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Suits - A Story Collection

1 min

In an uncaring universe, the right suit is all you need.

Combat suits can be like second skins. They can be sentient, interactive, or dumb as metal armor. For humans exposed to the vacuum of space, its extremes of both heat and cold, the suit is the only item that saves them from death.

Station 3

1 min
When Shin-Sho has a problem, EETs are the answer.

Zilfaquir is having a bad day. Shin-Sho Corporation dispatched his Emergency Engineering Team (EET) to the remote ice planet Xiao 2 to investigate a communications blackout. The Xiao 2 facility, composed of three subsurface ocean stations, awaits his team below hundreds of meters of ice and kilometers underwater.

Upon arrival, he discovers the Xiao 2 facility has experienced an epidemic leaving most of the station’s personnel either dead or dying. Or transforming. Worse, the stations are in danger of imploding due to sabotage.

Armed with formidable mechanical suits, arrays of tools, weapons, and explosives, an EET is a force to be reckoned with. Whether a mission requires construction, destruction, hostage rescues, or repairing nuclear reactors, EETs always succeed. But what Zilf and his team find below the ice is more than any EET can handle.

From Paul E Cooley, Parsec Award Winning author The Black and The Derelict Saga, Station 3 is a sci-fi/survival/horror thriller in the spirit of the Dead Space™ and Alien™ franchises.

Some mysteries shouldn’t be solved.

Sacculina

1 min
It was an island for lovers…

Bill and Ellen are trying to rekindle their relationship. After accepting an invitation to a private resort, Bill and Ellen find themselves accompanied by wealthy guests on a secluded, lush island. After Ellen and another guest encounter a massive glowing crab, everything changes.

As the days go by, Bill realizes something is wrong with nearly everyone on the island, especially his wife. Feeling alone and outnumbered, he investigates and discovers horrors beyond imagination.

Combining eldritch visceral horror and paranoia set against a tropical backdrop, Paul E Cooley's Sacculina will leave you shivering.

Legends of Garaaga

1 min
An ancient horror emerges in the tales of our past...

Before the written word, a lone warrior hunts an ancient evil. Thousands of years later, a young man travels from the forests of the Indus Valley to the mighty kingdom of Akkad to keep a legend alive. Alexander the Great's scouts fight for their lives when they discover a creature as deadly as it is beautiful. And at the Library of Alexandria, a scribe discovers the truth--the god Garaaga and its children are real.

Legends of Garaaga chronicles the origin of a legend and its passage from the stone age to the peak of the Roman Empire. Legends is a dark, brooding collection of stories that pits humanity against a dark god's progeny.

Kill Shelter

1 min
In the dead of Antarctica’s frozen wastelands, a rescue mission turns into a survival nightmare.

A research team responds to a distress signal from a far-off outpost and discovers a strange infection, a paranoid station chief, and a frightened crew.

One by one, as the crew’s sanity unravels, they start to transform, and the line between man and monster vanishes.

Ghere's Inferno

1 min
In the midst of an historic drought, the real heat has just begun.

When Houston Arson investigator Emy Aninzo discovers a strange symbol at the site of a burned historical landmark, she begins investigating a series of fires that have taken place over decades. As she digs deeper into the case, assisted by her boss and an HPD detective, fires with inexplicable causes begin to assail the city. Each site contains the same mark. Houston has a serial arsonist plaguing the city.

While Emy and her colleagues attempt to track down the criminal, as well as explain the seemingly impossible heat of the fires, they come to the conclusion that the arsonist may be insane, and possibly possessed.

Ghere’s Inferno, part police procedural mystery, part urban fantasy, and all thriller, will keep you turning the next page until the last fire burns.

Daemons of Garaaga

1 min
From the dawn of civilization, they have lived among us. Their violence matched only by their beauty and ferocious sexual hunger. The unholy children of Garaaga—half human, half demon—travel our world struggling to find their place in it.

Watching. Feeding. Killing.

Daemons of Garaaga chronicles three generations of these children as they stake their claim on humankind in our ancient past. Filled with eroticism and historic detail, Daemons will make you question what it means to be human.

Closet Treats

1 min
Trey Leger has spent a lifetime of battling mental illness and the imaginary demons from his childhood. Even now, years later and with a growing family, he still can’t walk past an open, darkened closet without seeing...it. The shadowy silhouette. The burning emerald eyes. The Closet Man.

Now, there's a new ice cream truck roaming the neighborhood and Trey believes its driver is a monster. While the neighborhood children see a friendly man serving the treats, Trey sees a frightful demon behind the wheel. With burning yellow eyes. The Ice Cream Man.

But is this real, or just another symptom of his ever-present struggles with balancing his medications? While battling his growing uncertainty of reality, Trey investigates to determine if the creature is merely a symptom of his mental illness...or something far more terrifying.

Nominated for the 2011 Parsec Award Best Novel, Closet Treats is filled with harrowing imagery and monstrous dread.

Children Of Garaaga

1 min

From prehistoric time to the present, one blood line has endured. Garaaga’s children range from the Indus Valley to Mesopotamia to Jerusalem and beyond, influencing ancient civilizations, mighty crusades, and everyday lives.

The stories of the god Garaaga, his half-human progeny, and their supplicants have been passed down through the generations. Leaving a frightful, lustful, body-strewn trail through the ages, Garaaga’s children and worshipers have survived to spread their religion around the world.