Kelkor stopped, one booted foot on the next step. The stairs continued to wind upward into darkness. He looked backwards, and the shadows seemed to be slowly creeping upon him. His whiskers twitched. He cursed silently and turned back the way he had come, knowing that it would take forever to get back down to the bottom. Then, less than a dozen steps down, he met the floor. He found himself in a large hall, unfurnished except for large red velvet curtains that hung from the ceiling. They didn't cover any windows and most were not even against the wall. They hung everywhere about the hall, and...

Megan, a lonely and quirky used-records store clerk, has a spark that few people see. She will go far in life, but she's taking her own sweet time getting there-at least, she is up until an unhappily married hunka hunka burning love waltzes into her life and sweeps her off of her feet. No one has ever made her feel this way, this loved and this special, and it surprises her just what she's willing to do to make it last a little longer. She starts following his cold and evil wife around their peaceful college town to find out what she's up against, and uncovers dark and disturbing secrets that...

Adamistic Satanism foretells the coming of the Antichrist in a somewhat different way than the world is used to. We await the return of God in human form as the redeemer of all men, and we are prepared to welcome him. As He made a bride for Adam, we will offer him a fitting consort in return. The Antichrist will be God himself, tempted away from his mission by a slightly different Fruit of Knowledge. This bride, the Temptress, must be perfect in every way as far as flesh is concerned. She must have the power over all men that only a special type of woman can. The mission of our offering is to...

In a whimsical twist of fate, the world-famous opera singer and Russian roulette enthusiast Chandler Tuttle saves Rabbit's life in Antigua Guatemala, and convinces him to retire early and lead an honest, normal life. Returning to London to continue his tour, he falls in love with a mysterious Chinese girl who gives him a reason to put down his gun, and Rabbit flies to Morocco to take an internet romance to the next level. Both are plunged into intrigue and treachery, one of them dragged into the underworld of sexual slavery, and the other into a cruel and alien culture that forces him back...

There is a widely held opinion that an artist must paint in only one style, with only one voice, and Alexander Ferrar thinks that's nonsense. He prefers to paint whatever he feels is in him at the moment he sits down at his easel, and in order to learn which themes and subjects were most popular with collectors, he placed two of every type he had painted in his first exhibition, and each one found a new home. There's a lesson to be learned, and this collection of paintings and demonstrations shows the value of a wide range for an emerging artist.

The Hentzaus have been in control of the world, pretty much all of it, for a very long time, with their tentacles reaching into many aspects of our daily lives. They obtained this position through lies, manipulation and murder, and the secrets in their corporate headquarters are guarded by unbeatable security and the most fearless and bloodthirsty mercenaries in the world. And the dashing art thief Guy Fox just robbed them blind. "A famous and flamboyant Guatemalan artist goes into hiding the night his painting is stolen, but gets kidnapped in a crime of opportunity. Now the very thief has to...

Normally, guys will take girls out on the same paint-by-numbers date. Pick her up, take her to a restaurant, chat for a while, take her home, have that awkward moment, and maybe kiss, and maybe be invited inside. The whole time, she is in control of what'll happen later. There is nothing special about a date like that, so I change it up a bit. What I do is ask her to come pick me up, and when she comes over, I answer the door nude except for a towel. "Oh, hey, sorry, I'm not ready yet," I say. "But come in." Then I stop and make a face, the kind of face girls tend to make when they ask if you...