In 2027 A.D., the Zombie Apocalypse took the world by storm and no one was prepared. Countless lives were lost as humanity battled to regain control of their planet. Eventually, they did, and out of the ashes of fallen civilization rose a new world, one bent on revenge against the hordes of the undead that took everything from them.Enter Tony Sterpanko, entrepreneur extraordinaire who found a way to capitalize on humanity's thirst for vengeance against the zombie. He created Zombie Fight Night, a worldwide craze where the undead men and women who remained from the apocalypse faced off against people and beings that once existed on Earth or were existing for the first time.It is ten years later and at Blood Bay Arena, fortunes are won and lost. Men are made millionaires over night. Others are not so lucky and find themselves broken and destitute.Mick Chelsey is one such man: gambling addict, lousy husband and Zombie Fight Night fanatic.Except now, in order to still watch the fights and try to win back all he's lost, he needs to bet fast and big otherwise death will come for him.Let the battles begin.Zombies fight Bigfoot, werewolves, vampires, Axiom-man, Bruce Lee, samurai, kickboxers, robots and more in this ode to blood-and-guts action from Blood of the Dead author, A.P. Fuchs.You ready to get it on? Views: 10
YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR ONLY TREASURE …
These words buoy Mike as he recuperates in Thermalene,
the shell of an abandoned turn-of-the-century spa. Pitched from a speeding
Cadillac when the deal went bad, he has come to this haven at the edge of his
life.
The waters here are said to heal. But in this Oregon
desert all is dry and dead-and Mike will be too, unless the waters' powers are
for real.
The desert souls and parched dreams within this book are
real and frightful, and demonstrate the exceptional literary prowess that has
made K. W. Jeter one of today's most important young writers.
1993 Locus Poll Award (Best Horror/Dark Fantasy
Novel, place: 10).
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From Kirkus Reviews
Gritty, spare but rather empty horror yarn from the
author of Dr. Adder, Farewell, Horizontal, Infernal
Devices, etc. Vicious drug-dealer Aitch and his reluctant sidekick Charlie
beat their erstwhile partner Mike, a doctor and drug addict, to a pulp, then
throw him from a car in the high desert of eastern Oregon following an attempted
double-cross. Brought, barely alive, to an abandoned spa resort by a concerned
trucker, Mike suffers wild dreams of bodies splitting asunder, and of an ancient
doctor waving a scalpel-who subsequently appears alive, bathing in a pool of the
spa's sulfurous water. Mike too bathes and drinks, and is healed in body, indeed
possessed of extraordinary strength. The old doctor, Nelder, tells him that the
water is an ancient evil, somehow alive-and it likes Mike. Enthralled by the
horrid dreams conferred by the water, Mike now attacks his girlfriend, Lindy,
whom he phones for help before drinking the water, and the trucker's son, Doot,
who has also helped him. He mutilates the hapless Lindy, breaks Nelder, revenges
himself bloodily on Aitch and Mike, then threatens Doot-who, somehow, acquires
the water's powers and rips Mike apart while himself remaining uncontaminated by
the evil. Jeter can write, and his tightly controlled individual scenes succeed,
often handsomely. But the overall picture-the slender plot, the repulsive yet
uninteresting atrocities, uncertain character motivations, and the improbable
desires of the sentient spa-doesn't add up. Gripping in patches, then, but the
patches conceal a number of leaks.
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"Wolf Mow by K. W. Jeter is characterized by a
somber elegance that is Jeter's own trademark. The pace never lets up. This book
grabs you and pulls you irresistibly into a disturbing and splendidly delineated
world. Jeter details his story with hallucinogenic clarity. Don't miss this
one!"
-Robert Sheckley
"Jeter's is one of the most impressive bodies of work in
my field today. Sometimes reminiscent of noir fiction but far darker,
oppressively intense and hallucinatorily vivid, deeply felt and unflinchingly
honest, these books are what I believe contemporary horror fiction should
be."
-Ramsey Campbell
"K. W. Jeter sees through the human to the grotesque
underneath, a singular kind of vision that grabs you on the first page,
fascinates and terrifies you all the way through, and haunts you long after the
last page is over."
-Pat Cadigan
"Jeter is a writer who resists categorization in genres
obsessed with categorization, and there is a steely consistency in the worldview
through which his fiction is filtered. It produces novels which are densely
textured, bleak but with a saving note of grace, and edged with razor-sharp
sarcasms generated by a refusal to accept genre tropes, to take shared
assumptions at face value."
-Paul J. McAuley
"The best of the 'new' horror writers today."
