The Whumpy Printing Press presents: High Stakes and Bloody BusinessFrom bloodthirsty monsters to misunderstood victims, this anthology brings together thirty vampire stories. The vampires in these stories are sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always hungry.So sink your teeth into this collection to satisfy your (fictional) bloodlust.Included authors: Kailey Alessi, Ennis Rook Bashe, Max Browne, Mill Cohen, Alfie Court, Megan Renee Doyle, Booker G. ...

The Family GhostBy: Max BrownThe troubled Darwin family moves to a small New Hampshire town to start their lives over and leave their past behind. They soon discover their beautiful new home is not as empty as it appears. They find they have a ghostly occupant of a teenage boy named Michael Daniels, whose own past mistakes led to his own troubled end. Through his sage advice, words of wisdom, and understanding on the importance of family, the Darwins slowly begin to recover...

**Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey First Novel Dagger** An Australian bestseller!Geopolitics and espionage collide in this explosive espionage thriller.'Hands down the best debut of the year' Tim Shipman'My favourite debut novel of 2025’ Antonia SeniorTHREE WORDS IN MANDARIN.THAT’S ALL IT TAKES TO END THE WORLD.Planes circle, unable to land. The phone lines are down. The power is out....

This compilation features a wonderful selection of travel stories from public radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Hilarity, suspense and high drama are offered up in this new mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic. Take a trip in a time machine with Madame Bovary, join a father and son on a sailing voyage that...

Don't we all need nice, steamy and sexy short stories that can be read or listen in bed, right before sleeping to finish our day with a little bit of privacy and fun?Here is the best erotic book, seriously hot and provocative erotic short stories by Max Worton, written in his signature style of high passion and emotion. Step into the pages of several short stories that are sure to whet your appetiteand stir your imagination...

In Max Barry's twisted, hilarious and terrifying vision of the near future, the world is run by giant corporations and employees take the last names of the companies they work for. It's a globalised, ultra-capitalist free market paradise!Hack Nike is a lowly merchandising officer who's not very good at negotiating his salary. So when John Nike and John Nike, executives from the promised land of Marketing, offer him a contract, he signs without reading it. Unfortunately, Hack's new ...

Dive into the beguiling world of "560 British Mysteries: Detective Novels, True Crime Stories & Whodunit Mysteries (Illustrated)," a curated anthology that transports readers into the heart of Britain's golden age of mystery writing. This comprehensive collection showcases an impressive array of narrative styles, from intricate whodunits and taut detective stories to recountings of real-life crimes. The anthology spans the breadth of British literary ingenuity and captures the nuanced spir...

Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most ...

One of America’s leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading—and confounding—political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism’s devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility.How has politics become a playpen for vain demagogues? Why has the university become an ideological war zone? What has happened to Truth? Wendy Brown places nihilism at the center of these p...

In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new . . . and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture.But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse. . . .Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to wh...

The #1 bestselling pioneer of "fratire" and a leading evolutionary psychologist team up to create the dating book for guys.Whether they conducted their research in life or in the lab, experts Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller have spent the last 20+ years learning what women really want from their men, why they want it, and how men can deliver those qualities.The short answer: become the best version of yourself possible, then show it off. It sounds simple...

This is the After the End collection, Volumes 5 through 8.BROOD by Claire KentFor years, I’ve been waiting to turn twenty-one so I can marry, start breeding, and contribute to life in our bunker, but just before my spousal ceremony, the council makes a change. Instead of marrying the boy who’s always been my best friend, I’m expected to marry Will instead. Will is a stranger—gruff, intimidating, and fifteen years older than me. I’ll do my duty no matter wha...