Download or read book Forge of the Mind Slayers written by Tim Waggoner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Good could work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughout the archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures, but none were as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirates kidnaps Diran's former lover (a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala), the priest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her -- and countless other abductees -- back no matter what the cost. But the seafaring raiders are no ordinary criminals; they're led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn serves a being unfathomably more evil than himself....
Download or read book The Men Upstairs written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He finds her crying in the lobby of a movie theater and takes her home to his apartment, a strange, beautiful woman with no last name, a mysterious past, and a powerful sexual allure. He wants her, and she wants him. There's only one problem: the Men Upstairs. She used to belong to them—and they'll do anything to get her back. "Waggoner delivers a tale of cosmic and body horror at its most disturbing. The Men Upstairs is a fascinating study of the ancient tension between repulsion and desire." - Laird Barron, author of Occultation
Download or read book Bone Whispers written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit a field where living corpses grow from the ground like pumpkins. Sail across a sea of blood on a raft made from human skin. Flee from a crazed mob determined to tear you limb from limb for the crime of realizing that you are God. From Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Tim Waggoner comes Bone Whispers, a collection of distorted realities and surreal nightmares, with an introduction by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Michael A. Arnzen. Come, listen to Bone Whispers. You'll never be the same. Stories included in this collection: Thou Art God Bone Whispers Some Dark Hope Harvest Time Surface Tension Best Friends Forever No More Shadows Unwoven Skull Cathedral Do No Harm Country Roads Darker than Winter Swimming Lessons Conversations Kill Long Way Home Sleepless Eyes The Faces That We Meet The Great Ocean of Truth
Download or read book A Kiss of Thorns written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonny lost his beloved sister Delia thirty years ago. Since then, he’s sacrificed many lives in order to return her to the world of the living, but without success. His next target is Julia, a young women with a unfulfilled marriage and a passion for ’80s horror films. She will soon discover that not only is real life more complicated than the movies, it’s far more terrifying.
Download or read book Nekropolis written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Matt Richter. Private eye. Zombie. His mean streets are the city of the dead, the shadowy realm known as Nekropolis. And in this first case, Richter must help a delectable half-vampire named Devona recover a legendary artifact known as the Dawnstone, before it’s used to destroy Nekropolis itself. That is, if he can survive the myriad horrors that infest the city itself.
Download or read book The Way of All Flesh written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where zombies battle the living, which is more terrifying? David is trapped in a nightmarish version of his hometown, pursued by crimson-eyed demons and insane cannibals, with no idea how he got there. At every turn he’s taunted by a mysterious youth named Simon who knows far more than he lets on. David’s sister, Kate, fights for survival in a word decimated by flesh-eating zombies – and her brother’s one of them. She’s determined to put a bullet in David’s brain to set him free. Nicholas Kemp is a human monster, a born killer. But in a world ruled by the living dead, he’s no longer the most feared predator, and he’ll do whatever it takes to become that again. He plans to start by killing Kate.
Download or read book The Winter Box written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction It’s Todd and Heather’s twenty-first anniversary. A blizzard rages outside their home, but it’s far colder inside. Their marriage is falling apart, the love they once shared gone, in its place only bitter resentment. As the night wears on, strange things start to happen in their house—bad things. If they can work together, they might find a way to survive until morning…but only if they don’t open the Winter Box.
Download or read book Deep Like the River written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was supposed to be fun. A chance to get away. An opportunity for two sisters to bond and for one sister to heal. It was a small river, calm, slow-moving. Perfect for a leisurely canoe trip on a beautiful summer day. But then they hear a baby crying on the shore, abandoned and overheated. Alie and Carin have to take her with them. They can’t just leave her there. A simple canoe trip becomes a rescue mission. But there’s something on the shore, hidden by the trees. Something that’s following them every step of the way—watching, waiting ... Around every bend, the river becomes stranger, darker, more dangerous, until Alie isn’t sure what’s real and what isn’t. The river wants the child for itself, but no matter what it throws at her, Alie’s determined to get the baby to safety. She’s already lost one child. But she'll have to fight the darkness that haunts the river—as well as the darkness within herself—if she doesn’t want to lose another. *** “A descent into the madness of a ruined psyche, Deep Like the River puts Waggoner's talent for the eerie, desolate, and unpredictable in the spotlight. A must-read for those who like their horror tinged with desperation and guilt.” — Ronald Malfi, author of Little Girls “I don’t know if I’ve ever read a story quite like Tim Waggoner’s DEEP LIKE THE RIVER. With its high emotional and metaphysical content and weird, surrealistic imagery, it reads a bit like Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” with Kafka collaborating and Carl Jung offering occasional advice. Or maybe it’s an adventure story that’s taken a sudden turn into The Twilight Zone. However you characterize Waggoner’s approach, the result is a fine piece of writing exploring the mysteries of a mind struggling with the guilt, pain, and terror of grief.” – Steve Rasnic Team, author of Thanatrauma: Stories
Download or read book Forge of the Mindslayers written by Tim Waggoner and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With innocent lives on the line, an assassin-priest wages war against the forces of evil in this high-octane Eberron novel Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Good could work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughout the archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures—but none were as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirates kidnaps Diran's former lover, a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala, the priest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her—and countless other abductees—back. But the seafaring raiders are no ordinary criminals. They are led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn serves a being unfathomably more evil than himself.
