A Life of Death: Episodes 9 - 12 (17 page)

About the Author

Creative writing has always been a passion for Weston Kincade. He’s helped invest in future writers for years while teaching high school English. In his spare time he writes poetry, short stories, and is working on the sequel to his debut novel, Invisible Dawn: Book One of Altered Realities and edits novels for authors and publishers at
Wake Editing
. As the wordsmithing process continues, Weston enjoys finding great ideas in the oddities of mundane life and loves stretching the boundaries of human understanding.

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Duncan McGeary -
Led to the Slaughter

Trapped in the Sierra Nevada without food, The Donner Party are led to the slaughter. After being manipulated into a string of bad decisions, the travelers, frozen and abandoned, are preyed upon by werewolves in their midst––the very people they thought were friends.

TS Alan -
The Romero Strain

A group of New Yorkers are chased underground by a zombie horde. They gather survivors while traveling to Grand Central Terminal, where they believe help will be found. Their hopes end when they discover the area overrun with the undead, and come face to face with an adversary born from a lab deep below the city.

John F.D. Taff –
Kill/Off

When David Benning is blackmailed he’s thrust into a world of guns, payoffs and killing ordinary people. As he becomes more enmeshed, he begins to grasp the true motives, and secrets––secrets that must never be revealed. David can trust no one… not even the one person he has grown to love.

J.C. Michael -
Discoredia

As the year draws to a close a mysterious stranger makes a proposition to club owner: a deal involving a drug called Pandemonium. The good news: the drug is free. The bad news: it comes at a heavy price, promising much but delivering far more. Euphoria and ecstasy. Death and depravity. All come together, at Discoredia.

James Roy Daley –
Authors & Publishers Must Die!

From the mouth of author/publisher James Roy Daley comes Authors and Publishers Must Die! No punches are pulled in this non-fiction title, which is filled to the rim with straightforward, practical advice for writers, while exploring what it’s like to be on the other side of the desk. A must read for every author.

Weston Kincade –
A Life of Death 1 - 4

Homicide detective Alex Drummond is confronted with the past through his son’s innocent question. Alex’s tale of his troubled senior year unfolds revealing loss, drunken abuse, and mysterious visions of murder and demonic children.

Weston Kincade –
A Life of Death 5 - 8

Alcohol claims another life close to home. Alex and Paige set out to discover the truth, but who would believe a troubled teenager who claims to have visions?

Weston Kincade –
A Life of Death 9 - 12

Struggling to hold onto his suspicions of Irene Harris, Alex heads to the DC Metropolitan Police Department. There, his suspicions are finally put to rest, and Alex is forced to start his search again.

Julie Hutchings -
Running Home

Death hovers around Ellie Morgan like the friend nobody wants. She doesn’t be-long in snow-swept New Hampshire, at a black tie party––but that’s where she is, and where he is: Nicholas French, the man who mystifies her with a feeling of home she’s been missing and the impossible knowledge of her troubled soul.

John F.D. Taff –
The Bell Witch

A historical horror novel/ghost story based on what is perhaps the most well documented poltergeist case to occur in the United States. The Bell Witch is, at once, a historical novel, a ghost story, a horror story and a love story all rolled into one.

Justin Robinson -
Everyman

Ian Covey is a doppelganger. A mimic. A shapeshifter. He can replace anyone he wants by becoming a perfect copy; taking the victim’s face, his home, his family. His life. No longer a man, but a hungry void, Ian Covey is a monster. Virtue has a veil, a mask, and evil has a thousand faces.

Mark Matthews -
On the Lips of Children

Meet Macon. Tattoo artist. Athlete. Family man. He's planning to run a marathon, but the event becomes something terrible. Macon falls prey to a bizarre man and his wife who dwell in an underground drug-smuggling tunnel. They raise their twin children in a way Macon couldn't imagine: skinning victims for food and money. And Macon, and his family, are next.

Bracken MacLeod -
Mountain Home

Lyn works at an isolated roadside diner. When a retired combat veteran stages an assault there her world is turned upside down. Surviving the sniper’s bullets is only the beginning of Lyn's nightmare. Navigating hostilities, she establishes herself as the disputed leader of a diverse group that are at odds with the situation. Will she - or anyone else - survive the attack?

Gary Brandner -
The Howling

Karyn and her husband Roy had come to the peaceful California village of Drago to escape the savagery of the city. On the surface Drago appeared to be like most small rural towns. But it was not. The village had a most unsavory history. Unexplained disappearances, sudden deaths. People just vanished, never to be found…

Gary Brandner -
The Howling II

For Karyn it was the howling. The howling that had heralded the nightmare in Drago… the nightmare that had joined her husband Roy to the she-wolf Marcia and should have ended forever with the fire. But it hadn’t. Roy and Marcia were still alive, and deadly… and thirsty for the most horrifying vengeance imaginable…

Gary Brandner -
The Howling III

They are man. And they are beast. Once again they stalk the night, eyes aflame, teeth flashing in vengeance. Malcolm is the young one. He must choose between the familiar way of the human and the seductive howling of the wolf. Those who share his blood want to make him one of them. Those who fear him want him dead.

James Roy Daley -
Into Hell

Stephenie Page and her daughter Carrie are driving down an empty highway. They pull off the road at a gas station that has a restaurant attached to it. Carrie enters the restaurant in need of a bathroom. When Stephenie steps inside the building she discovers that the restaurant has become a slaughterhouse. There are dead bodies everywhere, The worse part is: Carrie is suddenly missing.

James Roy Daley -
Terror Town

Hardcore horror at its best: Killer on the warpath. Monsters on the street. Vampires in the night. Zombies on the hunt. Welcome to Terror Town. The place where no one is safe. Nothing is sacred. All will die. All will suffer.

