In the scorching chaos of Angola's 1970s war, a South African Special Forces team is deployed by Unit 14, a shadowy CIA offshoot, for a covert reconnaissance mission on enemy troop movements.Hardened by battle, they expect danger—but not the nightmare that awaits. As dusk falls, a monstrous creature emerges, its red-stained teeth glinting in the moonlight, slaughtering enemy soldiers with savage precision before turning its rabid hunger on them.By day, the team claws throug...

In the shadowy depths of the Atlantic, a forgotten Soviet submarine harbours a deadly secret: the last atomic warhead bound for Cuba during the Cold War's feverish brink.When a destitute Russian author unearths his father's diary, chronicling the doomed voyage as captain, he unwittingly ignites a chain of cosmic terror.Enter ambitious CIA agent Hauser, eager to claw his way up the agency's ranks by salvaging the relics hidden payload. He assembles a ragtag crew of saturatio...

South Africa, the early 1970s. The nation is consumed by the paranoia of a border war, forced military drafts, and deep economic unrest. It is the perfect smokescreen. While the public's eyes are fixed on the threats over the horizon, a very different kind of terror is breeding at home. Things that cannot be explained or fought with conventional weapons. Things that hunt in the isolated dark.To combat a rising, undocumented tide of ritualistic slaughter and occult violence, the sta...

Awesome! A memoir of a black man in a cultural journey from childhood to a successful career in the fire service. This “journey” is a powerful story of guts peppered with a dose of determination and is anything but an ordinary. Although wrought with both self-inflicted and societally applied barriers his career spanned 30 years. Thus he became the one of only three District chiefs (in the department’s 100+ year history.) He became the first black Chief of Rescue. He became the first black ...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

This book is the third in a series dedicated to aerospace actuators. It uses the contributions of the first two volumes to conduct case studies on actuation for flight controls, landing gear and engines. The actuation systems are seen in several aspects: signal and power architectures, generation and distribution of hydraulic or mechanical power, control and reliability, and evolution towards more electrical systems.The first three chapters are dedicated to the European commercial ...

This book is the first of a series of volumes that cover the topic of aerospace actuators following a systems-based approach.This first volume provides general information on actuators and their reliability, and focuses on hydraulically supplied actuators. Emphasis is put on hydraulic power actuators as a technology that is used extensively for all aircraft, including newer aircraft.Currently, takeovers by major corporations of smaller companies in this fie...

This book is the second in a series of volumes which cover the topic of aerospace actuators following a systems-based approach.This second volume brings an original, functional and architectural vision to more electric aerospace actuators. The aspects of signal (Signal-by-Wire) and power (Power-by-Wire) are treated from the point of view of needs, their evolution throughout history, and operational solutions that are in service or in development.This volume is based on an ext...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80...

The Second Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK® collects 28 more classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. Included are:SKELETON LAKESMITH: AN EPISODE IN A LODGING-HOUSEA SUSPICIOUS GIFTTHE EMPTY HOUSETHE LISTENERMAY DAY EVECARLTON'S DRIVEIF THE CAP FITS—THE MAN WHO PLAYED UPON THE LEAFOLD CLOTHESTHE ECCENTRICITY OF SIMON PARNACUTETHE GOLDEN FLYTHE TR...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This first volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Cham...