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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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The British Isles, the 16th century. Decades ago, the fae returned to the mortal world. Released by a coven of magicians after centuries of imprisonment, they swept across the British Isles, covering the land with a tangled forest of enchanted trees. Cities fell. Thousands died. Only a handful of cities were saved. Years later, the people of the . . .
Ship Poster is an ongoing web serial about a renowned violinist who is hired to perform for an oddly-themed luxury cruise to nowhere. Having boarded with her attendant, Hallie Nordhoff hopes for the journey to proceed as smoothly as possible. Dying is not a crime. Dying anywhere other than with your lovely friends aboard any Final Voyages cruise ship, . . .
Once a Noble, and now a soldier for the people who killed his family. Eleusis seeks to avenge his family and bring his enemies down from within. Escaping his guilt through violence and anger, he wages a war against his former people. Taking on a false identity to gain power, he is thrust into the helm of command and must . . .
Many know the lone prisoner at the highest tower of the Imperial capital, a man so vile and hated by his peers that his confinement is more for his protection than anything else. What few know are the true extend of his crimes and how they came to be. Who is the true Prince of Lies and what did . . .
Former math teacher Alexander Kuros has found himself better qualified for a new job: the Grim Reaper. Qualification number one for being a math teacher? You must be alive. Qualification number one for being the Grim Reaper? You must be dead. After dying in a car crash, he is resurrected by Death as the new Grim Reaper and given . . .
Meet Adam, and get to know him as he goes through the hardships of Real Life (RL) and the world’s first VRMMORPG: NLR (New Life: Reborn). Circumstances force him to abandon all hope in RL people, but when he enters NLR, his heart ends up opening up to the new world and its occupants. His journey is long but so . . .
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Prison Paradise follows one man as he moves to Hawaii and becomes a serial killer. The story is told via blog through his daily experiences, flashbacks, and photos (both of the beautiful Hawaiian scenery, and his victims). . . .
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A story of a group of teens, high school-college age, working on a superhero team. Or at least, that’s how it starts. This is no perfect world story. People die, and people get seriously screwed up. . . .
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Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .
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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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If you were the bane of existence cursed with catastrophic power, would you choose to save the lives of those who abused you, or witness and bring upon their demise? The Dark Crystal, and the Light Crystal, contain magnificent power, but together create an unparalleled path of absolute annihilation. But each carrier is destined to defeat the other. So, . . .
Death is universal in all human literature. It is an all-consuming concept that we are all inexplicably drawn towards. Death is the ultimate equaliser. For however grand our arrival, our departure is always guaranteed. We relish in seeing tragedy befall upon others. The ruination of others brings us catharsis and a twisted sense of relief that such tragic happenings . . .
Jul 23, 2009: I didn’t like this story, but it’s not the fault of the writing. The writing, in fact, is of a very high calibre: sophisticated, rich, intelligently researched, effectively surreal – and full of horror. And cold.
It starts off relatively innocently, the elegantly designed website seducing the hapless reader. Even if you don’t decide to read the story, you must take a look at this website – it’s gorgeous. An old lady lies in bed, being interviewed by an academic doing [more . . .]
Jan 11, 2015: I should preface this by saying I’m easily hooked by super hero fiction, and I’m a big fan of scenarios where the protagonist has a genuine alter ego or some other sort of split personality or psychic symbiote.
I found this to be a pretty cool read. You’re thrown into the deep end, and have to pick up details about the world (and how it differs from mundane reality) largely from context and extrapolating on occasional comments. As such, I didn’t [more . . .]