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Xara had never heard of Rome until the legion invaded her village and killed her parents. She knew about slaves of course, but her people took just a few slaves and made them part of their village; the Romans took thousands of slaves and treated them like animals, pets...like possessions. When the legion's commander noticed her and tried to take her, she rebelled and escaped, only to be recaptured during the battle of Wolf's Glen. Once again in captivity, she met a different kind of Roman-a warrior with values much like hers. He treats her the same as the other Romans did, but she respects him and in the confusion of war, helps save him from the Picts (predecessors of the Scots). Their continuing story is based on the novel "The Roman's Woman."

IT'S SECOND TIME AROUND FOR THESE GREAT HORROR STORIES.Did you miss these great stories when they were first published? Here's your chance to catch up with an overload of blood, gore, death and destruction, all in the name of entertainment... Great stories by great Gravestone Press writers.This anthology contains: -The Beggar - Dan AllenOut Of The Frying Pan - Chris RodriguezLaughter In A Jugular Vein -Terrance V Mc ArthurThe Dragon Detector - Elana GomelEmpty Nest - Sarah TownendDeadly Masquerade - Chris MarchantIl Migliore del Mondo - Alaric CabilingInside The Walls - Chris RodriguezChrysalis - Robert Allen LuptonA Lonely Place - Dorothy DaviesBlinding A Few Dogs - Gary BudgenRent Money - Rie Sheridan RoseBecoming Witch - Olivia ArietiLittle Dove - Donna L GreenwoodTo Run Is To Fly - Rie Sheridan RoseAbove the Ceiling - Dan AllenDreams of Duality - Dorothy DaviesLost and Damned - Olivia ArietiThe Lute Woman - Sheree ShatskyBobby Bumping - Diane ArrelleFirst Fruits - Chris RodriguezLove Letters - S J TownendPayback's A Bitch - Leslie GulvasTiny Fridge - Sheree ShatskyDeath Wish - Edward AhernThe Bad Ones Are Always The Best - Michelle Ann KingWhere Only The Mosquitoes Sing - Dan AllenThe Day Death Wore Boots - Dorothy Davies

IT'S SECOND TIME AROUND FOR THESE GREAT HORROR STORIES.Did you miss these great stories when they were first published? Here's your chance to catch up with an overload of blood, gore, death and destruction, all in the name of entertainment... Great stories by great Gravestone Press writers.This anthology contains: -The Beggar - Dan AllenOut Of The Frying Pan - Chris RodriguezLaughter In A Jugular Vein -Terrance V Mc ArthurThe Dragon Detector - Elana GomelEmpty Nest - Sarah TownendDeadly Masquerade - Chris MarchantIl Migliore del Mondo - Alaric CabilingInside The Walls - Chris RodriguezChrysalis - Robert Allen LuptonA Lonely Place - Dorothy DaviesBlinding A Few Dogs - Gary BudgenRent Money - Rie Sheridan RoseBecoming Witch - Olivia ArietiLittle Dove - Donna L GreenwoodTo Run Is To Fly - Rie Sheridan RoseAbove the Ceiling - Dan AllenDreams of Duality - Dorothy DaviesLost and Damned - Olivia ArietiThe Lute Woman - Sheree ShatskyBobby Bumping - Diane ArrelleFirst Fruits - Chris RodriguezLove Letters - S J TownendPayback's A Bitch - Leslie GulvasTiny Fridge - Sheree ShatskyDeath Wish - Edward AhernThe Bad Ones Are Always The Best - Michelle Ann KingWhere Only The Mosquitoes Sing - Dan AllenThe Day Death Wore Boots - Dorothy Davies

Crossing the street to get his mail, Jake Mild is run over by some idiot in a tricked-out truck and wakes up standing in an open grave. Figuring he must have died, he hurries back to his apartment to keep his ex-wife from cleaning him out, but on the way meets Sierra, a young girl with a black eye and swollen lip, walking along the road. Jake tags along and quickly discovers that he can do a cool vanishing thing and move stuff with his mind. But will his new abilities as a ghost give him the power to rescue a girl who desperately needs help?

