Jack is the most famous rock star in the world… he's just not from this planet.

Before joining NASA's space programme, Jack had dreams of a career as a professional musician. When a deep space mission goes awry, he crashes on an alien planet. Jack discovers that his new world is inhabited by a race of humans that have evolved in parallel to those on Earth. He picks up a guitar and performs the most wondrous rock songs of his home planet. The Beatles. Neil Young. Leonard Cohen. Bob Dylan. Superstardom beckons as audiences around the globe revere Jack and his apparent songwriting abilities. He basks in the boundless glow of a hedonistic dream world. But Jack soon learns that his lie will have sinister consequences.

This remarkable debut novel by renowned Australian entertainment journalist Nick Milligan, is a thrilling ride through a nightmarish, darkly comical and highly original tale that combines elements of horror, science fiction, music industry satire and erotica.

Enormity will weave a dark magic over you – even beyond its shocking conclusion.

*Complete Edition includes Part One, Part Two and Part Three as released exclusively Amazon*

When Maggie was six, she hid from desert storms under the sink where the Comet and Windex were kept. Now twenty, she welcomes the storms. Maggie has been abused, torn apart by the sins of others and constantly feels as if she is living on the verge of some grand epiphany, perhaps passed down through her Grandmother, perhaps given to her by God.

Then again, she may just be insane.

Clinically, it's called schizophrenia and manifests itself through delusions, hallucinations, and/or disorganized behavior. It can persist for years and may worsen without treatment. Socially, it's termed "unacceptable behavior." Maggie doesn't know if her latest actions are the only bricks left to her castle in the sky, but she hopes you'll understand if they're not.

How far would you go to build a castle in the sky?

She stared death in the face…

…but he stared right back at her with terrifying pitch-black eyes. 

Can she cheat death one more time to bring her family back to life? 

Alexandra Drummond's life is forever changed by a car wreck that kills her parents and sister. While she barely survives the accident, recovering from her emotional and physical scars are not her biggest challenges. She is also haunted by Azrael, the angel of death. She sees him as a man with oily black hair in a pinstripe suit who appears to Alex in the hospital, outside her high school, and in the woods near her campsite. 

Is he real? 

Has he come to kill her and take her soul? 

Midway through the novel, the narrative takes an unexpected twist and Alex's recovery is overshadowed by the realization that she could bring her family back to life. But Azrael is determined to stop Alex's meddling and she must enlist the help of her remaining family and friends if there is any hope for success.

Dalton Summers is living the American dream. He has a beautiful wife, two kids, a great job, a high-end sports car and a spacious home. But he also has his secrets.

On Halloween night Dalton finds himself forced to face those secrets when one phone call threatens to throw his world upside down. The voice is young but raspy as it taunts him, a voice that will stick with Dalton through eternity.

"Hurry home Dalton… Before I kill them all."

EVERY SIN HAS A PRICE

If you like Christopher Moore or Tom Holt, read HELL'S SUPER ... Hilarious!

How can one damned handyman keep all Hell running when everything's always breaking, devils and demons plot against him … and he's terrible at fixing things?

Steve is Hell's Super, its handyman. Being Mr. Fixit to the Underworld keeps him and his assistant, Orson Welles (yes, that Orson Welles), pretty busy, since things go on the blink all the time down there.

No malfunction has ever created so much inconvenience, though, as the malfunction of Hell's Escalator, which leads from the Pearly Gates to the depths of Hades. What's worse: the breakdown appears to be sabotage. Satan calls in Steve to investigate.

But Steve is distracted these days. He's in love with Flo, a gorgeous, almost saintly figure who has come to Hell by choice to ease the suffering of the damned. What's more: she seems to like him, but romance in Hell? That could never be.

Still, solving the mystery of the Escalator could earn him some points with Satan, maybe even a chance with Flo.

Or maybe not.

