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Welcome to the Gothic London of the 1800s. These saucy tales quicken the pulse, thrill the mind, and excite parts of the body that other, lesser books fail to reach. Short stories featured in this sweet confection of blood, sex, and Gothic melodrama include "Holmes of the Baskervilles", "Miss Katie Bell - Victorian Vampire", "Joan Dark Is Lost", and "The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass". Here, vampires walk the streets and your favorite characters from Victorian literature are twisted until they snap.

War is coming, and Ed Brant follows his brothers into the army. While he is in training and his eldest brother is in France, the archduke is assassinated, and the Irish Republican brotherhood plot to kill the king. It's a race against time to halt the German invasion and to foil a plot that could have Britain fighting a war on two fronts and set Ireland free.

After Howard Greenfield's routine business trip ends with a reckless night of passion, he ends up with a gun and a mission. Meanwhile, the mysterious Irishman, Tommy Morgan, seeks a buyer for a large cache of heroin. It's the early 90s, and IRA bombs continue to threaten the British mainland. When it seems like IRA has forsaken its war on drugs, Tommy takes matters into his own hands, and is plunged into a raging whirlpool of danger and deception.

The dying man jerked and then collapsed. His body twitched, and then lay still. The Lama nodded again to the acolyte, who touched flame to the third stick of incense. "Spirit now released from the suffering body," said the Lama, "pay attention before setting out on your journey; pay attention for I shall detail to you the steps you must take, and the path you must follow..." The fourth stick of incense was lit, and the smoke trailed upwards, as if it had been drawn in blue-gray chalk, straight as a pillar in the almost airless room...

A winter walk along a quiet beach turns into disaster when a series of ghostly sightings and deaths unfurl that unlock a medieval spell of ghostly revenge upon the small East Coast town of Pakefield in Suffolk. This ancient spirit is duty bound to complete a curse made by an ancient Viking warrior but its choice of victims however is random, and those who experience the spirits power are those you would least expect. One man, John Stubbs, a local church warden, unwittingly stumbles upon the thread that could unlock the mystical activities dating back to Viking times.

Private investigator John Handful specializes in solving the impossible cases that the Suffolk Constabulary cannot, and when local businessman Charles 'Buster' Bill is found mutilated in the local forest, it is believed there is a maniac on the loose. John Handful thinks differently. His own investigation soon reveals that at the heart of the man's death lies a devastating secret and by the time Handful realizes what it is he has just made himself the next target....

Hayden Valcore and Sophia Carter plan a hiking trip shortly after their high school graduation. While in the mountains, Hayden blacks out and wakes up in an old deer shed as he's turning into a vampire, with no recollection of his past. Sophia's been kidnapped and while a high-profile coven takes him in to integrate him into their way of life, he learns how to fly, how to hunt, and how to deal with the struggle of trying to control his new dark side… He is now an ancient vampire, fighting the clock to figure out his past and save Sophia before it’s too late.   

The natural course our planet Earth has taken is in sheer and utter devastation. Global warming has awakened with full force and over half of the population is in third world poverty or dead already. Lucky for some of us our one world government, known as Grendel had a secret plan. They had discovered years prior of a habitable sister planet in our galaxy that they called Genesis. In the last days before Earths final destruction Grendel allowed a few hundred of us to board the shuttle and begin our journey to repopulate and thrive on Genesis. Everything went according to plan and I was grateful to have my family included in that plan.  

Detective Inspector John Gammon is involved in another serial killer case. With his private life quite messy, the cleanup results of previous cases under scrutiny by his peers. Gammon needs to get his private and professional life back on track. Maybe that could mean leaving the Peak District to try and get his career back to the high standard before he came back to the Peak District.

David always wondered why he chose to be born at this most amazing and important time in history. Where virtually everyone, including family and friends were completely asleep, as in The Matrix movie/documentary with Keanu Reeves playing Neo. At the beginning he was completely depressed and like everyone around him was trapped in the matrix.

DI John Gammon meets a cross road in his personal life. With murder cases still outstanding in his professional life Gammon is concerned. These are testing times for our hero.

Dante writes raw and personal stories about real people, husband and wife sharing, wife watching, BDSM, cuckold, swinger and fetish clubs, dogging, Asian wives, ladyboys, and many other fetishes.

While visiting her 92 year old grandfather in Devon, Kirsten's life changed forever. On the night before his death he asked her to go and get an old box hidden in the wall in his attic. Inside was a long thin gold bar wrapped in a piece of dark brown leather that was also a map.

The worldwide pandemic and lock-downs have become far worse than anyone could have possibly imagined. Mark and Lamai have been contacted by Uli, a wealthy old friend that is dying of cancer that owns a Tall Sailing Ship in Hamburg, Germany. Uli tells them he has an escape plan, and to watch the 2013 sci-fi movie Elysium, where most of the elites have residences, advanced technology, no sickness or disease, and even healing pods like in the movie. Uli believes it is not up in space, but most likely a small continent or group of islands in the South Pacific, or even beyond Antarctica.