Celestra's once-peaceful allies, the Narvellans, have suddenly staged a coup, turning their hosts' planet into an industrialised police state and enslaving the population. It's rumoured that the Narvellan homeworlds are being controlled by a sinister group mind, but is this true? If so, how can it be found and shut down? Laura's inexperienced band of conspirators will endure danger, tragedy and personal sacrifice in their quest to liberate two civilisations.

Inspired by a true story.Is there life after death? It's a question best-selling horror novelist Jack Devlin is desperately trying to answer since his wife's suicide. His personal life has crumbled, while his career and sanity aren't far behind as his nights are spent combing through allegedly haunted places in pursuit of the supernatural, and the hope of speaking to her one last time. Some call it obsession, but Jack hopes it hasn't gone that far. Jack's search has led him to Union, New York and a house called the Hollow. Hours away from big brother Gotham, this sleepy town has its own secrets buried just below the picturesque suburban landscape. With the help of a team of paranormal researchers, Jack starts to unlock the secrets of the Hollow, but they aren't the answers he wants... Is the Hollow haunted, or is Jack Devlin? Devlin's Hollow is a twisted, spiraling decent into the world of the supernatural, and Jack Devlin's mind.

Halloween has been done to death (excuse the pun!) over the years but the brilliant Gravestone Press authors ignored that and came up with exciting and suitably horror laden stories for your Halloween reading treat. Children versus adults, spooks versus anyone they can find, the stories range far and wide, resulting in an anthology Gravestone Press is proud to add to its catalogue.

Halloween has been done to death (excuse the pun!) over the years but the brilliant Gravestone Press authors ignored that and came up with exciting and suitably horror laden stories for your Halloween reading treat. Children versus adults, spooks versus anyone they can find, the stories range far and wide, resulting in an anthology Gravestone Press is proud to add to its catalogue.

Physical, financial, mental, fun and not so much fun - somewhere during our lives we are trapped - some still are - and seek a way out for our own reasons. Gravestone Press authors explore the theme of trapped through their exciting and different stories. See if any of these situations strike a chord with you...

Six long reads from six very different writers for you to enjoy. S J Townend reveals the reasons why Visiting Granddad is not a desirable thing to do... Sandra Stephens writes of The Smeller Feller, something to fear... a being who can uncover your sins by smell alone... there is no escape...Karl Melton invites you to drive into and experience the dust storm and the horror creatures that come with it... Diane Arrelle has a story of the sadness caused by people only thinking of themselves and bringing disaster to one of life's incredibly delicate people...Philip J. Thomas reveals the murderous secrets of the Dark Day at the Renaissance Fair...Paul Edwards takes us to Where the Wounded Trees Wait as the screen closing off the past is abruptly broken and old wars feel like new ones again... Gravestone Press brings you the best stories they can find. Look out for more anthologies from us.

The shrieking siren of the police car gets people making the same comment, 'they're coming to get you'! Ha ha, very funny, but what if 'they' were coming to get you, what if you had a threat of retribution hanging over your head, what if you disregarded the warnings that they were really coming to get you...this set of stories will show you just what some people have been through when 'they' were about to interfere with a life...

The Image of Christian is a fable about fame, celebrity, and other illusions. Christian answers a "help wanted" ad on the Internet and gets more than the job he desperately needs. His new boss, Grace, owns bits and pieces of this and that all over the world.Despite her success in it, she doesn't have much use for the "Information Age" "This is an age of faith, just like any other. Data gets shaped and moulded by the prophets of this so-called Information Age to create the reality they choose. These are the New Dark Ages, Christian. Ignorance rules, as always."Once upon a time the gods of Olympus walked the Earth, sometimes as themselves and sometimes in disguise. Humans knew better than to trust them and knew better than to believe they were who they seemed. That wisdom is largely lost in the world of The Image of Christian.

