The Prayer Maker

      Mark Alan Waldron
     The Prayer Maker

When a dying woman is wronged and all she has is in her mind, she rediscovers the power of prayer...Joe is living in a post-apocalyptic world which is mostly reclaimed by nature. After the war human race almost got extinct. Nobody knows why the war started. One day people start to kill each other for no reason. In short world became a place for mad men. In this world a mysterious plague is spreading and infected are turning into ape like people. Joe need to survive the increasing natural threats along with the problems created by the mad people.

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    The Blood

      D. J. MacHale
     The Blood

The riveting conclusion to a thrilling trilogy from New York Times bestselling master of suspense D. J. MacHale. From Marshall’s mysterious experiences in The Light to Cooper’s haunting perspective in The Black, the questions have intensified along with the action. And now it is time for answers: A final showdown is in order between best friends Marshall and Cooper and the terrifying villain Damon, who’s more determined than ever to break down the walls between the worlds of the living and the dead. Marshall is forced to make a brave and shocking choice when the battle is on the line, and he and Cooper might be rewarded with help from someone quite unexpected…. As the gripping trilogy heads toward resolution, shocks and surprises await at the end of the long and winding Morpheous Road.

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    Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories

      Harlan Ellison
     Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories

Harlan Ellison is undoubtedly one of the most audacious, infuriating, brazen characters on the planet. Which may help explain why he is also one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth. Slippage simply presents recent, typical Ellison. In a word, masterful. The 21 stories in this 1997 collection, which is encased in black boxes, show Ellison at the height of his powers, with several of the stories (no surprise here) major award-winners. Highlights include a black mind reader who pays a visit to a white serial killer, a husband who falls prey to a vampiric personal computer, and a love affair between a young man and a woman who may be more undead than alive. Perhaps even more fascinating are the painfully candid snapshots of autobiography running throughout the volume. Even if Ellison's unsettling fictions are not enough to dazzle you, his often bizarre life experiences as an author will still keep you compulsively turning the page like a polite voyeur. --Stanley Wiater Contents: The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (1992) Anywhere but Here, with Anybody but You (1996) Crazy as a Soup Sandwich (1989) Darkness upon the Face of the Deep (1991) The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change: Version 1 (1997) The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change: Version 2 (1994) The Lingering Scent of Woodsmoke (1996) The Museum on Cyclops Avenue (1995) Go toward the Light (1996) Mefisto in Onyx (1993) Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World (1992) Chatting with Anubis (1995) The Few, the Proud (1989) The Deadly "Nackles" Affair (1987) essay Nackles (1964) Nackles (1987) Sensible City (1994) The Dragon on the Bookshelf (1995) with Robert Silverberg Keyboard (1995) Jane Doe #112 (1990) The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams (1997) Pulling Hard Time (1995) Scartaris, June 28th (1990) She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother (1988) Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral (1995)

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    Day Soldiers

      Brandon Hale
     Day Soldiers

When the darkness declared war on humanity, 18 year old Lily Baxter was ready to do her part. She was ready to join the fight to protect humanity. She was ready to go to war.The one thing she wasn’t prepared for was the day the war came to her.For ten years now, humanity has been at war with the creatures of darkness. The war has changed the world. The day now belongs to humanity and the night belongs to things once thought to exist only in myths and legends... but there is hope. This new enemy has united humanity and an army has stepped forward to protect the light from the darkness. An army of heroes.The Day Soldiers.Eighteen year old Lily Baxter always knew the Day Soldiers would be a major part of her life. She had been preparing for it since she was eight. She was ready to go to war. The one thing she wasn't prepared for was the day the war came to her.Part horror, part comedy, part adventure, Day Soldiers will take you on an exciting ride through a world where monsters are monsters and the only thing they fall in love with is the taste of human blood.

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    Pleasant Dreams

      Krystal George
     Pleasant Dreams

After reading the spine tingling stories in this Indie Author Anthology, we are sure that your dreams will be anything but... pleasant!Join some of your favorite Indie Authors on a journey to make your skin crawl and your heart rate increase. From ghosts, to murderers, to things that go bump in the night... our Authors do their best to send you cowering under your covers!It has been nearly a year since Tyler, Sarah, and Benji Rose lost their mother in a tragic accident. Unable to cope, they are sent to live with their Grandfather on a wildlife sanctuary in rural Colorado. Amidst their unresolved grief and resentment, they each have strange encounters that make them wonder exactly what kind of wildlife their Grandfather is protecting.When a secret world of cursed men, mythical beings, and mounting stacks of magical paperwork is revealed, the Rose siblings begin a journey into the heart of magic. One sibling will risk their life for a simple wish, another will save them, and one will see the darker side of magic that threatens them all.Comprised of family secrets, hidden legacies, and the power of the soul, Sanctuary is a truthful yet fantastical profile of one family’s quest to heal after surviving terrible loss.