Hell's Super Is the first volume in the satire/fantasy comedy series, Circles in Hell. It has been compared to other works of "Hell Fiction" including The Screwtape Letters and Good Omens and to the paranormal humor of Tom Holt, Christopher Moore and Douglas Adams.

If the dead could speak from the afterlife, what might they tell us? How might they warn us?

The Damned have stories to share...
– About an abandoned Demon child, adopted by a reluctant mother.
– A Demon torn between love for his mate and an Angel visiting Hell.
– A jaded Angel touring Hell to hunt the Damned for sport.
– Three Damned laborers who encounter a cat with nine afterlives.
– A Damned artist summoned to Heaven to paint her masterpiece.
– A Damned man and an Angel joining forces to rescue a child from his Demonic captors.
– A former journalist who discovers the depths of despair and the hope of rebellion.

Seven dispatches from the Hades of Jeffrey Thomas, author of Letters From Hades and Ugly Heaven/Beautiful Hell.

Fear wears many skins.

Deep within the Canadian wilderness, people have been disappearing for over a century. There is a place the locals call "the Devil's Woods," but to speak of it will only bring the devil to your door. It is a place so evil that even animals avoid it.

When their father's expedition team goes missing, Kyle Elkheart and his brother and sister return to the abandoned Cree Indian reservation where they were born. Kyle can see ghosts that haunt the woods surrounding the village--and they seem to be trying to warn him. The search for their father will lead Kyle and his siblings to the dark heart of the legendary forest, where their mission will quickly become a fight for survival.

"Chilling. Thought-provoking."
~The Library Journal, (Starred Review)

Addiction starts like a sweet lullaby sung by a trusted loved one. It washes away the pains of the day and wraps you in the warmness of the womb where nothing hurts and every dream is possible. Yet soon enough, this warm state of bliss becomes a cold shiver, the ecstasy and dreams become nightmares, yet we can't stop listening to the lullaby. We crave to hear the siren song as it rips us apart.

Six stories: three novellas, three novelettes, written by a powerful list of talent, all featuring the insidious nature of addiction--damaged humans craving for highs and wholeness but finding something more tragic and horrific on the other side.

FEATURING:
Caroline Kepnes, author of You and Hidden Bodies
Kealan Patrick Burke, author of Sour Candy and Kin
Mercedes M. Yardley, author of Pretty Little Dead Girls
John FD Taff, author of The Fearing
Mark Matthews, author of Milk-Blood
Gabino Iglesias, author of Coyote Songs


"A plunge into the agony and the ecstasy, the inescapable nightmare of addiction."~ALMA KATSU, author of The Deep and The Hunger

The end of summer, 1986. With only a few days left until the new school year, twins Jeremy and Jack Schaffer are on very different paths. Jeremy is the geek, playing Dungeons & Dragons with friends Kathleen and Randy, while Jack is the jock, getting into trouble with his buddies.

And then everything changes when neighbor Mister Higgins is killed by a wild animal in his yard. Was it a bear? There's something big lurking in the woods behind their New Jersey home.

Will the police be able to solve the murder before more Middletown residents are ripped apart?

From the winner of the inaugural Terry Pratchett First Novel Prize comes a new satire, which has been shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers Best E-Book Original Novel 2015 Award.

Celebrities are mobbing London's laser clinics as a deranged wannabe bumps off A-listers, believing he can absorb their powers and become famous by taping their tattoos to his body.

Washed-up pop star Jackie Thunder isn't joining the stampede. Jackie figures that if he can get on the killer's hit list, without the inconvenience of actually being murdered, he'll gain the publicity needed to reignite his career.

But there's more at stake than Jackie can possibly imagine. Guiding the killer is Murmur, a minor demon with his own agenda to make a name for himself, and Jackie becomes an unwitting pawn in a decades-old plot to destroy great music through murder, mayhem and manipulation.

With humanity's collective soul at stake, how far will Jackie go to reach the top?

