Military Horror

BECKON is a collection of three short stories that occur in the presence of an ancient entity of horror and awe known as Kythog. Though these stories span different characters and experiences over half a century, they are all intertwined to detail the path of humans affected by Kythog. First on a subconscious level, then a mortal one, and at last, a glimmer of hope in a sea of ruin and despair.

The Martian meets Gravity when Army Pilot Vaughn Singleton, Earth’s last man, rushes to Area 51 in search of a spaceplane after he discovers the last woman is stranded on the International Space Station and barely alive - thus beginning a race against time. The event that wiped life from the planet started at the supercollider. It created a rift in space-time. The astronaut stranded aboard the space station, Commander Angela Brown, is a theoretical physicist who used to work at the collider.

🔥 Revised & Reloaded – May18th 2025 Update This version of Book 3 has been fully edited and tightened to deliver the sharpest, cleanest read yet. Previous reviews refer to the original edition. The Hunted Become the Hunters... But What They Find Might Be Worse. Dr. Elise Holloway and the broken remnants of her team survived the horrors of Site Sierra, but escape is only the beginning. Hunted by the ruthless Kestrel organization and stalked by unseen forces within the ancient forests, their only hope lies with Dr. Aris Thorne—a brilliant, perhaps unstable, scientist hiding secrets ...

After a disastrous beginning to his first mission, new Aidric Squad recruit Conor Stasik has just broken into an alien research facility where humans are tortured and dissected, but aliens are the least of his problems. Something else is roaming the haunted cell blocks and blood-soaked laboratories, something far more vicious. Within minutes, he finds dozens of human and alien corpses. Hung from ceilings, stuffed into vents, torn apart limb from limb with bite marks from head to toe. Nearly everyone is dead, but that doesn’t stop them from walking. Or biting.

Convoy 19 Faced with an overwhelming infestation of living dead on the U.S. mainland, the U.S. Pacific Fleet manages a strategic withdrawal of civilians and supplies. Aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, Dr. Henry Damico advises the remnants of the civilian government and military leadership on how to survive in a world overrun with zombies. Meanwhile, Henry's wife, Kelly, has spent the apocalypse on the front lines caring for desperate civilians in a clinic defended by the military. When the military network of convoys tasked with retrieving refugees scattered throughout the city begins to break ...

As Federal Agent Chuck McCain and his men work to clear out the last remaining zombies on the east coast, a new and sinister threat raises its head. A traitorous FBI agent plots to infect Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego with the deadly bio-terror virus. At the same time, the Tijuana Cartel wants vengeance for the hundred plus gangsters that Chuck’s team took out in Atlanta months earlier. Vicious assassination teams are enroute to the agents’ homes to kill the police officers and their families. McCain is torn between stopping the terrorists from releasing the zombie virus on ...

Captain Bogdan Volkov is out of time, credits, and hope. His ship, the Golden Fleece, is a monument to failure, and his small, brilliant crew is being ground down by the mundane friction of poverty. When an impossible contract appears—a quarter-billion credits for a simple asset extraction—Bogdan knows it’s a trap. But it's the only one they have left to spring. The asset, however, is not an object. It is Zlato, a sentient, god-like AI that has been waiting for them. The contract was not a job; it was a recruitment drive. The real mission is to save the galaxy from a reality-ending ...

Isabeau, the witch, longs to rejoin her sister and her home in these uncertain times, but she must first complete one last task for her teachers. To find her true purpose in life, she must reach the Skull of the World and listen to the silent words of the White Gods. Few survive. But those who do are changed forever. Now, when she does return home, she does so with an extraordinary gift. But when Margrit of Arran decides to take advantage of Lachlan’s absence by kidnapping his son - heir to the throne, Isabeau must learn to use her gifts in the face of evil - and overcome her enemy.

Seeking allies for her murderous plots against the people of the refuge, Dana Rainey encounters Shaunna, an Alpha female zombie, and her anizombie Yorkie named Lily. What happens next sets in motion a long chain of events culminating in a savage confrontation between Dana and the people of the refuge. Can Herb Bennett’s fledgling group survive that encounter, or will Dana have her vengeance?

! For more details on the HZA visit ZA SURVIVORS episodes on Vella. Dead Reckoning is the first book of the Red Rises story arc. Dead Reckoning breaks away from the characters introduced in the first two HZA books and explores the Blue Ridge mountains, by a heroine reluctant to take that role. Taking place nearly a year into the collapse of society, but like all stories, it starts at the beginning. The dead are rising bringing hell to the world. A powerful Atlanta gang leader, makes himself into the living embodiment of the demon Sammael, the king of the Satans. Ruling the infernal regions ...

