Bøker av William Meikle

Kidnapping is simple, if you know what you're doing, even simpler if you do away with anyone who knew you were involved. Riding high with a backpack full of cash, Johnny makes his getaway, first by car (where he catches the final episode of a radio documentary about a mammoth, hungry worm and the scientists fighting to save the world from it), then by bus (where he picks up a left behind tabloid and reads the tale of a young actress in the midst of a bloodthirsty metamorphosis), and finally breaks for the night in a dumpy motel room (where he turns on the news to find the world under siege from a horrible black blob).Three shorts and a wraparound, terror in the classic anthology form, reminiscent of the golden years of horror.

THEY CAME FROM...THE SEA - a huge crab and a giant scorpion, ancient foes intent on battle, and woe betide anything or anyone who gets in their way.THE SANDS - deadly beetles, each bigger than a man, swarming and frenzied in defense of an ancient temple.SPACE - a mutated spider threatens the ISS.BELOW - giant scuttling Isopods swarm out of the depths bent on feeding and mayhem.All of this, and more in this collection of creature features.They come. We fight.

Tom wants to see a dragon.Granddad wants to make one.But when the experiment goes wrong and things run out of control they're going to need help.Big help.

Mankind is spreading through the Solar System but, as yet, is still alone in the vastness of space.That is all about to change.A small team of intrepid scientists and engineers have made the long trip through the dark to Jupiter's moon, Europa, and set up camp on an icy plain under the looming watch of Jupiter above them.Initial samples show that the planet is host to primitive, unicellular life.A submersible makes its first dive under the moon's icy surface and finds signs that the life forms may not be quite so primitive after all. They uncover an indigenous species that shows signs of being capable of swarming together to achieve goals impossible for a single cell, a colonial organism that they nickname Opa. These Opas swarm in several different configurations in the cold dark ocean beneath.The teams A.I. is set the task of deciphering the science behind the Opa's dances, a swirling, and swooping that looks very similar to the movements of great flocks of birds back on Earth. Science is done, samples are taken back to the lab on the surface... and that's when the trouble begins.The Opas have been given a chance to roam in a new environment. A human environment.Mankind is not the only species hungry for exploration. The Opas escape into the expedition's living quarters.They are curious, and hungry.They are voracious for food...And they will kill every living organism in the space station!

High magic, swordfighting and a taste of what Scotland was like before perfect teeth, nice hair and clean kilts became the order of the day in OUTLANDER.Scottish sorcerer and swordsman, AUGUSTUS SETON lives in Stirling in the late 16th C and is, usually, in the service of the King, fighting the good fight against the dark things of the world in between the drinking and wenching.This omnibus edition collects all 12 of the Augustus Seton stories. The late 1590s were a time of turmoil. Scotland was on the verge of many changes that would shape its future, from religious reformation, to the union of the crowns with England. But in many ways the country was still rooted in its medieval past, and fear of witches and demons was still a large part of everyday life. Seton confronts demons, both internal and external, as he wanders on the fringes of history.

Short short stories by William Meikle. Perfect for that quick read.These forty stories have all previously appeared in magazines, zines, newspapers or anthologies and cover a wide span of time, from very early in the '90s when I was just starting out right up to 2014. I think they're pretty representative of what I'm all about-some horror, some ghosts, some sci-fi, some fantasy, some history, some drinking and Scotland-always Scotland.

The best brains in the country are being hijacked from London - only the brains, the brutalized bodies being discarded after surgery.The chase to find the perpetrators takes Holmes and Watson to Scotland, and a factory where they discover invaders that have designs not just on London, but the whole planet.Can Holmes stop the alien schemes in time?

Does all human passion, all memory, all imagination come merely from the chemistry in our brains, like the movements of a clock follow from the arrangement of its cogs and wheels? Are we just clockwork dolls? Or is there an organizing principle at work, something we can ask for answers to the important questions of existence ... something that might answer? Dave Burns has asked. Now he, and his friends, might not live long enough to understand the reply.

It's cold, it's dark and Wiggo is worried about the future of the squad. When they arrive at a Research Station at the North Pole his worries are proved to be justified. But the squad's problem's only get worse as they uncover the scale of an unfolding menace. There are great white bears in the cold Arctic night, red in tooth and claw.

Murder and skullduggery on the oldest course in golf. St. Andrews might never be the same again.Private investigator John Royle takes on a routine missing person case in search of his client's brother. When the body turns up in a bunker on the Old Course at St. Andrews and John is framed for the murder the very future of St. Andrews itself is at stake.John has to get himself out of the frame and ensure the town's place in history remains safe.

Writers never really die; their stories live on, to be found again, to be told again, to scare again.In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Henry James held an informal dining club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest.These are their stories, containing tales of revenant loved ones, lost cities, weird science, spectral appearances and mysteries in the fog of the old city, all told by some of the foremost writers of the day. In here you'll find Verne and Wells, Tolstoy and Checkov, Stevenson and Oliphant, Kipling, Twain, Haggard and Blavatsky alongside their hosts.Come, join us for dinner and a story: Robert Louis Stevenson - Wee Davie Makes a Friend Rudyard Kipling - The High Bungalow Leo Tolstoy - The Immortal Memory Bram Stoker - The House of the Dead Mark Twain - Once a Jackass Herbert George Wells - Farside Margaret Oliphant - To the Manor Born Oscar Wilde - The Angry Ghost Henry Rider Haggard - The Black Ziggurat Helena P Blavatsky - Born of Ether Henry James - The Scrimshaw Set Anton Checkov - At the Molenzki Junction Jules Verne - To the Moon and Beyond Arthur Conan Doyle - The Curious Affair on the EmbankmentProudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.