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As a product of Buffalo, New York's dangerous East Side, Alan Perez was always extremely tough. He didn't become the top student of the enigmatic martial arts instructor known only as Master Kai for no good reason. Unlike many others, Alan embraced the gritty ghettos that he called home for all his young life, as they were the only environment he had ever known. Most of his high school peers gave him respect. The girls felt even more for him than that. Life seemed as good as a young man living in such an urban jungle could ever hope for.But when the deadly street gang known as the New York Boys began taking over the city's East Side, not even Alan could live with that. After his father and several other residents in his neighborhood became victims of the gang, Alan decided that enough was enough. He also decided something else: he could control Buffalo's East Side more efficiently than the fearsome leader of the New York Boys. Donning a specialized costume, Alan pooled his amazing martial arts skills to become the darkly dressed vigilante called Moonstalker. He would take on the seemingly insane task of waging a one-man war on the New York Boys and the other criminals plaguing the city's East Side. He would fight his way towards a final, incredibly bloody confrontation with the gang's extremely deadly leader, the one person in the city who may be Moonstalker's equal... or his superior. Along the way, he would learn the cost of taking on the mission of a costumed vigilante acting outside the law. His urban exploits would inspire many other citizens to take the law into their own hands. The mission would exact a heavy toll on his psyche, further swelling his already immense ego. It would pit him against the local police, including a young officer who made it his obsession to take the young vigilante down along with the New York Boys. Ultimately, it would culminate in his high school becoming the target of a massive assault by the deadly street gang -- with Moonstalker and the leader of the New York Boys engaging in a final brutal battle to determine once and for all who would be the undisputed alpha of the East Side streets. No matter who wins, neither will emerge unscathed, and Buffalo will never be the same again.Moonstalker's saga will take many dark and twisted turns, and it all begins here.

Benny Lonero always lacked power in his young life. His fellow high school students constantly reminded him of this every time they tormented and bullied him. His family reminded him of the same thing every time it became clear they didn't understand him.This all changed when a cosmic force known as a Warp Event occurred above his home city of Buffalo, New York... and Benny found himself imbued with its otherworldly energies. Suddenly, he had power beyond reason. He would attempt to use it to become a costumed hero, much like the characters he read about in the comic books.However, the road to becoming a hero would not be quite that easy. Benny would find that his inner demons were as formidable an adversary as the various threats to his home city that also emerged from the Warp Event. And considering how dangerous these other threats would be, that is truly saying something.Would Benny, as the mighty Centurion, become the protector that he wanted to be? Or was he fated to be a threat as dangerous as any other spawned by the Warp Event?As Benny will find out, being a hero takes far more than great power and good intentions. It takes a lot of responsibility... and immense sacrifices. Centurion's tragic saga beings here.

Dorian Gray, that most intriguing creation of Victorian author Oscar Wilde, has served as a figure of horror, dark ambiguity, and personified cautionary tale for over 120 years now. Since the original serialized publication of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, we've seen a multitude of literary and cinematic interpretations and re-interpretations of the story of a young man who obtained immortality at a tremendously dark cost, with the merciless effects of aging and the consequences of his actions now borne by a portrait rather than suffered by the young man himself... most of the time. We've seen him appear in horror-oriented TV shows, as part of an ensemble in major motion pictures, headline periodic comic book mini-series, and featured as the star of a terrific audio drama series by Big Finish. What we haven't seen, however, is a prose horror anthology devoted entirely to his tales, each of which display the variety of roles he can play: From debauched villain and corruptor of the innocent, to anti-hero, to an unlikely savior -- including taking a pendulum swing from one to another within a single story - which amply demonstrate how metaphorically apropos his surname actually is. That all changed the moment this volume was published, however.In this anthology, several authors bring Gray to life, showing the variety of effects he has on various individuals, both innocent and otherwise, who cross his path. The time periods range from the Edwardian era right up to the present, yet throughout each the man with the infamous portrait remains true to the variety of shades he embodies. Moreover, the paths of those he crosses will themselves be quite familiar to genre readers (e.g., Dracula, a mad scientist named Pretorius, artist Richard Pickman of Lovecraft's nightmarish tale "Pickman's Model," a lady-loving she-vampire called Carmilla, Becky Sharp of VANITY FAIR). This volume brings you two novellas, a short play, two short stories, a timeline, and even a short personal bonus memoir, all of which give readers a glimpse into the many shades that Dorian Gray can paint on those whose lives he touches... and how their lives affect his own continuing saga.

Once again, the many types of monsters from folklore, legend, and cinema et al. will be feared not only by the hapless human beings they routinely prey upon - but also by each other! Eleven different authors bring you short stories and a sprinkling of flash fiction featuring unfortunate people caught between two different monsters, with the latter creatures on a bloody collision course with each other for a climactic duel of the monsters! In each fear-fraught tale one of the two combatants will go down for the count. Which one will it be?>A camping family and a forest ranger are caught between a deadly Bigfoot and a ravenous Killer Grizzly - who end up clashing in mortal combat to determine which is the true king of the forest; A Man-Made Monster stitched together by a scientist overcome with the usual madness clashes with the latter's assistant, a sentient Great Ape, in the most demented love story of the century; A Sea Serpent and a Kraken decide that even the ocean depths are not big enough for the both of them; A dangerous Man-Beast is followed by an investigative reporter into the bayou... only for each to have a run-in with the deadly resident Swamp Monster; The dreaded Mr. Edward Hyde visits Paris only to find himself in the cross hairs of the fabled city's deadliest assassin - the Phantom of the Opera; A bloodthirsty Velociraptor gets loose within the genetics facility that created it... only to cross fangs with an equally bloodthirsty Vampire; A powerful undead Lich finds himself challenged in an old cathedral by the infamous Dr. Herbert West, a.k.a., the Reanimator - and a trio of his murderous Zombie reanimates; An Invisible Woman turned serial killer discovers that her latest targets have been stalked by a predator of a different sort - a man-eating Insectoid Alien; A man cursed to become a cannibalistic Wendigo finds himself and his family under siege by a rampaging Lizard Man; A voracious Werewolf takes refuge in a church... only to run afoul of the resident Gargoyle that prefers having no late night visitors; Stoner dude Bill Chan once again finds himself caught between two fearsome critters out of lumberjack folklore... only this time, the critters are a spiny Cactus Cat and an elusive Hidebehind. These creatures are here and ready to rumble for your nightmarish pleasure in the second volume of Duel of the Monsters! Rated Ex (Explicit) for graphic violence, strong language, sexuality, and intense themes. This book may not be suitable for sensitive readers