Showing results by author "Eric Brown" in Literature & Fiction

Five hundred years from its launch, the colony vessel Lovelock is deep into its sub lightspeed journey, carrying four thousand humans in search of a habitable planet. When a series of explosions tear the ship apart, it is forced to land on the nearest possible location: a polar section of the Helix—a vast, spiral construct of worlds, wound about a G-type sun.

A man of great power and wealth, Robert Jensen wasn't content with the ordinary. His drive to conquer the world led him to its darkest corners. There, he began to assemble a collection of monsters beyond belief - Sasquatch, Thunderbirds, Skunk Apes, and more.

The rains came, flooding the sleepy little town of Sylva. Sheriff Hanson never thought that he would be fighting a battle to survive against real life monsters, but with the waters came hungry, flesh-eating creatures that swept through Sylva's streets like locusts, devouring everyone in their path.

CASPers - Combat Assault Systems, Personal - are the lords of the future battlefield. The massive mechs were created to give humanity an edge against the rest of the mercenary forces in the Galactic Union. Just like today's tanks, though, massive amounts of armor and weaponry just make the CASPers "hard to kill", not "invulnerable". There are things in the galaxy even stronger than the CASPer, and when humans run up against them, it's up to the human inside to figure out a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

It's the 22nd century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and we've found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races, environments, and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, our position is readily apparent - we're at the bottom of the food chain.

Dr. Jason Phisher has been haunted by nightmares his entire life. They show him glimpses of the future and of dark things yet to come. Now Phisher finds himself kidnapped by ruthless mercenaries who demand his help in locating the pieces of a lost, ancient artifact that holds immense power. Phisher is about to find out that monsters of his nightmares are very real as he encounters Yeti, Sasquatch, and more on a globe-trotting adventure to find The Lost Relic.

Danny's family were brutally slaughtered by a Sasquatch before his eyes when he was a small child. No one believed him. Now, grown up and a professional soldier, Danny has returned home to make the beast pay. Unfortunately for him, not everything is as it seems, and there just may be more lurking in the woods than he's prepared to deal with.

Strange things are happening in the small town of Canton, North Carolina. Megan and her friends should be enjoying summer vacation and the end of the school year, but instead find themselves caught up in a nightmare.

A small band of survivors is on the run during the zombie apocalypse. Led by a mysterious man with an arsenal of deadly military weapons, they must work together to stay alive. In a desperate attempt to locate other survivors, they find sanctuary in a lone farmhouse, only to discover the surrounding woods hold more dangers than just bloodthirsty undead. Featuring Sasquatch, roving rotters, and even more surprises, Last Stand in a Dead Land is an explosion of cross-genre action.

Bigfoot War: After the Fall picks up where the original Bigfoot War and Bigfoot War: Redneck Apocalypse left off. A mixed group of soldiers and civilians have taken shelter inside a paper mill, making it their home. There they hope to survive the Sasquatch Apocalypse.

All David Conway wants after the death of his daughter and the break-up of his marriage is a quiet life away from Earth, and when he comes to Chalcedony, he thinks he's found that. What he does find is a group of people whose friendship will change his life forever, as well as a haunted starship, extraterrestrials with an uncanny ability to read future events, and a conflict between alien races that has lasted for millennia - and is about to begin all over again.

Marshal Lucas and his partner Marshal Stephen are assigned the challenging task of apprehending the dangerous criminal. However, they soon realize that they are not the only ones dwelling in the mountains. A monstrous creature straight out of legend awaits them, and they will discover the hard way that Sasquatch is very, very real...and not at all peaceful.

Featuring contributions from fabulous horror indie authors, this filthy collection of extreme body horror tales is not for those easily offended. These stories contain common tropes used within the broader horror genre, as well as some characteristics more specific to the body horror subgenre to include; pornography, invasion, contagion, mutation, transformation, disease, mutilation, or other unnatural or violent distortions of the human body.

They are known as the "Family", and they kill folks for a living. They are the very best at dealing death and defeating it. Their legendary saga spans from the American Old West to the very near future. Battling both hell-birthed demons and aliens from other planets, sentient werewolves were never more dynamic or terrifying.

A group of friends head into the woods for a hike that will forever change their lives. Their grand adventure soon becomes a desperate fight for survival as they very quickly learn that some monsters are indeed very real...and very hungry.

No one saw it coming. The attacks began out of nowhere. Giant alligators emerged from the sewers, huge bats swarmed New Mexico, an army of Chupacabras invaded Texas, and Thunderbirds soared the skies searching for prey. . . All across the globe, the cryptids came out of the woods, rose up from beneath the waves, and crawled out of dark caves. Humanity's only hope is to find out what is behind the attacks and destroy it or face extinction!

Giant crocodiles exist—the man-eating Kaiju of the real world. Dr. Jennings plans on capturing one alive. Accompanied by a squad of hired mercs and an anti-poaching unit on loan from the local government, she sets out to locate and trap Tuwile, rumored to be the largest giant croc alive. Of course, things never go as planned....

Once every 10,000 years, the walls between worlds grow thin. The stars align, and hell is close. It is the time of The Sha’Daa. Ground Zero for this bloodcurdling attack is none other than New York City’s Central Park, a battlefield resurrecting all that ever lived and died in planet Earth’s history.

No one would have believed that planet Earth was being watched by creatures more intelligent than humankind. But planet Earth was not only being watched--soon it would be invaded by monstrous creatures from Mars who strode about the land in great mechanical tripods, bringing death and destruction with them. What could possibly stop an invading army equipped with heat rays and poisonous black gas, intent on wiping out the human race?

A century later, the Farr family continues to thrive. A new generation of wolves walks the Earth with Zed as their leader. From the depths of space arrives an army of aliens with superior technology and a massive power-armored force of troops. Their goal: To take the Earth and make it their own. Now only the Farr family and their allies in the world of the supernatural can save the human race from being utterly destroyed. It's werewolves vs. aliens in this action-filled tale of war and interplanetary conquest.