Download or read book SHELTER FOR THE DAMNED written by Mike Thorn and published by JournalStone. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While looking for a secret place to smoke cigarettes with his two best friends, troubled teenager Mark discovers a mysterious shack in a suburban field. Alienated from his parents and peers, Mark finds within the shack an escape greater than anything he has ever experienced. But it isn’t long before the place begins revealing its strange, powerful sentience. And it wants something in exchange for the shelter it provides. Shelter for the Damned is not only a scary, fast-paced horror novel, but also an unflinching study of suburban violence, masculine conditioning, and adolescent rage.

Download or read book Tortures of the Damned written by Hunter Shea and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHOCK... First, the electricity goes—plunging the east coast in darkness after a devastating nuclear attack. Millions panic. Millions die. They are the lucky ones. AFTER SHOCK... Next, the chemical weapons take effect—killing or contaminating everything alive. Except a handful of survivors in a bomb shelter. They are the damned. HELL IS FOR HUMANS Then, the real nightmare begins. Hordes of rats force two terrified families out of their shelter—and into the savage streets of an apocalytic wasteland. They are not alone. Vicious, chemical-crazed animals hunt in packs. Dogs tear flesh, cats draw blood, horses crush bone. Roaming gangs of the sick and dying are barely recognizable as human. These are the times that try men’s souls. These are the tortures that tear families apart. This is hell on earth. The rules are simple: Kill or die.

Download or read book Peel Back and See written by Mike Thorn and published by JournalStone. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mike Thorn brings his masterful skill with immersive language and style to this beautiful and disturbing collection.” – Laurel Hightower, author of Crossroads and Whispers in the Dark “With Peel Back and See, Mike Thorn plants one bloody foot in the history of horror and the other firmly in its future.” – Sam Richard, author of Sabbath of the Fox-Devils and To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows In spaces both familiar and strange, unknowable horrors lurk. From the recesses of the Internet, where cosmic terror shows its face on an endless live feed, to a museum celebrating the sordid legacy of an occultist painter, this chilling collection of sixteen short stories will plunge you into the eerie, pessimistic imagination of Mike Thorn. Peel Back and See urges its readers to look closer, to push past surface-level appearances and face the things that stir below. “Mike Thorn’s Peel Back and See is a stunning show-stopper of a fiction collection.” – Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Download or read book Hairstyles of the Damned Punk Planet Books written by Joe Meno and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails. “A funny, hard-rocking first-person tale of teenage angst and discovery.” —Booklist “Captures the loose, fun, recklessness of midwestern punk.” —MTV.com Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest, true-life depiction of growing up punk on Chicago’s south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism, and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend, Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. Based on the actual events surrounding a Chicago high school’s segregated prom, this work of fiction unflinchingly pursues the truth in discovering what it means to be your own person.

Download or read book The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue written by V. E. Schwab and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER THE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine #1 Library Reads Pick—October 2020 #1 Indie Next Pick—October 2020 BOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST—Book of The Month Club A “Best Of” Book From: Oprah Mag * CNN * Amazon * Amazon Editors * NPR * Goodreads * Bustle * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Barnes & Noble * Kirkus Reviews * Lambda Literary * Nerdette * The Nerd Daily * Polygon * Library Reads * io9 * Smart Bitches Trashy Books * LiteraryHub * Medium * BookBub * The Mary Sue * Chicago Tribune * NY Daily News * SyFy Wire * Powells.com * Bookish * Book Riot * Library Reads Voter Favorite * In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force. A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. Also by V. E. Schwab Shades of Magic A Darker Shade of Magic A Gathering of Shadows A Conjuring of Light Villains Vicious Vengeful At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Ruthless Charmer written by Julia London and published by Dell. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No woman could resist Julian Dane. Except Lady Claudia Whitney. Julian had known her since childhood, but the headstrong lass had grown into a beautiful woman. Julian vows to teach her everything he knows about passion. But Claudia, in her most innocent ardor, promises to challenge him to the most dangerous emotion of all: wild, all-consuming love. The rogue met his match in the woman he was forced to wed....

