Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor''s ideas of "decentralization" have left it without normal connections to state or federal government and minimal public services. Russ meets an interesting young woman, Pendra, but before he can get to know much about Freedom or its people, a savage tsunami strikes the West Coast. The wave of human brutality that soon hits the isolated town proves more dangerous to the survivors than the natural disaster. Russ, his father, Pendra, and the other townsfolk must tap all their courage and ingenuity-and find strength they never knew they had-if they have any hope of living to find real freedom!

Everything is Broken

Après avoir miraculeusement survécu au crash de son avion, un homme découvre une cité sous-marine : Rapture !Cette utopie a été créé par Jack Ryan, un homme qui souhaitait donner corps aux théories rationalistes d’Ayn Rand (« l’objectivisme » dont le concept central est l’ « égoïsme rationnel »). Quelques années plus tard, les luttes de pouvoir et l’avidité ont gangrené la cité a un point tel qu’elle est devenu le théâtre d’une guerre civile permanente.La seule question qui subsiste est de savoir qui mérite réellement de survivre à ce chaos créé par une science devenue omnipotente et incontrôlable.

BioShock - Rapture

City n'était plus qu'un tas informe de chair et de tissu suintant au milieu du trottoir. Cole inquiet leva les yeux sur San Francisco. La ville allait trembler sur ses bases puis s'effondrer d'une seule masse. Mais elle était toujours là, arrogante et immuable. La flaque de sang pourpre étirait ses grands doigts humides en direction du caniveau. Les deux berlines qui avaient frappé City allaient tourner le coin de la rue. Pourtant Cole savait, à suivre le flot inexorable du sang de City sur le trottoir, que les miliciens ne s'en sortiraient pas.

La balade de City

Scoprite un capitolo inedito nella mitologia di Halo, il romanzo di John Shirley ci riporta alla nascita del Covenant e al primo, fatidico incontro tra i Profeti e gli Elite. Broken Circle racconta di un gruppo di Elite che si ribellano contro i Covenant all'alba del loro potere, di un coraggioso Profeta incastrato dalle macchinazioni dei nuovi capi Covenant e delle origini del tradimento che distruggerà i Covenant nel famosissimo videogioco Halo 2 per Xbox. Secoli prima che la guerra tra umani e Covenant infuriasse nella galassia, era esploso un conflitto molto simile tra i Profeti e gli Elite, due razze aliene che avevano cercato di impadronirsi dei sacri manufatti lasciati dai Precursori molti eoni prima. Benché alla fine si formò un'alleanza chiamata Covenant, nelle due fazioni non tutti avevano accettato di buon occhio quell'accordo. Dal gruppo di Elite deciso a ribellarsi contro il Covenant all'epoca della sua fondazione. passando per un coraggioso Profeta invischiato nelle macchinazioni dei nuovi capi. e le radici del tradimento che, anni dopo, avrebbero distrutto il Covenant, questo romanzo racconta la storia mai narrata di imprevedibili eroi che emersero in un mondo fatto di inganni scioccanti e incredibili meraviglie.

