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Last Dragon [MultiFormat]
by J.M. McDermott
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 An intricate web of stories weave together to tell a tale of revenge, justice, ambition, and power. Zhan has been sent to find her grandfather, a man accused of killing not only Zhan's family, but every man, woman, and child in their village. What she finds is a shell of a man, and a web of deceit that will test the very foundations of a world she thought she understood. A tale of revenge that grows into something more, Last Dragon is a literary fantasy novel in the tradition of Gene Wolf and Ga... more info>> 2008
Words: 86239 - Reading Time: 246-344 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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The Monster Within Idea [MultiFormat]
by R. Thomas Riley
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The monsters lurk in everyone: monsters of greed, of guilt, of the pleasure found in pain, of the pain found when pleasure dies. Carefully disguised, the monsters can sit down beside you or take up residence within you at the slightest twist of fate. Will you try to stop them? Will you want to? This collection of 18 stories from R. Thomas Riley deftly explores the monsters born of the human mind. "Attrition" offers a future prison system that frees only those who repent sincerely--but what can a... more info>> 2009
Words: 54164 - Reading Time: 154-216 min.
Category: Horror
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Open Your Eyes [MultiFormat]
by Paul Jessup
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Her lover was a supernova who took worlds with him when he died, and as a new world grows within Ekhi, savage lives rage and love on a small ship in the outer reaches of space. A ship with an agenda of its own. Critically acclaimed author of weird fiction Paul Jessup sends puppets to speak and fight for their masters while a linguistic virus eats through the minds of a group of scavengers in Open Your Eyes, a surrealist space opera of haunting beauty and infinite darkness. Cover art by Daniele C... more info>> 2009
Words: 34945 - Reading Time: 99-139 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Convent of the Pure [MultiFormat]
by Sara M. Harvey
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Secrets and illusions abound in a decaying convent wrapped in dark magic and scented with blood. Portia came to the convent with the ghost of Imogen, the lover she failed to protect in life. Now, the spell casting caste wants to make sure that neither she nor her spirit ever leave. Portia's ignorance of her own power may be even more deadly than those who conspire against her as she fights to fulfill her sworn duty to protect humankind in a battle against dark illusions and painful realities. St... more info>> 2009
Words: 36487 - Reading Time: 104-145 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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A Prelude to Penemue [MultiFormat]
by Sara M. Harvey
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Secrets and illusions abound in a decaying convent wrapped in dark magic and scented with blood. 2009
Words: 5040 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #10 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
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Brings & binds & offers up an international collection of science-horror from the dark corners of the world. The glossy cover, essays, and genre interviews add leavening to the brew, but make no mistake: Apex Digest straddles the genre world with one foot in blood and the other in the future. 2007
Words: 38385 - Reading Time: 109-153 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales [MultiFormat]
by Fran Friel
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The Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella "Mama's Boy" is the cornerstone of this 14-story collection from author Fran Friel and Apex Publications. A man whose mother's demented love for him has turned him from an innocent boy to a serial killer to a near-comatose mental patient opens his world to a psychologist determined to reach him as a way of dealing with her own mother's battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But is she helping, or is there more damage to be done? In "Mashed," a son's s... more info>> 2008 Bram Stoker Award Nominee
Words: 76497 - Reading Time: 218-305 min.
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Orgy of Souls [MultiFormat]
by Maurice Broaddus, Wrath James White
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Twenty for one. Twenty souls for his brother's life is a price that seductively beautiful Samson is willing to pay. Twenty souls drenched in blood, powdered with cocaine and more than one kind of ecstasy. A fair trade for the life of a brother. A fair trade for the life of a priest. And everyone he meets seems so willing to give theirs away. Samuel's faith often wavers. Diagnosed with HIV and in rapid decline, he hides his disillusionment in the rituals of the priesthood. But when Samson brings ... more info>> 2008
Words: 29845 - Reading Time: 85-119 min.
