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New Ebook Bundles: 12/4/2018

Here are the new ebook bundles that went on sale today!

The Complete Adversarial Cycle by F. Paul Wilson

Place holder  of - 42The battle has begun: On one side, the ultimate evil created by man, and on the other…the unthinkable, unstoppable, unknowing terror that man has inevitably awakened. Bestselling author F. Paul Wilson explores the evil of man—and the supernatural evil that man keeps alive.

This discounted ebundle includes: The Keep, The Tomb, The Touch, Reborn, Reprisal, Nightworld.

The Complete Galahad Archives by Dom Testa

Poster Placeholder of - 79Life on Earth is over—and only 251 teens sent into space can save mankind in this gripping young adult science fiction adventure series by popular Colorado radio host Dom Testa.

The teenage crew of the starship Galahad must find a new home for humanity among the stars—if they fail, it will be the end of the human race….

The Complete Galahad Archives discounted ebundle includes: The Comet’s Curse, The Web of Titan, The Cassini Code, The Dark Zone, Cosmic Storm, The Galahad Legacy.

The Crossroads Series by Kate Elliott

Image Placeholder of - 93In the land of the Hundred, peace has been hardwon–but a new army, led by a mysterious band of armed and soul-bonded corps that swoop across the skies, slowly casting a shadow over the world.

Realizing they must avert the coming invasion, a large cast of engaging characters rise up to defend their people and regions against an epic landscape. With masterful storytelling, uniquely mythic characters and a compelling plot, Elliott captivates readers in The Crossroads series.

The Crossroads series discounted ebundle includes: Spirit Gate, Shadow Gate, Traitors’ Gate.

Saga of Recluce: 10-13 by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Placeholder of  -11L.E. Modesitt, Jr.’s bestselling fantasy novels set in the magical world of Recluce are among the most popular in contemporary fantasy. Each novel tells an independent story that nevertheless reverberates though all the other books in the series, to deepen and enhance the reading experience. Rich in detail, the Saga of Recluce is epic storytelling at its finest.

A world of warring magical forces: black order, white chaos, and shades of gray.

This discounted ebundle includes: Magi’i of Cyador, Scions of Cyador, The Wellspring of Chaos, Ordermaster.

The Red Dragon Rising Series by Larry Bond

Image Place holder  of - 57More than twenty years ago, Larry Bond helped Tom Clancy write Red Storm Rising, the iconic techno thriller of the Cold War era. Now he returns (with Jim DeFelice) to start a new classic series for our era, Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising, which imagines the globe torn apart by climate change and its economic and geopolitical fallout.

The Red Dragon Rising Series discounted ebundle includes: Shadows of War, Edge of War, Shock of War, Blood of War.

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“Keep Away from the Keep”*

Poster Placeholder of - 48By F. Paul Wilson

Damn. I just realized that if we’d waited one more month we could have called it the “Thirtieth Anniversary Edition.”

That’s right. Wm. Morrow first published The Keep in 1981. Yours truly finds that very scary.

Even though I spent the 70s writing SF for John Campbell’s Analog and Doubleday’s science fiction line, I really wanted to write horror. You could sense that from the grisly touches in my SF. In “Ratman,” my first sale to Campbell—my first sale ever—the finale involved the bad guy being eaten alive by semi-intelligent space rats. While discussing possible additions to “The Tery” for Dell’s Binary Stars #2, I remember editor Jim Frenkel telling me, “It’s already got enough horror.”

By 1980 the K-man’s success had convinced publishers that horror would sell, even if your name wasn’t Blatty or Levin, so I decided to go for it. King had continued Richard Matheson’s trend of moving horror away from brooding castles and into the towns and schools and homes of working- and middleclass Americans. I wasn’t ready for that. I’d read too much classic horror to give up on the Gothic just yet.

I’d spent decades immersed in everything horror—the works of Machen, LeFanu, James, and Lovecraft—tons of Lovecraft. I’d also been reading Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and while I enjoyed her Hotel Transylvania, I found the idea of a heroic vampire ridiculous. They’re parasites. But she did start me thinking about vampires. Like how much more interesting if the vampire only pretended to be an ally. (Hmmm…there’s a thought.)

At that time I lived near Lakewood, NJ, with its large Orthodox Jewish community. I’d see them in the stores all the time and, since vampires were on my mind, I started wondering: If these rabbi types ran into a true vampire, how would they react to its traditional fear of the crucifix? Wouldn’t that raise an awful lot of questions about their belief system?

Interesting situation. Even more interesting if the being was pretending to be a vampire to hide its true nature—something much worse.

The juices started flowing. What if it wasn’t the Christian cross it feared, but something that resembled one? But what?

The solution came to me at 3 a.m. one morning. I scribbled it down in the dark and the story cascaded together.

Besides horror, I was reading a lot of Robert Ludlum in those days. I loved the international scope of his breathlessly paced novels, so full of conspiracies, lies, and deception, where no one was who they seemed to be.

So, for my first horror novel I set up a big canvas, took one part vampire myth, one part HP’s cosmic evil, sprinkled in some Nazi einsatzkommandos for human evil, added smidgen of Ludlum paranoia, a Jewish scholar, and began to paint.

My agent had a movie deal before he’d even begun to send it to publishers. Unfortunately The Keep wound up in the clutches of Michael Mann who warped it into a film memorable for striking imagery, bad dialogue, and head-scratching incomprehensibility.

But the novel persists. Over its thirty-year life span, during which it’s never been out of print, it has appeared as a trade hardcover, a signed limited collector’s edition, a mass market paperback, and even a graphic novel, but never as a trade paperback. Until now.

F. Paul Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Repairman Jack novels. The Keep (ISBN: 978-0-7653-2739-0 / ISBN10: 0-7653-2739-2 / $15.99) will be available in December 2010 from Tor Books.

*header for a one-star review of Michael Mann’s film of “The Keep” – Daily News 12/8/83

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