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An alien probe visits the Earth. How best to validate its understanding of the dominate life form than by creating one that would pass as human to its peers? Its mission would have been a bit easier had it not chosen as its subject the dead mother of a dying boy and deceased wife of a crippled mercenary hunted by . . .
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The Outpost was a squat stone structure that was ringed on all sides by high thick walls that were honeycombed with stairways, arrow loops and topped with crenellations festooned with ancient barbed wire. There were dozens of Outposts scattered along the Verge, marking the point of demarcation between the nurturing safety of the Protectorate and the madness of the Barrens. . . .
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Detroit has a hero, someone to stand against the forces of darkness, and resist the rising tide of horror and bloodshed. This isn’t his story. Alice Frye is an Artificer living in Highland Park, and she’s perfectly happy running her curio shop full of gewgaws and magical artifacts while her zombified late husband handles the cleaning and grocery shopping. . . .
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Isobel Talbot’s life was a monotony, even her heartbreaks were predictable; but a chance encounter leaves her running for her life from the most terrible and impossible things. And worse yet, she’s fallen in love. . . .
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“All Kinds of Things Kill” is a horror anthology that contains 9 stories. The stories are gruesome, frightening, perverse, imaginative, and sick; in other words, they have all the elements that go into making a horror anthology a good one. So turn the lights off, grab a blanket, and get ready to enjoy some chilling tales. . . .
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Demons and Deadlines is a horrific journey through Hell for the story of a lifetime. It goes beyond spine tingling and beyond gore to bring you a tale of what still lurks in the back of your dreams. . . .
Lechery, debauchery, total annihilation, blood and mud―the usual stuff as two prime movers contend for power. Not power to do anything in particular―threaten, coerce, destroy: illuminate a city, tighten the skeins of a siege engine, or wind up the bowels. She was the Fata Morgana, Queen Mother of the World, and had built herself a love slave to assuage . . .
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Enrico Hierodon began his life as many of us do, with a mother and father and an old lady next door who liked to bake cookies. But this was not to be. Someone had an eye on Enrico, and does not plan on leaving him be. Someone is watching, cutting away the pieces of Enrico’s life that he doesn’t need, . . .
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It’s the 1980s . . . Iris Tanner should have been the next big thing. Her former band is opening for the hottest glam metal band of the moment, Mischief. But due to an accident, Iris is a ghoul, roaming the streets looking for dead flesh to eat. Then Billy—tall, dark, and possibly a stalker—lets Iris know that Mischief is really . . .
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‘The Viscount’s Son’ is a fictional blog that tells the story of book conservator, Emma, and her online project—to transcribe an ancient and mysterious text. The trouble is, Emma’s colleague, Jack, believes the medieval ‘diary’ is a fake. Emma decides to translate the text and leave it up to her readers to decide—so what will you think? Follow Emma’s journey . . .
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Jonathan Baron’s music has left him and so has the love of his life, a woman he’s no longer certain even really exists. Convinced that his buried childhood memories are the key to determining whether or not she was merely a figment of his imagination, he seeks out his family’s ancestral home. From the moment he sets foot unto . . .
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When an accident threatens a centuries-long truce between Ottumwa’s citizens and those who live under it, an unlikely and forbidden love affair may be the only thing that prevents the city’s destruction. Six recent Ottumwa High graduates begin their summer much like the rest of their classmates; they party, prepare for college, look for jobs, and begin to explore . . .
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Eighteen disparate individuals come together by coincidence at a particular Church at a particular time of day – and their lives are irrevocably plunged into the depths of the mysterious and unknown. When in the blink of an eye the Church transports them from the city to the peak of a mountain which nobody can recognize, under stars that none . . .
(Review written after reading chapters 1-3.1).
The "stalker" element in chapter one was kind of off-putting, particularly as the sensible thing to do when someone is bothering you is threaten them with a restraining order and/or go to the cops. It also had an unpleasant "Twilight" connotation to it.
I am the type of reader who enjoys most things fantasy, but what drew me to this story, was not only its familial fantasy genre, but also the obvious historical atmosphere as well. "Historical fantasy" is not something I see very much of on the web, whether from my inattention, or its lack of popularity, you be the judge, but [more . . .]