The worst of the worst, he is notorious even within a notorious system. When the worst prison riot in the history of human corrections threatens to bring down the walls, he will trade his knowledge of it for removal of his tattoos, one by one. When he's finished, he'll seem another man entirely, and this is the key to his freedom. Literally. He grew up hard and fast in the rough places of the city. Before he realizes the folly of gang life, his flesh scrawls with its lurid tales.
The worst of the worst, he is notorious even within a notorious system. When the worst prison riot in the history of human corrections threatens to br...
She has come to his office to give birth, but she is accursed and he knows it. Fortunately, she has chosen wisely and she can afford the best phy-magician in the country. He will safely deliver the demon inside her, and then he'll help her to determine who would cast such a spell on her, in the first place. This is an age of science in magic. A phy-magician must master both trades with equal alacrity.
She has come to his office to give birth, but she is accursed and he knows it. Fortunately, she has chosen wisely and she can afford the best phy-magi...
Every ten years, a lottery draws them from all over the country. Every lottery is always the same: four boys and three girls, each with an exceptional mind and each mired in a neglectful or abusive life, which is sure to eventually destroy them. The spooky mansion at 472 Malign Terrace will become their home and their salvation, strange and mysterious though it may seem. Neglected by his addicted mother, a mysterious lottery is the one chance this boy has for a normal life. He reports to 472 Malign Terrace alone and trembling with a strange mixture of terror and excitement.
Every ten years, a lottery draws them from all over the country. Every lottery is always the same: four boys and three girls, each with an exceptional...
Upon hearing of a lost fortune in pure, refined opium, western adventurers stationed in Afghanistan decide to retrieve it, despite repeated warnings about the dangers that confront them. When a local guide leads them through the desert into the mountains to a dark and foreboding crack in a towering precipice, they again shrug off the man's dire insistence that they return home. Their decision to enter into the defile is one they will soon regret. Greed can drive a man to dare a deadly waste. Pride can push him to the world's most desolate peaks. In the barren, combat-wracked heart of...
Upon hearing of a lost fortune in pure, refined opium, western adventurers stationed in Afghanistan decide to retrieve it, despite repeated warnings a...
He is the worst of the worst; a perverted deviant and an elusive killer who presents himself as an old-fashioned country preacher. She is the distraught widow of a man who successfully embezzled a fortune. With her two young children, she lives amid the dilapidated ruins of a declining estate named Slate Gardens, where rumor insists three million dollars remains hidden. Beguiled by the preacher's psychotic manipulations, the widow takes him into her home as her second husband and a malign father to her vulnerable son and daughter. She longs for companionship and love. He craves only profit. A...
He is the worst of the worst; a perverted deviant and an elusive killer who presents himself as an old-fashioned country preacher. She is the distraug...
Like an onion, his plan for her conquest is multi-layered and complex. First, he must educate himself, then he must use that education to accumulate wealth. Finally, he must find a way to enter into her life as an equal. In the meantime, however, he can always jog alongside her in the park, just another stranger on the trail. He loved her from first sight and determined to have her, despite his poverty and her wealth. Fortunately, he is a very clever young man.
Like an onion, his plan for her conquest is multi-layered and complex. First, he must educate himself, then he must use that education to accumulate w...
It is lush, vibrant, and ever-changing. Though raucous and overgrown with a breathtaking variety of savory, beautiful delights, it is a deliberate expression of harsh discipline. Its keeper is a lonely old woman with a green thumb who seems harmless enough to the uninitiated. When a vagrant takes shelter in this garden, however, he learns the unspeakably evil source of her success with all things green and growing. Be careful when you wish. Homeless and wandering through a neglectful city, he ultimately finds his place in this world, tending its garden of evil.
It is lush, vibrant, and ever-changing. Though raucous and overgrown with a breathtaking variety of savory, beautiful delights, it is a deliberate exp...
When they come to cut her out of her third-floor apartment bedroom, the crowd gathers to point and laugh. A twelve-hundred-pound woman is not without recourse, however, and they underestimate her deranged temperament to their own detriment. Before they get her to the hospital, she will leave the entire town in ruins. She is a mighty big woman originally blessed with the patient, loving disposition of a child. Years of merciless, relentless torment have purged all semblance of compassion from her heart, however, and she has grown weary of the laughter.
When they come to cut her out of her third-floor apartment bedroom, the crowd gathers to point and laugh. A twelve-hundred-pound woman is not without ...
If you listen long enough, you may be convinced of anything. Provided the voice you heed is sufficiently provocative... provided you are prepared to ponder its lies or truths... provided it gets to you early enough. What are the origins of human evil? Is it guaranteed from birth, or is it visited upon us via infantile nightmares?
If you listen long enough, you may be convinced of anything. Provided the voice you heed is sufficiently provocative... provided you are prepared to p...
Through all the green, growing places of the world, water flows. It is a force of destruction and the gift of life. Without it, nothing could thrive, despite the fact that it sometimes also destroys. Listen to this music of the Earth, for constant is the sound. It is the incessant symphony of life, the raucous discord of biology. In its chaotic rhythms, our heartbeats.
Through all the green, growing places of the world, water flows. It is a force of destruction and the gift of life. Without it, nothing could thrive, ...