Download or read book A Little Aqua Book of Marine Tales written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-12-11 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in Series III of the popular “Little Book” Series! Life began in the water, but all too often it ends there as well. Water reflects, conceals, fascinates.It calls to us with a siren song, and we drink, we bathe, we swim, we sail . . . Sometimes we sink. And sometimes we’re eaten. A collection of dark fantasy stories exploring what lurks in the depths of our oceans, our lakes, our rivers ... and our minds. Stories included in this collection: Waters Dark and Deep Swimming Lessons Surface Tension Lover, Come Back to Me The Nature of Water Fathomless Tides
Download or read book Nekropolis Dark War written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Richter won't let a little thing like death keep him from cracking his latest case. But there's a new evil power rampaging through the streets of Nekropolis. The last battle has begun.
Download or read book The Last Mile written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Dan wanted was to be a good husband and father, to provide for his wife and daughter, to keep them fed, warm, and safe. But then the malevolent godlike beings called the Masters arrived, and their darkness spread across the world, reshaping it into a twisted realm of savagery and madness. In exchange for his family's protection, Dan now serves one of these alien gods, obtaining human sacrifices to feed his Master's eternal hunger. Like so many people since the world changed, Alice has had to do unspeakable things to survive. Unfortunately for her, she's Dan's choice for his next sacrifice. Now Dan drives along the shattered remnants of an old-world highway, headed for his Master's lair, Alice bound hand and foot in the back seat of his car. Dan may not like what he's become, but he'll do whatever it takes to protect his loved ones. Alice doesn't intend to relinquish her life so easily, though, and she plans to escape, no matter the cost. But in the World After, everything—animals, plants, even the land itself—has become a predator, and the journey to the Master's lair is an almost guaranteed suicide run. But Dan won't give up, and he won't stop fighting. Not until he makes it through the Last Mile.
Download or read book Eat the Night written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Joan Lantz, it starts with a dream of a death-cult’s mass suicide in the jungle of Suriname thirty years ago, followed by the discovery of a hidden basement in her new house, where heavy metal music echoes on humid tropical air. For Kevin Benecke, long-suffering employee of a mysterious organization known simply as Maintenance, it starts with the violent death of his co-worker at the hands of a madman who tells him, The Big Dark is coming for you. Long-dead cult leader and former rock star Mark Maegarr has returned from beyond the grave, and Joan and Kevin have front-row seats to his apocalyptic comeback. Maegarr’s waited decades to finish what he started, and this time no one will stop him from putting on a killer show designed to hasten the universe’s end. Rock on.
Download or read book Broken Shadows written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fissures appear in the darkness. Shadows break, collapse, and crumble away to nothing, revealing that they are far more than the mere absence of light. Shadows are our friends. Shadows protect us. Because what lies behind the darkness is so much worse… The fourteen stories included in this collection: When God Opens a Door Zombie Dreams Portrait of a Horror Writer Waters Dark and Deep Met a Pilgrim Shadow Open House Extern ’Til Voices Drown Us Knock, Knock Outside the Lines Provider Broken Glass and Gasoline The Tongue is the Sweetest Meat Ghost in the Graveyard
Download or read book A Strange and Savage Garden written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years ago, Lauren left her hometown of Trinity falls, with no intention of ever going back. Something bad happened to her in the woods there, so bad that she erased it from her memory – mostly. But now her father has died, and she’s returning for the funeral. Returning to a place where robed men and women circle the town in an endless loop, tirelessly chanting, and where a primeval beast watches from behind the trees, hungering for more than flesh. Hungering for her. Trinity Falls: where Lauren’s grandmother Madelyn reigns supreme. Lauren escaped her once, but Madelyn won’t let her get away again. Madelyn has a plan, and this time she intends to see it through to the bitter, bloody end. No matter what.
Download or read book Nekropolis Dead Streets written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MATT RICHTER'S GOING TO PIECES - LITERALLY. You've got to keep your head to survive in the teeming undead city known as Nekropolis. It's a pity crazed genius Victor Baron couldn't manage that. Now everyone wants a piece of him. Zombie detective Matt Richter and his glamorous she-vampire companion Devona are back on the case, with another wild and wonderful investigation.
Download or read book Love Death and Madness written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time together, three of Tim Waggoner's award-nominated novellas of horror fiction. THE WINTER BOX Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction It’s Todd and Heather’s twenty-first anniversary. A blizzard rages outside their home, but it’s far colder inside. Their marriage is falling apart, the love they once shared gone, in its place only bitter resentment. As the night wears on, strange things start to happen in their house—bad things. If they can work together, they might find a way to survive until morning…but only if they don’t open the Winter Box. A KISS OF THORNS Finalist of the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Lonny lost his beloved sister Delia thirty years ago. Since then, he’s sacrificed many lives in order to return her to the world of the living, but without success. His next target is Julia, a young women with a unfulfilled marriage and a passion for ’80s horror films. She will soon discover that not only is real life more complicated than the movies, it’s far more terrifying. THE MEN UPSTAIRS Finalist of the 2012 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella He finds her crying in the lobby of a movie theater and takes her home to his apartment, a strange, beautiful woman with no last name, a mysterious past, and a powerful sexual allure. He wants her, and she wants him. There's only one problem: the Men Upstairs. She used to belong to them—and they'll do anything to get her back.
