Before the first story, before the first shadow moved across the Void, there was a question.Not how the world began—but whether beginnings are ever truly ours to claim.In this prequel to the Skinwalker Saga, D. James invites readers into a realm where Creation is not a fixed moment but a living, shifting mystery. Through vivid narrative verse, this work explores the ancient struggle between destiny and choice, and the fragile, luminous force we call free will.Here, ...

"Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, the 19 stories in this new best-of annual anthology feature episodes of graphic gore and violence--including torture, dismemberment, self-mutilation, and home abortion--that are designed to push buttons as well as boundaries...strictly for hardcore horror fans." --Publishers WeeklyExcerpt from the Introduction:Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the call out to horror writers and editors of...

I am an old man now; the burden of fourscore years is resting upon me. But the events of a certain April day in the year 783 A.U.C.—full half a century ago—are as fresh in my memory as if they had happened yesterday. At that time I was stationed with my Hundred on garrison duty at the Castle of Antonia, in Jerusalem. I had been ordered to take charge of the execution of a malefactor who had just been sentenced to death. Accordingly, on the morning of the day mentioned, I selected twelve of...

**An epic comedy about the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent America, set amid the gorgeous landscapes of the American west: A “spiritual journey” full of “fun, joy, love, courage and compassion” (**Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers) from the author of the perennial cult bestsellers The River Why and The Brothers K.A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith...

Step beyond the veil and into a world where myth breathes, spirits walk, and every choice reshapes the fabric of existence.In this luminous cycle of narrative verse, D. James continues the Skinwalker Saga, guiding readers deeper into a parallel realm where the boundaries between the seen and unseen dissolve.Here dwell the Skinwalkers—beings forged in sacred paradox, born between worlds, and hunted not for their shifting forms but for the truths their existence refuses to hi...

He's an alien-human hybrid with an attitude. And he's Earth's last line of defense.Canis Borg is part human, part alien, and all attitude. When Alien Special Affairs intercepts information about an extraterrestrial vessel on a crash course with Earth, Canis and his partner Sam Muraty are sent to investigate. Along the way, they uncover a plot to steal the alien technology when it crashes in the desert. They will have to navigate the alien underworld, defeat a secre...

Cross the threshold into a world where myth breathes, spirits shift, and every choice carries the weight of Creation itself.In this cycle of narrative verse, D. James expands the Skinwalker mythos, guiding readers into a parallel realm woven from mystery, reverence, and the quiet tremor of spiritual inquiry.Here dwell the Skinwalkers—beings born between worlds, shaped by sacred paradox, and hunted not for their forms but for the deeper truths their existence refuses to hide...

Throughout history, the ideas of magic, sorcery, and witchcraft have never been as fixed or universal as many assume. Instead, they are fluid concepts—shaped, reshaped, and continually reinterpreted by the societies that use them. This book explores how these terms have evolved across time and culture, arguing that our understanding of magical practices is inseparable from the social environments in which we live. Folklore, religion, politics, and collective memory all play a role in deter...

From the editors of Lost Signals comes the new volume in technological horror. Nineteen authors, both respected and new to the genre, team up to deliver a collection of terrifying, eclectic stories guaranteed to unsettle its readers. In Lost Films, a deranged group of lunatics hold an annual film festival, the lost series finale of The Simpsons corrupts a young boy’s sanity, and a VCR threatens to destroy reality. All of that and much more, with fiction from Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Kel...

The Absurdist’s Field Guide to Everything and Nothing is a book that promises everything, explains nothing, and delivers precisely what it intends: a gloriously useless, wildly entertaining poetic atlas of the absurd. This is not a guide in any conventional sense. It is a compass that spins without direction, pointing toward sock rebellions, spoon elopements, and the sacred ambiguity of lint. It offers a taxonomy of nonsense for the existentially curious, a survival manual for those who su...

This book is a wound that laughs. It is a collection of poems that grin through broken teeth, raise a chipped glass to the apocalypse, and sip a bitter vintage with unnerving delight. Here, satire is not a polite smirk or a knowing wink—it is a scalpel. Sharp. Precise. Unflinching. These verses do not soothe, nor do they seek to. They are not balm, nor the opposite of balm. They are the smoke that lingers after the blaze, the ash that sketches the outline of what once stood, the echo of a ...

The end of the saga begins where all creation stories end—with a choice that could unmake the world or return it to harmony.War and the Return to Eden is the final book in the Skinwalker series, a culmination of myth, conflict, and philosophical inquiry told through luminous narrative verse.In this closing chapter, the parallel world you have journeyed through reaches its breaking point. The Skinwalkers—beings born of sacred tension and hunted for the questions their existe...