On the verge of her thirteenth birthday, Tess' s life is falling apart. Her mother is dead. Her father is like a zombie. And now her beloved cat, Alice, has started running into the street when cars go by, trying to get run over. The only thing Tess can think of that might help? Running away. As she ventures from home, Tess stumbles upon a crew of manga-loving goth kids hiding out in the local haunted house performing sé ances. There, she discovers that the house' s ghostly entity desperat...

On the verge of her thirteenth birthday, Tess's life is falling apart. Her mother is dead. Her father is like a zombie. And now her beloved cat, Alice, has started running into the street when cars go by, trying to get run over. The only thing Tess can think of that might help? Running away. As she ventures from home, Tess stumbles upon a crew of manga-loving goth kids hiding out in the local haunted house performing séances. There, she discovers that the house's ghostly entity desperately...

The music of the night calls out to you…A sinister force threatens a teenage horror fan, and only a team of B movie monsters can come to his rescue. Fear stalks a group of punks when a scarecrow proves that birds aren’t the only things it can terrorize. And all hell breaks loose when a man discovers that his next-door neighbor possesses the power to reanimate the dead…Celebrate the music of the night with Scare Street’s latest collection of diaboli...

The music of the night calls out to you…A sinister force threatens a teenage horror fan, and only a team of B movie monsters can come to his rescue. Fear stalks a group of punks when a scarecrow proves that birds aren’t the only things it can terrorize. And all hell breaks loose when a man discovers that his next-door neighbor possesses the power to reanimate the dead…Celebrate the music of the night with Scare Street’s latest collection of diabo...

Fans of the Collector books will find a lot to love in TIM REAPER. Hardboiled, hardheaded, and hard as hell to kill, Cummings' exiled death-dealer is a welcome addition to the weird noir fold.Chris Holm, Author of The Collector SeriesHe's not a detective and he doesn't give a crap if your spouse is cheating on you. Human and supernatural beings avoid him like the plague because if you get too close he'll gleefully tell you the time and date of your own demise and that's bef...

This is the e-version of the two novels (X8 and Climb8) combined in one book called Plan8. When the climate crisis threatened the men with money, they needed a new plan. So, humanity reinvented itself inside Earth. Inside the belly of the planet, the government of this new state passed laws to prevent humans from returning to the surface of Earth. Three fugitives – a young couple and a career criminal – have no choice but to break the underground state’s strictest law if they have any hope...

Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection presents the intricate ways in which sperm compete to fertilize eggs and how this has prompted reinterpretations of breeding behavior. This book provides a theoretical framework for the study of sperm competition, which is a central part of sexual selection. It also discusses the roles of females and the relationships between paternal care in sperm competition. The chapters focusing on taxonomic development are diverse and cover all the major animal g...

Sperm Biology represents the first analysis of the evolutionary significance of sperm phenotypes and derived sperm traits and the possible selection pressures responsible for sperm-egg coevolution. An understanding of sperm evolution is fast developing and promises to shed light on many topics from basic reproductive biology to the evolutionary process itself as well as the sperm proteome, the sperm genome and the quantitative genetics of sperm. The Editors have identified 15 topics of cur...