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Our Dystopian future?

People read apocalyptic fiction for different reasons. To some, it’s just an escape from the daily grind. Some people like the tension that comes with characters constantly having to face impossible situations. To others, it’s a possible insight into a world that might one day appear on their doorstep. You might even have your own reason as to why you ...

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Why apocalyptic fiction?

So I got asked today why everything I write is end of the world sh*t. I had to think about that because at first, I didn’t have an answer.  I think, however, I write it because I read it.  Don’t get me wrong here, I like to read other stuff (Koontz, King, Child and Baldacci for example) but the books ...

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Children of a fallen son: A demon Apocalypse Short Story (Story 6 of the Apocalypse Collection)

He went only by the name Arthur, and he was guilty of the deaths of over two dozen people. Ruthless and merciless, he quickly became one of Britains most notorious serial killers. Now, finally, in captivity, the world needed to know if he was fit to stand trial. That was where the psychiatrist Nicola Preston came in. With the madman ...

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Facility 468: A Demon Apocalypse Short Story (Story 5 of the Apocalypse Collection)

Facility 468, a secret Russian research base deep in the Ural mountains. It’s purpose? To discover how to combat the effects of long term sleep deprivation. An insignificant facility, barely even worth mentioning. Then one day, contact is unexpectedly lost, the last broadcast from the facility showing it has been the scene of unprecedented slaughter. In situations like this, there’s ...

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London Lost: A Zombie Apocalypse Short Story (Story 4 of the Apocalypse Collection)

London, rush hour. Just another day for talk radio host Craig James. The host of “Rage Hour”, he spends his days listening to the people of the nations capital rant. Controversy is what he craves, and what his listeners expect. Only today it’s different. As the calls come in, it soon becomes clear that London is about to be hit ...

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Black Cross: A Zombie Apocalypse Short Story (Story 3 of the Apocalypse Collection)

The biting flies, the constant rain, the mud and the oppressive cold. Life in the trenches of the Western Front was hell on earth…and that was before the Germans started lobbing shells at you. But the thing the average soldier feared the most was the cry that could come at any time. GAS, GAS, GAS It choked, it burned and ...

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Angel Face: A Zombie Apocalypse Short Story (Story 2 of the Apocalypse Collection)

When the zombie infection hit, nobody really stood a chance. Despite initially being free of the zombie virus, the city Jazmin lived in rapidly fell apart. Anarchy, chaos and murder owned the streets, humanity turning on itself in a frenzy of madness and slaughter. As a fortunate survivor of the zombie apocalypse, all Jazmin felt she could do was cower ...

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A Mother’s Love: A Vampire Apocalypse Short Story (Story 1 of the Apocalypse Collection)

The Internet gave the virus its name – the Nosferatu Plaque New York was the first city to fall, infected men mutating to become the new species Homo Vampirous. Like dominoes, more cities were lost to humanity, the vampire menace spreading itself across the country. Liz thought the soldiers would hold back the vampiric hordes threatening her city. But when the sirens ...

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The Dead

Despite their armies and their weapons of mass destruction, humanity stood no chance against Lazarus. One by one, the cities of man rapidly fell to the undead. The survivors quickly learnt they couldn’t fight or hide from the legions of the damned. All they could do was run… but where was safe from the necrotic hordes. For the immune, even ...

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The Fall

It took mere days for the world to change. Days for human civilisation to crumble under the growing weight of the undead armies. With retreat the only option, Nick and the SAS must seek sanctuary in a dying country. But Nick must also decide on what final fate should befall the assassin, Azrael. Not everyone struggles to survive, however. Some, ...

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