Metaphysical Science

Krygelski writes a compelling and startling story centered on the mysterious arrival of a man who claims to be the Creator. Clearly not a mortal, Elohim - as the stranger prefers to be known - astounds those he meets with unexplainable miracles and reality-altering answers. All of this is but a prelude to his announcement that he has come to do something...something which will affect every person on Earth...something which will occur in five days.

When MIT physicist Dr. Velcro Threadbare builds a Sock Singularity Engine to solve the mystery of missing socks, she accidentally tears a hole in the fabric of reality—literally. Now socks across the multiverse have gained sentience, and they're not happy. The matched wage war against the unmatched. A pug named Sir Barksalot becomes the Sock Pope, preaching liberation through deliberate mispairing. Criminal flamingo syndicates trade in celebrity sock radiation.

Unaware that he's being sucked into the adventure of a lifetime, Curtis follows his friends to Outhere Island, where he soon realizes that nothing is as it seems and the island hides wonderful secrets. An evening walk reveals mysterious events, such as an eight-foot tall man who comes and goes into the ethers, and a puppy-like creature who is entrusted to Curtis' care. After demanding an explanation from Alecia, she challenges him to expand his understanding about time-travel, shape-shifting, and genetic engineering.

Zephrum is a core player in uncovering the mystery of the “purple haze” that has enveloped her closest town, Haversville. Following clues to uncovering the mystery, Zephrum encounters spiritual beings, strange wind phenomena, fairies, moss folk, goblins, a leprechaun, a very wild horse ride, and the very scary man behind the chair. As she gets closer to solving the mystery of the “purple haze”, a variety of hidden talents reveal themselves to her.

Call it legend, call it prophetic, Ferguson tells the riveting story of spiritual conspiracy intertwining myths that sound so real it runs your imagination wild with evidence of a centuries-old demonic cover-up. When a scientist and a gorgeous prophetess begin connecting the dots, they threaten to unveil the very fabric of the spirit world. And they more than unveil the well-guarded ancient secret; they threaten to rewrite Afrocentric history. It may be that some of our history's richest and darkest secrets are still being kept.

Neville Canton is about as average as any man can be. He has a mediocre job, a pleasant wife, and an ongoing feud with his sister. He thought he was destined for great things in life, but unfortunately never got a real shot. Once all the excuses dried up the cancer finished the job. Now trapped in a cloud between the living and the dead, he must find his way to the afterlife.

When humans, Ciaran, a billionaire, technology genius and his wife, Madeline, a quirky, psychic journalist, are forced to enter the multiverse with few resources beyond the love they share, countless lives hang in the balance. Traversing in this strange new world with unfamiliar technology and a language neither Ciaran nor Madeline understand, the pair struggles to distinguish friend from foe, allies from an enemies, and reality from illusion.

A fairly simple and submissive young man of the future is suddenly faced with losing the love of his life. Within moments, however, an extreme event makes him aware of the fact that he's had past lives and gains access to all of their knowledge and abilities. Will he be able to use this new knowledge and power to save his love? Are there others like him? If so, how are they using their gifts?

Jane and Ted Price have always known that something isn't right with their son, James. Despite all of the visits to specialists, no one has been able to diagnose what is wrong with him. In desperation, they turn to well-known psychiatrist, Bill Stevens for help. A series of suicides related to James' presence forces all involved to find answers.

An unknown enemy. Loved ones in peril. A battle for survival. Tatya has sent the demon who pursued her back to Hell. Now she’s about to open a healing center and use her gifts to help those in need. The only one she can’t help is the man she is in love with, the vampire master, Vanse, who lies in a coma. When an ambitious vampire arrives in town with designs on Vanse’s family, Tatya’s plans are turned upside down. Her best friend, the local shaman, Forked Lightning, puts his life on the line to help, but chaos and tragedy follow when Tatya is kidnapped.

