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Embark on a journey through 2,400 years of history with this definitive collection of 161 of the world’s greatest speeches. Presented chronologically, this master volume spans from the golden age of Athens in 431 BCE to the dawn of a new China in 1926, now complete with seminal speeches from India’s Mohandas Gandhi and China’s Mao Tse-Tung.

Three hundred forty fighters from one hundred gyms explain why they train, compete, sacrifice, suffer, and keep coming back to the cage. Why would anyone willingly step into a cage and fight? Former mixed martial artist Mark Tullius wanted answers deeper than toughness, fame, or money. He crossed the country, visited a hundred gyms, and interviewed 340 fighters about what brought them to MMA, what it costs to stay, and what they found inside a sport built on controlled violence.

Twenty-eight terrifying tales. Mark Tullius takes familiar relationships, private guilt, small disappointments, and moments of weakness and twists them into psychological horror, brutal violence, supernatural unease, and grim morality. A reunion might bring a family together, or expose what one of them has been hiding. A small choice becomes an obsession. A wounded person learns that revenge offers no road back to who they were. The stories range from creeping dread to graphic, disturbing ends, always circling the human decisions that make horror possible.

You and your brother are trapped in a mountain compound full of zealots who worship strange gods, and the only way out runs through lies, manipulation, and blood. Deep in the mountains, a secluded compound holds you and your brother among zealots who worship strange gods and enforce obedience through fear, pain, and ritual. The only way out is a maze of lies, manipulation, and blood.

Joshua's father raises him as the returned Messiah, and surviving every attempt to escape the prophecy may be the most frightening evidence that the old man is right. What if you were the Second Coming, and couldn't believe it? Joshua is born into a prophecy he never asked for. His father reads the boy's survival as a divine sign and builds a church around the belief that Joshua has returned to judge the living and redeem the faithful. Instead of love, Joshua gets worship, fear, abuse, and a lifetime of expectations he can't outrun.

Welcome to Dethfest—the ultimate heavy metal festival, where the music slays... and so does everything else. You came for the riffs, the mosh pits, and the weekend of your life. Instead, you'll find yourself trapped in a nightmare where people are disappearing, riots are erupting, and something sinister is spreading through the crowd.

Inside a beautiful prison for telepaths, every thought can betray you, and every choice can get you killed. Welcome to Brightside, a peaceful mountaintop town where privacy doesn't exist. Everyone here is a Thought Thief, a telepath locked away because the world is afraid of what they can hear...

For years, former fighter and Ivy League football player Mark Tullius ignored the warning signs. The headaches, memory lapses, and mood swings were just part of the game—until a brain scan changed everything. This raw and revealing traumatic brain injury memoir blends personal storytelling, medical research, and mental-health insights.

Eleven extreme-horror authors explore whether Satan invades the innocent, or simply gives the willing permission to become what they already are. Evil doesn't always arrive with horns and fire. Sometimes it whispers. Sometimes it tempts. Sometimes it wears your face. Across eleven unflinching stories, Who's Satan Inside? digs into possession, religious terror, bodily violation, psychological unraveling, and the moment temptation becomes consent.

After a crash leaves you and your little sister orphaned, every choice inside Grandma's isolated mountain home could save you both, or end in a gruesome death. Surviving the crash was the easy part. Your parents are gone, your little sister is terrified, and the two of you have been shipped off to grandparents you barely know, deep in a Virginia mountain cottage where no one can hear you.

Trapped aboard a cruise ship during a manufactured outbreak, every choice could spread the infection, or make you its next victim. Your cruise was supposed to be an escape. Then passengers start getting sick, and panic spreads faster than the infection. The crew loses control. Armed men move through the restricted decks. And the whispers say this outbreak was no accident. You're Dylan, stuck on a ship bearing down on San Francisco Bay. Who you trust, where you hide, whether you fight. Every call matters.

A totalitarian state doesn't just happen overnight. It's a slow, dangerous slide. 25 Perfect Days chronicles the path into a hellish future of food shortages, contaminated water, sweeping incarceration, an ultra-radical religion, and the extreme measures taken to reduce the population. Through 25 interlinked stories, each written from a different character's point of view, 25 Perfect Days captures the sacrifice, courage, and love needed to survive and eventually overcome this dystopian nightmare.

It should be the happiest night of your life. Then the churches start burning, the town turns on itself, and your fiancée looks at you with Satan behind her eyes. You should be celebrating your engagement. Instead, churches burn, suicides spread like wildfire, and brutal murders tear your town apart. The happiest night of your life collapses into hell on earth. Then your fiancée is possessed by Satan himself, and every impossible choice drags you deeper into the dark. The Devil doesn't just want her soul. He wants yours.

After surviving the horrors of your last visit, you thought the nightmare was over. But when your little brother falls deathly ill, the only cure lies deep within the place you swore you’d never return to. Something evil has taken root, spilling beyond Grandma’s walls and into the surrounding mountains.

You signed on to playtest the biggest reality show around. Nobody told you the set was a real haunted hotel, and the serial killer never checked out. You step onto a real studio backlot to playtest Slashtag, the biggest reality competition show going. It's a rush, right up until you learn where they filmed it: a haunted hotel that once belonged to a notorious serial killer. That's about when it hits you that you've made the worst mistake of your life.

A small collection of short horror stories that you should listen to with the lights on. Come join a soldier on the run in the jungle, a coed's late night at the computer lab, a doctor's visit to the insane asylum, an old man's quest for the perfect photo, and a family's unique Christmas ritual.

Joe's telepathy sends him to Brightside, a beautiful mountain town that is really a prison, where every resident can hear the thoughts he cannot hide. Across the country, people who can read minds are being rounded up. Joe is one of them. His ability lands him in Brightside, a secluded mountain town sold as a peaceful refuge and run like a prison. The residents have homes, jobs, relationships, and no privacy at all. Everyone around Joe can hear the thoughts he can't control, and the people running Brightside are watching for the first sign of resistance.

Five familiar lives take one step beyond safety, and discover the horror waiting in homes, jobs, families, entertainment, and the mind of the author himself. Horror doesn't always wait in abandoned castles or distant woods. Sometimes it lives across the street, clocks in for work, comes on over the radio, or sits beside the people you love.

Ride into a lawless frontier town where the wrong decision can kill you before sundown. Welcome to Placerita. The whiskey's cheap, the guns are loaded, and the sheriff isn't especially interested in saving you. You're an outsider caught in a town where outlaws, grudges, bad luck, and something far worse all collide. Draw too fast and you might start a war. Trust the wrong stranger and you might end up in an unmarked grave. Wait for the law and you might die waiting. Read the room, pick your allies, and decide whether courage means standing your ground or getting on your horse.

Twenty-four violent stories reveal the monsters hiding in ordinary people, damaged minds, desperate relationships, and the choices that turn fear into mayhem. Some monsters are born. Others get made. Untold Mayhem unleashes twenty-four tales of madmen, monsters, twisted minds, damaged relationships, and brutal ends. Mark Tullius moves from psychological horror and dark crime to supernatural violence, body horror, grief, and grim humor, always circling back to the choices that reveal what a person is capable of becoming.