In the late 21st Century, A body is found in the headquarters of the world's largest fast food franchise, Barto Burger, creators of the world's first completely cloned hamburger. The president of the company, Gansheng Barto, has apparently eaten himself to death on his own burgers. Is it really suicide, or is it murder by burger. It's time to bring in Boston Jonson, crime consultant extraordinaire, to use his unorthodox mixture of Zen, insults, and hula hula shirts to unravel a startling mystery. With this rubbing alcohol-swilling sidekick, the beautiful dark-eyed Marlee Dunn, Boston dives into a jungle of underground catacombs, mad scientists, homicidal public relations managers, gargoyles, and a corporate world gone mad with genetic engineering, cloning and cruelty to old people.

The ancient vampire hunting order known as the Gwyliad Wriaeth has a dark secret. It's entwined so deeply in the order that very few know about it, but it threatens to unravel everything they stand for. We are those who are to blame.As each new student graduates from training they must take part in a ritual steeped in shadows and mysticism that has become the source of the Wraith's strength, speed, and longevity. Emily St. Louise--Saint to her her friends--is ready. As the ritual begins, something goes terribly, terribly wrong. Saint becomes something more than human, more than vampire, more than Wraith.Now Saint will shake the foundation of the Gwyliad Wraith on her search for truth. Buried somewhere in the academy's walls are answers... But to gain the truth, she must first loose everything. Science Fiction/Fantasy author Terence West brings you the first thrilling novel from "The Wraith Chronicles."

Tales in Firelight and Shadow is a collection of short stories by well-known and fresh new writers of fantasy, speculative and science fiction, retelling folktales from many lands and cultures. Award-winning authors present challenging new twists on familiar tales: James Morrow's museum curator and his university professor daughter discover the ultimate answer to the human condition; Mary Turzillo's talking cat rats on a legendary illusionist; and Tenea D. Johnson's fairies deal with the dream dolls of nightmare.Writers testing the speculative waters with their risk-taking styles captivate and enchant us: an adventurous young professional tries out a new eatery, with disastrous results; a haunted lake binds the horrors of the slaveholding past to the land's future; a boy steals what a Scottish fairy has no intention of parting with. A lonely girl in a beachside shack yearns for a mermaid godmother's gifts. Shadowy stalkers haunt forests and dreams.Emerging novelists delight us with old tales never before told like this: Jason Parent's Salem shyster outsmarts his own self; Patricia Stoltey's ogre is not at all what-or who-we think; Christina St. Clair's loving wife on the ultimate spiritual quest seems to have gone horribly astray; and A.J. Maguire's scientist alone on the moon with her husband and the man she truly loves must come up with the courage to choose if and how she will survive. We discover that fairytales and urban legends are the stuff of personal memory.The folktales gathered and retold in Tales in Firelight and Shadow answer the oldest of our questions: "Why is my world as it is, and how can I find my way through it?" For, if folktales exorcize the pain of lessons learned over many lifetimes, then in this world of fairy, flame and chaos, enchantment-we realize with a start-is the only reality. We dream so that we may open our eyes.

When a nasty little plague of people turning into stone in coffee shops around the city threatens the bottom line of the Coffee Cartels and their highly addictive designer coffees, investigative consultant, Boston Jonson, is tossed into a world where everyone is out to either admire him or kill him, a world of annoying weirdoes who are probably better off turned into stone.

The Empire secure at last, Valerius finds that far from being able to rest, he must now rebuild what he has conquered. Exhausted after two years of effort, he takes a vacation with Queen and their young children to visit her ailing father King Reuters in Dulcai. But rest is not to be had there, either, for a strange prophecy drives Valerius back to the Inland Sea to confront yet another form of evil. Sailing a new type of ship designed by King Koltar, and joined by Vahla with the ubiquitous Chad, Valerius faces a possessed bastard son of Fantar in a series of sea battles before climbing back into the mountains south of Zagorbia to face his ultimate test and learn at last the secret power of the magic gem, the Eye of Valeria.