Download or read book Darkest Hours written by Mike Thorn and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the covers of Darkest Hours, you will find academics in distress; humans abusing monsters; demons terrorizing people; ghostly reminiscences; resurrected trauma; and occult filmmaking. Ranging from satirical to dreadful, these sixteen stories share a distinct voice: urgent, sardonic, and brutal. This expanded edition includes a new foreword by Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) and author notes for every story describing Thorn's process, influences, and more. This updated release also features seventeen of Thorn's essays on horror cinema, which cover films by Tobe Hooper, George A. Romero, Rob Zombie, M. Night Shyamalan, Wes Craven, and Dario Argento, among others. "A collection of horror stories that are not only scary, but also intelligent, thoughtful, and carefully planned." - iHorror "The element of surprise is a tribute to Thorn's ingenuity; the assuredness of his prose is due to his extensive knowledge of the horror genre. Perfectly paced from the first sentence, these stories grab you by the collar with the urgency of mortal danger. Highly recommended." - S.P. Miskowski, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Strange is the Night

Download or read book The Damned written by Nathan M. Greenfield and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Damned tells the largely unknown saga of Canada's first land battle of the Second World War - fought in the hills and valleys of Hong Kong in December 1941--and the terrible years the survivors of the battle spent as slave labourers for the Empire of Japan.

Download or read book Children Of The Dust written by Louise Lawrence and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful post-nuclear holocaust novel described by the author as, 'my cry against the monstrous weapons men have made'. Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad, the headmaster said, and a full-scale nuclear attack was imminent . . . It's a real-life nightmare. Sarah and her family have to stay cooped up in the tightly-sealed kitchen for days on end, dreading the inevitable radioactive fall-out and the subsequent slow, torturous death, which seems almost preferable to surviving in a grey, dead world, choked by dust. But then, from out of the dust and the ruins and the desolation, comes new life, a new future, and a whole brave new world...

Download or read book Dismazed and Driven written by Diane Nilan and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrepid family homeless advocate, Diane Nilan's memoir of her journeys to tell the tale of children and their families seeking education while experiencing homelessness.

Download or read book Air Raid Shelters of World War II written by Stephen Wade and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in people's gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed, using original designs and primary material. The nostalgia/social history of the book covers people's experiences of staying in the air raid shelters. These are divided into topics, including getting to the shelters (how they reacted to the sirens or whether they just moved into the shelters, especially those in gardens, long-term), facilities, health issues, morale and safety, both real and perceived. In recent years, air raid shelters have been converted into different uses, including homes, and the book will finish with a brief chapter concerning the future and preservation of these once vital buildings.REVIEWS "...reminds us of the families that slept in them every night and even owed their lives to them...."Best of British Magazine, 06/2011

Download or read book Asylum of the Damned written by Misty McKinney and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asylum of the Damned By: Misty McKinney Rune is not your average young lady, and neither are the horrors she faces. In this suspenseful thriller, Asylum of the Damned, she and those closest to her experience bizarre hauntings, bewitching spells, and battles of unearthly proportions. Against the warnings of her father and some well-meaning friends, Rune is drawn to “research” an asylum with ties to the historical witch trials to find inspiration for writing her next novel. She is not surprised when her own rich history in the supernatural follows her, but what she finds is enough to fill more pages than she ever imagined.

Download or read book Collected Short Fiction written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collected Short Fiction" by Stanley G. Weinbaum, an American science fiction author, presents a collection of stunning short stories written in the 30s but ahead of their time in depicting bizarre alien life forms. Most of his stories are written in a travelogue, describing different planets and discoveries made by two adventurous protagonists, Dixon Wells and the great scientist Van Manderpootz.

