What would happen if the world would stop spinning? If a time machine created unforseen consequences? If you found yourself mutating into an alien and could do nothing about it? Or if you find yourself in Heaven but you realize something is very wrong?Stories of Science and Horror is a collection of Science Fiction, Horror and Philosophy short stories about aliens, mutants, evolution, time travel, ghosts, vampires, serial killers and the meaning of life.

Daniel Woldt is a burn-out loser with nothing to live for and even less to lose. He drowns himself in a world of drugs until, one day, his friend brings over a mysterious new drug called 'Trip.' Daniel takes the drug and has the wildest night of his life.But the Trip doesn't end.Soon the fun visions and entertaining hallucinations swirl into a surreal nightmare of his own making. Fueled by his own feelings of hopelessness, guilt, rage and self-loathing, Daniel becomes trapp...

How will the world end? For these unfortunate souls, the possibilities are limitless: radiation, mutants, and even darkness claim lives in these macabre tales of dying in a dead world.Five Dark Ends is a collection of grisly stories detailing supernatural demise in a dying world.A Last Darkness - how do you escape when all the lights go out and darkness itself develops an appetite for mortal souls?Nuked Times - all the apocalyptic wasteland movies are nonsense, acco...

"The Desecrator" is an original short story from the Draegaran Empire, by bestselling author Stephen Brust. This is a tale of the Hawklord Daymar, and of a particular Morganti blade. Vlad Taltos fans will enjoy new insight into Stephen Brust's fantasy series.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook.Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the hall. But then the experiments begin. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota...

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed Earth, in this Tor.com Original science fiction tale from Jeff VanderMeer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A cop races against time to prevent his own death in this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.Harry Lyon is a rational man, a cop who refuses to let his job harden his soul. His partner urges him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believes in order and reason. Then one fateful day, he's forced to shoot a man—and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes utteres the haunting words that challenge Harry Lyon’s...

Trouble is what I'm good at. I make my living at keeping the world from discovering magic, but tonight my best friend and I are trolling into territory we might not be able to escape from…My name is Lynlee, and I'm a Neutralizer. It's my job to keep magical and undead creatures out of sticky situations. What kind of sticky? The kind where humans find out that we really do exist. The kind that derails the great big train of our happy coexistence.It ...

Someone pulled a Jurassic with my genes.I am the result of an experiment—human spliced with dinosaur—or so I assumed growing up. 
According to my parents, they rescued me from a lab when I was just a roly-poly egg. All my life I’ve hidden what I am because my parents told me I had to, but when they die, my world is blown apart.Which is when I meet Urion.Tall, dark, and arrogant, he invades my dreams and then ignites my world. I’m trying to ...

"Anders has created wonderful variations on the beauty and the beast theme and the damsel-in-distress trope, a greatly tormented hero, and a powerful mix of menace and romance." —BooklistHe thought he was beyond saving. A cop turned undercover gang member turned…whatever he is now.He thought no one would ever see him as anything but a beast.Until he found her. Until she changed everything.U...

What is the Cat's Job?Some say a cat's job is to be decorative. Some say it is to slay vermin. Some say a cat ought to earn his or her keep, and some think cats are mere pets. Some folks are dog people, but we don't need to talk too much about them here.In this chapbook we look at a cat mayor at work, talk about cats as people, and share several fictional pieces dealing with the place of cats and their people in the universe at large.The Cat's Job was one of SRM Pub...

"Trash" An old man and his mute wife find a dead girl at the city dump, but they're in for a big surprise when the body turns out to be not so dead and not so girly."Galaxy Real Estate" Two hungry aliens travel across the universe in a rented spaceship to make a deal for Earth. One is a carnivore; the other is a vegetarian, but who will win possession of the planet?"Life" A poor farmer desperately wants to cheat death, but can anyone really cheat death? The future is not ex...