Alexander Gordon Smith

When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.

Lockdown

The Fury is Book 1 in Alexander Gordon Smith's nightmarish Fury series.Imagine if one day, without warning, the entire human race turns against you.Every single person you meet becomes a bloodthirsty, mindless savage, hell-bent on killing you - and only you.Friends, family, even your mum and dad, will turn on you. They will murder you.And when they have, they will go back to their lives as if nothing has happened.The world has the Fury.It will not rest until you are dead.Cal, Brick and Daisy are three ordinary teenagers whose lives suddenly take a terrifying turn for the worst. They begin to trigger a reaction in everybody they meet, that makes friends and strangers alike want to tear them to pieces. These victims of the Fury - the ones that survive - manage to locate each other. But just when they think they have found a place to hide from the world, some of them begin to change...They must fight to uncover the truth about the Fury before it's too late.But it is a truth that will destroy everything they know about life and death.

The Fury

Furnace PrisonWhere death is the least of your worriesEscape is just the beginning...We thought we'd made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock's ticking. Because if we don't escape soon they will turn us into freaks - like them. Forever.In the darkness of the hole your worst nightmares come to life.

Solitary

It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflict's most brutal battles is raging. Cut off from the front, a ragtag group of young British and American soldiers finds itself being hunted by a patrol of elite German Special Forces, including a newly commissioned officer called Kreuz—a teenage boy who will grow up to become Warden Cross (the fearsome prison director who will one day rule Furnace Penitentiary, the terrifying underground prison specially built for teen offenders). As both sides fight for their lives in the unforgiving terrain, however, they start to realize that there are worse things hiding in the snow than soldiers. There are creatures out there with gas masks and piggy eyes (ancestors of Furnace prison's "wheezers")—demonic entities that cannot be killed by guns and grenades, monsters who do not care what uniforms their victims are wearing so long as they bleed, and so long as they scream . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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The Night Children: An Escape From Furnace Story

In the adrenalin-fueled five-book Escape from Furnace series—full of action, adventure, and mystery—Alex Sawyer seeks to break free of a hellish underground penitentiary for teenage offenders. But with every step toward freedom, Alex finds there will be no escaping the secret horrors and nightmarish creatures haunting his endless nights until he confronts and destroys the prison’s mastermind. This ebook bundle includes all five books in the series from author Alexander Gordon Smith: Lockdown, Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives, and Execution. Also included is the companion short story, The Night Children. “Fresh and ferocious . . . will hook boys with its gritty, unrelenting surprises.” —James Patterson, author of the Maximum Ride series “Furnace is hotter than hell and twice as much fun.” —Darren Shan, author of the Demonata series

The Escape from Furnace Series

Alex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace. How can he escape when the darkness is inside him? How can he lead the way to freedom if he is lost to himself?

Escape from Furnace 3

Death Sentence

I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown - the roads sealed, the police scouring every building.

Fugitives

Marlow Green's a high school boy in New York who's always in trouble for vandalism and acting out, and who one day stumbles into the middle of a battle with a demon and learns about The Devil's engine--an ancient machine which can grant anything you wish for--in exchange for your soul.

The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers

Epilogue

Alex and his friends managed to escape Furnace Prison, where Alex had been falsely imprisoned and experimented on, but the whole world is now under the control of Alfred Furnace and his monsters. Alex must now try to find and save his friends, track down Alfred Furnace and stop him before the entire human race is destroyed. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

Execution

When 14-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where sadistic guards reign and boys disappear to occasionally return weirdly altered.

Escape from Furnace

After achieving the impossible by escaping the laboratories and cells of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex, injected with superhuman abilities, must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison.

First published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber Limited, 2011.

"To defend themselves, a ragtag group of teens bands together at an abandoned amusement park after one day when, without warning, the entire human race turns against them"--Provided by publisher.

To defend themselves, a ragtag group of teens bands together at an abandoned amusement park after, without warning, the entire human race turns against them. The plot contains profanity and graphic violence.

Beneath heaven is hell.Beneath hell is Furnace.Furnace Penitentiary. The world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. One way in, no way out. Once you’re here, you’re here until you die, and for most of the inmates that doesn’t take long - not with the sadistic guards and the bloodthirsty gangs. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, 'new fish' Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Only in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and as dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison.Together with a bunch of inmates - some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers - Alex plans the prison break to end all prison breaks. But as he starts to uncover the truth about Furnace’s deeper, darker purpose, Alex’s actions grow ever more dangerous, and he must risk everything to expose this nightmare that's hidden from the eyes of the world.

Wenn sich die ganze Welt gegen dich verschwört Cal, Brick und Daisy sind ganz normale Jugendliche - bis vom einen auf den anderen Tag ihr Leben zu einem Albtraum wird: Ihre Familien, ihre Freunde, Unbekannte, die sie auf der Strasse treffen, wollen sie plötzlich umbringen. Wie Tiere wollen sie sie in Stücke reissen, um sofort danach so zu tun, als sei nichts geschehen. Die drei erkennen, dass sie nur eine Chance haben: Sie müssen sich zusammentun und herausfinden, was mit den Menschen in ihrer nächsten Umgebung passiert ist. Koste es, was es wolle ... Alexander Gordon Smith, Jahrgang 1979, hat sein ganzes Leben Geschichten und Büchern verschrieben: In England hat er sich bereits einen Namen als Autor und als Gründer eines kleinen, unabhängigen Verlages gemacht. Nebenher gibt er Kurse in Creative Writing. Er lebt in Norwich.

Panik

Nate and Cat thought they had destroyed the evil inventor Ebenezer Saint. But they were wrong. Now everybody seems to be acting strangely. It's only when Nate and Cat witness their friend Allan being struck by a car that their worst fears come true. The impact should have been fatal, but the boy simply gets to his feet and walks on - oblivious to the gleaming metal visible through his torn skin. The young inventors konw one of Saint's robots when they see it, but how will they defeat them this time?

The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls

Jamie Webb

Nate and Cat absolutely love inventing. And they've just won a scholarship with the world's richest, cleverest, most charismatic inventor, Ebenezer Saint. Along with 23 of the brightest minds in the country they're about to start their year-long stay in the magnificent Saint's Solutions paradise - a vast industrial compound, filled with unimaginable inventions. But all is not what it seems. A horrific plot is unfolding. And if Nate and Cat want to see their families again, they'll have to out-wit, out-run and out-invent the world's greatest inventor.

The Inventors

Four ordinary teenagers are forced to face the truth behind the terrible events that began in The Fury. Imagine if one day, without warning, the entire human race turns against you. Every single person you meet becomes a bloodthirsty, mindless savage, hell-bent on killing you - and only you. Friends, family, even your mum and dad, will turn on you. They will murder you. And when they have, they will go back to their lives as if nothing has happened. The world has the Fury. It will not rest until you are dead. Cal, Daisy and Brick now know the terrifying secret of the Fury, but the truth has made the world more dangerous than ever. After the earth-shattering events of The Fury, they are forced to leave their safe haven in search of answers.

The Storm

Maxwell Alexander Drake

Chadd Vanzanten

It starts with a single thread. Something strange you catch in the corner of your eye. Something following you in the shadows. Things that once slept are awakening. No one else sees them. No one believes. But once it all unravels, everyone will know.This trip down the trails of madness features short horror suspense stories by Alexander Gordon Smith, Maxwell Alexander Drake, Eric Bishop, McKel Jensen, Tim Keller, Mike Nelson, TJ Tarbet, Gabriel Taylor, Isaac Timm, Chadd VanZanten, and E.B. Wheeler.

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