Bøker av Jeffrey Thomas

A TELEPORTATION EXPERIMENT HAS GONE HORRIBLY WRONG.On the icy moon Titania, in orbit around Uranus, research has been underway with the aid of a beetle-like alien race to develop interplanetary teleportation that would replace the use of spaceships. However, an explosion at the research base has killed many of the staff...and that isn't the worst of the problem. Since the explosion, strange beings and creatures have mysteriously begun appearing at the base.Captain Robert Fuseli, a surgeon and experienced soldier, is called in to investigate. What he discovers about these dangerous arrivals shocks the researchers, and most shocking of all is the possibility that if the anomaly isn't solved, there may be no end to the number of monstrous beings materializing on Titania.The Exploded Soul is a thrilling blend of science fiction and horror, from the acclaimed author of the Punktown series.

Until recently, the land its people know only as the Unnamed Country has remained hidden from the eyes and minds of the rest of the world by dense jungles and formidable mountains. And within those jungles and mountains lurk mysterious and terrifying creatures: jade-green tigers, frighteningly intelligent wild pigs, and shadow people that may just be the precursor to human beings. Caught between their ancient history and the uncertainties of the future, the people who dwell there are ruled over by Ten Jeweled Gods...and the Ten Demon Lords of Hell. Acclaim for Jeffrey Thomas's Unnamed Country stories: "This is a modern classic of writing about another country or culture on the level of Lafcadio Hearn or Italo Calvino. It belongs on the shelf of any, and every, bookstore in any airport with a flight to Southeast Asia. Its stories are disturbing, insightful, macabre, vivid, grotesque, propulsive, engaging and endlessly inventive." -Paul StJohn Mackintosh, greydogtales, on The Unnamed Country."Jeffrey Thomas's unique flair for the unspeakable never shines brighter than when he visits the Southeast Asia of his dreams, and nowhere does he delve deeper into that strange green country than here." -Cody Goodfellow, author of Vertical, on Scenes From a Village."If you know something about Jeffrey Thomas's fiction, you'll know that when he's not writing Weird SF stories set in the infamous and crime-ridden Punktown he sometimes explores "the unnamed country." This country resembles the Viet Nam that Thomas has frequently visited, but...Viet Nam as seen through a lens slightly distorted by, or perhaps slightly sharpened by, imagination." -Brian Evenson, from his introduction to The Spirit of Place.

In The Fall of Hades, a young woman emerges from a catatonic state to find herself naked and devoid of memory, a centuries-long prisoner of an apocalyptic battle between once-human avenging Angels, rebel bands of the Damned, and monstrous Demons of every description. With only a sentient, talking gun for a companion, this woman-who calls herself Vee-sets out to explore a radically transfigured Hell, her own surprising past, and the bulletproof fierceness of the human spirit.The Fall of Hades is a shocking and subversive journey into a post-industrial cyber-inferno, and this expanded edition includes the short story The Lost Family and a brand new novella called Beloved Succubus, both featuring Vee and her sentient gun, Jay.

Three stories of shapeshifting private eye Jeremy Stake, in the mean streets of Punktown. IN HIS SIGHTS - Newly returned to the far future city known as Punktown, after having served in the Blue War, Jeremy Stake is haunted by the face of the last enemy he killed...because with his mutant ability to alter his appearance, against his will that face has replaced his own. Unfortunately, another traumatized Blue War veteran mistakes Stake for the enemy itself. THE SEEDS OF CORRUPTION - Years later and now a private investigator, Jeremy Stake is hired by a secretive group of insect-like aliens who seek to stop an obsessed human cultist from unleashing the Corruption: a god-like entity that could threaten every colonist in Punktown. A MOSAIC - The mysterious alien race called the Egatym has a mission: to gift each and every citizen of the monstrous colony-city Punktown with an equally mysterious gift, promising that once that is done they will make their appearance in Punktown. These gifts affect their recipients in a variety of ways...including mutant private eye Jeremy Stake. From Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown.

In THE YELLOW HOUSE, we visit that house the kids are always afraid to go trick-or-treating at -- in this case with good reason. In POST #153, the dead of several wars descend on a VFW post on a stormy Halloween. In OCTOBER 32nd, Halloween night just doesn't seem to want to end. Three horror stories perfect for Halloween -- or any occasion. After all, candy is good any time of year, isn't it? JEFFREY THOMAS is the author of numerous horror and science fiction books, including PUNKTOWN, LETTERS FROM HADES, and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: THE DREAM DEALERS.

