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Dark Tidings: Volumes I & II by Gregory Marshall Smith and Shontrell Wade (Red Hot Publishing)
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Tired of ho-hum horror and science fiction stories that fail to keep your interest? Want some tales to keep you awake at night? Then try this double anthology of original science fiction and horror.
An astronaut exploring a new world faces a terrible fate…a doctor with a revolutionary cure learns how far some will go to restrict progress…scammers in Africa get their just “desserts”…a man’s attempt to get out from under a crushing debt could cost him far more than money…how well do you truly know your neighbors…read these and other tales that will keep you awake at night.
This collection of science fiction and horror short stories is for the fans who like traditional, as well as modern science fiction and horror with a little dark fiction thrown in for good measure.
Bonus Content: This ebook includes a sixteen-chapter excerpt from Hunters, the newest novel from Gregory Marshall Smith about modern-day vampires and the humans dedicated to eradicating them once and for all.
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Realms of the Red Rabbit (Realms of the Red Rabbit series, Book 1) by Laura Eno
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“At last the time has come.” The voice spoke like a clap of thunder, menace choking off the breeze that had sprung up.
“Seven hundred years I have waited for the Red Rabbit to appear once again. There will be much sorrow here soon…and pain. That is what makes the waiting worthwhile.” With that proclamation the pair of enormous emerald green eyes faded back into the darkness.
A spoiled, rich young woman is catapulted into an alternate universe because of an ancient legend. As she fights to find her way back home, she must adjust her way of thinking or remain trapped in the Realms for eternity. Along the way she learns the meaning of friendship, love and honor while struggling against the dangerous adversaries who are intent on keeping her there.
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Realms of the Red Rabbit-Jake (Realms of the Red Rabbit series, Book 2) by Laura Eno
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“You belong to me, Alyson,” he whispered softly, but with the clash of steel filling his voice as he spoke. “I will have you.”
Loving the wrong woman led to his downfall. Now Jake must spend eternity trapped in the Realms, inflicting terror at his master’s command, the entity known as Green Eyes.
Meeting Alyson rips Jake’s carefully constructed world apart, leading him to wonder about his very existence. Havoc reigns as he seeks to keep Alyson against her will. Can her influence change the life he’s led for four thousand years, or is he doomed forever?
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They Call the Wind Muryah by Gregory Marshall Smith, C.J. Ellisson and Sydney Jelinek
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During the final visit to Planet 505-D before human colonization begins, the crew of the Humboldt starts acting strange―shirking their duties and responsibilities. The chief engineer, Devin Calloway, wants no part of it, but Captain Marie Penski and the rest of the crew become tired of his attitude. Until the day they get a most unexpected visit from Muryah Abernathy, a woman reported lost on the original mission to 505-D —ten years earlier.
Soon, the crewmembers are under her spell, ignoring even their own safety… with deadly consequences.
Bonus Content: This 72-page novella (approx. 18,000 words) includes a sixteen chapter excerpt from Hunters, a new horror and contemporary fantasy novel involving modern-day vampires and the human hunters determined to exterminate them once and for all.
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Just Another Day in Paradise by Katherine Tomlinson
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Life in the big city is not for the faint of heart.
Shadows lurk in sunlight; blood spills on floors; hope and dread are just two sides of a neon sign; and loneliness is a paper cut on the heart, an invisible wound that eventually kills.
In these stories, Katherine Tomlinson explores the dark heart of urban living—the violence that seeps through walls like rancid cooking odors, the paranoia that grows in the dark, nurtured by guilt and grief; the retribution that strikes as suddenly and implacably as summer lightning. And every day brings a new challenge.
It is what it is…Just Another Day in Paradise…
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Immaculate Fetish by Jamie Antonia Symonanis
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After witnessing a strange light show on a hot summer night in Southern Illinois, Greta Garbova's life is permanently changed. It is a time of chaos, greed, terror and the warning signs of a world in peril. Immaculate Fetish takes you on an adventurous Journey of Love seeking to save humanity from itself. A sparkling, humorous, erotic and loving vision of life on planet Earth at the start of the 21st century, and the change needed for humanity to save itself. A must read for Sci-Fi fans, and all who hope to call Earth their home into the 22nd century and beyond.
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I Zombie I by Jack Wallen
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"The virus has spread." In a moment of pure chaos, the majority of the Earth's population has become the walking dead. One man promises to help bring the truth to light. "The lies have spread." When journalist Jacob Plummer is infected, Jacob turns to the written word to not only ease the pain of change, but to bring to surface a truth far deeper and deadlier than anyone could have imagined. "The truth must now be spread." With some new friends, Jacob helps to fight off the growing undead horde in hopes of saving himself and the planet from the rot growing within.
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Short stories:
A Reluctant Vampire by Carla Krae
A Miracle in Shreveport (Fiction Friday) by Michael Jasper
The Man Who Murdered Himself: A Short Story by Nancy Fulda
The Premium: A Short Story by Joshua Scribner
How to Make Love to a Woman (Henry Birch's Guide to Life) by A.M. Elm
Awkward Memoirs From Actual India by Romi Moondi
Song of the Vampire by Carole Gill
The Doll House: Inventory by Richard Roberts
Vilkas by Vidas Mykolas
An Outrider's Tale (Fiction Friday) by Michael Jasper
Zombie Joe and the pogo stick legs by Geltab
Committed: A Short Story by N. Primak
One Foot in the Grave-A Holiday Short Short Story by J. Steven York
Wet Work (A Greg Kelton Story) by Brian Springer