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

‘Logan … blends the bitingly satirical with the delightfully nonsensical with ease, creating a wonderfully entertaining mix. Hidden beneath all the dark comedy, Logan deftly picks apart the nature of celebrity culture.' – The Eloquent Page

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"The witty and irreverent WANNABES is a darkly comic take on the world of rock and roll and fame and demon bureaucrats. I tore through this book at a single sitting, laughing and reading bits aloud to anyone who would listen. Highly recommended!" – Rebecca Cantrell, New York Times bestselling author of The Chemistry of Death

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'This is a writer with a certifiable imagination capable of weaving fact into fiction with deft strokes of dark genius smattered with sniggeringly wry humour; a plot so deliciously embellished with cringeworthy terror-filled reality that you can't help feel empathy for the whole of humanity itself, whilst choking on your tittering.' - John Hudspith, Author of Kimi's Secret

All Ethan Jericho wanted to do was retire. After the shocking ending to HARVEST MOON, the assassin thought he was too old to continue his work in the darkest corners of the world.

But that was before the found the missing pages of the Codex Gigas, an ancient text known as the Devil's Bible. Desperate and on the run, can Jericho keep the secret pages form a vicious doomsday cult? Or will the find the secret prayer that will ignite the end of the world?

Discover the first entry into the Books of Jericho, the series called "John Wicks works the X- Files." When things go bump in the night, Ethan Jericho bumps back.

Trapped in an isolated mountain town...

Something doesn't want them to leave

When local hermit Maul Thorndean disappears, Sheriff Joe Moorefield finds his cabin in a bewildering state.

All of the surrounding trees have turned white and brittle and are leaning towards the cabin.

There is blood on the floor but no sign of Maul. Usually if there is trouble in Mercy, Thorndean is the cause of it. The fact that this time he looks to be the victim is more than worrying.

Who else could it be?

Soon the villagers are encircled by ash grey trees and limbs that don't seem to want them to leave, but how can that be?

That's when the people begin to disappear.

As the Sheriff tries to figure out what is going on, while at the same time trying to keep his remaining people sane, it becomes very quickly clear that the trees are the least of his worries.

In a desperate race to escape, only the luckiest will survive.

Who created that slide of silk across your skin as you reached for your cinematic lover? Who recorded the crushing weight of the grizzly as you fought for your life in the fictional wilderness? It is Lone Pine Pictures' Alyse Kate Bryant who wraps your body in the story only your mind was privy to before.

A brilliant sensory immersion artist and a wild daredevil, Alyse will do almost anything for the perfect sensory file, but the violent death of her father has her teetering on the very edge of reckless sanity.

For just one night, Alyse seeks refuge in the arms of a beautiful stranger.

And her recklessness finally has consequences.

Now Alyse finds herself trapped in the flooded ruins of Venice, a quarantine camp for the carriers of Sleepers' Syndrome. But it can never be that simple. Because the Sleepers' Syndrome carriers who populate the camp are no longer as human as they seem.

The city of legend is bringing its legends back to life.

They come now, Alyse.

Run.

Tick – tock
Tick – tock
Tick – tock
Your time is running out. When the clock strikes 13, all manners of hell will break loose.
When the Clock Strikes 13 is a collection of thirteen short horror stories by some of the best horror and dark fiction authors writing today. Inside, you will find stories to frighten, shock and gnaw at your inner fears, and take you places that belong only in the dark recesses of your mind. There are monsters on these pages; some are human, some are not.

Table of Contents


Introduction by Joe Mynhardt
"The Boy in the Pond" by Mark Allan Gunnells
"Open Waters" by Richard Thomas
"Memories" by John R. Little
"Detrition of War" by Kenneth W. Cain
"Comes the Red Man" by Tom Deady
"Mommy's Girl" by Somer Canon
"Taking Up Carpentry" by Justin M. Woodward
"Kill Point Club" by Steve Thompson
"Calm Down Time" by Richard Chizmar
"Carrion: My Wayward Son" by James Newman
"Bear" by Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason
"When Arachnids Attack" by Sheri White
"A Song Above" by Glenn Rolfe
Afterword by Steve Thompson







"A creepy, eerie, and often emotionally resonant collection by some of the finest voices in horror."
-- Jeff Strand, author of Dweller.

