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Lobsters and Landmines

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by Glen Johnson


  Part Two – Ruin

  THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

  Part Three – Infested

  THE DEVILS HARVEST

  THE GATEWAY (World One)

  PARKINGDOM

  WAR OF THE GODS

  (Part One) THE DEVILS TAROTS

  THE SPELL OF BINDING (Part One)

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  LAMB CHOPS AND CHAINSAWS (Vol.1)

  Nine Disturbing Short Stories about the Darker Side of Human Nature

  What are your neighbours really like once their front door slams shut? Are your children’s teachers’ sound-of-mind? Has your partner got an evil, sinister side? Is a member of your family a murderer? These questions, and more, are examined in a collection of nine disturbing short stories; tales about the darker side of human nature.

  Read about a wannabe serial killer who starts his reign of terror on the wrong footing. A Kindergarten teacher who has deep psychological problems that jeopardizes the safety of the children. How a child of nine turns to violence in retaliation for drug smugglers slaughtering her parents. A fanatical mother who believes her thirteen-year-old son is possessed by the Devil. How one killer spirals out of control and in his haste for victims makes a fatal mistake. A government trained killer who was set up as a scapegoat. Or a serial killer who has captured the attention of the world, and has setup one final, sickening display. What does it take to push someone that little bit too far and turn them into a killer? Find out when a savage murder is committed over a packet of lamb chops.

  Strangers will never seem the same again.

  THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

  An Apocalyptic Tale of Survival

  Part One: Outbreak

  The Sixth Extinction is an apocalyptic tale about a pandemic that sweeps the globe, decimating the human race, leaving humanity struggling to survive. Within three weeks everything has changed. Social structure has collapsed. The police are non-existent, and the army concentrates on the cities. Gangs of yobs rule the streets. It becomes everyone for themselves.

  The story follows three different people, and their journeys of self-discovery through the changing world.

  Noah Morgan is just an average twenty-one-year-old. He has no aspirations in life, no girlfriend, few friends, and a dead-end job. Red is a nineteen-year-old female runaway, with a sad past and a disturbing secret. Together they leave behind everything they have ever known, looking for a safe haven.

  Doctor Melanie Lazaro is working around the clock, under military supervision, in Exeter University’s Biomedical Sciences Department, trying to create a cure for the new pandemic that is turning humans back to their primordial roots, creating mindless killing machines with only one purpose − to eat.

  Mankind is no longer at the top of the food chain.

  THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

  An Apocalyptic Tale of Survival

  Part Two: Ruin

  A pandemic has swept the globe, decimating humanity, affecting all who breathe in its deadly spores. The Sixth Extinction Series follows a collection of people from all walks of life, as they struggle to survive through the eradication of the human race.

  Doctor Melanie Lazaro identified the marker of the disease on the human DNA chain, and she carries a file with the information needed to create a blocker, to stop the disease from spreading. While she was being shown the four different stages of the transformation of the human host, the building came under attack by a horde of the infected. During the attack, she was rescued and placed on a helicopter en route to the Dartmoor military base. The helicopter crashed and Lazaro, along with nine military personnel, has to take shelter in a dentist’s clinic, while fighting back a mass of the infected. They gain new transportation; however, it proves to be a fatal mistake.

  Noah and Red join forces with an old woman called Betty, and her special need’s grandson, Lennie. The four of them hear the gunfire of the soldiers from the crashed helicopter, and Noah leaves the three behind in a house while he goes in search of rescue. However, not everything goes according to plan, and he finds himself in the wrong place at the worst possible time.

  Due to the timeline, the whole country is now overrun with stage three eaters – crazed, animalistic predators that only have one thing on their mind – to eat.

  THE DEVILS HARVEST

  A SHOCKING SECRET

  Jacob Cain’s life changes forever when he starts to receive a series of reanimated corpses, each impart a fragment of a message. An ancient tale unfolds as old as time itself relating humanities darkest untold secret – the biblical story from the Devil’s point of view.

  A DESPERATE QUEST

  As the chain of events unfolds, Cain repeatedly finds himself confused and covered in blood. Suddenly he becomes a fugitive from the authorities, wanted in connection to multiple murders, his garden now a mass grave.

  A HORRIFYING TWIST

  Guided by one catastrophic event after another, Cain finds whole villages eerily silent with corpses littering the streets as a new plague from an unimaginable source starts to sweep the country. At an old farmhouse, he comes face-to-face with mankind’s worst nightmare. And buried in a field is the answer to all the riddles that climax in a terrifying, unearthly twist.

  As Cain fights for his life, he must unravel the shocking truth, before billions die. He is all that stands in the way of a global pandemic on an apocalyptical scale.

  THE GATEWAY

  WORLD ONE OF THE SEVEN WORLDS

  THE SEVEN WORLDS

  Eons ago entities with god-like powers brought together seven worlds, joined them by means of conduits—Gateways—each supplying the next with what it lacked, from a surplus of what that world produced, making life on all seven worlds possible. Then they disappeared. Each world became an individual.