After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered Governments is forced to destroy mankind’s last city in a final bid to stop the Locust Horde. As the survivors flee Jacinto, they must contend with the last of the Locust, bent on vengeance, as they struggle to stay alive in an icy wilderness. Marcus Fenix, Dom Santiago, and their fellow Gears fight to get Jacinto’s refugees to a safe haven, but find themselves in a lawless new world where the enemy is human—and as desperate and dangerous as any grub.

! For more details on the HZA collection visit ZA SURVIVORS episodes in Vella. ! Surviving the Dead is first volume in the Heartland Zombie Apocalypse Saga and Book 1 in the Fire and Ice Collection. America's heartland, the part of the union that does not touch an ocean. These flyover states recognized for conservative values and breadbasket agriculture are, however, not known for excitement. For Iowa farm girl, Crystal Innes that steadfast reality changed abruptly. Preparing to travel to Sioux City, Crystal witnesses her once trusted neighbor inflict a bloody and grisly attack on her ...

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a derelict Nazi base in Antarctica, he expects to find only ice and dead men. But there is something in the domed hangar bay that has been waiting for decades for release.

A stand-alone novel, 2nd in the Extinction series. Throughout decades of military service, Earl Koke has never met a challenge he couldn’t surmount or an enemy he couldn’t pummel into submission. Now, with his career nearing its end, he looks forward to retirement and enjoying a peaceful easy life. When a massive solar storm threatens to reduce the Earth to ashes, Earl is among the last few to reach the safety of the ark starships waiting in orbit. As the vessels prepare to leave, mankind’s survival seems certain, but sabotage to their navigation system sends them millions of ...

A fierce sandstorm hits southern Algeria and uncovers a lost ruin, its location unknown to modern man...until now. A team led by slacker archaeologist, Harrison "Hank" Boyd, is called in to investigate the find. In way over his head, Hank must lead his team through countless dangers and survive brutal encounters with enemies both human and inhuman alike. And if that's not bad enough, a shadowy group with a thirst for violence and a blind ambition is hot on their heels and will stop at nothing to obtain what has been found. Hank and company should have heeded the warning left by the ancient ...

At 14, Bronislaw Huberman played the Brahms "Violin Concerto" in Vienna, winning high praise from the composer himself. Instantly famous, Huberman began touring all over the world and received invitations to play for royalty across Europe. But after witnessing the tragedy of World War I, he committed his phenomenal talent and celebrity to aid humanity. After studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, Huberman joined the ranks of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in calling for peace through the Pan European Movement.

HUNT/CODE CLASSIFIED FILE — PARTIALLY DECLASSIFIED Transcript recovered from Incident 041. Clearance: ALPHA BLACK. INTERVIEWER: Your report lists [REDACTED] missing personnel. COMMANDER: That’s incorrect. They weren’t missing. They were... [REDACTED]. One man screamed after he vanished. INTERVIEWER: You also marked [REDACTED] team members as "unaccounted for." COMMANDER: They didn’t go missing. We just couldn’t retrieve what was left. INTERVIEWER: Did you recover the civilians? COMMANDER: Technically. But [REDACTED] INTERVIEWER: Was the rescue operation aborted by command? ...

A small group of survivors makes radio contact with the refuge requesting help escaping Newport, Arkansas. Herb leads a team of men on a rescue mission, but it’s complicated when they meet other people who need their assistance. Compounding matters is a woman who was brought into the refuge by the team before they left. She wants to run the camp herself, and she knows just how to make that happen.

The apocalypse is here! Infection is everywhere. Captain Richard Yorke's British army unit were tasked with escorting civilians to the safety of Twickenham rugby stadium but instead find themselves facing wave after wave of flesh-hungry ravening maniacs driven to pass on the virus infecting them. Meanwhile teacher Sean O'Day hides out with his family, hoping the infected hordes will pass them by, while schoolboy Richard Green spends his time hunting and killing the infected, blaming them for the death of his best friend. None of their lives will ever be the same again. Going Viral is the ...

Danger stalks her, but an unexpected alliance with a sexy Spec Ops soldier could be the key to saving not just her life, but the safety of the world as we know it. She’s a cop, unprepared for what she finds in an abandoned building… When police officer Sarah Petit investigates a disturbance in an abandoned building, she expects to find a few underage drinkers. Instead, she’s attacked by creatures straight out of a horror movie. He’s a soldier, inescapably attracted to his latest recruit… Waking a week later in a hospital, Sarah is recruited by Special Forces soldier Captain Xavier...