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The Xortaags are back with a vengeance. Not being the forgive-and-forget types, they’ve conquered the Akakie homeworld, and now they set their sight upon Earth. Having reverse-engineered the advanced technology they scavenged on Kanoor, they now hold the key to rule the universe forever. It now befalls to Jim and his friends to save not only humanity, but every sentient species in the galaxy.

Some tales are best told wet, dripping with blood and bowels, like a freshly slaughtered steer, its flesh and organs splayed across the butcher’s floor for all the world to see. Whether reading such stories or seeing such slaughters, the observe, and death is rarely heroic. These eight tales were run through the meat grinder and served-up raw. If you’re going in, bring plenty of napkins.

The Aax'ods, a race of immortal, omnipotent aliens who have been pulling the strings from behind the scenes for eons, have decided to crawl out of the shadows and rule the galaxy.

General Maada leads his fleet to the White Republic universe, where the Xenoakakies rule with an iron fist. There, he’s surprised to meet a few old friends as well as some new foes, including the Death Angel, the legendary enemy pilot who’s killed the general’s doppelganger. While Maada has been through his fair share of hopeless battles, this particular conflict is on another level altogether, even for him. The insects’ hold on this universe seems unshakable, and their fleet dwarfs the general’s in both numbers and power by no small margin.

When Jim and his friends succeed in killing the Aax’ods by opening a portal to the Crimson Universe, he figures they’ll have peace and quiet for a while. But boy, is he wrong! One day, out of nowhere and all across the galaxy, thousands of portals are open to the monster world, and trillions of beasts pour out. So many that they simply wash over the Federation’s forces, and that’s before they start to multiply exponentially.

Bossed by a monster—sounds overbearing, right? It is, and this guy's not just any monster. He's a Boggart—the literal being of nightmares—and I swear his sole mission in life is to make mine a bad dream come true. Every time I turn around, he's there. Bedazzling me. Bewitching me. Befriending me. But I won't back down, not even when Mr. Ettin proposes a friendly little bet. Who cares what the stakes are—there's no way my boss is gonna win. Except… he does.

Stakes are high when alien gladiator Titan and abducted Earth girl Blaze are forced into The Game. Forming a tenuous alliance to battle the hundred other alien combatants increases their odds of staying alive. As they contend with constant camera surveillance and wage a life-or-death campaign to survive, the unlikely duo can't ignore their sizzling attraction. Despite their deepening connection, it isn't safe to trust because in The Game it all comes Down. To. One.

I was drowning in the bottle, done with it all. The fame, the crowds, the fans, the spotlight. I just wanted it all to go away. I've been on top of the country music charts for twenty years. And I was ready to give it all up. I was ready to give up on myself. Until she walked into my life like a ray of sunshine lighting up my dark world. Lola Lively. The hottest new thing in country. The hottest thing I'd ever seen. With a voice so full of life, it made my dead heart beat again.

These stories contain common tropes used within the broader horror genre, as well as some characteristics more specific to the body horror subgenre, including pornography, invasion, contagion, mutation, transformation, disease, mutilation, or other unnatural or violent distortions of the human body.

As one of 50 teams, human Sadie and genetically engineered 1213 are thrown together with one mission: outlive the other 49 teams and make it to the finish line. Between brutal competitors, harsh terrain, and deadly predators, the challenge is as relentless as the feral passion and sweet affection that detonates between them after the sun sets each night. Can they put aside their differences, work together, and triumph against the odds?

The Crescent Point Amusement Park had it all. Roller coaster enthusiasts went there to fulfill their need for spine tingling speed, heights, death defying drops, and hairpin turns. Additionally, for a few weeks out of each year, a traveling sideshow full of freaks, oddities, and misfits made this place their home.

Eric Richards was living as close to a normal life as one could hope for. With a successful excavation business, Sara, his gorgeous archaeologist wife, and twin five-year-old boys, Michael and David, life was good. That was, until he would be confronted with a decision to join in a fight that was not his own.

The people-eaters pandemic continues to build momentum and is running rampant. Marine veteran Jake Hathaway realizes now that he had merely been a pawn in the government’s Zeus Project years earlier. The resulting pandemic was no mistake; rather, it was a planned attack by domestic terrorists disguised as governmental figure heads.

The White Republic’s navy decimates the Federation’s forces in a surprise attack. Now Jim and his friends must unite once more to kick out the invaders and liberate their worlds, but they have only a few thousand ships left. To make matters worse, they’re under a tight deadline, and time’s running out.

Years earlier, Marine veteran and former Dallas Police Sergeant Jake Hathaway allowed federal government scientists to conduct top-secret experiments on his soldiers, and on himself. They were given supplements designed to transform them into "Invincible Warriors". Instead, the formula became tainted by some pesky, infectious prions. The result was a virus that transforms exposed humans, some more gradually than others, into frenzied, flesh-eating, cannibalistic zombies!

Following Jim’s audacious plan, Kurt and a team of Marines traveled to the future to destroy Voltex. However, in doing so, they inadvertently started a chain reaction that ended with the extermination of all life in the universe. Now our heroes must get together one last time to save the universe, before it is too late.

This second volume in our popular anthology series is a superlative collection of 15 spine-chilling, marrow-icing, supernatural ghost stories that will have you hiding beneath the covers and reaching for the comfort of your nightlight’s glow.

Korden Bright continues his journey east toward the Shroud across a dusty, forgotten America. His next stop: the gender-segregated town of Ida, on the shores of a lake once called Tahoe, where he hopes to find information on the mysterious figure known as the Prophet. But before he can get there, he'll face the haunted waters of the lake itself, become an unwilling accomplice in a master conman's game, and find himself pursued by a crazed, tentacled assassin that may be far more than meets the eye.

An anthology of short stories based upon/inspired by, and in loving homage to all of those great gore-fest movies and books of the 1980s (not necessarily based in that era, although some do ride that wave of nostalgia), the golden age when horror well and truly came kicking, screaming, and spraying blood, gore, and body parts out from the shadows.

Emerging in the tides of strife and villainy is the swashbuckling legend of the smuggler and halfling Yalen Shenks, known eternally throughout the world of Aelorad through poem and epic sagas. Mixing with the likes of pirate lords, swindling barons, and gods of mischief, Yalen finds himself with just his wits and colorful tongue against a cast of foes, in five different tales.