Science. Serial killers. Liberation. Alien planets. Trauma. Zen koans. Amorous vampires. Gay stuff. Tentacle beasts. In these five short stories (with ten full-page illustrations!), you'll find all this and more!Horror is transformational. Overwhelm is the dissolution of the ego within the knowledge that what you are is a fleeting instant in an incomprehensibly vast universe. But will this understanding lead to destruction, or will it grant liberation? Ope...

Science. Serial killers. Liberation. Alien planets. Trauma. Zen koans. Amorous vampires. Gay stuff. Tentacle beasts. In these five short stories (with ten full-page illustrations!), you'll find all this and more!OVERWHELM is a collection of 5 short, illustrated horror stories, the debut release from queer and trans author SIMON SHADOWS! Spanning genres from hard science fiction to creepypasta-inspired horror to alternate-historical fantasy, OVERWHELM asks the quest...

Stefano Ferraro ist verdammt attraktiv, verdammt reich und verdammt mächtig – und er hat ein magisches Geheimnis: Er kann mit den Schatten verschmelzen und Licht und Dunkelheit seinem Willen unterwerfen. Ziemlich praktisch, wenn man der Boss eines der einflussreichsten Familienclans Chicagos ist! Als Stefano eines Tages der ebenso schönen wie temperamentvollen Francesca Capello begegnet, ist ihm sofort klar, dass er diese Frau zu der Seinen machen muss. Francesca jedoch hat ihren eigenen K...

"The wide front door hung open, a seductive invitation to a dark interior veiled by dust motes that glittered in the spectral greenish glow..."The Shadows is a historic 1920s house that inspires preservationists' dreams -- and developers' schemes. Built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrummer who vanished at sea, it was inherited by his son, a local athlete and war hero who lived down his father's wild reputation. He served a successful term as Miami mayor and r...

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploratio...

Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared.But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discover...

Sunny Los Angeles can be a dark place indeed in Cassandra Clare’s Lord of Shadows, the sequel to the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Lady Midnight. Lord of Shadows is a Shadowhunters novel.Emma Carstairs has finally avenged her parents. She thought she’d be at peace. But she is anything but calm. Torn between...

The Dark Between the Stars is space opera on a grand scale. Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness, and the human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy.Praise for THE SAGA OF THE SEVEN SUNS:'Sure-footed, suspenseful and tragic ... an exhilarating experience' Locus'Space opera at ...

Sam hears voices. They bother him and occasionally scare the daylights out of him.He does not want to go the way of his father, whose delusions ended in suicide.But he can't shake the feeling that the voices are real, and they lead him to a beautiful world of telepathic communion that he finds addictive.But this new world has its own, very real dangers, and Sam is soon caught up in deadly serious trouble.

At night, the city belongs to the shadows…Urban decay takes on a whole new meaning, when a hoodlum's violent crime triggers terrifying supernatural forces. Somewhere over the rainbow, one lucky soul discovers that his fortune comes with a dark cost. And a gravedigger discovers that leaving old bones unburied lures a pack of sinister creatures to feed…Scare Street proudly presents twelve bone-chilling tales of terror and suspense. A dozen diabolical...

Dive into a world where an ancient mask holds power over life and death. In "Masked Shadows," retired Saints NFL Coach Joe Bangler and his allies face a malevolent force emanating from the depths of Russian folklore. As they grapple with creeping algae that threatens annihilation, the key to salvation lies in secrets as old as time itself. Are you prepared to witness what lies within the New Orleans warehouse?

The second book in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Shadows trilogy, a riveting science fiction epic. 'Anderson hits it out of the galaxy again' - Booklist, starred review, on Dark Between the StarsAn epic space opera of the titanic conflict of several galactic civilizations against a life-destroying force of shadows, a dark cosmic force that has swept through the undercurrents of the human interstellar empire…The intertwined plot, overflowing with colorful ideas, a lar...