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I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein [MultiFormat]
by Michael A. Burstein
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A familiar name to readers of the popular science fiction magazine Analog, Michael A. Burstein's straightforward storytelling melds classic and modern science fiction in accessible stories that focus on human interactions in speculative situations. Brought together for the first time in one collection, thirteen of Burstein's stories that made Hugo, Nebula, and other award ballots are presented with new afterwords by the author. 2008
Words: 150295 - Reading Time: 429-601 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Temple: Incarnations [MultiFormat]
by Steven Savile
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A man awakens in a filthy bedroom with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. Seeing an old Gideon bible on a nightstand, he finds a name to call his own--Temple. This is the story of Temple's quest for identity and purpose in a dying, decaying world. By turns heartbreaking, enlightening, and surreal, British fantasist Steven Savile has created a story that T.M. Wright describes as "a story about Death written by a man who has clearly consorted with devils." This novella comprises the... more info>> 2007
Words: 32837 - Reading Time: 93-131 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Beauty and Dynamite [MultiFormat]
by Alethea Kontis
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Once upon a time, a young girl walked into a world of wonder and delight. But that's not where this story starts. The young woman she became published a nationally recognized children's book and edited a star-filled collection of stories to benefit the tsunami relief effort. But that's not where this story ends. Meet Alethea Kontis, a self-proclaimed Genre Chick whose life is an adventure that tears through these pages like a hurricane. Carrot-a-day cancer cures and Murphy as a guardian angel (... more info>> 2008
Words: 83995 - Reading Time: 239-335 min.
Category: General Nonfiction
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #11 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
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Brings & binds & offers up an international collection of science-horror from the dark corners of the world. The glossy cover, essays, and genre interviews add leavening to the brew, but make no mistake: Apex Digest straddles the genre world with one foot in blood and the other in the future. 2007
Words: 51292 - Reading Time: 146-205 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Unwelcome Bodies [MultiFormat]
by Jennifer Pelland
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Pain. Pleasure. The sensation of touch. We feel everything through our skin, that delicate membrane separating "I" from "other," protecting the very essence of self. Until it breaks. Or changes. Or burns. What would you do if you were the one called on to save humanity, and the price you had to pay was becoming something other than human? Or if healing your body meant losing the only person you've ever loved? Wander through worlds where a woman craves even a poisonous touch, a man's deformities ... more info>> 2008
Words: 71091 - Reading Time: 203-284 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #12 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
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Fiction: "Death Comes For All"--Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury; "The Heavy"--Cherie Priest; "To Know How to See"--Michael West; "I Can't Look at the City"--Jim Stewart; "PostFlesh"--Paul Jessup; "Covenant"--Lavie Tidhar; "Broken Strand"--Maurice Broaddus; "Feverish Solutions"--Ryck Neube; "Clementine"--Joy Marchand; "Solomon's Bad Luck"--Brandy Schwan; "Cain XP11 (Conclusion): The Wicked King"--Geoffrey Girard; "Curve Balls in the Rift"--Durand Welsh; Parting Shot--"Dear Diary"--Sara Genge... more info>> 2008
Words: 68943 - Reading Time: 196-275 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Next Fix [MultiFormat]
by Matt Wallace
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If there is a party at the end of the universe, Matt Wallace's The Next Fix will be the drug of choice. Two-time Parsec Award-winning author teams with Apex Publications for a new collection of 12 short stories and one novella. With characters as gritty as Sam Spade but as real as your next-door neighbor, The Next Fix cooks up a cocktail of futuristic trips that range from haunting to comedic to don't-turn-out-the-lights. From Wallace's introduction to The Next Fix: You're in my own little chime... more info>>
Words: 67257 - Reading Time: 192-269 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #9 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
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Brings & binds & offers up an international collection of science-horror from the dark corners of the world. The glossy cover, essays, and genre interviews add leavening to the brew, but make no mistake: Apex Digest straddles the genre world with one foot in blood and the other in the future. 2007
Words: 50585 - Reading Time: 144-202 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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