Halo Broken Circle

For the first time ever, Red Room Press brings you their infamous THINGS anthologies in one terrifying trio, featuring authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Graham Masterton, Tim Curran, John Shirley, Simon Wood, Fred Venturini and many more. Three anthologies in one, with 700 pages and 42 stories, including the newest book in the series, STIFF THINGS!VILE THINGS: EXTREME DEVIATIONS OF HORROR -- the ultimate collection of extreme horror from award-winning masters and up-and-coming authors of macabre fiction. SICK THINGS: EXTREME CREATURE HORROR -- a disturbing collection of extreme creature horror with 17 deviant and gore-soaked stories featuring demons, cannibals, mutants, golems, werewolves, and many more vile creatures, monsters, and beasts. STIFF THINGS: THE SPLATTERP0RN ANTHOLOGY-- ratchets up the er0ticism and visceral intensity with twisted hardcore stories that penetrate new depths of psychosexual horror. Not for the squeamish or prudish. Don't get any on you. EDITORIAL REVIEWS"This book is a definite for any extreme horror fan. Full of terror, sex, and gore, I don't recommend this for the faint of heart or for a light read at a beauty salon." --FANGORIA (on Vile Things)"But dismembered members aside, there are no cheap gross-outs here; even though the focus is clearly on the vile and unpalatable these don't feel like stories that were written with the sole purpose of being labeled 'extreme horror' or to merely revel in their graphic, gory descriptions. Simply put, VILE THINGS is every deviant horror fan's wet dream." --RUE MORGUE"VILE THINGS is one of the stronger horror anthologies I have come across in some time, its theme literally appears to be centered around creatures, topics, or situations that are so vile it would send a shiver down your spine. It includes stories from both established and newer horror authors, and some of the stories are more extreme than the usual fare."--MONSTER LIBRARIAN"Cover every orifice. Comet Press' new collection is making a beeline for the soft contents of your body--and it doesn't care one bit where it makes its grand entrance, orbital sockets or otherwise. Rest assured this violation will be painful, given the tight confinements of our fallible frames of flesh-but anything less than a full-on ass-rape would probably seem insufficient in the eyes of editrix Cheryl Mullenax.Mullenax has assembled a rogue's gallery of intelligent grotesqueries that will temper one's appetite hours after closing the book." --FANGORIA (on Sick Things)"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this Anthology. Like I said in the beginning, no story fell short for me. Everyone brought an er0tic taste that stimulated every sense of my being. I highly recommend this book who love some deranged er0tic horror." -- SPLATTER CAFE (on Stiff Things)

Stiff, Sick and Vile Things Box Set - Three Complete Anthologies in the THINGS Series

Mick Wolfe est un ancien militaire qui a failli laisser sa vie et sa réputation en Irak, où il a été témoin par l'intermédiaire d'un drone d'un vol spectaculaire de billets de banque par un petit groupe d'officiers sans scrupules. De retour à la vie civile, il cherche à blanchir son nom mais se retrouve confronté à la Blume Corporation, l'entreprise tentaculaire qui a mis au point le ctOS, l'infrastructure de caméras de surveillance de la ville de Chicago. Une vieille connaissance, Aiden Pearce, le légendaire hacker qui a mis au pas une bonne partie des gangsters de la ville, lui prête main-forte. Armé d'une partie de ses capacités de hacking, Mick va, seul contre une entreprise puissante et sans scrupules, tenter de rétablir son honneur sans y laisser la vie dans les bas-fonds inquiétants d'un Chicago où les autorités espionnent tout le monde. Une course contre la montre en forme de chasse à l'homme commence ! Dans Watch Dogs : Dark Clouds, retrouvez l'univers sombre et hyper-connecté de la nouvelle licence-phare d'Ubisoft, Watch Dogs ! Action, cybercriminalité et hautes technologies : suivez pas à pas dans sa descente dans les entrailles de Chicago un hacker solitaire confronté à un défi mortel.

Watch Dogs: Dark Clouds

Weird fiction is an incredibly rich and varied genre, running the gamut from supernatural horror to imaginary-world fantasy to psychological terror. This anthology seeks to exhibit the wide range of themes, motifs, and imagery that weird fiction allows, as embodied in the work of some of the leading contemporary writers in the field. The ghost or revenant is a venerable motif, and stories by John Shirley, Lynda E. Rucker, and Reggie Oliver ring fascinating changes on it. Allied to the ghost is the haunted house, and stories by Gemma Files and Jason V Brock present highly ingenious variants on the idea. The resurrection of the dead is treated in strikingly different ways by Clint Smith, Jonathan Thomas, Michael Aronovitz, and W. H. Pugmire. Weird fiction has always exploited topographically remote areas of the world as a potent setting for horror. Here, tales by Cody Goodfellow, Lynne Jamneck, and Stephen Woodworth take us to unfamiliar realms where the weird can manifest itself. From a very different perspective, Richard Gavin and Darrell Schweitzer infuse their tales with elements of fantasy that allow for the maximum play of the imagination. Science fiction has always been allied to the weird, and in this volume Nancy Kilpatrick and George Edwards Murray take us to a post-apocalyptic environment where the preservation of our very humanity is brought into question. Psychological horror, as represented here by the work of Steve Rasnic Tem and Michael Washburn, focuses on the dread that stems from mental aberration. The eighteen stories making up Apostles of the Weird demonstrate that weird fiction is a multifaceted genre whose emphasis on fear does not preclude pathos, poignancy, and a brooding rumination on our place in this fragile world.

Everything is Broken

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