Indian summer. It's the time of year after the leaves change color, when the weather is bright and warm and winter's cold and slush still seems months and months away. Summer's last hurrah. For nine-year-old Eddie Gilmarten and his mother, who have fled to his aunt's farm in the Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois, Aunt Gene's isolated home is the perfect place to escape an alcoholic father. But all is not well in this idyllic country setting. Eddie and his Ma aren't the only souls who have sought refuge on his aunt's sprawling property. There is a dark entity at large, and a man of secrets with a twisted mind and a terrible appetite for innocence.

When a genetically modified bacteriophage mutates into a world-wide zombie plague, infecting humankind by the billions, comic shop owner Mort Lesser must find the courage to survive in a world overrun by the hungry dead. It's no fun being a fat guy when hordes of flesh-eating zombies are wandering the streets, but with the help of some new friends-- underwear model Peter Bolin and sexy stunt car driver Zhao Dao-ming-- Mort just might make it out of the city in one piece. But first he will have to get past about a million hungry deadheads... and some very demented fellow survivors. With 99% of the population turned into brain-eating zombies, the last warm-blooded human beings have suddenly become the most valuable good commodity on the planet.

A genetically modified food preservative mutates into a world-wide zombie plague, infecting humankind by the billions. As civilization collapses in a spectacular orgy of brain-eating destruction, overweight comic shop owner Mort Lesser must make his way out of his hometown of DuChamp before the local nuclear power plant goes critical. It's no fun being fat when the streets are overrun by hordes of flesh-eating deadheads, but with the help of some new friends-- foul-mouthed redneck Pete Bolin and sexy stunt car driver Zhao Dao-ming-- Mort just might make it out of the city in one piece. Meanwhile, strange creatures stalk the inheritors of this blighted world. Are they mankind's saviors, as their angelic appearances suggest, or something far more sinister? Both a post-apocalyptic buddy comedy and an extremely violent survival horror novel, Mort is one of the most unique and original zombie novels you'll ever read For mature readers only

The Dead Have Awakened
It is ten years after the global apocalypse. The Phage, the zombie virus that brought the world to its knees, has mutated, restoring the minds of its undead victims: their personalities, their memories... even their dreams. The living dead are no longer the mindless monsters that drove mankind to the brink of extinction.
But they still possess their insatiable hunger for human flesh.
Kept Like Animals
Brent Scarborough is a veteran survivor. He has been dodging the undead for nearly a decade. When he learns there is a city controlled and populated by living human beings, a place they call Home, he and his companion, Harold Killian, head immediately for this refuge of the living.
But they are captured on the last leg of their journey. Harold is killed, and Brent is imprisoned in a terrible zombie gulag, a nightmarish facility where the living are kept like animals and forced to breed for their hungry zombie masters.
Refusing to be defeated, Brent forges alliances with his desperate fellow inmates. His only goal is escape, but bearing down on the facility is a herd of mindless chompers, zombies who have not yet reawakened, and it is the largest and most destructive herd the living and dead have ever seen

When paranormal investigators Allen Mandel, Jane Rivers and Billy Kasch are invited to film the infamous Forester House for their popular cable television show Ghost Scouts, they think they've scored the coup of the season. Forester House is reputed to be one of the most haunted houses in the country. For 130 years it has hosted tragedy, madness, perversion and murder, and now the Ghost Scouts team is spending the night. The Ghost Scouts are no strangers to bizarre phenomena: glowing mists, mysterious voices and things that go bump in the night... But Forester House is no ordinary haunting...

Two-fisted private detective Dixon Peters is an Umbra, a subspecies of humanity with a knack for using magic. Problem is, he's better at solving crimes than casting spells. He's got a reputation in town for taking the weird cases no one else dares: serial killers, werewolves, ghosts... With the aid of his friend Ramon, a Cuban night club owner and fellow Umbra, and just a little help from Lady Luck, our gumshoe Dix must unravel a missing persons mystery with earth-shattering ramifications. Club Mephistopheles is up to no good. The members of the exclusive gentlemen's club are rich, powerful and rumored to be Satanists. They also have a magus on their side who's got Dix outclassed five ways to Sunday. In order to save the world, our bumbling gumshoe will have to battle shape-shifting familiars, hired goons, a demon-possessed butler and the most powerful (and well-dressed) warlock in the world.

