Mark Matthews

Robert Essig

Theresa Braun

Calvin Demmer

Glenn Rolfe

Christine Morgan

Brace yourself for another two-barrel blast of unrelenting horror and suspense. Volume 3 of the 'Double Barrel Horror' anthology series delivers two chilling tales from each of six talented authors for a 12-story onslaught that will blow you out of your sneakers. This time up, your fate lies in the hands of Christine Morgan, Mark Matthews, Theresa Braun, Glenn Rolfe and Robert Essig.

Double Barrel Horror Volume 3

Caroline Kepnes

Kealan Patrick Burke

Dark fiction and horror with addiction as the theme. Novellas and Novelletes written by authors Caroline Kepnes, Kealan Patrick Burke, Gabino Iglesias, Mark Matthews, Mercedes M Yardley, and John FD Taff

Lullabies For Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror

Jack Ketchum

Kealan Burke

Glen Krisch

The intoxication from a pint of vodka, the electric buzz from snorting cocaine, the warm embrace from shooting heroin--drinking and drugging provides the height of human experience. It's the promise of heaven on earth, but the hell that follows is a constant hunger, a cold emptiness. The craving to get high is a yearning as intense of any blood-thirsty monster. The best way to tell the truths of addiction is through a story, and dark truths such as these need a piece of horror to do them justice. The stories inside feature the insidious nature of addiction told with compassion yet searing honesty. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental deaths, and some of the most incredible names in horror fiction have tackled this modern day epidemic. A WICKED THIRST, by Kealan Patrick Burke THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE, by Jessica McHugh GARDEN OF FIENDS, by Mark Matthews FIRST, JUST BITE A FINGER, by Johann Thorsson LAST CALL, by John FD Taff TORMENT OF THE FALLEN, by Glen Krisch EVERYWHERE YOU'VE BLED AND EVERYWHERE YOU WILL, by Max Booth III RETURNS, by Jack Ketchum

Tales of Addiction Horror

Garden of Fiends

S. A. Cosby

Cassandra Khaw

Josh Malerman

Oprhans of Bliss

Grief, depression, loneliness, suicide. Prepare to be taken by the hand to explore the darkest of human emotions and fears. Stories about those of us who have had too much and cry out desperately for help, begging for relief, asking of anyone who might listen-Let Me Out I've Had Enough. The first collection of shorts from Mark Matthews, the author of novels such as Milk-Blood, The Hobgoblin of Little Minds, and the Shirley Jackson Award Nominated editor of Lullabies for Suffering. Stories range from the most basic horrors to the most cosmic-A father dangling from a noose after an attempted hanging gone wrong. A psychiatrist haunted by the spirits of his dead ex-patients. An alien woman must contract a virus to save the human race, and a father must sacrifice his life to do the same. You'll visit eight different worlds, created by the 'master of modern psychological horror, ' and after you've returned to where you began, you'll arrive completely safe, but certainly not the same. *Content Warning for frequent mentions of suicide* Includes the previously published work Body of Christ Includes new fiction set within the world of the author's novel: The Hobgoblin of Little Minds and multiple other pieces of never published before works.

