John - Libros y biografía

Who gets murdered by lightning? Jason Crane is at it again. The unusual deaths of several students from the University of Miami require a fresh investigation. Who better than the resident law student...

A collection of short stories that veer to the dark side. From a young man who harbors psychotic thoughts in story one to a frightening experience with one of Darwin's species in story two. Story three...

An exploration of a decade of Australian Horror Films that trace a particular pattern of subsumed social thought over the period 1971-1981. This essay may be of particular interest to the film student...

These six short stories explore the human condition in ways that may amuse. The focus is on days or events picked out in the calendar and adhered to by tens of millions. Why do we bother with the hassle...

Growing up in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in Pictures and Words. These are watercolour paintings and words of a wonderful, though sometimes scary, life growing up in Northern Rhodesia between 1946...

Seguindo os passos de N. T. Wright ― autor e estudioso aclamado ―, na série de comentários bem-sucedida O Novo Testamento para todos, John Goldingay, estudioso internacionalmente respeitado de Antigo...

In the aftermath of a conflict in which all adults are killed or driven away by their progeny, children and teens roam the streets of a ruined city. When they near the age of 21 they must play the ultimate...

Sister Mary Grace is part of a group of nuns who have settled in isolation on a far planet to devote themselves to prayer for humankind. When she is sent on an errand of mercy she realizes that in the...

Greece has always been regarded as the birthplace of western civilization and a Mediterranean paradise. In The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer uses the magical epithet rosy-fingered dawn to describe the sunrise...

In the wilderness of Alaska a man escapes the attack of a pack led by a savage black wolf. Many years later, in the ruins of Jack London's Wolf House a wanderer discovers the trapped spirit of a wolf...

Calcutta has a problem with rats and bubonic plague and the authorities have called in the World's foremost extermination expert to deal with it. But he finds out that the rats are not just rats, and...

Spiros, a student of history, returns to the past to solve the mystery of exactly how Alexander the Great died. He finds an old man who tells him the story of an alien encounter that changed the great...

Death is the end... if you're lucky.Something is stirring beneath the oldest cemetery in town and it isn't the corpses. When Evan stumbles upon a horrifying secret, he tries to tell his parents, his friends,...

In 1976 John Walters left the United States in search of adventure and literary inspiration. He lived for many years in India, Bangladesh, Italy, and Greece. He married and had five sons. Finally, faced...

They're humanity's last hope and time is running out.Jenny Avian boards the last ship escaping our doomed planet, a ship built and engineered by her husband, but the horror isn't over for this husband...

Aliens finally arrive, landing at many locations, wandering about as if tourists, ignoring humans. In the aftermath of their departure cults spring up of devotees awaiting their return. Years later an...

After a devastating fireflood the Earth has been newly terraformed. Soaring Eagle, searching for the spirits of his ancestors, finds a frigid island in the far north inhabited by huge bears which are...

It is the near future, and due to easier availability of alternative energy, fossil fuels are becoming outlawed. Fleeing south along the coastal highway from state government threats to confiscate the...

In the far future the Earth is about to be consumed by its bloated red sun. What requiem should be offered for a dying world?

Inspiration and insight for writers. Includes: "My Emancipation Proclamation", "Freedom", "Paper Dragons", "The Elusive Pursuit of Literary Fame and Fortune", "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer",...

After nuclear war, a survivor of the monster-populated ruins of Oakland California joins the crew of a clipper ship sailing the waters of the Pacific. A typhoon shipwrecks him on a tropical island whose...

The author's ultimate collection. Experience some of John Grover's best horror and dark fantasy fiction. This book collects twenty previously published short stories that have appeared in magazines such...

After a near break-in at her apartment, a young Greek woman reassesses her life. She starts a blog under the alter-ego of Lady Linguist. As she ventures forth into the new and strange cyber-world, she...

In early 1970 a new era, the Age of Aquarius, is dawning. Penny, who adopted the name of Sunflower on the way to the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, attends another rock concert touted as Woodstock...

Detective Steven Stone has a secret: he is an alien disguised as a human. While searching for missing persons of his own kind, he stumbles onto a group of rogue aliens bent on taking over and using human...

It is the mid-1970s. The Summer of Love and the Woodstock Music Festival have come and gone. Into the atmosphere of cynicism and doubt following the wild optimism of the youth revolution the Love Children,...

It is the year 1412. King Gravynmere of Vanosia, in the continent of Eurone, has sent some of his best soldiers to investigate strange stories in the nearby border town of Faxon.The men will soon learn...

In the 1970s, after the Altamont Rock Festival, the Manson Family cult murders, and the fiasco of the Vietnam War many young people, disillusioned by the hippy movement, began to leave their homelands...

While trying to protect his family in Bangladesh in the aftermath of global war, Razak has a life-changing encounter with strange beings who mysteriously appear to help restore order out of chaos.

Trapped in the mountains in southeast India as nuclear war erupts, separated from his family, deteriorating mentally and physically, David Holcroft must find his lost grandchildren, as an alien signal...