-Joe R. Lansdale Views: 10
A series of gruesome attacks have been sweeping New York City. A teacher in Harlem and two sanitation workers on Wall Street are found dead, their swollen bodies nearly dissolved from the inside out. The predator is a deadly supercolony of ants--an army of one trillion soldiers with razor-sharp claws that pierce skin like paper and stinging venom that liquefies its prey.The desperate mayor turns to the greatest ant expert in the world, Paul O’Keefe, a Pulitzer Prize–winning scientist in an Armani suit. But Paul is baffled by the ants. They are twice the size of any normal ant and have no recognizable DNA. They’re vicious in the field yet docile in the hand. Paul calls on the one person he knows can help destroy the colony, his ex-wife Kendra Hart, a spirited entomologist studying fire ants in the New Mexico desert. Kendra is taken to a secret underground bunker in New York City, where she finds herself working side by side with her brilliant but arrogant ex-husband and a high-ranking military officer hell-bent on stopping the insects with a nuclear bomb.When the ants launch an all-out attack, Paul and Kendra hit the dangerous, panic-stricken streets of New York, searching for a coveted queen. It’s a race to unlock the secrets of an indestructible new species, before the president nukes Manhattan.A.J. Colucci's debut novel is a terrifying mix of classic Michael Crichton and Stephen King. A thriller with the highest stakes and the most fascinating science, The Colony does for ants what Jaws did for sharks.Review"New York City comes under attack from a vicious new species of ant in Colucci's exciting thriller debut....Colucci...balances scares and science nicely. Michael Crichton fans will hope that this is but the first of many such outings from the author's pen."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Colucci's suspense-novel debut is a frightening combination of well-researched science and scenes of pure horror. Downright gory in places, the tale is rounded out by the usual corrupt officials, warring industries, and failed romances. Full of suspense and intrigue, The Colony will especially appeal to fans of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and the like."--Booklist"[A] grimly entertaining debut...the book transcends its horror-movie basis with descriptions of the ants in action and of the science behind the Siafu Moto, which is part fire ant and part African strain....Not a book for picnic-goers, this tale may have you rethinking those warnings about fire ants heading north."--Kirkus Reviews"Few debuts cut to the quick as effectively as A.J. Colucci's The Colony. Razor-sharp writing, scientific intrigue, and political brinkmanship create a story as plausible as it is frightening. Here's a novel to leave your skin crawling—and wanting more!"—James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Colony“Innovative, provocative, and exciting, The Colony possesses the three crucial ingredients for any high concept thriller. I'll never look at an ant the same way again."–Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of *The Columbus Affair"The kind of story that eats you alive, one little bite at a time. Accurate research combines with pure horror for a fantastic read."—Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Infected“A.J. Colucci has created an engaging, frightening tale mixing science and adrenaline in equal measure. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. If you like Crichton, you owe it to yourself to read The Colony.”—Paul McEuen, author of Spiral"Creep-a-palooza! A.J. Colucci's masterpiece combines whirlwind action, characters that make you stand up and cheer, and deliciously evil killer ants into a flesh-ripping joyride of a thriller. It's one of the most gripping stories I've read in ages. Read it tonight, and I guarantee you'll be canceling tomorrow's picnic."—Shane Gericke, national bestselling author of Torn Apart*"You'll think twice about squashing ants after you read The Colony. The novel is fun, scary, and unsettling. Creepy in the best sense of the word."—Mark Alpert, author of Final TheoryAbout the AuthorA. J. Colucci lives in New Jersey and spent fifteen years as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and writer for corporate America before becoming a full-time author. Views: 10
THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYONDWITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTINIf the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin's masterwork--the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time--warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of Ice and Fire.This lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, providing vividly constructed accounts of the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead to the events of A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones. In a collaboration that's been years in the making, Martin has teamed with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson, the founders of the renowned fan site Westeros.org--perhaps the only people who know this world almost as well as its visionary creator.Collected here is all the accumulated knowledge, scholarly... Views: 10
The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an eBook original to be published on August 21, 2012.Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It's Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn't be at the ballgame, shouldn't be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers's past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier.... Views: 10
Product DescriptionEvangeline Stone, a rogue bounty hunter, never asked for a world divided between darkness and light . . . or the power to die and live again in someone else’s borrowed body. After a murder plot meant to take her out leaves an entire race of shapeshifters nearly extinct, Evy is gnawed by guilt. So when one of the few survivors of the slaughter enlists her aid, she feels duty-bound to help—even though protecting a frail, pregnant shifter is the last thing Evy needs, especially with the world going to hell around her. Amid weres, Halfies, gremlins, vamps—and increasingly outgunned humans—a war for supremacy is brewing. With shifters demanding justice, her superiors desperate to control her, and an assassin on her trail, Evy discovers a horrifying conspiracy. And she may be the only person in the world who can stop it—unless, of course, her own side gets her first. About the Author A native of the Delaware seashore, Kelly Meding briefly attempted life in the bustle of the Northern Virginia/DC Metro area, before retreating back to the relative quiet of the Eastern Shore. She lives in a small town near the beach, with a neurotic cat who occasionally meows at ghosts. Kelly received her Bachelor's Degree in Communication in 2002 and she hasn't used it since, preferring instead to wile away her non-writing hours on the sales floor of a national retail chain. After discovering Freddy Krueger at a very young age, Kelly began a lifelong obsession with horror, science fiction, and fantasy, on which she blames her interest in vampires, psychic powers, superheroes, and all things paranormal. When not writing, she can be found crafting jewelry, enjoying a good cup of coffee, or scouring the Internet for gossip on her favorite television shows. Views: 10
