Deep beneath the frigid land of Mars they discovered a presence that did not belong. A form that could not be natural. It was excavated and taken away for examination. When it hatched to reveal the entity within, there came death and the perils that followed. So began the race against time and the fatal desires of one man.

Hera, wife of Almighty Zeus, king of the Gods, determines that Heracles must suffer and die, so he is condemned to face the twelve labours she imposes upon him. The challenges are many. Some take him through great danger to strange and distant lands but Heracles is no ordinary man and will face the worst. His own words, lost to us through centuries of confusion and fantasy, can at last be heard.

The lure of Planet X drew them into deep space, far beyond the light and warmth of our sun, to discover what secrets lay concealed beneath the perpetual darkness and frozen desolation of this seemingly long abandoned world.And what embers of deceit stirred within the thoughts of one among those who, on entering the forbidden depths, were to face unforeseen dangers?

Karen and Richard met by chance, strangers in an unfamiliar town. They were used to the good life and each saw fit to take advantage of the other.A weekend of pleasure was their aim as they set off over the Pennines that rainy night. But they took a wrong turning down a confusing, deserted lane. Bogged down in a remote area with no phone signals, they could not call for help.Perhaps there was help to be found when they saw a distant light and to this they were drawn as moth...

From the author of best-selling The Devil In Eden...What is the call of this bizarre world, an alien place so distant from humanity, when none had made the journey to witness first hand its forbidding realms?It is resources; resources of pressing need to a sun-warmed planet hungering to replenish its own plundered assets.Titan reaches out. Titan beckons with a promise of largesse. Titan waits. But will they find this frozen hell, this grim parody of Earth, altogethe...

What might the grey, part tumbled Cyclopean stones of Mycenae, a city said once to be rich in gold, tell us of her past if they could speak? The great wall surrounding the city, standing proud to keep out her enemies some three and a half thousand years ago, today proclaims in silence the depredations of men and of time. Through her famed Lion Gate, above which the rampant beasts of carved stone remain standing, once passed worthies, emissaries and traders from the Peloponnese and much of ...

Jason, a proven warrior, wants to experience more of life so foolishly accepts a wager from Pelias, king of a rival city, committing him to undertake a perilous voyage to obtain the fabled Golden Fleece from the little known land of Colchis far away to the east. Jason is, unknowingly, a pawn in the hands of Hera, wife of almighty Zeus, who intends to use him as a means to destroy Pelias.Jason's father, Chiron, is owed favours by many heroes throughout the land so these men he calls...

The war with Troy was over - let the ordeals begin!Troy lay in burning ruins, her proud king Priam and his court slain. The Greek fleet under Agamemnon, king of great Mycenae, sailed for home burdened with loot, the prize of ten year's hardship and siege before the city walls. A storm struck but its passing found the ships of his ally, Odysseus, king of Ithaca had vanished.Ten years pass and Odysseus' wife Penelope, beset by ruthless suitors intent upon seizing his kingdom,...

The main theme of this entirely original and fascinating collection of ten tales is encounter with the bizarre and unexpected and it is good, old-fashioned spooky. Times and locations vary but always there is lurking somebody, or something, that will alter, confound or terrify, and perhaps worse. When you think you are safe, the enemy, the manifestation, the horror may be around the corner, in the grave or in another world. But it awaits and when it emerges – beware.

Brett has escaped the clamour of life on Earth to fly cargo and personnel for the colonies on Mars. Passing over the vast mountains and canyons of the red planet his imagination is free and open. He hears what others do not.The General arrives from Earth to take overall command of the colonies and increase mining profitability for investors on the home planet. But he has a secret agenda to be funded by those higher profits. He will establish total control on Mars and rule as the he...

Open the door to Hidden Worlds where the light of day is gone and fear arises to stalk the unsuspecting.It can happen any time - in the shopping centre, a country village, a desert land or a holiday - when the invisible portal swings aside in silence and you are unknowingly ushered through.Hidden Worlds explores the sinister and bizarre in two volumes of ten original short stories in different times and different lands.There is no moral point to be made, no social m...

Gilgamesh, youthful king of ancient Uruk, first in all our world and greatest of heroes, is victorious over his bitterest enemy. But this glow of triumph reveals his own failings when in time of peace he proves a tyrannical, pleasure-seeking despot, taking as reward for saving his people any young woman of the town, whilst ignoring the rising anger of his people.When Uruk's resentful citizens pray for salvation, the gods of their land create Enkidu, a man of the wild who, enticed b...