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Special Forces are accustomed to crazy ops, but orbiting a black hole to slow down time and fight Earth’s dirty wars in the future? That’s new, even for them. But that’s the mission for Owen Quarry, Anaya Pretorius, and the rest of COG, a company of elite, disgraced, soldiers from around the globe. They join a defrocked company commander, an AI warship with self-confidence issues, and a crew of misfit troopers on a dizzying time-quest: prove the concept of stationing armies in space-time. If they complete ten missions, they’ll be redeemed as citizens in good standing.

Scare Street is proud to present volumes 13 and 14 of Short Horror Stories in a single edition. Six bone-chilling tales of supernatural horror, each one guaranteed to satisfy your addiction to terror. Just be sure you keep your guard up as you listen to them into the night. They say one good story deserves another. And the spirits within these collections have their own tales to tell.

Joe and his team pushed themselves to their limits to stop a Komran invasion force from getting a foothold in their galaxy. But moments after the victory cheers were let out, they realize that the attack they routed was not the end game. This was only the beginning. Instead of retreating, the Komran launch an assault on Odin, one of the garden planets in the system that was blitzed in the surprise attack. While it started as simple revenge, the alien empire sees an opportunity to strike and sends an armada to reinforce their forces in the system.

After a year-long war bond tour of Terra Earth while his battle wounds healed, Lieutenant Fortis is ready to get back to the ISMC infantry. When fleet medical refuses to clear him for full duty, he faces a bleak future behind a desk in personnel or logistics. Instead, his mentor from Ninth Division, Colonel Anders, recruits Fortis for the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance branch of the ISMC intelligence organization.

Vincent Donnelly’s fractured mind is filled with strange voices: souls trapped inside him, wanting to be set free. And he has no idea who he really is or what led him to his fate. But the key to ending the wrath of chaos itself may lie in a twisted deal with Razul. It's a bargain that could cost Vincent his mortal soul.

An elite Reichswehr unit is crisscrossing India in the spring of 1922 on the hunt for a rumored treasure that would be enough to fund and ultimately reignite the war-starved German army. Join freshly minted Intelligence Officer Richard Halliburton as he staves off assassins at sea, battles ferocious beasts in the jungle, braves the dangerous Khyber Pass, and explores an ancient Indian castle in search of a vast fortune - all while trying to stay one step ahead of the Reichswehr soldiers.

War crimes investigator Joe Johnson is drawn into a search for a dossier of secret documents that disappeared 20 years ago from the president's office in Sarajevo - but which have damaging links to the White House. Johnson finds himself hunting a Bosnian army officer who vanished, along with the dossier, after a series of horrific killings. The search takes him from Dubrovnik to New York City and London.

Fresh out of prison, Jonathan Aguelon wants one big score before he leaves the city for good. The job will be more complicated than any that he's ever attempted, but this time he can steal more than money: He can get revenge—but only if he follows a mysterious benefactor’s plan. With the right team, Jonathan can succeed, but much in the city has changed during his time away, and the Dragon doesn't have the draw he once did. The team of outcasts he assembles needs time to prepare, but time is the one luxury they don’t have.

Infected by the powerful will of the Legend Zagamar, Hunter must stop the ancient being from taking over his body333and his soul. Only the power of the Deep can save him now. But unbeknownst to Hunter, something sinister has escaped the Crypt of Zagamar. For the Guild of Seekers has achieved their final mission: To carry out the resurrection of Zagamar himself! Transformed by his terrible power, a dark horde of vicious, ravenous beasts has risen, leaving devastation in its wake...and threatening the very existence of humanity and Ironclad alike.

With zombie hordes swallowing the earth, mankind had no choice except to launch every nuke on the planet to stop them. Now, 150 years later, we live in over-crowded polluted cities, surrounded by vast radioactive wastelands. And no, we did not get all the zombies. They live among us, sometimes hiding in plain sight. Although the tattoos and piercings help them blend in, and the drugs help to contain their rage, they can never fully control their hunger. It’s endless.

A boy finds an ally against his abusive mother when he discovers a hidden room in their attic. A couple realizes their infant son has been replaced with a bloodthirsty duplicate. And the spirit of a child murderer lures a young girl into a dismal swamp of death. Scare Street is proud to present the best in spine-tingling supernatural horror. This volume contains three deliciously diabolical morsels of fear, perfect for the child in all of us.

A Cold War attack by Soviet helicopters on an Afghan village. A knife-edge CIA operation that goes wrong. And a vengeful mujahideen tribesman, armed with Stinger missiles. When CIA officer Joe Johnson is handed the tough task by his boss of capturing a Soviet helicopter and forging better contacts among the mujahideen, he unknowingly finds himself up against a sinister KGB rival who wants him dead.

We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's clumsy signature. The old distinctions - between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact - have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation.

A dark comedy wrapped in a techno thriller's skin, Mal Goes to War provides a satirical take on war, artificial intelligence, and what it really means to be human.

Demonic shadows, savage beasts, cursed paintings...in the twilight world of your darkest dreams, there are so many sinister delights to sample, it can be hard to choose just one. Luckily, you don’t have to...Scare Street brings you volumes nine and 10 of Short Horror Stories in a single edition. Six macabre masterpieces of fear, brought together for your listening pleasure. And each tale packs enough bone-chilling terror to delight the most devoted horror fan.

Ronan Renzo and his companions are exiled far from their native land, traveling on a desperate mission to unleash the might of dragons. From the stone streets of Saon City to the blasted glacial wastes of the northlands, the assassins must travel across the known world to hatch the dragons. But a deeper secret remains to be revealed. The assassins will find themselves embroiled in the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy that will lead them out of their world and into another.

Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change. Everything else, however, is slightly different.

Isabelle Berger has little interest in men. So when a boorish hunter proposes, the timid girl begs her protective father to decline on her behalf. But after her beloved papa is killed tracking a wolf with her would-be husband, Isabelle flies into a rage and sets off in pursuit of the fiendish creature. Thrown from her horse while hunting the beast, the bookish young woman is quickly drawn to the mysterious stranger who rescues her. But when her rugged savior loses his temper, Isabelle is terrified by the dark secret he’s hiding.

A captured thief holds the key to the kingdom. Having learned the truth about the Dragon Thief and saving Zarinth, an impossible decision will bring Ty away from the only home he’s known. When a dangerous priest demands his help finding something the Dragon Thief failed to find, Ty must finish the job even the Dragon Thief had failed to complete, but must stay ahead of Roson James and the Dragon Touched. The prize will secure the Dragon Thief’s freedom, but there’s even more at stake than Ty can imagine.

The time has come for Ronan Renzo—the assassin—to build his powers. His training in the Night Guild has equipped him to face whatever the world might throw at him, but there is more power to be found outside its walls. A dark miasma has woven its fingers around Ronan’s fate, and destiny dictates that he and his friends must trace that miasma to its source.