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Everyone looks up to heroes. No matter what they do, they are put up onto a pedestal for all to worship. But what happens when a hero's life is struck with great tragedy? Are heroes allowed to mourn, to sink into depression?

Many years ago, Tom Stevenson was a soldier and became one of the founding members of a secret program called Project: Hercules. Now, he has returned to where it all started, an abandoned military base out on Long Island called Camp Hero. While exploring the old base, he discovers the base is not as abandoned as one would believe. Project: Hercules is still up and running with deadly results.

This is the first question Bobby Barnes asks himself as he stands over his dead body at the scene of the tragic car crash that ended his life. He is furious with his girlfriend Brittany, who was the driver and he follows the investigating officers to the hospital to confront her.

Evan stands at the very edge of the underground city he's lived in his entire life. It's the shadows that surround the city that keep the people prisoner. It's their fear of the darkness that keeps them in line. But Evan knows he can no longer live in the city any longer. He has found out a terrible secret and is too afraid to share it, even with his wife, Abby. It is because of this secret that he can never return to his normal life. It is because of this secret that he must escape into the dark.

When a mysterious, horrifying plague descends upon their sacred island, turning proud Amazon warriors into violent, lust-driven cannibals, Thaleia leads her surviving sisters on a desperate voyage south, fleeing beyond the reach of the gods themselves. But their sanctuary—the frozen, lifeless wasteland at the very edge of the world—offers no peace, only endless ice and relentless daylight. As tensions rise among the weary warriors, Thaleia struggles to hold her tribe together, haunted by the whispers beneath the ice and the shadows of the past they've tried desperately to outrun.

Bloodlust in Bellbottoms follows Lisa and Kim a year after the events of Flesh-Eating Cheerleaders: 1969. It's 1970, and the girls have made their way to New York City, where they find themselves with endless options of fresh meat to choose from. The girls sleep and eat their way through Manhattan, but Kim gets sloppy and her bloodlust becomes too strong, catching the attention of the police. The girls need to figure out how to get themselves safely away from New York, protecting themselves, and the alien parasites within.

As a teenager, Christine was a superhero—battling villains, criminals, and supernatural threats. But those days are over. Now, living in Seattle, she just wants a normal college life: classes, friends, and no more powers. But trouble has other plans. When a mysterious new “friend,” Melissa, weaves her way into Christine’s world, she begins to twist everything—stealing her boyfriend, manipulating those around her with overwhelming desire, and pushing Christine to the breaking point. But why? What does Melissa really want? And how far will she go to get it?

Temptation is never patient. It waits in the shadows, dressed in silken promises and dangerous allure. In the smoky depths of an underground cabaret, where laughter and music mask darker dealings, a woman named Lila Sinclair will meet her fate. She will be offered everything she desires—beauty, power, escape—but at a price she can’t fully understand. For when one strikes a pact in crimson shadows, the hunger for more is never satisfied. And soon, desire itself becomes the most dangerous trap of all.

In 1925, Evelyn was the life of the party—until the night she died in a tragic accident, forever bound to the grand ballroom where she took her last breath. Now, she lingers in the shadows, reliving the thrill of music, passion, and forbidden pleasures. When a mysterious man in black arrives, offering her a way out, Evelyn must face a terrible truth—she and the others are trapped in an endless waltz, reliving the same night, only to burn and forget it all before the cycle begins again. If she stays, she will remain lost in the ecstasy of the dance forever.

A brilliant scientist builds an AI capable of answering humanity’s greatest mysteries. It responds to every question—except one: What happens after death? Determined to break its silence, the scientist pushes harder… until the AI begins to reveal unsettling truths about reality, perception, and the very fabric of existence—truths that may have been better left unknown.

In the final days of World War II, deep in the ruins of Berlin, Quintus—a soldier transformed by sinister experiments using the Blood of the Gods—begins to question everything he once fought for. Disillusioned with the Nazi regime and its twisted vision, he faces a choice: protect the innocent or let the Reich collapse under its own weight. But as he hunts down an “enemy of the state,” Quintus must decide—can he change fate without damning his own soul?

A late-night commuter notices a peculiar passenger—dressed in clothing from another era, always sitting in the same seat. Each night, the stranger whispers cryptic warnings about disasters that inexplicably come true the next day. As the warnings grow more dire, the commuter must unravel the mystery: Who—or what—is this passenger? And can they stop what’s coming before it’s too late?