Let Me Out I've Had Enough

Meet Macon. Tattoo artist. Athlete. Family man.He's planning to run a marathon, but the event becomes something terrible.During a warm-up run, Macon falls prey to a bizarre man and his wife who dwell in an underground drug-smuggling tunnel. They raise their twin children in a way Macon couldn't imagine: skinning unexpecting victims for food and money.And Macon, and his family, are next."An ordinary running trail becomes the most terrifying place on the planet for Mark Matthews' troubled, likeable, marathon-running, tattooed, hipster protagonists and their young daughter. But, for the horror-show clan living under that trail -- who subsist on flesh and bath salts in a nightmare orgy of blood and crazy -- the hipsters are a rare treat indeed. As the family v. family showdown transpires underground and off the beaten path, the vulnerability of running on a trail -- alone but for the watchers in the woods -- makes the setting unique and well-crafted. Written with verve, surprising compassion, and bite, On the Lips of Children is a seriously demented must read." ~ Sacha Z. Scoblic, author of Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety"Mark Matthews' On the Lips of Children is a sprint down a path of high-adrenaline terror that never offers the comfort of monsters you can dismiss by reminding yourself "there's no such thing as..." The story alternates between harsh reality and an almost dream-like surreality while never losing sight of the real heart of good storytelling. Matthews demonstrates that you don't have far down to go to reach the underworld, yet the road back up is a lot harder run than anyone is prepared to make." ~ Bracken MacLeod, author of Mountain Home"On the Lips of Children by Mark Matthews, is a dark, terrifying page-turner. It's Stephen King's Misery on bath salts. In a cave. It scared the crap out of me. The story was original. The characters were fascinating, exposing the reader to worlds foreign to most of us. Matthews has a knack for pacing his story then jolting the reader with a frightening plot twist. I was impressed by how he wrapped up the ending. Read this book." ~ Michele Miller, author of The Thirteenth Step: Zombie Recovery, an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award quarterfinalist"Mark Matthews' keen ability to bring his own very real personal experiences to life in the guise of fiction, in this instance delightfully horrific fiction, makes even the macabre relatable." ~ Peter Rosche, author of My Dead Friend Sarah"On the Lips of Children pulled me in early on. Within the first chapters, Mark's well-paced plot had me experiencing every footstep with him, riveted. By the time their daughter Lyric's perspective engulfed me, the story was whirling by, her innocence eating at my heart, each stride drawing me from one word to the next. Who knew an innocent run through the park could be so startling and gruesome? Fans of thrilling chases and horrifying tales where family and innocence hang in the balance will certainly enjoy On the Lips of Children." ~ Weston Kincade, author of A Life of Death"Mark Matthews' novel On the Lips of Children is a brutal, intense ride of claustrophobic horror and gritty, page-turning suspense. This is dark fiction at its visceral, chilling best." ~ Jan Kozlowski, author of Die, You Bastard! Die!"On the Lips of Children is dark and gritty. Even the peaceful moments feel dangerous. Always on the border of safety, danger, and death. Readers beware." ~ Jay Wilburn, author of Loose Ends"What would you do for your family? Anything, of course. Blood is thicker than water, after all--and sweeter, too. On the Lips of Children is a gritty, sadomasochistic tale of misguided loyalty and dysfunctional kin--innocence morphed into desperate beasts that are hypnotized by...

On the Lips of Children

The intoxication from a pint of vodka, the electric buzz from snorting cocaine, the warm embrace from shooting heroin-drinking and drugging provides the height of human experience. It's the promise of heaven on earth, but the hell that follows is a constant hunger, a cold emptiness. The craving to get high is a yearning as intense of any blood-thirsty monster. The best way to tell the truths of addiction is through a story, and dark truths such as these need a piece of horror to do them justice. The stories inside feature the insidious nature of addiction told with compassion yet searing honesty. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental deaths, and some of the most incredible names in horror fiction have tackled this modern day epidemic. A WICKED THIRST, by Kealan Patrick Burke THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE, by Jessica McHugh EVERYWHERE YOU'VE BLED AND EVERYWHERE YOU WILL, by Max Booth III FIRST, JUST BITE A FINGER, by Johann Thorsson LAST CALL, by John FD Taff TORMENT OF THE FALLEN, by Glen Krisch GARDEN OF FIENDS, by Mark Matthews RETURNS, by Jack Ketchum

After his first Holy Communion, a boy secretly builds his own Jesus out of communion wafers and the flesh of his dad. On Halloween night, his Jesus shall rise. After a tragic death, a girl tends to the Cemetery of the Innocents, a memorial to the holocaust of abortion and children killed before their time. On Halloween night, the children shall live, and they need to be fed. The Holy Spirit comes to life in this shocking, transgressive story of Christian Horror "Matthews is a damn good writer, and make no mistake, he will hurt you." ~JACK KETCHUM, Bram Stoker award winning author of The Girl Next Door. "Few new writers are doing horror with such intensity." ~MICHAEL A. ARZNEN, Four Time Bram Stoker Award Winning Author