James Roy Daley -
The Dead Parade

Within the hour James will witness the suicide of his closest friend, be responsible for countless murders, and become a fugitive from the police. In the shadow of his mind, a demon lurks. Bloodlust is a virus-it’s infecting his logic. James has become a pawn in a game he does not understand, and only one thing is clear: Survival is not an option.

Tonia Brown -
Badass Zombie Road Trip

Jonah has seven days to find his best friend’s soul, or lose his own, dragging a zombie across the country with a stripper who has an agenda of her own, while being pursued for a crime he didn’t commit… and dealing with Satan. 2,000 miles. Seven days. Two souls. One zombie. Satan.

Matt Hults -
Husk

Mallory Wiess is a typical teenage girl… or so it seems. When she moves to rural Minnesota she discovers her new home won’t be as boring as she’d feared. Who is the dark figure watching her from across the street? What is the shape hanging in the shadows of the old barn? And why has someone begun digging up graves at the ancient cemetery? In the end, one night will decide if the dead will rise.

Tim Lebbon -
Berserk

The army had said it was a training accident. But why had the coffin they sent home been sealed? On a dark night, in a deserted field, Tom begins to unearth the mass grave where he hopes - and fears - that he will find his son’s remains. Instead, he finds madness: corpses in chains and dead bodies that still move. And one little girl, dead and rotting, who promises to help Tom find what he’s looking for…

Best New Zombie Tales -
Volume One

Includes Amazing Fiction by: WHC Grand Master Award Winner, Ray Garton / New York Times Best Seller, Jonathan Maberry / Bram Stoker Award Winner, Kealan Patrick Burke / Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Jeff Strand / Micro Award Finalist, Robert Swartwood / British Fantasy Awards Nominee, Gary McMahon / Bram Stoker Award Winner, Kim Paffenroth… and so much more.

Best New Zombie Tales -
Volume Two

Includes Amazing Fiction by: Bram Stoker Award Winner, David Niall Wilson / British Fantasy Award Nominee, Rio Youers / Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Nate Kenyon / Authorlink New Author Award Winner, Tim Waggoner / George Turner Prize Nominee, Narrelle M. Harris / Bram Stoker Award Winner, John Everson / Pulitzer Prize, Bram Stoker Nominee, Mort Castle… and so much more.

Best New Zombie Tales -
Volume Three

Includes Amazing Fiction by: Anthony Award Winner, Simon Wood / Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Joe McKinney / New York Times Bestselling Author, Tim Lebbon / Arthur Ellis Award Winner, Nancy Kilpatrick / British Fantasy Award Nominee, Paul Kane / Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Jeremy C. Shipp… and so much more.

Best New Werewolf Tales -
Volume One

Includes Amazing Fiction by: New York Times Bestseller, Jonathan Maberry / Bram Stoker Award Winner, John Everson / Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Michael Laimo / Aurora Award Nominee, Douglas Smith / Bram Stoker Award Winner, David Niall Wilson / Bram Stoker Award Winner, Nina Kiriki Hoffman / Golden Bridge Award Winner, David Wesley Hill… and so much more.

Best New Vampire Tales -
Volume One

Includes amazing fiction by: Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Michael Laimo / Bram Stoker Award Winner, David Niall Wilson / Authorlink Winner, Tim Waggoner / Bram Stoker Award Winner, John Everson / International Horror Guild Nominee, Don Webb / British Fantasy Award, Science Fiction Award Nominee, Jay Caselberg / Arthur Ellis Award Winner, Nancy Kilpatrick… and so much more.

James Roy Daley -
Zombie Kong

Zombies are bad, but ZOMBIE KONG is worse. Way worse. Big. Bad. Heavy. Hungry. While a 50-foot tall zombie gorilla smashes a small town, Candice Wanglund drags her son through the hazardous streets in an attempt to get away from the man that is determined to kill them.  

John F.D. Taff -
Little Deaths

Named the #1 Horror Collection of 2012 by Horror Talk / Named top 5 books of 2012 by AndyErupts

You think you’ve got bad dreams? Consider author John F.D. Taff’s nightmares. Taff has the kind of nightmares no one really wants. But it’s nightmares like these that give him plenty of ideas to explore; ideas that he’s turned into the short stories he shares in his new collection.

John L. French -
Paradise Denied

This is one of the best collections you will ever read. There isn’t a single story in this collection that feels like filler. Vampires, zombies, tough cops, faeries, heroes, or super-scientists, John French has got a tale for you and it’s amazing. Again and again, readers agree: this is the book you won’t be able to put down. A must read.

James Roy Daley -
13 Drops Of Blood

13 tales of horror, suspense, and imagination. Enter the gore-soaked exhibit, the train of terror, the graveyard of the haunted. Meet the scientist of the monsters, the woman with the thing living inside her, the living dead... James Roy Daley unleashes quality horror stories with a flair for the hardcore. Not for the squeamish.

Zombie Kong -
Anthology

This is the most original zombie anthology of all time. In the jungles, in the arctic, in the cities, in the towns––Zombie Kong rules them all. All other zombies must bow to their god… ZOMBIE KONG!

Paul Kane -
Pain Cages

Reminiscent of Stephen King’s classic, bestselling book Different Seasons, Paul Kane gives us an unforgettable collection of four novella-size stories. Each story is refreshingly original and delivers an emotional impact that is rarely seen in today’s literature. Dark and moody, clever and well-written… Pain Cages speculative fiction at its best.

Matt Hults -
Anything Can Be Dangerous

Anything Can be Dangerous contains four amazing stories:

Anything can be Dangerous ~ the simple things in life can kill.