Books with title Mr. Accident: Death Eidolons: Collected Short Stories 2014

His nickname at work, where his colleagues avoid him like a plague, is ""Mr. Accident"". Alongside a lonely stretch of road on his way home one evening, he earns his reputation, once again. While he sits with a dying youth trapped inside an overturned and crumpled automobile, Mr. Accident tells the boy how he earned his reputation. His is a sordid tale of endless cacophony and disaster, and death follows Mr. Accident like a shadow.Today, he earns his nickname with flare. If you should cross paths with Mr. Accident, beware.

He is the scourge of the night, every bachelorette's worst nightmare. He has already killed many single young ladies, and he will certainly kill again. Tonight, he lingers outside the house of his next intended victim. Watching. Waiting.When he sees her climb the stairs to her bedroom, he knows her time has come. Demonstrating expert skill and terrible discipline, he steals into her home to rouse her from her dreams. This victim will not go as easily as all the rest, however, much to his sinister delight.Every matchmaker claims there is someone for everyone. This old adage is never truer than when one lover whispers it to another on a hiss of desperate sadism. What happens when like evils meet?

Tarn is a water world, covered from pole to pole by an incredibly deep ocean. Humankind built only one city there. Situated directly on its equator, terraformers strategically emplaced this massive port to continuously exploit the planet's boundless fisheries. Because Tarn orbits its binary system on an extreme axial tilt, each day also measures a year, and because its suns are lethal, Tarn fish only rise to its surface in the darkness. Fishing there is a dangerous business, but the planet's entire economy subsists on the larva of a single enormous predator, which the galactic elite consume as a delicacy. Unfortunately for the common sailor, adult fish are many times larger than the comparatively tiny boats that hunt their offspring, so the death toll climbs after each six month tour. Human labor is cheap.From bloody experience, one outlaw crew has discovered this monster's greatest danger, and they are determined to fight for their lives, heedless of consequence. Though this hunt will be decidedly one-sided, they must finish it. Which is the quarry?

He is the scourge of the night, every bachelorette's worst nightmare. He has already killed many single young ladies, and he will certainly kill again. Tonight, he lingers outside the house of his next intended victim. Watching. Waiting.When he sees her climb the stairs to her bedroom, he knows her time has come. Demonstrating expert skill and terrible discipline, he steals into her home to rouse her from her dreams. This victim will not go as easily as all the rest, however, much to his sinister delight.Every matchmaker claims there is someone for everyone. This old adage is never truer than when one lover whispers it to another on a hiss of desperate sadism. What happens when like evils meet?

One of the most pivotal waterborne engagements in history would not be fought ship-to-ship in the traditional fashion of naval warfare, a brutal duel between massive battleships. This titanic contest would be decided without either commander sighting the other, for victory would ultimately be claimed in the skies, aircraft to aircraft. Its outcome directly determined the future of the individual sailor and aviator, but it also indirectly decided the fates of their homelands, as well.For the combatants, Midway was not merely an isolated battle in the larger conflict, rather it would decide the war entirely and the fate of the world thereafter. Will humankind ever fully benefit from the sacrifices made that fateful day in the skies surrounding a tiny Pacific Island?

They are the perfect couple, if perfection is a measure of lies and deception. They travel from town to town, conning their way across country, working confidence games, large and small. When their past turns up to haunt them, they both quickly realize they are but hours away from certain death. Life then becomes a contest of ruthless cunning, but this is a game they play well.Tell the victims what they want to hear. Gain their confidence. Gain their trust. Then rob them blind! We are never more alive than we are when facing death.

Jermy Borden's seven short years on Planet Earth had already been filled with hardship, deprivation and heartache when, on the way to school one morning, his drunken mother drove their car into a neighbor's home, killing herself and a hamster named "Ted". Jermy somehow managed to claw his way out of the shattered rear window, leaving his hands badly burned and his fate in the hands of his only living relative, Gandy Ross, a hard-living ex-marine with no children of his own.This is either the worst thing to ever happen to him, or the best. Has fate left this young boy in the devil's hands?

The universe is a strange, all but impenetrable mystery. Every scientific advance sponsors countless new questions, and every new explanation spawns immeasurable unknowns. How can dinosaurs of all kinds and from all epochs of evolution suddenly and randomly appear all over the world? What would you do with a tyrannosaurus peering through your bedroom window? How would you deal with pterosaurs soaring above your roof?His is an unpredictable world surrounding an entirely too predictable suburban neighborhood. Then everything changes. One thing is certain, during a plague of prehistoric thunder lizards, a feisty poodle can come in handy!

In this vision of the future, the most prestigious vacation money can buy is a trip to a corporate planet overgrown with a jungle wilderness. There, wealthy tourists gird armor and fantastically powerful weapons to hunt strange chimeras through an endless forest. These beasts are all genetically engineered to be fierce, bloodthirsty, and difficult to kill. Despite the benefits of their high technology, only experienced guides can lead their pampered clients safely through to the end of the game.Every year, countless bored tourists pay exorbitant fees to hunt terrifying synthetic monsters engineered to be extremely lethal and difficult to kill. On a shout of ""RECOM!"", instinctively turn to fight or run for your life!

Modern cultures are awash in in the reflections of humankind’s primitive past. Often, only graven images of ancient violence pass through eons of time to speak to us today, and it is these Death Eidolons that enable us to understand the darkest point of our collective origins. Whether looming implacably through a dense jungle tangle or winking grotesquely through the uncertain blue light of our television sets, we cannot escape countless contemporary examples of our own wicked inhumanity, which most of us daily constrain with a sheer and most tenuous mastery.Experience the surreal by reading “The Spiral Stair”, “Far World Voyager”, “Alien Abductions”, “Hinterlands”, “Pablo’s People”, “Mercy, In Black” and “Walk a Day with a Devil”. Wander the ghostly realms of “He Calls Fridays with the Rain”, “Grandma Moses”, and “Dames, Dives and Death”. Witness the future as foretold in “Freedom in a Cage”, “Recom!”, “Dinosaur!”, “Die Ball”, “Devilfish”, and “Lucky Thirteen”, and then “Let Slip the Dogs of War”, explore “Devil’s Tower”, encounter ominous “Night Visitors”, get to know “Misters Monster” and “Horrid Torrid” of a stormy evening. Meet the face of contemporary evil in “The Road to Hell”, “Prison in the Sky”, “Mr. Accident”, and “Mr. S”, and enjoy the adventure of “Plastic Wayfarers”, “We, Grifters Three”, “The Poppy Express”, and “The Dumping Game”. Feel the redemption of love when you find yourself “In the Devils Hands”, and when you read “Hate and Loathing”, “Bernie’s Thing” and “Midway”.

To earn extra money, he decided to volunteer for service in Afghanistan as a civilian technologist. During training provided by the government, he vowed he would never allow terrorists to easily cut off his head for their propaganda machine. Instead, he determined to make them chase him through the desert first.After his capture by bloodthirsty jihadists in Afghanistan, a young American civilian must confront his worst nightmare with eyes wide open. After he manages to escape, however, he learns a terrible truth. Where will the Poppy Express take him?