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So you're in a bad job. You can, in time, get another job. After all it's not a matter of life and death. Or is it? A young man soon learns that no matter how bad he thinks his job is, it has a tremendous upside.

Upon the demise of his beloved wife, a man finds himself trapped in the dark within his home with her and some thing.

An expert on the history of torture and its devices gives a lecture that becomes much more than that.

A solar cataclysm heralds in an apocalypse, in which life on Earth, struggling to rise above a new dark age and a lunar research facility struggling to survive reunite 500 years later in an expected, yet unexpected way....

A grave robber glances at a coffin he's recently unearthed and opened, and, enraged, he witnesses his prized corpse being drawn out the chewed end of the coffin into a subterranean burrow by the graveyard rats. Without thinking, he dives in after it and, crawling through the underground maze, pursues the corpse only to discover he is being pursued by the gargantuan rats and something far more ominous...the undead.

A competition between two brothers turns deadly, leaving one the victor when he kills the other. But his victory is short lived when the aggrieved brother strikes back from the grave.

Using advances in genetic engineering and manipulation, two fast food companies war with one another through their customers.

"Ninety days has September, April, June, and November..." is an antiquated rhyme because for an unknown reason, the Earth is spinning faster and faster, and a day is far, far fewer than 24 hours and getting shorter. It's cataclysmic, but most importantly...humanity is persevering.

The Last Leaf is an endearing story about many forms of love and our interdependency upon one another and most importantly ourselves. In it a young woman dying from pneumonia despite the best efforts of her loving roommate, a doctor, and a mature resident in the building who has appointed himself guardian to the young lady and her housemate, soon learns that she is the key to her own life or death and in that discovery she helps a friend rise to their true greatness.

A man, having made his fortune early, retires to a life at sea. After reading an article on modern pirates, he arms himself, trains, and soon learns that another definition for survival is when preparedness meets opportunity.

A civilization experiencing global cooling that will herald in a new ice, age follows in the path of denial that plagued a long extinct civilization.

A CDC, Center for Disease Control, task force commander leads his unit into a small town where all the residents have died of a pathogen that left no trace. Soon he and his unit find themselves at odds. He knows that these are test sites for some unknown, undetectable weapon and a finale is coming.

Perpetually tired from working 24 hours a day since Adam and Eve were cast out from the Garden of Eden, The Angel of Death takes a Happy Hour and chronicles how he was "promoted" from the Arch Angel of Truth to The Angel of Death because, "No one wants to hear the truth all the time."

The world, perpetually at war somewhere, is forced to end its childhood when the federation of Extraterrestrial species that has protected humanity for untold eons reveals itself, heralding in prosperity, technological advancements, longevity, and world peace, compelling humanity to work together as one in a common goal but not quite in the way the protectorate could have possibly foreseen.

In Bull Sharks vs. the City of Chicago, in America's third largest city, a Chicago police captain inadvertently finds himself slammed hard between a city cover-up of Lake Michigan's infestation by bull sharks, aggressive man-eaters, and protecting the residents and guests of the city. He's faced with a moral choice: go along with the cover-up and protect himself or be buried by it.

In a story that heralded in a genre, a world-famous big-game hunter learns firsthand how it feels to be hunted when a deranged Russian millionaire hunts him on his secluded tropical island as The Most Dangerous Game.

A woman discovers she has a natural defense against vampires.

In this international award-winning story, a woman finally comes to terms with her mother, who left her as a very young girl, and the legacy of horror she left behind.

On a bitter cold night, a conflicted man finds himself trapped between his humanity and his wolfhood.

The arc of a love affair is told in the ringing of four distinct bells.