Nicholas Grabowsky's award-winning, widely-praised aliens-among-us horror/science fiction epic, available for the first time packaged and edited the way it was intended to be! The Everborn concerns the offspring of fallen angels that have lived among us since the dawn of man. Throughout the ages, they live life after life in normal society until each one falls in love and fathers his own child. Before that child is born, they undergo a rapid degeneration into a fetal state before they disappear entirely and become reborn into a new life, essentially becoming their own fathers. All of them male, they live out their commonplace lives under the covert protection of Watchmaids, inter-dimensional female beings whose purpose is to ensure no harm comes to them under penalty of banishment into a state of eternal loneliness. When an Everborn is reborn as a set of twins, one a soulless serial killer on a quest to be born again into a sinless life and the other a kind-hearted ghostwriter for a world-famous rock-and-roll horror novelist, a banished Watchmaid claims her role in an ancient prophecy to use the soulless twin as a means to re-enter our world and bring about its destruction.

“A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics.” —Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky Plato’s Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato’s dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato’s work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato’s understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato’s bestiary in both Greek and English. “Plato’s Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Shows readers of Plato that he remains significant to issues currently pursued in Continental thought and especially in relation to Derrida and Heidegger.” —Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver “Will provide fertile ground for future work in this area.” —Jill Gordon, author of Plato’s Erotic World

Swords, Spells, Stats and Slaughter! Mark wakes up in a burning town inside a Full Immersion Virtual Reality RPG called Reign of Blood. He flees from the reiver slavers who are abducting the village’s NPCs, only to have an agonizing encounter with the wrong end of a ranger’s arrow. After trying and failing to log out of this painfully realistic game, Mark decides to take up his sword, embrace his new Warlock character class, and help the ranger rescue her people. The warlock and his hard-nosed ranger companion are soon joined by a macabre healer, an earth-shaking druid and a talking fortress. But as Mark takes the fight to the reivers, he uncovers an even deadlier threat. Dark magic is spreading into Garland from a long dead city, and the reiver leader has found a way to harness some of that corrupted power for himself. Level by level, spell by spell, Mark must become the warlock that Garland needs before it falls to the corrupted ambitions of a rising tyrant. Includes FREE bonus short story! Bloody Minded Follow our sharp-tongued ranger, Dayna of Elmtree, as she and a party of fellow rangers search the Barrens for their missing comrade. You’ll learn how Dayna came by Wayfarer’s diary and why she was the only ranger to make it back to Garland alive.

Once, vampires of the Order of the Blood were revered and respected, but a change in political tides and waves of genocide forced them into hiding. Now, split into two factions with very different means to the end of regaining their freedoms, the brothers of the Order face a resurgence of public fear and hatred. A newly turned vampire, Ian, finds himself torn between sides. Interested only in saving his mortal love, Robin, from the bewitching spell of an older, much more powerful leader of an underground rebellion, Gideon, Ian must choose between protecting Robin, or betraying those of his kind. Though Gideon claims to love her, too, how far will he go to protect the fragile beginnings of his new world order? And with the membership of of their brotherhood divided, who will be powerful enough to stop him?

Selena Rodriguez died. Not for the first time. Now she’s leapt back into something resembling real life after enrolling in a cutting edge clinical research study – one which included installing a radical new artificial heart where her broken one used to reside. “Third times the charm” becomes the mantra of her well-meaning nurses. The Zeus 3000 has given her a second second chance at a normal life after receiving the heart of a young girl – and rejecting it. Finally home – one which Selena inherits after her family is taken from her prematurely – she must navigate closets full of skeletons and a new haunt – since awakening from surgery Selena can hear and see things she has no business hearing or seeing. In this fast-paced Paranormal Sci-Fi mélange, the pharmaceutical giant responsible for her newly found health hides dark secrets, an ancient race and a threat to everything she holds dear.

Jeremiah Black is unwittingly trapped in Hell after heroically saving his family from a serial killer one fateful night during the 1890’s. There he finds himself propositioned by none other than the Devil himself. Resurrected and immortal, he is forced to kill his wife and entire bloodline over the course of the next century in order to appease the Devil. When two Inspectors attempt to halt his killing spree, he murders them, or so he thinks. One of them, Inspector Jackson Granger, through a freak mishap of Black’s blood mixing with his own while wounded finds himself immortal. Looking to end Black’s reign of terror, and bent on getting revenge for his murdered partner, Jackson sets out to find Black, and destroy him even if he has to battle against the power of the Devil himself.

While at his dying wife's bedside, Louis Darque, a recently promoted detective, is confronted by his absentee biological father, a demon named B'lial. The demon offers Louis the chance to save the life of his wife if he 'works' for him on earth. He informs him that because of his mixed blood he has certain demonic traits, such as immortality and the ability to travel to and from Hell. While Louis attempts to solve a series of murders on Earth and battles in Hell, he finds he has a twin brother: Obscure. In an effort to save the world from their father, and so Louis can have peace and Obscure the missing darkness he so craves, the two team up to fight B'lial on his own turf.....and Hell makes it clear that Louis is certainly not welcome there....