With the choice between the nightmare known and the nightmare unknown, it is the pull of the journey that drives Guy onwards, surrounded by a strange demonic family: the giant of aggression, the hideous shrinking man and the silent child. Together they travel from their lonely island home into a land of rain and blood, where the last remnants of humanity desperately hold on to the spark of life against a growing flood of the undead, and where either sanity or truth will finally be unravelled. Heal The Sick, Raise The Dead is the second novel from Jacob Prytherch, author of The Binary Man. Follow Jacob Prytherch at www.jakeprytherch.blogspot.com

Private investigator Aleister Ward is a man burdened with painful memories. The mysterious disappearance of his wife and the struggle to raise his daughter alone have left him with deep psychological scars. When an apparently routine case takes a terrifying turn, Aleister is forced to revisit his past and confront his deepest fears to discover the truth. Is his wife still alive? Will the town of Wyldston survive the Rapture? Can he unravel the mystery before his flesh and sanity succumb to the horrors that pursue him?Cuts of Flesh is a series of six novellas from Jacob Prytherch, author of The Binary Man and Heal The Sick, Raise The Dead.Part 1: ShredPart 2: SarkPart 3: KrakenPart 4: GashadokuroPart 5: EatPart 6: RaptureFor updates visit http://www.facebook.com/jakeprytherch and 'like'.Main website - jakeprytherch.wix.com/main

Everything is possible, somewhere in time and space. All it takes is the right viewpoint. Yannick Meyer's life seems locked in a downward spiral of ill health and worse luck before a knock at the door changes everything. Offworld opportunity beckons, a release from the rampant pollution and social decay of Earth, or so he thinks. He will soon find out that the bright lights of Washington station hide their own shadows. Two engineers stumble upon a signal that holds a promise of inescapable violence. One man sits alone, pleased with his work as he watches the funeral of someone that only he truly knows, losing count of how many have died before. All these stories come together, bound by the power of The Binary Man, the first true magician.

Roman Rasnic, 'fixer' and felon, is in love. This is probably to be expected. Love is his business. What he didn't expect was that it would be with someone other than his wife... Roman - known on the streets as the Black Cat - is the sole dealer and controller of a designer drug known as Cupid, a formula able to emulate and create feelings of true, passionate love. His deals and dosings have made him very rich as well as making him many enemies both within the corporate and the criminal world. The Black Cat is a marked man. When Roman decides to follow his heart and bail out on a lucrative job, he sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to unravel years of work. His only option may be to bury his newfound conscience before someone buries him... The Real Thing is a fast paced pulp cyberpunk novel set in a near future Japan where corporate greed runs amok and life is lived on a knife edge. How far would you go for love?

You could say that Giraffe looked the same as all the other giraffes, but she knew that she was special. What made her special was her secret, a secret that she kept from all the other animals. Ever since she was small, (as small as you can be when you're a giraffe) she had wanted to be a superhero.

The phone call is unexpected, and the dial tone that follows it is as ominous as the knell of a funerary bell. Your brother Kenji is lost, and you have five hours to find him. Every decision takes time, and your time is running out. Decide your fate, and his. Shy is a mature multiple choice story book with a chilling Japanese horror theme. The story was designed for those who remember the books of old, and want a fresh challenge with an adult perspective. There are mysteries to solve, and secrets to uncover. There are no dice rolls. There are no character sheets. There is only the right decision, and the wrong decision. Choose wisely.

While the bright light of daybanishes lesser horrors, it onlymakes love gone wrong stand outall the more. When that love isdriven by the demented, theunnatural and the straight-out evil,the bright light of day might bethe last thing you need. Or see. In Once Bitten, 15 authors show usthat the sweetest of emotions,mixed with a touch of darkness andmore than a hint of the supernatural,can be a bitter, bitter cup fromwhich to drink.

In the middle of the night, in the middle of Africa, in the middle of a tangle of trees, a lion wasn't sleeping. His name was Billy, and he was a little bit afraid of the dark.Billy the Lion will soon learn that being kind is the best thing that you can be, and that if you're kind to the night, it will be kind to you.

A long time ago, in the city of Hot Cross, there lived a little girl named Natty. She didn't have a family, or a house, or much of anything really. She had her clothes, which were old, tatty, and hidden under a blue hood made of sack cloth, sealed with wax to keep the rain out. She also had an extraordinary ability, one that would change the city forever. This is her story.