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An avid fan of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER takes a deep dive into the world of the Slayer -- focusing especially on the Bad Guys, Big, Medium, and Little, who have plagued Buffy Summers and her friends over the years

It's 1983 in New Sparta, NY, and Warren Dawson is beloved by everyone... his friends, his family, even random strangers on the street. Everybody loves Warren and wants to make him happy. The TVs only show his favorite programs, the radios only play his favorite songs, the movie theaters always have his favorite movies. And, naturally, all the women are beautiful, and all of them love Warren unreservedly and uninhibitedly... When Warren's best friend Jimmy starts to notice just how strange the reality he and all his friends inhabit truly is, he becomes a threat to the odd, timelost Utopia ...

DEVIL WITH THE DEAD FLESH ON The younger fell to its knees. "Will you help me," it begged, its voice very formal now. The elder traced a long, inhumanly jointed finger over the younger's cheek. The finger ended in a sharp, curved claw. The cheek bled from the caress. "I shall remove the flesh from your bones," the elder hissed, "leaving only your tongue, which you shall gratify me with for hours." The younger trembled. "Oh my darling," it whispered, "you truly do love me." The elder smiled. "Of course I do." It ripped the younger's throat open, and bent to feast. * * * Prologue The WKBW ...

In the tradition of Arthur Machen's classic "The Great God Pan" and John Farris' novel of creeping rural horror ALL HEADS TURN AS THE HUNT GOES BY comes award winning fantasy author D.A. Madigan's THE GOD OF HOOVES & ANTLERS Deenie hasn't seen the family farm where she grew up since she got the hell out almost a decade before. But the death of her hated grandfather imposes family duty. The disposition of his estate requires the presence of his only living relative. Intending to stay only long enough to take care of necessary legal details, Deenie arrives back at the creaking, ominous old ...

READER'S ADVISORY: This novel contains scenes that sane readers will find disturbing, including incredibly graphic descriptions of horrific violence and unimaginably depraved sexual acts. Obviously, this is a work exclusively intended for mature audiences. The Presidential Task Force on Occult Criminal Conspiracies and Corruption is headed by Special Agent in Charge John Languedoc Doe, who reports directly to the President. Only Doe, his elite group of Task Force members, and the President himself know of the Task Force's existence. The Task Force has only one purpose -- to conduct a bloody...

"Best vampire book I have read since They Thirst" - The Yeti Reads And Reviews You're a small town high school student in 1980. It's nearly Thanksgiving and it's getting colder outside. You want to get laid, you want your school to get to the Regionals, you want your stepfather to stop being such a dick. Maybe you want to get your grades up a little. Then you get attacked by a vampire, and next day, when you go into school to talk it over with that one cool teacher who knows everything, he's not there. You go through his desk, and what do you find? Books about vampires -- from the non ...

December, 1944: The Nazi supervillains in the SS Occult Bureau have learned that Glen Miller's horn is actually an ancient Instrument of Power... and Hitler wants it badly. Now, as Captain Miller flies to a USO concert in France in the same plane as stage magicians Tazara and Magerock, piloted by Commander Harry Bailey, a nefarious spell is cast to take mystical remote control of that plane and divert it to Berlin. But the ghost of Amelia Earhart has overheard this evil plot and carried a warning to the Allies, specifically to a former German pilot from WWI now incarnate as a shambling ...

BILLY JOE SHOT A MAN WHILE ROBBING HIS CASTLE Young, in love, and on the run, young lovers Billy Joe Ventura and Bobbi Sue Gentry only want is to be left alone by the entire rest of the world -- especially that grabby handed needle dick Deputy Sheriff Joe Redmont, who first grabbed Bobbi Sue's ass when she was 13 years old (and got kicked in the nuts for it, too) and who has also already set up Billy Joe for one three year jolt in prison and will be happy to put the little creep back there again... or in a pine box, whichever is easier. But Billy Joe knows too much about Redmont's drug ...

READY, PLAYER ONE? Had anyone asked Webster Madision, real world loser and superhero roleplayer extraordinaire, that question, he would have had to say 'no'. Last he knew, he was on his way home from a session of a buddy's RPG that had run really late. Now he's waking up in the strangest room he's ever been in, in the body of his favorite roleplaying PC, and an alien Big Head is telling him he's here to compete with 31 other transformed gamers just like him, for the biggest prize imaginable. To a real world loser like Webster, with no girl friend, a shitty job, and a bitchy landlord who is ...

BEFORE THE DAWN OF HUMANITY, THEY FELL FROM HEAVEN - NOW HEAVEN IS CALLING THEM BACK Four college friends get together 10 years after graduation to spend the weekend hiking and climbing. One of them, Caeryn, wants to introduce her fiancé Jenny to her three buddies (and ex lovers) Charlie, Ben, and Kirk. It's a potentially awkward situation, and then... An earthquake sends them all falling into the heart of Mount Hancock. Somehow they survive their falls unharmed. Trapped deep underground, they discover an ancient starship named Godspeed, which crashed down to Earth hundreds of millions of ...