A Year in the Borderlands writer Kevin Candela's wild second excursion into alternate realities includes 17 tales, twelve of which have appeared in previously released anthologies and are collected here for the first time. These short stories combine with five never before released works, including the novella It's Only Funny if You Laugh, to produce a wide-ranging panoramic view of the worlds and realities that exist beyond our own. Playing With Reality is another vividly detailed page in the Atlas of the Unknown.

In the year 1960, private eye John Nyquist arrives in Delirium, a city of a million borders, to pursue his strangest case yet: tracking down Oberon, the stolen, sentient image of faded film star Vince Craven. As Nyquist tracks Oberon through a series of ever-stranger and more surreal borders, he hears tantalising stories of the Yeald, a First Wall hidden at Delirium's heart. But to get the help he needs to find it, he'll have to journey into the fractured minds of the city's residents, and even into his own.

Prisoner 43-1-12 contends with the voices of her past, present, and future in the war-altered world of Illirium. From a ranch outside a rural town, to a prison formed from city ruins, and a wilderness marked by supernatural encounters, There Was Music explores the struggle between identity and the cost of survival, the power of music, and the hope of healing.

On her 21st birthday Katie Harper has only one wish: to become a real Harper woman. Mystical powers are passed down her family generation after generation - some even call them witches - yet every spell Katie attempts goes disastrously wrong. When her magic does appear, it’s in a form nobody expected, and suddenly Katie is thrown into a dangerous new world with shadowy consequences. For the realm of the deceased is not as peaceful as she once thought. The dead are buried with their secrets, and only Katie can help the ghosts of the past finally find peace.

Hunted by an ancient predator. Freedom will demand the ultimate price. Tatya is falling in love with the local master vampire and has a new business venture. But her plans go awry when someone starts killing young women who look like her. With the help of old friends, she forms an unlikely alliance with an alpha werewolf to expose the murderer. But when the killer is revealed, will this formidable challenge make or break her?

The Arbuckle Mountain pass in southern Oklahoma is treacherous any time of the year, but a winter ice storm turns the scenic highway into a death trap for Evelyn Maloney, Teah’s mother. Letters from her mother speak of shamanism and reveal the true meaning of her name. Teah’s confusion mounts as she stands in her mother’s private attic sanctuary. And the 28 blue bound journals where the unknown past of her mother’s life is yet to be revealed only feed her growing inner tension.

In this novel we meet Alison Wheaton and Charlie Dunn, a couple who are very much in love. Alison has survived cancer, but only just. The couple are taking an extended sabbatical in a small Icelandic town. The couple is finding their way back normality; that is until Alison starts to suspect that something is not quite right. What begins as a romance slides into an odd, dreamlike surrealist fantasy. Meanwhile, back in Coventry young Jessica Kirkpatrick has finally plucked up the courage to leave her abusive boyfriend.

Returning to the home town of his missing father on a search for his own origins, Dominic Rackett is swept up in a murky conspiracy involving a suspicious scholar, a Himalayan legend, and subliminal clues from a silent film festival. As those around him fall prey to rising fear and shrill fanaticism, he follows the branching trails of cinema monsters and figures from a very real past, as phantoms invade the streets of his once-familiar city and one of them, glimpsed in distorted shadows of alleys and urban parks, begins to look uncannily familiar.

My name is Ariana. I am heiress to the old religions, collector of history, gatherer of the ancients. I wish I could say all magic and wisdom were mine again, but I'm human now and have been for a very long time. I have come back to find the mates to my soul. Christian Winger. My friend and protector. The one person in my untried world who also heard the Whispers. Daen. Friend or foe - we know not which. That he is powerful and beautiful is beyond argument. Ryuichi.

Lyla was born to lead the most prosperous kingdom in the multiverse. She has it all: beauty, intelligence, the protection of her royal family, and a legion of supernatural soldiers. To prove herself worthy of her privileges, she goes to Earth on a mission just to find out it is a trap.