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Short Stories
Guilt. The heaviest burden. An old man has for many years borne a weight that runs deeper than survivor's guilt. He is a survivor, of humanity's darkest hour, but wouldn't have lived through it if not for the actions of... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A post-viral planet. Annihilation approaches. Tom Evans and Ceri Lewis occupy a silent new world. Little more than a million people survived the Cleansing. They are spread out, weak, compelled by a force beyond their... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Apocalypse unleashed. Swift and deadly. Merciless. Seven billion people inhabit this planet in blissful ignorance of imminent annihilation. Destruction comes, not from meteors or nuclear holocaust, but from a source no one... See More
You'll wish you'd taken the stairs. In Book 1, Matt and three others step into an unremarkable elevator, intent only on reaching their offices, but all thoughts of work are driven from their minds the moment the door slides... See More
Literature & Fiction
A deadly infatuation. Apocalypse. A haunted hotel. These are what you'll meet if you dare to venture inside. How would you react if you came across someone who claimed he caused the end of humankind? This is the question... See More
An eerie calm. Chaos lurks. A land inhabited by people from distant places and times. A land of meadow and forest, where to leave the trail is to court death. A land where the Scourgers roam. In an apparently selfless act... See More
Face your demons. Save humankind. A future hangs in the balance. Many futures. Only one person has the power to prevent it all unravelling and he can't do it alone. Aided by companions old and new, Jack returns to the... See More
Horror
When war ends, terror begins. A fist fight that reverberates down the years. A family devastated by war. A flight from despair. John Andrews leaves industrial Newcastle for a remote village in post-war Cornwall. A village... See More
Horror
Christmas needn't only be about good cheer... Four festive tales of the supernatural, apocalyptic and blood-sucking variety -- an antidote for anyone who occasionally finds Christmas overly sentimental or commercialised and... See More
Contemporary Fiction
Paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be. Unlucky in love, unlucky in life, Quirke yearns for something more. That indefinable, elusive something. In his role as a prison counsellor, he meets Seff, an enigmatic convict... See More
Literature & Fiction
Three short stories that share a common theme: the search for lost loved ones. In Strange Shores, a schoolteacher hits upon a drastic method of attempting to escape the sadness of his existence in this world. Joy or... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Unnatural calm. A silent storm gathers. Extinction beckons. Survivors from mainland Europe and North America converge on Britain. Weary, confused, all come seeking answers; many come spoiling for a fight. What began with... See More
An ordinary elevator. An ordinary morning. Matt steps into the elevator, wanting only to reach his workspace, and coffee, on the Sixth Floor. Three more people enter and the elevator ascends. Another dreary day in the... See More
Romance
From an unexpected twist on a classic Christmas tale and a soldier returning home from war to a pair of girls waiting for an unlikely Christmas wish to come true and a creepy evening in a museum, fill your briefest moments... See More
Science Fiction
Come celebrate Halloween in ways both spooky and fun in this collection of sixteen short stories spun by talented new voices in science fiction and fantasy. Insecurity Complex, by Jade Kerrion Empty Glass, by P.L... See More
Horror
A collection of three dark novellas that delve into the nature of memory, madness and the afterlife. The Goldfish Syndrome: a mystery takes a sinister turn -- some secrets are best left undiscovered... Moths: when the... See More