Jondy is a late 21st Century street kid in Newer New York City -- always hustling on her rollers, racking packets across the Big Square for anyone who pays, with bonus money measured in fractions of seconds, to earn enough cred-coin to buy food for her and her Gram. Tough as razorwire, smart as a multiplex processor and with laser-fast reflexes, Jondy has earned the title of Queen of the Rollerkids with bravery, brains, and sheer unbridled brass. But when Jondy and her Gram both fall into the hands of a ruthless hypercorps, they are exiled 150 million years in the past -- mining radioactive...

IN THE WAR BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL, THERE IS ALWAYS COLLATERAL DAMAGE * * * I got Inga back onto the edge of the bed with my legs around her waist and my fists locked together just under her breasts. I pulled in, careful not to crack anything, just enough to make her breathe out. I let up so she’d breathe in. Crooned in her ear “Take it easy. Don’t pass out.” After a minute or so of that, her respiration shallowed, then steadied. “Now tell me,” I said, pulling her naked body back against mine, keeping my mouth warmly against her ear.. She relaxed, and then stiffened again. “I ...

DON'T BE A WEINER DOG -- SNATCH THIS BOOK UP!!! You have a hot date with a SHE DEVIL -- or, actually, several -- Diana Stagg, young heir to her hated grand-father's farm and land, who wants nothing more than to burn it all to the ground and piss in the ashes... until she starts to learn the terrible secrets of her hidden, occult heritage... Mary Gunn, who battles back the forces of undead evil with the very silver that flows through her veins Valeria Warlock, last living member of a race of genetically engineered Demons, fighting to save humanity from the hundred meter tall emissaries sent ...

SOMETHING IS EATING THE CHILDREN OF FORRESTAL When high school student Calvin Pressley interrupts two grown ups in strange robes dragging a screaming young girl out into the woods, his life turns upside down and inside out. He'd just assumed all those stupid stories about 'the Pumpkin Patch Man' were pure b.s. -- the assholes hazing the new kid in town. But there's sure as shit something going on in Forrestal... something pretty horrible, from what he's just gotten involved in. But what can a high school kid possibly do about a secret -- or not so secret -- jack o'lantern headed monster ...

"By far my most popular book ever. So thanks for that, you sickos." - D.A. Madigan The Presidential Task Force on Occult Criminal Conspiracies and Corruption is headed by Special Agent in Charge John Languedoc Doe, who reports directly to the President. Only Doe, his elite group of Task Force members, and the President himself know of the Task Force's existence. The Task Force has only one purpose -- to conduct a bloody secret war against the MKULTRA conspiracy that has infiltrated America's Deep State power structure at every level. Like a malignant cancer, the MKULTRA conspiracy -- an ...

LOST a million light years from Earth HUNTED by a horde of alien enemies ALL HE'S GOT - a stolen starship, a bloodthirsty crew of liberated former slaves, the love of a good woman who is only three inches tall, and the most devious mind in the universe HE'S GOT NO CHANCE - but sugar, he's going down swinging...

The immortals have gathered, as they tend to do, once or twice every century. This time their Enclave will be held far out in the Australian Outback, at an ancient underground fortress almost as old as they are. Worshipped as gods by various historical and prehistorical peoples, the unaging Lords of Creation will speak, interact, exchange notes, do mortal battle, and make love, as they have for hundreds of thousands of years... since before the fall of Atlantis. Since before mankind had written language. This year, however, the threat of the Bearers -- a mysterious group that seems bent on ...

RAKAS A'GURDON DOESN'T HAVE TIME FOR A BATTLE TO THE DEATH WITH AN ANGRY WIZARD Unfortunately, somehow he seems to have one on his hands, anyway. Rakas is a pretty decent fighter and he's got a company full of mercenaries to back him up, but, still, a crazed sorcerer is nothing to fool with... especially one that seems to have all the legions of Hell at his beck and call...! Rakas is going to need all his wits, a great deal of luck, and some very strange allies to make it through this mess... and the strangest of all of them may well be THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER

THE OVERSEERS WERE ARMED - DANGEROUS - AND NOT OF THIS WORLD Craig Warner is 12 going on 13 when the person he loves the most in the world, his wonderful Aunt Mercy, finally dies after a long, hard battle with cancer. And as bad as that makes him feel, what happens a minute later is even worse --when she opens her pretty blue eyes again, and takes a deep breath, and turns her head, and stares right at him --and Craig realizes, whatever is looking at him now through his Aunt Mercy's eyes, isn't his Aunt Mercy any more. And he also knows he can't tell anyone else, because nobody else will ...

In a world not our own, where gods and demons, men and monsters walk side by side, and on occasion even dally together, two exiled immortal gods find their fates have become intertwined across the millenia with a pair of mortal siblings. When Vakashta, God of Storm and Battles, and his sister-lover Mirriti, Goddess of Fire and Beauty, meet the roguish Aros Longstaff and his beautiful yet treacherous sister Saralian Redblade, illicit passions ignite a flame that quickly blazes out of control. For the two mortal sibling-lovers have an ulterior motive in their divine dalliance -- they seek to ...