HE PROMISED TO LOVE HER UNTIL THE STARS GROW COLDIt is a dark time for the ancient vampire hunters known as the Wraith. The oldest and most prestigious of their academies lies in ruins, and the ruling order, the Council of Seven, is dead. The armies of Vampire Lord Bane march almost undaunted across the face of the Earth. Thousands of Wraith have died during a war they have come to know as "The Purge." The Wraith are facing extinction.Yet there are heroes stillA talented and powerful young Wraith, Thomas Cross, and his master, Conrad Verge, fight to hold back the darkness. But Thomas would throw it all away to find the woman he has dreamed about every night of his life.Until he discovers that his dream woman is his mortal enemy. She is a vampire...Everything changes in that moment. In a story that spans ten years and changes Wraith Universe irrevocably, this is a hero's fall from grace. The Wraith Chronicles continue in the second book of the series from science fiction/fantasy author Terence West!

They possess no pulse, nor a heartbeat. Their lungs have long since discarded the need to regulate oxygen. Logical thought escapes them, as does such common emotional states as happiness, sadness, or depression. The age-old weaknesses of man, such as lust, greed, or envy, no longer apply.Yet they walk. They desire. They pursue...relentlessly. They hunger...insatiably...infinitely. Spawned by a deadly, mysterious plague that ravaged the earth's population seemingly overnight, the reanimated dead soon dominated the landscape, relegating those unfortunate enough to be labeled 'survivor' to permanent 'prey' status.Enter, if you dare, a merciless, gore-drenched realm where walking cadaver's rule, while the living have fallen to the lowest rung on the planetary food chain.Read for yourselves the grisly yet strangely enticing elements that make up 'The DEAD Effect'....

In this fifth and final episode of the series, Tiffany and Chip return to Hollywood, California, where Tiffany's life had tragically ended six months earlier. In the process, they encounter three demons who intend to take them back to Florida, to face the wrath of the super demon Braithwaite, who has been chosen to control America for the next hundred years. Will Tiffany find the man responsible for sending her to her untimely death? Or will any of the three demons they encounter destroy her long-awaited plans for revenge? If the demons are unable to stop her, what will happen when she finally faces the man responsible for sending her to her death? Will her taste for revenge force her to become the demon she should have been when she was pulled into Hell by the horny subordinate spirit Gutril? Or is there some other plan mapped out for her, designed by an unseen power she has no knowledge of?

MONSTROUS TALES VOL 1 Six long reads from six very different writers for you to enjoy. S J Townend reveals the reasons why Visiting Granddad is not a desirable thing to do... Sandra Stephens writes of The Smeller Feller, something to fear... a being who can uncover your sins by smell alone... there is no escape...Karl Melton invites you to drive into and experience the dust storm and the horror creatures that come with it... Diane Arrelle has a story of the sadness caused by people only thinking of themselves and bringing disaster to one of life's incredibly delicate people...Philip J. Thomas reveals the murderous secrets of the Dark Day at the Renaissance Fair...Paul Edwards takes us to Where the Wounded Trees Wait as the screen closing off the past is abruptly broken and old wars feel like new ones again... Gravestone Press brings you the best stories they can find. Look out for more anthologies from us.

Physical, financial, mental, fun and not so much fun - somewhere during our lives we are trapped - some still are - and seek a way out for our own reasons. Gravestone Press authors explore the theme of trapped through their exciting and different stories. See if any of these situations strike a chord with you...

After triumphing over Andras, the subordinate demon assigned to hunt them down in Pittsburgh, Tiffany and Chip make their way to Peoria, Illinois, where Tiffany was born and raised. Tiffany wants to settle the score with her stepdad, the man responsible for destroying her relationship with her mother and also for forcing Tiffany to leave home and move to Hollywood, where she was later murdered. Tiffany and Chip soon discover that the League of Demons is thriving in Peoria. Two demons have been threatening the lives of hundreds of Peoria residents, many of them children. It is only when Tiffany's mother becomes an unsuspecting victim that Tiffany realizes she will be forced to use all of her powers to destroy and send both demons back to the Dark Place.