Body of Christ

James Roy Daley

Meet Macon. Tattoo artist. Athlete. Family man. He's planning to run a marathon, but the event becomes something terrible. During a warm-up run, Macon falls prey to a bizarre man and his wife who dwell in an underground drug-smuggling tunnel. They raise their twin children in a way Macon couldn't imagine: skinning unexpecting victims for food and money. And Macon, and his family, are next. "An ordinary running trail becomes the most terrifying place on the planet for Mark Matthews' troubled, likeable, marathon-running, tattooed, hipster protagonists and their young daughter. But, for the horror-show clan living under that trail - who subsist on flesh and bath salts in a nightmare orgy of blood and crazy - the hipsters are a rare treat indeed. As the family v. family showdown transpires underground and off the beaten path, the vulnerability of running on a trail - alone but for the watchers in the woods - makes the setting unique and well-crafted. Written with verve, surprising compassion, and bite, On the Lips of Children is a seriously demented must read." Sacha Z. Scoblic, author of Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety "Mark Matthews' On the Lips of Children is a sprint down a path of high-adrenaline terror that never offers the comfort of monsters you can dismiss by reminding yourself "there's no such thing as..." The story alternates between harsh reality and an almost dream-like surreality while never losing sight of the real heart of good storytelling. Matthews demonstrates that you don't have far down to go to reach the underworld, yet the road back up is a lot harder run than anyone is prepared to make." Bracken MacLeod, author of Mountain Home "On the Lips of Children by Mark Matthews, is a dark, terrifying page-turner. It's Stephen King's Misery on bath salts. In a cave. It scared the crap out of me. The story was original. The characters were fascinating, exposing the reader to worlds foreign to most of us. Matthews has a knack for pacing his story then jolting the reader with a frightening plot twist. I was impressed by how he wrapped up the ending. Read this book." Michele Miller, author of The Thirteenth Step: Zombie Recovery, an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award quarterfinalist "Mark Matthews' keen ability to bring his own very real personal experiences to life in the guise of fiction, in this instance delightfully horrific fiction, makes even the macabre relatable." Peter Rosche, author of My Dead Friend Sarah "On the Lips of Children pulled me in early on. Within the first chapters, Mark's well-paced plot had me experiencing every footstep with him, riveted. By the time their daughter Lyric's perspective engulfed me, the story was whirling by, her innocence eating at my heart, each stride drawing me from one word to the next. Who knew an innocent run through the park could be so startling and gruesome? Fans of thrilling chases and horrifying tales where family and innocence hang in the balance will certainly enjoy On the Lips of Children." Weston Kincade, author of A Life of Death "Mark Matthews' novel On the Lips of Children is a brutal, intense ride of claustrophobic horror and gritty, page-turning suspense. This is dark fiction at its visceral, chilling best." Jan Kozlowski, author of Die, You Bastard! Die! "On the Lips of Children is dark and gritty. Even the peaceful moments feel dangerous. Always on the border of safety, danger, and death. Readers beware." Jay Wilburn, author of Loose Ends

In the underground tunnels below Northville Psychiatric Hospital, the mood swings of the mentally ill are manipulated, transforming them into manic, savage beasts who seek justice by the light of the full moon.

The Hobgoblin of Little Minds

Ten year old Lilly is the victim of a terrible house fire and a wretched family. Her father is an addict with mental illness, her mother was murdered and then buried across the street, and her uncle got her addicted to heroin. Lilly's tragic story has been told in the book ALL SMOKE RISES, and it may be true, for the author has broken into your house, and placed Lilly's body on your kitchen counter. He demands you read the manuscript, before cutting his own wrists and bleeding out on your floor. Now you have decisions to make, for Lilly's body may not be dead, and her family is coming for her.

Milk-Blood Redux

All Smoke Rises

Lilly is ten years old, living in poverty, born with a heart defect, and already addicted to heroin. Her mother is gone from her life, and there are rumors that she was killed by her father and buried near the abandoned house across the street. The house intrigues her, she can't stay away, and the monstrous homeless man who lives there has been trying to get Lilly to come inside. For her mother is there, buried in the back, and this homeless man is Lilly's true father, and both want their daughter back.

