**“Fantastic . . . an honest, beautifully detailed book and an entertaining read.”—DIANA GABALDON, THE WASHINGTON POST"A fantastical treat."—PEOPLE“Simultaneously sweeping and intricate . . . Tompkins’s amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride.”*...

Jason is pursued by a mysterious man dressed in black who hands him a slip of paper and leaves without a word. What is written on that paper changes Jason's life forever and plunges him on a journey to another dimension where strange creatures capture and imprison him. Surrounded by surreal monsters chained to the walls, he fights to understand what has happened to him. That understanding is beyond his comprehension and soon the prisoners are collected from the dark dungeon and led to thei...

Austin retires to a comfortable house in South Dakota and finds a previous tenant that never left. A battle ensues, turning the cellar into a bloody horror show. There can be only one victor and the loser will leave in pieces.

Purgatory is the ongoing saga of a man with a passion for fire. One day he was caught in one of his creations and died. He now lives in Purgatory, but it's unlike what he always envisioned. Purgatory is a neighborhood and he's doomed to this supernatural suburbia until he can be prayed out it. In Episode II, Mr. Crispy spends a day at the hospital and then saves a beautiful woman from being eaten by a huge crab.

An apocalyptic flood destroys much of mankind, but they are soon replaced with something much worse.

A soldier endures hell for the chance to return home to his daughter.

Jamie steps into the bright new day and finds his world changed. Eyeless corpses litter the city streets, filling him with dread and many questions. Is he the last living person on earth? What happened to everybody? What happened to their eyes? He eventually finds them, all of them. The end is in sight. This purchase also includes the bonus story, Transmogrification.

This volume discusses the interactions between viruses and their host cells, and explores the roles of host and viral genes and non-coding RNAs in the virus replication cycle. During infection, viruses express a variety of genes, encoding proteins and RNAs that serve to subjugate the cell – by redirecting cellular processes to support viral replication and, at the same time, by mitigating the cellular response to infection. In this book, experts discuss these interactions in depth, and ela...

Ethan Williams came to Beijing looking for a reset.A year abroad. A teaching job. Distance from the life he left behind.It sounded simple enough.But nothing about China is simple.Dropped into the electric chaos of modern Beijing, Ethan finds himself caught between overcrowded classrooms, disastrous nights out with fellow expats, and a culture that constantly pulls him outside his comfort zone. What begins as an escape slowly becomes something far more danger...

**“Fantastic . . . an honest, beautifully detailed book and an entertaining read.”—DIANA GABALDON, THE WASHINGTON POST"A fantastical treat."—PEOPLE“Simultaneously sweeping and intricate . . . Tompkins’s amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride.”*...

It's not a good idea to sleep with your mouth open in the presence of spiders. Undead Literature presents a flash fiction short under 500 words by Mark Tompkins.

Purgatory is the ongoing saga of a man with a passion for fire. One day he was caught in one of his creations and died. He now lives in Purgatory, but it's unlike what he always envisioned. Purgatory is a neighborhood and he's doomed to this supernatural suburbia until he can be prayed out it. Episode I one introduces the man of the hour, Mr. Crispy, and tells the story of how he arrived at Purgatory.