If the dead could speak from the afterlife, what might they tell us? How might they warn us?The Damned have stories to share...About an abandoned Demon child, adopted by a reluctant mother.A Demon torn between love for his mate and an Angel visiting Hell.A jaded Angel touring Hell to hunt the Damned for sport.Three Damned laborers who encounter a cat with nine afterlives.A Damned artist summoned to Heaven to paint her masterpiece.A Damned man and an Angel joining forces to rescue a child from his Demonic captors.A former journalist who discovers the depths of despair and the hope of rebellion.And much more...

On the holiday Sicilians call Giorno dei Morti -- The Day of the Dead -- Attilio Augusta meets a beautiful woman while paying his respects in a crypt. She is the same woman he once met in that crypt as a young boy. She hasn't aged a day. Soon Attilio is making love with this woman. Soon, he is fighting to save himself from the jaws of a ravenous monster. Years later in Chicago, crime lord Alphonse Capone is introduced to a new mobster in town. A man who, unthinkably, demands a share of Capone's empire. A man who was once called Attilio Augusta. A man who is no longer merely human. Blood Society follows the career of an undying mafioso from Chicago in the 1920s to Boston in the 1990s. Along his blood-splattered path he will face traitorous comrades, a dangerously obsessed priest, the same volatile woman who turned him so many years before, and ultimately an enemy band of gangsters who are beings like himself. Beings that cross at will into a mysterious alternate world. Beings that transform into hideous creatures impervious to bullets, knives and bombs. Creatures with a thirst for money, power, and...blood. Blood Society is an epic supernatural horror novel by Jeffrey Thomas, author of the cult classics Punktown and Letters From Hades.

Three stories of dark obsession, set in the nightmarish future city its inhabitants call Punktown. DRAPED IN FLESH - An alienated young woman develops a strange bond with the wreckage of an organic space vessel that has come to rest on the roof of her apartment building. OUT OF NOTHING - Ex nihilo is the latest must-have toy, so sought after that the citizens of Punktown even resort to deadly extremes to acquire it. LITTLE WING - A black market dealer supplies a client with a most unusual item: a mummy from an extinct, winged race...in which weird properties still live on.

Three fantastical horror stories that tear aside the veil to reveal other worlds, other realities. THE VANISHING SNAKE - In this direct sequel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," that story's Helen Stoner returns to 221B Baker Street to relate to Sherlock Holmes that not only was the adventure not yet finished...but that occult forces may have been at work all along. DIRTY DESK - The Pearsons are a bored suburban couple who pursue ever more extreme means of satisfying their desires...but when they turn to murder, the act might just open the door to a darkness they never even dreamed of. THE MAYOR OF EPHEMERA - In a strange world not our own, the inhabitants of a strange little town have decided that they have reached the ultimate state of satisfaction: permanent sleep. But one person rebels against their philosophy. One person who refuses to stay asleep. From Jeffrey Thomas, the author of Punktown.

In 1893, the Guests attempt their first contact with the human race. Families go mad. Parents commit suicide. A president is assassinated. By 1918, in the bleak boneland of the 20th Century, human assassins commit atrocities and global wars are waged to sate the appetites of the Guests. John Board is a crime scene photographer, whose nightmarish images of human destruction are used as titillating entertainment. Board's future is tied in with these unseen, unfathomable forces -- and so is his past. America is drowning in a sea of blood as flashbulbs click and movie cameras roll. The Guests are here to stay. BONELAND is a tale of a not-so-alternate history...a story of horror, science fiction, and the surreal by Jeffrey Thomas, acclaimed author of PUNKTOWN and LETTERS FROM HADES.

Back in print after a long absence is the first book by Jeffrey Thomas, author of PUNKTOWN. TERROR INCOGNITA is a collection of thirteen horror stories, having seen their first publication in the 90s. Among these stories you will meet... A hungry entity that can take the form of anyone you might adore, including Marilyn Monroe. A man damned to hell, who once every earthly year can take a one hour break from his torments. A woman whose ex-husband has been tasked with guarding an otherworldly threat to our reality. A woman who realizes the heartbreaking truth about the horde of monsters attacking her village. A man whose life is falling apart around him, and whose home is apparently being invaded by alien beings. A bitter flesh artist of the future, reluctant to defile the beauty of his latest client. A man who has just murdered his own teenage daughter, but there is a small, elusive witness. ...And ghosts, Lovecraftian creatures, entities from other dimensions... Enter the unknown landscape of TERROR INCOGNITA. There is much to explore.

