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The family that decays together, stays together. On a hot summer weekend in San Antonio, Texas, a father and son bond after discovering three impossible corpses buried in their backyard. From the author and screenwriter of We Need to Do Something comes a new novel of body horror and existential crises.

When Dödz Bringare, a professional killer of the undead, is arrested for public disorder, he finds himself press-ganged into searching for a nobleman's dead wife. Beset by venomous cultists, blood-drenched zombies, and the forces of the Blood Countess herself, Dödz must muster all of his strength and willpower just to survive. All the while, the whispers of the dead saint swirl around him, threatening to bring all to misery.

Something is mutating the aquatic wildlife on the South Texas border, making the animals larger, hungrier, and more vicious. Something is mutating the people of Texas, turning them into cannibalistic monsters driven by their basest instincts to feed, nest, and reproduce. Something approaches San Antonio, shaking the earth with each step, driving the mutating power forth and poisoning everything it comes across. Something...abhorrent.

Good does not exist. There is only the ever-swirling chaos of evil lurking just beyond the veil of our perception waiting to strike arbitrarily without purpose or reason. When evil throws its wiry tentacles out into our world leaving an inky black sludge of death, sadness, and destruction in their wake it's done not out of maliciousness but at random with no forethought, no agenda.

Talons is a new restaurant looking for food tasters, and Jordan Carter jumped at the chance to join the focus group. However, the qualifying questions embarrassed him. The first appetizer was a stale piece of bread. And worst of all, Jordan felt sick after the meal. When Talons offers him double the money for a second tasting, he agrees and shrugs off the illness as a coincidence. After the second meal, though, he’s convinced something is wrong. Daily nightmares and concerning voices culminate in Jordan vomiting blood.

The culling took most of the men from Cochran Texas away to a dusty old town that exists between this plane and the next called Cocytus. Run by a maniacal power-hungry man named Lycus and his adopted protégé daughter Alastor, he conducts chaos with the help of a group of bandits called Calamity Three. His goal: tip the cosmic scales to bring the Void crashing into the world and claim the place of power to which he believes he is owed.

Bethany can’t wait for the end of her hospital shift – four glorious days of relaxation await. Secretly, she’s most excited about the fun-filled nights reveling in an unexpected flirtation with her co-worker, Michelle. Thoughts of her long, cozy weekend vanish, however, when Francisco Delgado is admitted to her floor from the emergency room. Delgado, a man who came into contact with an unknown arachnid species in South America, and who now has something…squirming…beneath his skin.

Only one more show and heavy metal guitarist Spencer Hesston can finally quit Rot in Hell. No more touring, no more fighting, and no more unwanted advances from the lead singer's girlfriend. But instead of waking up the next day in their Midwestern hometown, the band finds themselves dazed and confused in an abandoned settlement in the middle of the desert, with no idea of how they got there. Things are done a little differently out here: The trees have perverse urges, the spiders have human fingers, and every time they step outside the town transforms into a new hellish nightmare.

Otto Van Der Noodle has just been crowned the Bratwurst King of Wisconsin when he is gunned down in cold blood. Otto finds himself in line at the pearly gates when he is accidentally cast through the gates of Hell. Otto lands in the middle of a power struggle for the throne of Hell. Satan rules the underworld with an iron fist and a delicious bratwurst. Satan's brother, Dagobert has just found his secret weapon, Otto Van Der Noodle and his prize-winning bratwurst.

It’s been seven years since the world was consumed by flesh eating corpses. After plane trouble, Luther Kilwins, the man who caused the outbreak, finds himself trapped in a Montauk bunker. His only hope for survival… General Frederick Maxx, the man who wants him dead more than anyone else. Maxx sends his top soldier, Jacob, and his team out to rescue Kilwins from the far reaches of Long Island.

It is the year 2200. Richard Coppergate and the wealthiest citizens of the city have gathered for their annual game: kidnap seven people the world wouldn't miss—bums, prostitutes, and the mentally ill—and turn them loose in the city with a mission to hunt and kill each other. The prize? One billion dollars.

After Karl is forced to put down his beloved pet Brady, he unintentionally releases a beast from another dimension. If he wants to save himself and those around him, he'll have to figure out how to put the beast back and accept that none of us are ever really gone.

Cody Burns is a voice actor who lucked into his dream gig. He works from home, sets his own schedule, and parties every night like the ship is going down. So what if he’s a little late turning work in to his agent every once in a while? He’s got the golden pipes and is in demand. When a competing agent contacts him out of the blue with a once in a lifetime offer and the answer to getting out from under the thumb of his current representation, Cody is more than intrigued.

Artie is a serial killer obsessed with As Seen On T.V. products. Collecting and modifying these items is his only passion outside of killing, which he’s been doing a long time. Far longer than most of his peers, but Artie always took special care to make sure he remained free.

In 1865, Bel, in the service of Ashmandai and Lillith, fell in battle to one of the Grigori. Nearly 200 years later, Bel has awoken to find that his people, the mighty Dragons of the Sheydim, are long dead, casualties in the War of Dictates. Mind set on revenge, the last dragon ventures to a world hidden in mists to confront the fallen angel Habbiel and tear apart their empire in glorious violence and bloodshed.

Young Troy is sick of his parents fighting. Even while camping on a supposed vacation, all his parents seem to do is bicker. Troy has had enough of it. He storms out of the camper and runs out into the neighboring woods, where he stumbles over something horrifying. His parents are too wrapped up in an argument to notice their only child is missing. Is it too late?

Everyone is looking for shortcuts in life, but rarely do they find the kind they're looking for, and when they do, it never turns out like they thought. But what if you were to accidentally fall into cahoots with an other-worldly creature, who could provide those shortcuts and so much more? Of course, there's always a price attached to such favors, but killing gets easier the more you do it, and everything is great as long as the rewards outweigh the risk.

After the hurricane, Reggie and Betsy discover a portion of their backyard has begun to sink. Fearing the ground will open up and swallow their house sooner rather than later Reggie calls the city to come fix it, but pushback from the local Sheriff slows the process down by a day. Come nightfall the power goes out, the sinkhole opens, and a busload of ghoulish children crawl to the surface for their first meal in 52 years.

Kevin Welch was just a small-time thug until a brutal encounter made him the pope! Now being hunted through the streets of Rome by clergy intent on taking his place as pontiff, Kevin finds a possible, though unlikely ally in an enigmatic and alluring hitwoman, but it seems she would just as soon kill him as help him, so can he actually trust her? Does he have a choice? Kevin just wanted to get his life back, and the only thing standing between him and that life is a cadre of bloodthirsty bishops and cardinals, furious nuns, hallucinogenic manifestations of Satan ... and his own ineptitude.

From Award-winning author John BaltisbergerJoin Dödz Bringare as he is plunged into a war not his own. Conscripted into the Boneheart Crusade by his own brother, Dödz must journey deep into the Valley of the Unfortunate Dead and face rotting fiends and foul spirits. Joined by a motley crew of crusaders, the damned of the Dying Lands must face down the terrors in a terrible game of cat and mouse orchestrated by none other than Skelvic the Profane himself. Includes the short story Screams of the Necropolis.