"I knew pain. I have lived with pain from the moment I was made a vampire. The hunger for blood is a constant, gnawing ache, relieved only momentarily by its satiation. I have thrown myself from great heights. I have been crushed to pulp in the crevasse of a glacier. I should not be frightened at the prospect of confronting the God King, and yet I was, and that fear troubled me." As Khronos, the God King of the vampires, expands his corrupt empire, Gon and his fellow exiles must form an army of immortals powerful enough to challenge the father of their race. Meanwhile, in present day Germany, the oldest living vampire draws ever closer to the land of his birth... and his ultimate fate. Lonely, tired and disillusioned, the immortal Gon desires only one thing: a release from the shackles of his unending existence. And his bloodthirsty new fledgling, the sociopathic Lukas Jaeger, is only too willing to accommodate him

Every marriage is haunted. Haunted by the past, and the shadow of guilt that creeps over the heart from words spoken in anger, and all the rest that's left unsaid. Hank Stanford, a small town lawyer, is frustrated with his life, and his marriage. Determined to drag all the skeletons from the closet of his marriage and salvage what is left of the love that he's shared with his wife of twenty years, he ditches the mistress and goes home to clear his conscience. But it's too late for redemption. His wife is dead...by her own hand. What follows is a nightmare of family secrets, incest, madness and murder. His tormented wife might be dead, but the terrible secrets she took to the grave are not, and the husband she left behind is about to find out that death is not always the end-- of love, of life... or of fear.

When neurotic knight George Godfrey is dispatched to save the village of Bathum from a flotilla of foreign warships, his lover, Prithee Hogwaltz, heir to the throne of Doric, is abducted by a giant Wyvern. While Sir Godfrey tries to avert a war with the empire of the Little Folk, Princess Prithee finds herself held hostage by a band of ruthless mercenaries-- right smack dab in the middle of the darkest, deadliest wilderness in the kingdom. The Middenwood plays host to all manner of foul beastie-- green panthers, great wolves, dragons and man-eating bogs-- but none of its predators compare to the threat posed by the mastermind of her abduction, for the thousand-year-old wizard, Unwin Whitecombe, desires more than just a queenly ransom.

The body slave of a violent and perverse aristocrat, Apollonius dreams of murdering the Roman senator who engineered the fall of his wealthy family. When he is befriended by a mysterious physician from Thessaly, a man reputed to be a magician, Apollonius finally gets his chance to avenge his family. With dizzying rapidity, Apollonius is swept into the dreamlike world of his enigmatic benefactor. He discovers that the physician from Thessaly is no ordinary mortal man, but is instead an ancient blood drinker named Gon, a 30,000 year old vampire. Taken to Pompeii to live in his new master's sprawling villa, Apollonius finds himself torn between his desire to be an immortal, and his feelings for his neighbor's daughter, the beautiful and headstrong Julia Varus. Set against the backdrop of Pompeii's final days, Apollonius is a novel of innocence and evil, revenge and sacrifice, and the tragedy of a doomed love.

"Your life will last only as long as our conversation," I said gently. "You will share some of your life with me, and then I will share some of my life with you. If you lie to me, about anything, I will know it. My senses are a thousand times more sensitive than your own. I will smell the lie in your sweat, see it in the quiver of your pupils, and then I will kill you, more slowly, and more painfully, than you could ever imagine. Now... Do we have a bargain?" So begins the second volume of the Oldest Living Vampire saga. In modern day Belgium, the vampire Gon has kidnapped a ruthless murderer. Lukas Jaeger is a cunning sociopath, a monster in the guise of a man. Lonely and fascinated by his hostage's inhumanity, Gon strikes a deal with the seductive serial killer: his life story in exchange for the mortal's vile tales. So long as Gon is intrigued, his captive lives on. As their Faustian bargain unfolds, the Oldest Living Vampire tells Jaeger of his rebirth in the icy steppes of Europe following the last glacial maximum, the creation of his first vampire companion, and their battle with the Elders of the Oombai, a burgeoning agricultural society... all the while, his thirst for the captive mortal's blood grows more and more irresistible.

"I told you that I cannot die," I said, "but that is not exactly true. There is one way that an Eternal can be killed. Only one It is nearly impossible, but it can be done. I have seen it with my own eyes. And I believe that you, Lukas Jaeger, may be the one to do it for me." In this, the third installment of the Oldest Living Vampire's confessions, secret schemes are revealed at last, while the vampire Gon relates to us his first attempt at living among mortals... and his crushing defeat by the beautiful and brutal vampire Zenzele, the woman who will become his soulmate. An indie bestseller since its debut in 2010, The Oldest Living Vampire Saga has captivated readers with its unique take on the vampire mythos, its lush portrayal of the prehistoric world, and its shocking violence and sensuality.

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