Sexy, sassy and dead, Tiffany LeBouf, aided by her dead friend Chip, the trickster, continue their wild adventures in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they've gone to help their friend Ashley escape the powerful super demon Braithwaite, who wants revenge for how the three of them sabotaged his Central Florida multi-billion-dollar land deal. Along the way they meet handsome Jimmy Russo, a popular local magician, who immediately captures Tiffany's heart. Although Jimmy is equally smitten, he seems to have demons of his own. Tiffany has found that her abilities have grown much greater since leaving Florida. In addition to having the ability to change her appearance and footwear, she can now perform some truly remarkable skills. Although she has no idea why her powers have grown, she knows she will need all her talents to do battle with Andras, the frightening hunter/killer Braithwaite has sent to find them and return them to Florida.

Captain Eris, AKA Death Engine, former military DNA tweak, and mercenary is unexpectedly pulled out of her retirement in Champion Acres and dragged back into the shit by an idiot in a mech suit.Feeling pissed off and miserable about losing her retirement lifestyle and subsequently, her chances of dying of old age; she searches for the reasons why she was reactivated. With the help of her old friend Al, an incognito artificial intelligence; and Om, a twenty-something emo tweak-girl, she discovers a plot that goes a lot deeper than losing her death. And in doing so, she finds a reason to survive.

For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today's globalized society, if we could understand it. Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell gives second-millennial English-language readers a chance to share the pathos, the humor, and the raw political aggression of Dante's vision of Hell.Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell preserves the meaning of Dante's verses, line by line. Where a literal translation of his highly philosophical but often slang-rich text will not make sense for the twenty-first century English-speaking reader, the most reasonable compromise of the literal and figurative is used.Written in exile from Florence, Dante's Inferno speaks to those of us today who question our own and our societies' values. Dante, lost in the middle of his lifetime, wanders behind Virgil down the narrow safe passage through Hell's increasingly nightmarish suffering. On this horrendous journey, Dante will come to understand the consequences of the social evils running rampant in Europe's cancerously spreading empire that values profits more than people and teaches its citizens to prize their own personal pleasure above principle, spreading sexual license, gang turf war, and international political and religious violence.

Not unlike a multi-layered puzzlebox, Hell has many varied levels, each infinitely worse than the last. Horrid images of horned demons and fiery rivers of damnation are the most common, though an unfortunate few have felt the searing flames within the mundane confines of their everyday existence. Ultimately, only death may provide potential relief to those decayed souls whose guilty conscience threatens to cannibalize their very sanity, only to awake and discover that the sins of one's past come with a horrific price, thus truly earning them a ?Passport to Hell?....

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...Thirty years ago, Zachary Cane was held prisoner and tortured by an ancient vampire known as Caitlin. With the help of a local coven of witches, and a vampire hunting order called the Gwyliad Wriaeth, they destroyed Caitlin. Or so Cane thought... Now, with the help of three fledgling vampires, Caitlin is ready to extract her revenge... one drop of blood at a time. On an adventure that spans from Washington D.C., to Cairo, and beyond, the Office of Paranormal Research must team with a legendary group of vampire hunters to save their missing teammate! Caitlin is the third novel "From the Files of OPR" and will change the lives of Team OPR forever.

Detective Jim Holmes moved from the London Met to Tokyo in order to widen his experience, working with the fabled Chief Inspector Stella Koide. This turns out to be much more than he bargained for, when the murder of a Kabuki-cho prostitute leads to identification of a series of sadistic murders far beyond his worst nightmares. Attacks on the detectives expose links to the yakuza and also members of an exotic nightclub that caters for the more exotic sexual tastes of the ultra-rich.The team's uncanny ability to solve cryptic clues reveals deeper layers of an international conspiracy, with links to illegal human genetic engineering and corporate espionage run from the other side of the world. To expose the secret manipulator behind this labyrinthine plot will require direct confrontation on his home ground. As the risks to the detectives increase, Koide¿s high-tech tools and Holmes' understanding of the character of their foe must be combined, not only to crack the case, but also to keep them alive long enough to do so.