks havoc while a meteor shower fast approaches Earth.

The end of the world is just the beginning of the terror.... Two spirit hordes break through from another dimension, and half the world's population vanishes. The spirits possess the survivors, dividing them into two groups: those who fight to retain their humanity, and marauders who destroy everything in their paths. Artist Livi DeSilva is fleeing from possessed killers when she meets Conor McLain, a man suffering from amnesia.

Every culture has fairy tales, the tales of legend and lore that children hear at bedtime that teach lessons of history and morality, the little bits of truth that keep a culture whole. The Realm of Feyron is no different. Join the youth as they listen to the tales of the beginning days of the Faie.

She stood over herself staring down at it confused. She’d never had an out-of-body experience before. Looking down at her hands, she noticed they were wet; her eyes registered the wetness as blood. Shock and surprise filled her as she looked at her body, seeing a pool of blood, her blood, spilling out onto the wooden floor. Was she…dead? That couldn’t be, she had so much to still do with her life, plans she had made, a bucket list never completed. She turned around looking for the door. This had to just be a bad dream.