Dire futures, self-replication, telepathy, possession and other disturbing scenarios. A short, novella-length collection of seven stories.
A man has most of his head removed just to avoid dealing with other people.
A time traveler with a mission visits the only survivors of the apocalypse; mysteriously transformed humans living in an abandoned military bunker. But will he live long enough to learn the secret of their immortality?
An evil spirit has moved from text to text through the ages, driving its victims insane, but it may have met its match when it tries to inhabit the cryptic logo of a Black Metal album.
A tortured soul is trapped in a house he can’t escape from, and a nightmare he can’t wake up from.
What’s the worst that could happen if one individual could communicate to all of humanity at once, mind to mind? What if they were a decent sort of person? You know what they say about good intentions.
Something’s gone wrong at the lab and Merrill is being duplicated. Versions of himself from different stages of his life keep showing up, crowding him out, destroying his sanity. What happens when someone who has always lived an unexamined life is forced to talk to himself about himself, all while trying to reverse the results of an experiment that has gone horribly wrong.
The Thaxton Research Institute has found another Trans-Dimensional portal incident, this time in the suburbs, circa 1990. Disaffected teens, damaged by the secret disorders of the dysfunctional American family, ease their pain with Heavy Metal, Punk, Horror movies and D&D. Falling between the cracks of church, state and school—they spiral down to the drain that is Patton’s garage, until a real-life Scifi portal appears out of thin air.