Three stories of body modification and genetic engineering in the nightmarish future city its citizens call Punktown. OPEN MINDED - H. P. Lovecraft's "Mi-Go" feature in this story about a secretive alien race and the conscience-stricken human technician who's working for them. TRANSFORMATION - A young woman working in a brothel that caters to jaded rich people with extreme tastes asks a flesh artist to turn her into...a werewolf. SACRED MEAT - A man obsessed with an alien actress in adult movies tracks her down to an exclusive club where the darkest of fantasies are fulfilled.

Back in print after a too-long absence is Jeffrey Thomas' HONEY IS SWEETER THAN BLOOD, a collection of eight very bizarre tales of erotic horror, including the novelette "Damask." In these transgressive stories by the author of the critically acclaimed "Punktown" series, you will walk the razor-studded tightrope between titillation and repulsion. Between pleasure and pain. Between desire and darkness. Between sweetness and blood.

Three weird fiction stories that peel back the skin to reveal the darkness beyond. UNCANNY VALLEY - A salesman is given a tour of a sex doll factory, where the products may be more than simply life-like. STRANGER IN THE HOUSE - A factory worker whose mother is dying begins to truly understand the impermanence of all human flesh, and identity -- his own included. SLICED BREAD - The Caudata Effect is a recent mutation that allows human beings to regenerate damaged cells quickly...a development taken advantage of by a near future totalitarian society. From Jeffrey Thomas, the author of Punktown.

Three stories of horror in the vein of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. AROUND THE CORNER - A man whose parents raised him in a cult suspects the new tenants in his apartment complex belong to a similar cult, and are summoning up powers that will change the world...and not for the betterment of humankind. AFTER THE FALL - Around the world, after a great storm the sky becomes filled with the remains of vast fossilized monsters locked in an ancient conflict, leaving humans to interpret this vision and to consider their own humble existence. SCRIMSHAW - In this alternate history story set in 1851, men in seafaring ships do not harvest whale blubber, but seek strange treasures in the bodies of immense alien creatures. From Jeffrey Thomas -- the author of Punktown.

"My village-tucked as it is in a crease between the imposing tree-furred mountains that separate our country from the neighbor with whom we share the longest border-is one of the remotest in the land."Explore the dark and lonely corners of Jeffrey Thomas's imagination in his latest bizarre and disturbing short story collection. A mourning ghost who cannot find peace in death haunts her village, a monk discovers an unorthodox way to transcend, and Cholukan (The Holy Monkey) contends with demons. Illustrated by Mike Dubisch, the master of the macabre.

In Sport Shorts, meet three different student athletes struggling to navigate their busy lives and reach their individual goals while dealing with the everyday worries of high school."e;Full Count"e; is about Jasper Green. Follow him as he transitions from middle school to high school as a star baseball player. "e;Double Fault"e; is the story of Savana Jones, one of the star tennis players on her high school team, as she tries to earn an athletic scholarship for college. Finally, in "e;The Practice Squad,"e; Alan Berry pursues his passion for basketball in a way many athletes would never consider.Each story portrays the difficulties student athletes face while also celebrating their successes. High school athletes have many decisions to make upon leaving high school, whether they enter the pros or attend college. Follow these three as they build their own varied paths to success.

Captain Derek Cross is a military commander, trying to come to grips with his past. A father killed in the line of duty, an estranged best friend, and a colonist he killed all weigh heavily on his mind. After a botched mission to Ganymede, during which nearly half his unit is killed, he’s given a choice – travel to another solar system to help establish a new colony, or accept a discharge from the military. Things go from bad to worse when, en-route to the site of the new colony, he’s awakened from cryogenic sleep by Dr. Elena Brown, the mission's medical officer, to find that the colony ship has been hijacked. All of Captain Cross’ skills are put to the test as he tries to protect the nearly four hundred sleeping colonists – colonists who have no idea they’re in danger. Protecting the most technologically advanced ship ever created, Osiris, and its passengers is one thing, but earning Elena’s trust is another thing entirely.

It's the final day of the season for the annual Punktown Fair and excitement is high. For the couple in charge, Del and Sophi Kahn, it's a bittersweet day of transition. Little do they realize the trials they will face and how severely this one day will test their relationship. In fact, closing day seems to be a catalyst for many Punktown residents; drawing them in, stirring them up and letting them loose on each other.This roller coaster tale builds to a peak of expectation then plummets, twisting and turning, a breathtaking juggernaut to the final pages with plenty of screams and giggles along the way.

The first book of its kind, this discography covers the history of steel band and pan music on recordings from their beginnings. For each entry, information is provided on the location of the recording session/studio, release date, record company catalog number, and complete contents.