Bøger udgivet af Storm King Productions

In this sci-fi horror, an experiment in faster than light travel goes terribly wrong. Unintended side effects will drop pilot David Peeler into a living nightmare when alternate versions of himself start appearing, each one more deranged than the last. Putting both himself, and his family in danger, David will navigate the farthest reaches of the cosmos, and the abyss of the human mind. Little by little, he will lose himself to the growing insanity of confronting the darkest parts of himself made flesh. All of it culminating in an explosive ending that will almost certainly be Peeler's doom!

The locals call it 'the Coffin Road', a lonely highway winding through the backwoods of Maine, said to be the haunt of all who have died there. Not the best place for your car to break down! ALEX is the dazed survivor of an auto-wreck, assisted by OWEN, a young African-American recovery driver with his own reasons to fear these eerie backroads. But with a storm closing in, floodwaters have blocked the road back to town, forcing Alex and Owen to take the long, treacherous route back through the Coffin Road. They are pursued by a malevolent specter with a crooked neck. Who is he? And why does he want to own Alex body and soul? What other secrets lay hidden in these woods? Alex and Owen must journey through this shadow world and unravel its many mysteries before the Coffin Road buries them forever!

Series created by John Carpenter and Sandy King.

"Vortex 2.0 is the seventh story in the monthly anthology series John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction"--Back cover.

Time: A future where ships can fold space and much of humanity has abandoned its depleted world. Two forces-- Government and Corporation‿ vie for control of what‿s left of the Earth, of known space, and of the universe beyond. Hyperbreed tm: Gene-spliced human-animal hybrid assets with no legal status, living, breathing slaves created and programmed to do their Corporate masters bidding. Government, in trying to limit Corporate power, has recently insisted “splicesâ€? be paid wages and has begun to debate a bill that would allow the Hyperbreed assets to buy their freedom. Corporate will do anything to stop it. Maks: A race of alien robot pirates that exists on the edge of explored space--terrifying monsters who wear the body parts of vanquished flesh-and-blood enemies as trophies. An attack on Earth is next on their agenda. Caught in the middle: Byrr, Fext and Cammo, three Hyperbreed assets who‿ve run afoul of their Corporate masters. Thrown together on an ancient freighter, their mission is to transport valuable Explosive Ore to a distant mining colony. But their mission is far from what it seems and the battle for their futures and the future of Known Space is about to begin. In the vastness of space, small betrayals can have major consequences, playing the odds can change the course of history, and Luck isn‿t always what it seems.

The crew of a cargo ship that transports the dead for burial on a designated Graveyard Moon find themselves overwhelmed by unspeakable horror… surrounded by the ghosts of the dead they carry. In the not so far future, Earth no longer has space for graveyards. Callisto, a rocky moon of Jupiter, has become designated as the graveyard planet, but only the wealthy can afford a proper burial there. Cooper and his longtime crew prepare to transport a load of the dead, having flown this route many times over. But their routine trip to the graveyard moon is disrupted by deception and greed… and they find themselves under siege by the ghosts of the dead they carry.

After the death of her mother, a young girl moves away to the country with her father. Angry and grief-stricken, Monica Bleue must find a new life away from her friends, her school and everything that was familiar to her. Though she’s not speaking to her dad, she begins to find her way out of her heartache from the country serenity around them. But while out wandering the forests near their home, she comes face to face with a hidden horror that changes their lives forever. Monica and her father search for answers to her newly transformed state, and together they bond as she learns to harness the monstrous powers she now possesses. But there’s a sinister evil lying low in their small country town… and the number of missing children is climbing. Monica may be the only one with the power to uncover the secret, but as she begins to unravel the mystery, finding a savage killer only puts her and her father deeper in danger.

As the Cold War widened in the 1950s, military hero George Kutter and his family trained to be legacy survivors in the event of an atomic exchange with the Soviet Union. Prepared to wait out the aftermath of nuclear war, they were subjected to myriad simulations, scenarios and stresses in hopes of helping salvage something of their family, their country and humanity from the ashes of a conflict with the Russians that never happened. But when a group of hunting buddies stumble upon an old fallout shelter buried in the present-day Pennsylvania wilderness and end up locked inside, they quickly learn that “truthâ€? is just a matter of conditioning, while a crash course in paranoia, propaganda and control awaits. What was the nature of the secret Archonite initiative? What lengths did the United States go to in order to prepare for all-out war and its aftermath? What did the Kutter Family endure in perpetration for their duty? And if World War III never broke out‿ why are they still down there?