"From the seemingly benign domestic to the war-ravaged deserts of the Middle East and all theaters in between, When the Clock Strikes 13 offers up dark terrors as wolves in sheep's clothing--tales that sneak up on you and sink tooth and claw before you can scream."
--Dino Parenti, author of Dead Reckoning and Other Stories

"An anthology that harkens back to the golden age of horror...not that golden age, I'm talking about the one where every cover had a hologram skeleton or malefic child or baby doll on it. It's brimming with horrors--traditional and not-so-much-- penned by a posse of authors, some new and others well-seasoned who don't fail to deliver the goods in spades crusted with graveyard dirt gripped in blood-stained hands. "
--John Boden, author of Jedi Summer with the Magnetic Kid

"With stories that will make you feel and think--thick with atmosphere and originality and at times sprinkled with delightfully sinister wit--When the Clock Strikes 13 is a fantastic first anthology from In Your Face Books that pulls together some of the finest authors in the genre today!"
--Jason Parent, author of They Feed and Victoria

"A devil's dozen of terror tales for horror hounds to sink their fangs into. Original fiction from established names, and talented up-and-comers, with standout stories by Tom Deady, Justin Woodward, and James Newman worth the cover price alone, When the Clock Strikes 13 is a must for any fear fan's chopping list!"
--Adam Howe, author of Scapegoat and Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet

An ancient vengeful spirit attempts to return through the body of a terrified young woman in this horror classic by an award-winning "master of the genre" (Rocky Mountain News).

Phony psychic and conman Harry Erskine never really believed in the occult until Karen Tandy approached him with a rapidly growing tumor on her neck, complaining of dark and disturbing dreams. When the mass is revealed by doctors to contain something living, the stakes skyrocket--not only for Karen and Harry but for all humanity.
 
Something terrible is returning from the shadows to which it has been confined for centuries--a Native American monstrosity determined to destroy every vestige of the white race that oppressed and preyed upon America's Indians. And unless a motley group of ill-prepared defenders can harness an ancient native magic, there will be no stopping the malevolent shaman's terrible rebirth--and no escaping the wholesale carnage it will engender.
 
The Manitou introduced the great Graham Masterton to the canon of horror, instantly placing him among the genre's elite. A longtime favorite for its bold originality, unrelenting creepiness, supernatural shocks, and otherworldly surprises that would have made H. P. Lovecraft proud, Masterton's classic continues to stand tall alongside Stephen King's Carrie, Peter Straub's Ghost Story, and other unforgettable literary horror debuts.

Who created that slide of silk across your skin as you reached for your cinematic lover? Who recorded the crushing weight of the grizzly as you fought for your life in the fictional wilderness? It is Lone Pine Pictures' Alyse Kate Bryant who wraps your body in the story only your mind was privy to before.

A brilliant sensory immersion artist and a wild daredevil, Alyse will do almost anything for the perfect sensory file, but the violent death of her father has her teetering on the very edge of reckless sanity.

For just one night, Alyse seeks refuge in the arms of a beautiful stranger.

And her recklessness finally has consequences.

Now Alyse finds herself trapped in the flooded ruins of Venice, a quarantine camp for the carriers of Sleepers' Syndrome. But it can never be that simple. Because the Sleepers' Syndrome carriers who populate the camp are no longer as human as they seem.

The city of legend is bringing its legends back to life.

They come now, Alyse.

Run.

A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut.

Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return--except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She's right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she's been or what happened to her. 

Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong--she's emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who--or what--is she?