Download or read book The Complete Works written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Novels The Black Flame The Dark Other Short Stories A Martian Odyssey Valley of DreamsFlight on TitanParasite Planet The Lotus EatersPygmalion's Spectacles The Worlds of If The IdealThe Planet of DoubtThe Adaptive Ultimate The Red Peri The Mad MoonThe Point of View Redemption CairnThe Circle of Zero Proteus Island GraphThe Brink of Infinity Shifting Seas Tidal Moon Dawn of Flame Green Glow of Death Poems The Last Martian Autobiography

Download or read book SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Collection written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 10715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique Sci-Fi collection with carefully picked out stories from out of space, thrilling intergalactic adventures, dystopian novels and the greatest sci-fi classics: H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man... Edgar Wallace: Planetoid 127 The Green Rust... Otis Adelbert Kline: The Venus Trilogy The Mars Series Malcolm Jameson: Captain Bullard Series Garrett P. Serviss: Edison's Conquest of Mars A Columbus of Space The Sky Pirate... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Professor Challenger Series Jules Verne: 20.000 Leagues under the Sea The Mysterious Island... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Last Man Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron Heel The Scarlet Plague The Star Rover... Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald: Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines She William H. Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land... Edgar Allan Poe: Some Words with a Mummy Mellonta Tauta... H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Cats of Ulthar Celephaïs Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Equality... Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Owen Gregory: Meccania the Super-State Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels William Morris: News from Nowhere Samuel Butler: Erewhon Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race James Fenimore Cooper: The Monikins Hugh Benson: Lord of the World Fred M. White: The Doom of London Ignatius Donnelly: Caesar's Column Ernest Bramah: The Secret of the League Arthur D. Vinton: Looking Further Backward Robert Cromie: The Crack of Doom Cleveland Moffett: The Conquest of America Richard Jefferies: After London Francis Stevens: The Heads of Cerberus Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Stanley G. Weinbaum: Stories from the Solar System Edward Everett Hale: The Brick Moon Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster... Francis Bacon: New Atlantis C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne: The Lost Continent Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Three Go Back

Download or read book SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Box Set written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 12903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Box Set' assembles an unparalleled compendium of works from the pioneers and titans of the science fiction genre. Spanning a variety of literary styles—from the adventurous to the speculative, and the fantastical to the utopian—this collection encompasses the rich diversity that has defined and continuously reinvents science fiction. Unique in its breadth, the anthology invites readers to explore seminal works that have laid the foundations of modern speculative storytelling, including groundbreaking narratives of interstellar exploration, time travel, and alternate realities. The contributing authors, a veritable lexicon of literary virtuosos like Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley, and George Orwell, bring together a tapestry of cultural, philosophical, and scientific insights from their respective epochs. Their collective works reflect the evolution of science fiction as a mirror to society's advancements and anxieties, tracing the genre's roots from gothic novels and romanticism to the dawn of the atomic age and beyond. Their diverse backgrounds and contributions illuminate the anthology's overarching theme: the insatiable human quest for knowledge and the exploration of the unknown. 'Readers of the SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Box Set' are afforded an extraordinary journey through the annals of science fiction. Each page offers an opportunity to witness the evolutionary arc of one of literature's most dynamic genres. The anthology serves not just as a collection of stories, but as an educational resource and a bridge to the dialogue between generations of storytellers. For enthusiasts and newcomers alike, this box set promises endless hours of imaginative thought, challenging one's perceptions of what is possible in the realm of the written word.

Download or read book General Leemy s Circus written by Earl A. Snyder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Leemy's Circus: A Navigator's Story of the Twentieth Air Force In World War II is the action-packed account of the fearless men who flew the Superforts, the B-29's of General Curtis Lemay's XXI Bomber Command. The navigator's role was a critical one and involved making complex directional calculations during the chaos of combat. Navigator turned author Earl Snyder was a whiz at steering pilots through the whirlwinds of skirmishes and had a knack for thinking on the fly in the middle of the storm. His unique improvisational skills earned him a place in the Circus and the important series of bombings that ended the war. This is his story.