  THE BROTHERS

  Two brothers stumble on the Gateway passing from our world to the next, and are endowed with powers beyond comprehension, vital for survival in this hostile and intelligent world where nightmarish creatures feed on the weak.

  THE WAR

  Titanic battles rage; good against evil, magic against machinery, mortal against immortal. A civil war rages between spirit creatures and a powerful self-proclaimed God. Why is the American government sending an army of mass destruction with the latest military technology through? Time is short, the armies are amassing.

  And what is the prophecy about scratched on a wall of a prison cell by dying hands?

  PARKINGDOM

  YOU CAN BE SMALL AND STILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE

  A SECRET WORLD

  Parkingdom is home to a hidden society of tiny gnomes whose whole world resides inside the tall walls of a vast inner-city park; watched over by their Watcher from a large billboard. Then, without warning she disappears along with all the noisy humans.

  A MISSION

  Fisher and Bel have been sent away by the city elders to the Great Green Gates, to the Wardens Office, to find out why? It is a perilous journey through the deserted human section of the park and across the uncharted Wild Lands. Soon they find themselves travel companions with a witch’s ferret and a scrawny long toothed rat, and befriended by a strange little green snotling that knows a startling secret.

  HOPE

  Upon returning, they discover their city under the control of a hostile neighbouring city’s army. Has their Watcher deserted them in their time of greatest need? Will the elders understand their Watcher’s cryptic message? Moreover, will they – along with their rebellious Elders – be able to do anything to save their family and friends?

  Join Fisher and Bel as they embark upon an adventure that will change their small world forever.

  WAR OF THE GODS:

  Part One - The Devils Tarots

  A WAR

  A war is raging that most don’t even realize exists – a war of the Gods. An age-old story, good against evil and hatred against love.
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br />   THE FALLEN ANGEL

  Satan was bound and thrown from heaven, and his angels – now demons – were tossed down with him. He resides on earth, imprisoned in an ancient holy building. So his soldiers fight his side of the battle, misleading mankind, confusing and destroying spirituality, replacing it with greed, pleasures and lust.

  THE ORIGINAL TAROTS

  Created by the Devil himself, the tarots now fall into the hands of a mere human. Catastrophic events unfold, reaping death and destruction to millions. But the tarots are a key, a key to an ancient forgotten bloodline that will turn the tide of the battle.

  THE MAN

  Unbeknown, the future of mankind’s very existence rests with Caleb Black. Forced from his home in London he ends up fighting for his life at every turn. Caleb and an old ex-girlfriend – who harbours an ancient secret – are all that stands between Satan’s New World Order and the return of the Grand Creator. Time is almost up. Both sides position their pieces for the final conflict.

  PART ONE: THE DEVILS TAROTS

  Caleb Black’s world is falling apart, he’s on the run after a body is found in his apartment building – and he’s the main suspect. And to make matters worse the dead are talking to him, and he’s being chased by strange men with tattooed foreheads with powers beyond explanation. The key to all his problems is a set of tarots that a vagabond old man gave him. All he needs to do is find a fortuneteller named Mamma so she can guide him through the madness. An ex-girlfriend is also on the scene, but she just brings more questions than answers.

  THE SPELL OF BINDING

  THE MAGIC

  The World was almost destroyed by science – billions died. The survivors gave up looking for God and looked within themselves. They could hear a new song emanating from the ruins of the past. An ancient song, older than religion and time itself – they heard the magic.

  THE DEMON ARMY

  But the holocaust caused a spell uttered eons ago – when the magic was strong – to weaken. A spell that now released unmentionable creatures back into the world; creatures their ancestors had banished. Science failed to destroy humanity, now it’s the powerful Demon Kings turn to try – back with vengeance and a vast army.

  HOPE

  Powerful sorcerers could stand in his way, but they have grown old and tired with time, leaving the hope of all New Mankind on the shoulders of a female magus, a slaphappy, lovesick human, a drunken whimsical elf, an ambitious dwarf and a grumpy angel, all looking for a Spell that has been hidden for a thousand generations.

  PART ONE

  Simeon, the head of the Council of Magi, has spent decades deciphering an ancient leather bound book. He sends word to Minika, a sorceress close to where he believes the Spell is hidden – a female magus who is not quite what she seems – and with the aid of a human, an elf and a dwarf, she heads out into the barren wasteland to try and reach the Spell before the demon king Vorr, and his vast army. But the demons are the least of Minika’s worries; someone else seems hell bent on stopping them – someone powerful. Someone who is using magic that hasn’t been seen for thousands of years. And the Great Prophetess has just announced the prophecy that Vorr has been waiting to hear for over two thousand years: “In a time of great sorrow seven will heal the world.”

 

 

 


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