Shape-shifters, skin-walkers, werewolves - the beasts go by many names and take on many different forms. Some fight the curse, others relish the freedom as they stalk and consume their human prey. Sixteen terrifying new stories from today's modern masters of literary horror featuring tortured souls with thoughts dark and twisted... and flesh like smoke.

Flesh Like Smoke

Literature & Fiction

Meikle, William

Goodfellow, Cody

Schweitzer, Darrell

Waggoner, Tim

Gafford, Sam

Morgan, Christine

Stone, Sam

Walters, Damien Angelica

Erdelac, Edward M.

Genre Fiction

April Moon Books

The #1 selling thesaurus on Kindle is now available as a handy desk reference!There are a thousand ways to say something and at least a few hundred to express it well. This is not simply another thesaurus but 2 complete writing lessons which aim to shave a year off of your creative development. This is a bold objective but as you go over these devices, in this brief but powerful tutorial, it will train you to think like a novelist. Let's see how this works: First we start with a character description: Bill has grey hair.This is a fine description, and certainly direct, but let's flex our muscles a little more:Bill's hair is salted with grey.Bill's hair is frosted with age.Bill's hair is threaded with silver.Now try these concept words on your own: peppered, streaked, flecked, weededYou can immediately see the limitations of a traditional thesaurus; they are helpful at supplying literal equivalents, such as charcoal for grey, but frequently miss the finer nuances of language.Beyond the inspirational support most books offer, I can assure you that two things, and only two, are guaranteed to improve your writing. These are reading and the act of writing itself. This is a small but unique 'literary thesaurus' that bridges the gap of reading by taking common descriptive devices and words and places them into usable categories that will serve as a ready toolbox for your own writing.This tutorial is ideal for beginning and intermediate fiction writers.

The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus - Complete!

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Enter the dark and sensual world of Sam Stone. Discover her unique family of vampires in this compendium edition of the first three books of the award winning Vampire Gene series. 'Killing Kiss' - Four hundred year old vampire Gabriele Caccini searches for a mate in twenty-first century Manchester while reflecting on the events that led to his immortality. 'Futile Flame' - Gabriele seeks out his maker Lucrezia Borgia when a mysterious entity threatens to ruin the happiness he has found with Lilly. But can he believe anything she says? 'Demon Dance' - Waking in the Garden of Eden, Lilly discovers that mysterious forces have contrived to separate her from Gabriele. Thrown through time against her will, she has to fight to regain control of her own destiny.

The Vampire Gene Trilogy

Createspace Independent Pub

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. That is one of the main ideas behind the cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft gave to the world, what would later be commonly known as the Cthulhu Mythos. The Old Ones, that ancient evil, dormant but still very much alive, would one day awaken and return to once more lay claim to our world. That cryptic sentence that was penned in the infamous Necronomicon wasn’t a threat, it wasn’t vague enough to be prophecy, it wasn’t even a warning, as there is nothing that can be done to stop or avoid it. No, it was a promise, a certainty that one day these omnipotent, ageless, entities would return. It was only a matter of time before the Stars became Right, and that time is now.Return of the Old Ones tells the tales of those terrible end times. Comprised of three books, this anthology shows what lead up to the Old Ones coming back, what happened on that fateful day when the gates were flung wide, and how the world was forever changed in the aftermath. From stories of personal apocalypses to recounts of epic, but futile, battles, to the bleak desperation that would be mankind’s only inheritance. Return of the Old Ones: it’s coming, be ready.

Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror

Paradias, Konstantine

Morris, Edward

Thomas, Jeffrey

Baker, Neil

Jones, Scott R Jones

Dark Regions Press, LLC

Kat on a Hot Tin Airship

Telos Publishing Ltd

Sixteen tales of terror from the blood-soaked pen of Sam Stone. Enter if you dare and discover nine stories inspired by the nightmare visions of H P Lovecraft: Elder Gods returning to the Earth to wreak havoc, tales of death and destruction and betrayal and the last flickering embers of humanity ... Alongside these are seven further stories featuring the monstrous creations of Stone’s own imagination: a hungry and jealous sea; wolf-creatures prowling the fashion industry; a terrifying creature held captive in a cellar ... Open the cover and let Sam Stone’s nightmares guide your way into horror ... ‘Entertaining and original’ Brian M Sammons ‘Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous’ Graham Masterton

Cthulhu and Other Monsters

Telos Publishing

Terror Tales of North West England

Unsworth, Simon Kurt

Finch, Paul

Gardner, Cate

Bestwick, Simon

Pearce, Edward

Strange, Solomon

Riley, David A.

Campbell, Ramsey

Gallagher,Stephen

Deep in the bowels of Rhuddlan Castle the ancient vampire Lilly waits, reflecting on the bizarre twists of fate that brought her here. Leaving behind her lover and maker Gabriele, Lilly treads a path between instinct and survival: always living in fear of paradox. Through a series of mysterious time portals she samples as many ages as she does victims, railing against the forces of destiny to fight her way back to her own time. From a veritable Garden of Eden, through Viking rape, pillage and massacre, via the Machiavellian salons of sixteenth-century Rome and violent twentieth-century Stockholm nightclubs, she has learned the hard way what being a vampire really means. Can Lilly now reconcile her love of Gabriele with the freedom she has enjoyed to love elsewhere? Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2010. 'Enticing, shocking and delightful ... A fast moving story that's spellbinding, as thrilling as it is intelligent and thought provoking ... Sam Stone writes with stylish panache.' Simon Clark

Demon Dance (The Vampire Gene Series)

Hateful Heart (The Vampire Gene Series)

The fifth book in the thrilling, highly acclaimed Vampire Gene series, mixing horror, dark fantasy and a slice of science fiction, in a definitive new edition from Telos Publishing. Secrets can be found in the most unlikely of places … Lilly thought that her vampire lair under Rhuddlen Castle in North Wales was safe … until the dangerous fixer Darren Preacher tracked it down. Gabriele Caccini thought that he knew all about being a vampire, but his life with newly turned lover Anya is sent out of control by the discovery of a new strain of vampirism, one that leaves its victims as ghoulish revenants, shells of the beings they used to be. And deep in the Nevada desert, Lucy Collins, Gabriele’s maker, is undercover, working with the CIA investigating the vampire revenants and what they might mean for humanity. When Preacher brings Gabriele into the CIA base, Lucy fears her cover may be blown, but there is something far more dangerous than vampires hiding beneath the sands of Nevada … something ancient and vengeful, with an eternal patience and a lust for revenge. Soon, the ancient vampire family will find themselves facing their greatest foe yet, something primal and insidious, and from which they have no protection …

Silent Sand (The Vampire Gene Series)

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