Milk-Blood

Mark Dodgson

Ron Johnston

Identifying and Removing Barriers to Entrepreneurial Activity by Health and Medical Researchers in the Higher Education Sector

Enabling the Virtuous Cycle

Gabino Iglesias

Lullabies for Suffering

Gregor Xane

Jason Parent

Evans Light

Edward Lorn

Adam Light

John McNee

Craig Saunders

"Brutal, humorous and utterly terrifying." -Allan Leverone, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Buckle up for a journey into Halloween eternal.This special collection features all three volumes of the highly rated Bad Apples: Halloween Horror anthologies, showcasing rising names in modern horror. Features eighteen novellas and short stories by: Kealan Patrick Burke, Evans Light, Adam Light, Edward Lorn, John McNee, Mark Matthews, Jason Parent, Craig Saunders and Gregor Xane. "...enjoyable horrific Halloween tales withthe odd slice of humor neatly wrapped up amongst the violence and mayhem." - SCREAM Horror Magazine

The Complete Collection

Bad Apples: Halloween Horror

*Between 2008 and 2012, US authorities discovered at least seventy-five drug-smuggling tunnels along the length of the 1,950-mile border between Tijuana and Southern California. This is the story of one of them. When her child dies of a fatal heart defect, the intense grief gives Erin Facinelli the urge to cut her skin, same way she had as a teenager. Instead, she gets a tattoo, and soon falls in love with the sweet sting of the tattoo needle as well as the tattoo artist himself, Macon. Macon fathers her second child, his artwork starts to cover her old scars from cutting, and years later they travel to San Diego where Macon plans to run a marathon. But the trip becomes much more than a footrace, and it is here that the cutting continues. During the darkness of a predawn warm-up run, Macon is greeted by a three-headed dog at the trail's entrance, and stumbles upon a network of homeless men who stalk him. Soon he falls prey to a bizarre, Tijuanese family who live in a drug smuggling tunnel with their two children, and survive by hijacking and then carving the skin of their victims for food and money. A harrowing, twenty-four hour test begins for Macon to rescue his family. Their love will be tested in extreme, horrific measures. Family meets family, and mother meets mother, in a world where the saying is confirmed: "Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children."

Simon Broadley

Activate is a new KS3 Science course that supports every student on their journey through KS3 to KS4 success. This teacher handbook accompanies Activate Biology Student Book, with lesson suggestions that build the maths, literacy and working scientifically skills vital for success at KS4, and full assessment guidance for the new 2014 curriculum.

Activate: 11-14 (Key Stage 3): Activate Biology Teacher Handbook

Sexual contact between humans and animals, commonly known as bestiality, has long been condemned by the conventions of society. Despite the dread and loathing usually associated with such conduct, the incidence of bestiality, especially in rural communities, is not as rare as most people assume. The Horseman is a completely candid, sometimes graphic, sexual autobiography of one man's struggle to come to terms with the private demon of bestiality. Mark Matthews traces his obsession with horses through his teen years, troubled marriage, his experiences as a parent, and his eventual divorce. The underlying problem and his attempt to deny it led him to drug abuse, self-loathing, and the brink of suicide, before he finally came to accept himself as he is and to leave guilt behind.

Obsessions of a Zoophile

The Horseman

Too often, companies promote employees into positions of increased responsibility, without giving them the proper training to succeed in their new role. Employers assume that those promoted already have the tools for success based upon their prior track record. Coaching From The Front will fill the knowledge gaps created by this belief. The author has successfully led companies and sales organizations, helping each to significantly improve its performance. The stories and advice given in this book are based upon real life situations and are not the result of university studies or focus groups conducted by consultants. They are real life scenarios where the stakes are higher.

Your Guide To Building Better Teams

Coaching From the Front

Jim Cole

Joseph D. Gradecki

Shows Java developers everything they need to know to buildJava database applications with MySQL. Takes a hands-on, code-intensive approach in which readers willlearn how to build a sophisticated Web database managementapplication. Begins with a review of the fundamentals of MySQL. Explains using Java's JDBC with MySQL, as well as servlet andJSP programming with MySQL. Provides a code-rich tutorial on how to build the sample Javadatabase application using EJBs. The companion Web site provides the full code examples pluslinks to useful sites.

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