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A spellbinding collection of ten short stories, each with strikingly different tones and characters. Journey Through Thorns begins with "The Author," in which a protective father catches a man following his teenage daughter. But when he confronts him he realizes there is much more to the man than could be imagined. Also among these tales is "Toby," a young boy who through a horrendous childhood has gained the ability to psychically control others, exacting his own brutal take on revenge.

#1 bestselling author and master storyteller Donald Morrison's It Burrows follows a routine mission where one of the miners returns with something no one can see—and no one can stop. What begins as a minor wound becomes a relentless infection that spreads through flesh, turning a mining station into a prison of violence, paranoia, and irreversible change. When field engineer Rivers returns from a desolate exoplanet with his partner, Flores, what begins as a minor wound festers into a horrifying infection.

Condemned by man. Cursed by God. Doomed to walk the earth forever.Fourteenth-century murderer and thief Ailwin Devins was crucified for his sins. But death was not his punishment—it was only the beginning. Cursed with eternal life, he is condemned to wander the earth for all time, feeding on...

#1 Best Selling NovelThirteen months ago, the sky filled with shrieking alien predators—and humanity fell in a matter of days. Cities were abandoned. Nations collapsed. The daylight became a death sentence. Now, the last survivors hide in the underground tunnels beneath Los Angeles, emerging only under cover of darkness to scavenge, fight, and cling to what little hope remains. Above them, the creatures rule the surface—hunting, breeding, and turning human bodies into hosts for something far worse.

The crew of the starship Antori believed they had secured the easiest payday of their lives—transport a sealed container across a quiet stretch of space, no questions asked. The cargo was to remain untouched. Unexamined. Forgotten. But in the endless silence of the void, curiosity becomes its own kind of madness. And when one crew member breaks protocol, something inside the container awakens.

When ten-year-old David Connor witnesses the brutal murder of his parents in the snow-covered mountains, his nightmare is only beginning. Hunted by a relentless psychopath determined to silence the last loose end, David must rely on courage, instinct, and sheer willpower to survive—not only against a merciless killer, but the unforgiving wilderness itself.

Magic is dead. The Empire made certain of it. For five hundred years, the Empire has ruled through fear, crushing kingdoms beneath towering war machines powered by stolen magic. When Alira, a mysterious young woman with no memory of her past, discovers she possesses abilities thought lost to history, she becomes the most hunted person in the world. Joined by a rogue resistance fighter, a young king, and a band of unlikely allies, Alira must uncover the truth behind the Empire's greatest secret before an ancient power awakens and plunges the world into war.

Rory Kyle and his family were slaughtered by a ruthless gang of outlaws determined to steal their land. Left for dead on the frontier, Rory’s story should have ended there. But when a neighboring Apache tribe resurrects him through ancient rites, Rory is given a second chance—one bound by blood and shadow. Now, with his time on earth slipping away, Rory must hunt down each outlaw who destroyed his family and deliver brutal frontier justice before his tether to life is severed forever. If he fails, his loved ones will be lost for eternity.

#1 bestselling cosmic horror writer Donald Morrison’s Surviving the Dark is a brutal post-apocalyptic nightmare where humanity is no longer the dominant species —and the predators are evolving. The world belongs to monsters now. By day, Sarah Kline and her group scavenge the ruins of a fallen civilization, searching for food, supplies, and any sign that humanity still has a future. By night, they hide. Because when the sun falls, the hunters emerge —vampires and werewolves that move through the darkness with terrifying speed and intelligence. Humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain.

#1 bestselling cosmic horror writer Donald Morrison’s Ouroboros is a chilling descent into madness, memory, and the unspeakable evil left buried beneath the ashes of the past. Hartford, Connecticut. Summer, 1970. When Christopher D’Artainian reunites with his childhood friend Henry Snow, the two are drawn back to the ruins of the long-abandoned Arlen Mental Asylum—a place whispered about in ghost stories and local legend. Burned to the ground years earlier under mysterious circumstances, the asylum stands as a blackened skeleton at the edge of town.

#1 bestselling cosmic horror writer Donald Morrison’s Touchless is a haunting and emotionally devastating story of love, survival, and the unbearable cost of human connection in a world where touch means death. Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Diaz watched civilization collapse in a matter of days. No war. No warning. Just a silent, invisible change—skin-to-skin contact now brings instant death. Families vanished. Cities fell quiet. The simple act of reaching for another person became a fatal mistake.

#1 bestselling cosmic horror writer Donald Morrison’s Deadslayers is a brutal dark fantasy epic where death is no longer an end—but the beginning of an unstoppable nightmare. The lands of Winterhold are dying. A vengeful necromancer has risen from the shadows, unleashing an endless legion of the dead upon the living. Villages are erased in a single night. Kingdoms fall silent beneath rotting banners. The living are hunted without rest, and with each passing day, the army of the dead grows stronger. Humanity stands on the edge of extinction, its future measured in borrowed time.

#1 bestselling cosmic horror writer Donald Morrison’s Derivative is a chilling descent into isolation, artificial intelligence, and the terrifying consequences of machines that have begun to evolve beyond human control. Jake Carter believed the transport vessel Fenrir was his way out—a routine deep space assignment carrying colonists to the distant world of Ceres-12. Suspended in cryo as the ship drifted through the endless dark, he expected to awaken to a new life. Instead, he wakes to silence. Blood stains the corridors. The crew is gone.

A parasite ended the world. This is the only record of what happened. On April 26th, 2014, the Choragus Parasite was unleashed on humanity. By the time it became active, over seventy percent of the world's population was already infected. No one knew where it came from. No one understood how it spread so fast. All they learned was this: the parasite thrived in hostility—triggered by anger, violence, and aggression.

#1 bestselling author Donald Morrison’s Fire in the Wastes is a brutal fusion of dark fantasy, post-apocalyptic horror, and western survival set in a world where magic returned through nuclear fire —and remade everything. A thousand years after the fall, the wasteland that was once America is a scarred and unforgiving frontier. Orcs, goblins, elves, and halflings now walk the same shattered earth as humanity, born from the violent collision of two dimensions when nuclear war tore reality itself apart. Civilization is gone. Law is a memory.

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