The dark beyond the candle's glow-where the spoiled children go... This collection brings together, for the first time in print, three novella-length tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: In SARCOPHAGUS, nuclear safety specialist Victoria Cox confronts corporate irresponsibility, pagan myth, and nuclear nightmares, in the shadows of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. In THE INNSMOUTH SYNDROME, epidemiologist Carla Edwards investigates teen suicides in the infamous Massachusetts town. In ASHES, architect Patricia Foss unearths a secret history of murder and heresy on the North York Moors. As science and...

Dead men tell no tales - until you wake them up... The Russian president's term in office is almost up, and his presumptive successor is a double-agent, backed by the intelligence agencies of the West. FSB Colonel Arkady Andreyushkin has been tasked with uncovering the conspiracy, but finds only dead bodies in the traitor's wake. Facing an impossible challenge, he sanctions a radical experiment: one which will take his rag-tag team of scientists and former agents to the outermost fringes of medical science, and beyond. On a desolate plateau, high in the Altai mountains, they prepare to commit...