by admin | Sep 1, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
Re-edited June, 2023
It started as a typical day in a sleepy little coastal village. But little did they know everything was about to change forever.
Corporal Joe Mills of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrives at Gallou Cove, certain the reported ‘sea monster’ washed ashore would be nothing. What he found there on the beach chilled him to the core.
Dr. Adele Kramer, a marine biologist, shows up to categorize the find. The creature defies any known life found on Earth. At least, nothing originating on the planet.
So begins their introduction to ‘The Other’, the secret world of cosmic horrors plaguing humanity since before the dawn of time. They soon find themselves drawn into a plot many millennia-old to prevent the end of all existence in the universe. Can they survive the Crawling Chaos and prevent He Who Lies Dreaming from awakening?
This book is the first in a trilogy, containing six of eighteen linked novelettes and novellas meant to be read in order and set in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
Praise for The Other
This book was great! Each chapter in this book is essentially a short story on its own but circulates through characters you’re introduced to in the first and second story, so I quite like that. There is a thread to the story that continues through them all and helps create continuity… I very much recommend this collection of stories and would recommend it to anyone who likes Lovecraftian fiction. S. Lowe, Dec 1, 2020.
I read a lot of mythos tales, some good, some bad, and some just tangential. This is one of the better ones. It keeps an up to date feel without sacrificing too much the mythos’ ‘pulp’ origins and character. M Kettlewell, Oct 25, 2020
I enjoyed this collection of stories based on the Cthulhu Mythos. The three main characters are sent on missions either together or alone. Each story is filled with mystery and horror. I recommend this book to anyone who likes Lovecraft’s creatures. Ilene, Feb 25, 2020
The book contains the following stories:
It Came From The Sea: the remains of a mysterious creature is washed ashore on a small village, forever changing the lives of all who see it.
It Slumbers Beneath The Ice: an ancient entity of cosmic evil lies trapped in Arctic ice. A mysterious cult seeks to free it from its prison, an event the investigators rush to prevent.
It Lives In The Woods: A cultist summons an entity from the Dreamlands and unleashes it on this world with deadly consequences.
It Hides In The Village: Small rural towns are breeding grounds for Mythos activity, where a dedicated group of followers assists The Black Pharoah in his plans to spread discord and chaos.
It Lurks In The Basement: An investigator is recovering from her encounters with The Other when she learns of an entity of unspeakable evil imprisoned in the basement of a home in her neighbourhood.
It Ends Where It Began: All of the investigators are brought together and return to the blighted village where their odyssey began and learn of the diabolical plan of a malign deity and one of the Mythos’ most active antagonists.
The Happenings of December 13, 2012: The story of the investigator’s mysterious handler and how The Other first drew him into its web of terror.
This is the first book in a trilogy.
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by admin | Sep 1, 2025 | Fantasy |
“Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy.”—Sunday Times
Movie mania sweeps across the Discworld creating disaster in its wake in this delightful take on Tinseltown and the lure of glamour, fame, close-ups, and big dreams from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett.
A new phenomenon is taking over the Discworld: moving pictures. The alchemists of Ankh-Morpork have discovered how to get gold from silver—the silver screen, that is. Soon, the growing “clicks” industry moves to the sandy land of Holy Wood, attracted by the light of the sun and some strange un-nameable calling.
Victor Tugelbend, a wizarding student dropout who can’t sing and can’t dance wants to be a star, just like small-town girl Theda “Ginger” Withel. But the click of moving pictures isn’t just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood’s magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, and the never-weres are beginning to ferment with some wild ideas into a really stinky brew. Because belief is powerful in the Discworld, and sometimes downright dangerous, and the magic of movies might just unravel reality itself.
It’s up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog to rein in the chaos and return order to a star-struck Discworld. Are they ready to play the biggest roles of their lives?
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by admin | Sep 1, 2025 | Historical Fiction |
The Knights Templar
They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience…for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated to theprotection of pilgrims in the Holy Land — until stories spread by anavaricious king who wanted their wealth for his own destroyed the order.
There was one knight, however, who escaped the stake, vowing justiceas he watched his innocent brothers die.
In the Service of the Lord
Simon Puttock has not been bailiff of Lydford Castle long in this year of 1316, when he is called to a nearby village to examine a burned-out cottage and the dead body within. But it is the newly arrived knight, Sir Baldwin Furnshill, who discerns the deceased was no victim of a tragic mishap; he was, in fact, murdered prior to the blaze. Simon would be well-served by accepting further assistance from this astute, though haunted and secretive stranger. For a second fatal burning indicates that some harsh evil has invaded this once-peaceful place, and its hunger has yet to be sated.
by admin | Sep 1, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
Kill . . . or be damned.
A demon’s assassin for centuries, Maliha Crayne has gone rogue, determined to save a life for every one she’s destroyed in order to free herself from an eternity of enslavement, damnation, and excruciating torment. But as the powers that sustained her in the past fade, she is wary of trusting those closest to her?especially her lover, Jake. And her closest friends are beginning to disappear, one by one. Amid her anger, suspicion, and sorrow, her life is spiraling out of control.
Worse still, a beautiful Renaissance murderess is recruiting Maliha as her new assassin. Maliha is turning into a lethal puppet with an evil Immortal pulling the strings, forced to kill innocents or see her missing friends die horribly. Suddenly trapped in a moral no-man’s-land, Maliha is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t . . . and time is rapidly running out.
by admin | Sep 1, 2025 | Science Fiction |
Unique visions and astonishments—new stories by:
Tobias S. Buckell and Karl Schroeder
Cory Doctorow
Neil Gaiman
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Alastair Reynolds
Michael Swanwick
Last year’s best short-form SF—selected by acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer—offers stunning new extrapolations on what awaits humankind beyond the next dawn. The art of the story is explored boldly and provocatively in this powerful new collection of Year’s Best speculative fiction.
