Plane Horror

Enter a world where the dead have risen, not to greet loved ones with open arms, but with open mouths and appetites. This book invites the reader to enter a world where heroes, cowards, men and women of all types must face the threat of the living dead. Where a military officer puts into place a desperate plan to save what's left of the human race, but factions within are plotting to stop him. Where a loner, whose memory is lost to him, saves a little boy and is brought back into the war against the dead. Where creatures of myth and legend battle for the survival of a humanity that has ...

The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror.

The Centerian Empire collapsed on the very day Marine XT officer Che Tsang arrived on Center, the empire’s homeworld, expecting a well-earned leave. Instead of rest and recuperation, he found chaos, betrayal, and a nightmare beyond imagination. His welcome was anything but warm—an old friend who owed him his life repaid the debt with hostility. Before Che could even process the encounter, new orders arrived: forget shore leave, report to another ship immediately. Seeing the world around him descend into madness—civilians and soldiers alike turning on each other with savage hunger—he...

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.

A doomed plane. A frozen mountain. And a legend that kills. When a charter flight crashes near the base of Mount Everest, the handful of survivors believe the worst is behind them. But the icy winds and jagged cliffs aren’t their biggest threat. Something ancient prowls these peaks—something massive, white-furred, and bloodthirsty. As the group struggles to stay warm and alive, they begin to vanish, one by one. Whispers speak of the Ice Demon—a beast the locals dare not name. Now, survival depends not on strength or supplies… but on staying quiet, staying hidden, and staying out of ...

After a plane is forced to make an emergency landing in a remote area, the surviving crew and passengers must wait until a rescue team arrives. But they soon discover they are not alone in the wilderness, and the rescue team is not showing up anytime soon.

A deserted R&D facility tempts the hungry new Guild, Leviathan, into sending a team to plunder its valuable research. The base was abandoned after a neighboring planet was devastated by an outbreak of Xenos-alien zombies—but that was a whole planet away. When the Guild ship is attacked by a quarantine patrol, both ships crash onto the deserted world. Only it isn't as deserted as they hope: a murderous new Xeno threat awakens, desperate to escape the planet. Can the crews cooperate to destroy this new foe? Will they be forced to sacrifice their ships and lives to protect the galaxy?

Brace for Impact: Stories of Hope and Horror Fifteen plane crashes. Fifteen stories of survival. From the frozen wastelands of Siberia to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Brace for Impact captures the raw terror, resilience, and impossible decisions faced by those who lived through aviation disasters. Some found hope in the wreckage—others faced the brutal realities of isolation, injury, and the unforgiving elements. Told with gripping intensity, these true-to-life narratives echo the haunting suspense of your favorite Survival Stories, placing you inside the doomed cabins, the ...

Viridis is a planet at the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy where the highest-evolved beings are orchids. Every year they celebrate the Spring Festival by using the Twilight Flower as an offering for the spirits of spring. However, when the High Priest sends two of his acolytes on a quest to the desert in search of a healthy specimen to replace the original one, along the way they are caught in a sandstorm, discover an oasis, make new friends and stumble upon an alien from another planet. At the same time, an evil orchid begins to carry out his machinations for intergalactic domination. ...

Russia's Ural Mountains hide a deadly secret: a supernatural portal to the country of the vampires. Soviet scientists and ESP-powered spies, in a secret military base, study the portal - and the powerfully evil creatures that emerge from it, intent on ravaging mankind. When Jazz Simmons, a British agent sent to infiltrate the base, is captured by the KGB espionage squad and forced through the portal, his last message tells Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, that the vampires are preparing for a mass invasion.

The Astra-7 Protocol A sci-fi thriller of ancient machines, deadly awakenings, and the one thing artificial minds can’t compute—human unpredictability. On a lush exoplanet light-years from Earth, a colonial survey team uncovers the ruins of a long-extinct alien civilization. Buried beneath the soil and silence lies something still alive—a dormant AI network known as the Prime Mind. When the team accidentally reactivates it, they awaken more than forgotten code. Watchers begin to stir. Early Form constructs rise. And the Prime, confused by human behavior, begins testing the only ...

A small white plane hurtles from the sky, vanishing into the wilderness. Hiker Maggie Roby watches its final descent, certain that no one could have survived. But to her shock, a fifteen-year-old girl emerges from the wreckage, wounded but miraculously, impossibly alive. Maggie approaches with trepidation; she has secrets of her own, a past she can’t escape. Saving the girl means risking her future, but she can’t just abandon her, can she?

Wayne is living in a world where nothing is just and only the attractive succeed. He's peered beyond the curtain, knows he will never have what it takes to be confident. His friends are not much better, and have a taste for taking revenge on those that wrong them.

The 2nd book of The Glass Planet. An autistic boy reads with his grandfather ancient stories from the bible. His family are in Egypt when ancient bits of scripture are found in the Antiqua dealers in a market. The Jacob family has moved there and is now part of the exciting discoveries of ancient biblical texts. Using fictional characters, the author takes the reader through a journey of discovery, uncovering the secret Extra-terrestrial origins of the bible and other god centered religions around the world. By combing through the new translations of the Nag Hammadi Library and the Dead Se ...

A lonely man gets more than he bargained for after ordering a hand-in-a-can from an old magazine.

A Hasidic gunslinger tracks the renegade teacher who betrayed his mystic Jewish order of astral travelers across the demon-haunted American Southwest of 1879. In this acclaimed first volume, four sequential novellas and one bonus short story chronicle the weird adventures of the Merkabah Rider. Featuring The Blood Libel, The Dust Devils, Hell's Hired Gun, The Nightjar Women, and "The Shomer Express."

War of the Worlds never happened. It was a science fiction novel written by Herbert George Wells. That's what history tells us. And it's a lie! Made up by G One, a powerful international organization after they alter the memories of the world, to cover the fact that our world was invaded and almost perished beneath the conquering Martians who landed here. We didn't defeat them. Mother Nature did! But now, the aliens are back. Stronger, more powerful, and more cunning. And only one organization can possibly defeat them...G-ONE. And the action and adventure only gets better and better in the ...

A trio of outlaws are released from an orbiting prison and sent back to their home planet. The catch? Find the president's missing son, and you’ll be pardoned by the Federation. Welcome to the desert planet of Lazarus, the hottest place in the universe inhabited by humans. It’s not only the heat that will kill you. Lazarus is also home to a spectrum of deadly creatures who have clawed out a living in the harsh desert, and they don’t take kindly to visitors. Not to mention the gangs of vicious bandits roving the land in search of anyone to kill and steal from. As descendants of tough ...

Peculiar Monstrosities is packed with 14 exquisitely crafted stories from new and established authors of Bizarro fiction.

Psychologist Elizabeth Cole prepared for the worst when she accepted a job on a newly discovered world--a world where every colonist is tethered to an alien who manifests in the form of a dead loved one. But she never expected she'd struggle with the requirement to shun these "ghosts." She never expected to be so attracted to the charming Irishman assigned as her supervisor. And she certainly never expected to discover she died in a transport crash en route to the planet.