Astragoth is risen. From the dark night of the centuries he has returned. He will have his rightful bride or he will utterly destroy the Earth. He is the HELLBORN!

When a business tycoon stumbles upon the find of a lifetime, he aims to capitalize on it. An attraction on a remote island to entertain the masses seems to be right up his alley. Things are not as perfect as they seem though. Betrayal, and a bloodbath will ensue as prehistoric creatures lost to time go on a rampage.

Chicago, 1923. Jimmy Maloney, a dock labourer, is forced to join an organised crime syndicate to provide for his family. In the shadow of Prohibition, The Syndicate traffics a mysterious narcotic—deadlier and easier to smuggle than bootleg whiskey. As Jimmy climbs the ladder of organised crime and corrupt Chicago politics, he slowly uncovers a chilling truth: The Syndicate is run by an ancient evil and its criminal enterprise is a front for much worse.

For seven generations, a member of the Gates family has been digging the same hole, drawn to the task by a force none of them can explain. What waits at the bottom of that hole could end the world. Loretta is the latest in the Gates bloodline, and having no children, she will be the last. Rusty Clemmons is home for his twentieth high school reunion. He is rethinking life and trying not to dwell on the past. He notices changes in his hometown of Smithville... strange behaviors, the odd smell. Everything points back to the hole Loretta Gates is digging.

Nineteen-year-old Megan Howatt lives in a house on the edge of a crumbling sea cliff, waiting for her life to fall into the North Sea. Her mother is dead, and her father has lost his mind, obsessively hoarding the junk that he salvages from the shoreline. Her only friends are Lou, the eccentric owner of a beach-side cafe, and Kelpy, the large black dog that she rescued from the sea as a puppy. Desperate to escape, but unwilling to abandon her father, she scratches a living working at the Dry Dog Inn in the nearby village of Salwick.