In New Zealand's Tongariro National Park, ancestral Māori mountain warriors, the legendary Kāhui Tupua, awaken, unleashing their unfathomable rage on army sergeant Taine McKenna.As the ground splits and chaos erupts, McKenna undertakes a desperate evacuation mission, that is until he encounters a busload of equally desperate prison escapees. It’s going to take everything McKenna has to get the civilians out alive. Yet the true horror lies deeper still in this heart...

Join New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and his comrades as they battle legendary creatures and ancient evil in a land where even the terrain conspires against them in this thrilling collection of dark short stories by multiple Bram Stoker Award-winner Lee Murray.“There are monsters; there are lands that should remain untouched; and there are secrets that should not be investigated…” —World Horror Master, Michael R. Collings“...the author’s greatest strengths lie in he...

Taking the train home on Christmas eve, McKenna’s mentor, the Māori prophet Rawiri Temera, is plunged headlong into a ghostly adventure.

While paying his respects to a departed friend, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna receives a ghostly portent that thrusts him into desperate search for a lost treasure.While paying his respects to a departed friend, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna receives a ghostly portent that thrusts him into desperate search for a lost treasure.

We can't all be heroes. Some try and succeed. Others posture and pretend. And a few—just a few—set off on their hero's quest only to discover that failure was within them all along. Compass recounts the adventures of a man who, after traveling the world shilling stories for a major geographic magazine about historic expeditions and explorers, sets out on an adventure of his own—an ill-advised and poorly planned trip to the Arctic floe edge under the disorienting twenty-four-hour summer sun...

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, police, the media and the general public. For many practitioners reducing fear of crime has become almost as important an issue as reducing crime itself. The identification of fear of crime as a serious policy problem has given rise to a massive amount of research activity, political discussion and intellectual debate.Despite th...

Uncanny disturbances, death, and the dank breath of the native bush.Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa is mired in the shifting landscape of the long white cloud, and deeply imbued with the myth, culture and character of Aotearoa-New Zealand.Laced with intrigue, suspense, horror, and even a touch of humour, this anthology brings together stories and poems by some of the best homegrown and Kiwi-at-heart voices working in dark fiction today.Curated by m...

Brought in to secure a lockdown at the Geyserland Hotel, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and his men are plagued by an ancient evil.

Taking some R&R at the site of the historic Lake Tarawera eruption, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and Private Eddie ‘Lefty’ Wright are plunged into a labyrinthine hell beneath the lake’s surface.

While lying low in France, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and his girlfriend, scientist Jules Asher, look set to become the convenient scapegoats of a monstrous small-town cover-up.

In the isolated reaches of New Zealand's remotest national park, home to the mythical Tūrehu ghost people, army sergeant Taine McKenna is the unwitting prey in a hunting expedition gone horribly wrong.Driven by greed and secrecy, ruthless mercenaries and ancient forces converge, transforming the pristine wilderness into a labyrinth of terror. McKenna will need all his wits and more if he and his friends are to have any hope of escape, only their battle for survival...

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of c...