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    Outside the Wire

      Richard Farnsworth
     Outside the Wire

Fallen angels, demons, lycanthropes, monsters and a disembodied hand (or is it), Outside the Wire is a collection of six previously published short stories about things we don’t want to let in, all anthologized for your reading pleasure.Heaven is rays of sunlight dancing slowly on wheat stalks. It's wind twirling itself around chimes hung from low tree branches, and robust bursts of scent and color, far beyond anything describable with words.Heaven is a flightless crow, a promise of forever tied to a necklace, and hidden love letters tucked away safely inside a tree.Heaven is a fire-haired boy named Rust and his love for Ancel, a boy full of storm clouds.Heaven is all the tiny threads of hope that hold them together.

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    Ancient Echoes

      Robert Holdstock
     Ancient Echoes

All his life, Jack Chetwin has had incredible visions of a parallel world...and of a human couple fleeing an unspeakable terror. But matters take a sinister turn when the man escapes into Jack's reality and threatens his family's safety. Now Jack must enter this strange world to confront an ancient and powerful evil -- a confrontation he may well not survive!

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    A Game of Firsts (The Forest of Hands and Teeth)

      Carrie Ryan
     A Game of Firsts (The Forest of Hands and Teeth)

an original short story set in the world of The Forest of Hands and Teeth When the zombie apocalypse hits, brother and sister Danny and Julie are stranded at home alone. As the world crumbles around them, they take refuge in the attic over the garage. But it only takes one small mistake for the illusion of safety to break and for any chance of survival to disappear.

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    Fighter's Bite

      William Todd Rose
     Fighter's Bite

In the post-apocalyptic ruins, ex-prizefighter Bruno Swaggart makes his living the only way he's ever known how: one opponent, two gloves, and a bloodthirsty crowd urging him on. But the world has changed... now the undefeated champion bobs and weaves for his life, trusting that the next punch will not be his last. For when you're boxing against the living dead, all bets are off....From the pen of KJ Hannah Greenberg comes this chapbook of new poetry. Fun, insightful, and lyrical, Fluid and Crystallized focuses primarily on challenging and, only secondarily, on pleasing. This chapbook uses words’ color and texture to provoke interpersonal mindfulness. “Risk,” not “peace,” makes these pages heuristically valuable.What’s more, Fluid and Crystallized, tries to cheer on, to shepherd, and to whisper softly not only about success, but also about failure. This collection shares cautions as well as an appreciation of the scenery.About the Author:KJ Hannah Greenberg, who only pretends at being indomitable, tramps across literary genres and giggles in her sleep. She worries less, however, about linguistic beasts that roam at dusk than about bold fiends that smile and gulp up writers during broad daylight.In the beginning there were Watercolors, 1979, a musical, and Conversations on Communication Ethics, 1991, essays. Following a tour of duty in academia and then decades dedicated to parenting, there are: Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting, French Creek Press, 2010, essays, A Bank Robber’s Bad Luck with His Ex-Girlfriend, Unbound CONTENT, 2011, poetry, and Don’t Pet the Sweaty Things, Bards & Sages Publishing, 2012, short fictions. In the future, there will be, b’eH: Supernal Factors, 2012, poetry, The Nexus of the Sun, Moon and Mother, 2013, essays, and Oh Your Goodness!, 2013, essays.https://kjhannahgreenberg.net/"Such a galloping, rollicking poet she is. She rolls words from denotation to connotationright through to playful upsetting of conventional usage carts."--Deirdre Kessler, poet and award-winning author of the Brupp series.

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    The Doll in the Garden

      Mary Downing Hahn
     The Doll in the Garden

She had been warned never to go there...But as ten year-old Ashley followed the beautiful white cat through a small opening in the hedge, she stepped into an enchanted place...A place where she might find the answers...Who is the little girl with golden curls and the huge sad eyes? Whose voice cries out in the dark of night? Why does the white cat cast no shadow in the moonlight? Who is the owner of the beautiful doll found buried in the garden? And if Ashley discovers the truth, can she ever go back...?

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    Living Hell

      Catherine Jinks
     Living Hell

What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen-year-old Cheney, life on earth exists only in history books. He and more than one thousand other people have known life only aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation wave. Now Plexus has suddenly turned on them, becoming a terrifying and unrecognizable force. As the crew dwindles under attack, Cheney and his friends need to fight back before the ship that’s nurtured them for so long becomes responsible for their destruction.

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