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With the heady days of COVID-19 well and truly in our rear view mirror, that modern-day plague just an awful memory, we at HellBound Books decided it was high-time to revisit the horror enthusiast’s’ unfaltering love affair with tales of pandemic terror. We have here, for your delight, two-dozen horrific short stories of sickness, plagues, sinister microbial outbreaks, killer viruses, demonic infections, the devilpox, cannibals, and, of course, the ultimate in pandemic terror: zombies!

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During the height of the escalating cold war between the Superpowers, strange events are occurring on the Welsh coastline, an area that would later become known as, The Welsh Triangle. On the opposite side of the country, even more disturbing occurrences are unfolding in Rendlesham Forest, in Suffolk, England, which separates the twin airbases of RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters, occupied by the USAF The event is now known as The Rendlesham Forest Incident.

Malacca Strait, 1947: A Dutch merchant vessel mysteriously sinks...Wales, UK, 2019: A message in a bottle washes ashore...Nassau, Bahamas: A potentially lethal discovery awaits...Time is ticking...to a global disaster. The Odyssey is lying in shallow waters, the nesting home of the island’s endangered Greenback Turtle. To monitor the situation, GLENCOM send Spire to the Bahamas to investigate. Spire takes a scuba dive down to inspect the sunken vessel, where he makes a startling discovery.

Since 1947 highly reliable witnesses, including airline pilots, military personnel, astronauts, everyday professionals, and children have been witnessing unexplained objects in the world’s skies…Now, Robert Spire is about to be thrust into the rapidly evolving UFO phenomenon in this fast-paced mystery thriller.

Robert Spire is thrust into an archeological adventure and a search for a ancient relic - an object of immense technological power - missing since historical times. It must be found at all costs, and time is running out...A sinister and powerful group of terrorists are also searching for the ancient artifact however, and will stop at nothing to get it, no matter what the cost...

When four campers decide to take a short vacation in the pine forests of Mount Shasta, a potentially active volcano, and some say, a mystical mountain region in the Cascade Mountain Range of Northern California, it turns out they aren't alone. After a long drive through the Shasta Trinity National Forest, British MIT graduate Tom Bishop and his three friends set up camp in the closed-for-the-season Pine Crags Wilderness Campsite, in the shadows of Mount Shasta. As they exchange legends about the mysterious mountain, something appears from the woods which defies all logic....

Siberia, 1908: A massive explosion occurs above the Tunguska region - known as the Tunguska Event - releasing the equivalent energy of 185 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. An asteroid impact or comet fragment is thought to have been the cause. It happened then, and it will happen again.... Wales, UK - When a blue whale gets washed ashore and dies in front of Robert Spire on his local beach, the UK's Department of the Environment is ill-prepared. When a second whale washes up dead on Myrtle Beach on the opposite side of the Atlantic, the scientific community realizes a mystery is on its hands.

Following a cataclysmic event that no one on Earth saw coming, lawyer Amber Lee awakes in London to find that the city and seemingly the entire population of the UK has been literally vaporized over one night during the summer Bank Holiday weekend - a surprise alien invasion that the news stations call "The Event". She sets off across the city, now slowly being taken over by an unknown alien lifeform, to her now deserted family home in West Wales.

London lawyer Jack West has a great job and is married with a beautiful daughter; but his personal life isn’t great, and it’s about to get a whole lot worse. When a beautiful woman, who calls herself Amber, takes a keen interest in Jack over lunch in his local wine bar, Jack does his best to resist her advances. But when she pleads with him to walk her home after two sinister looking men enter the bar, he agrees. This was Jack's first mistake. His second is entering her apartment.

A mysterious structure is found buried beneath the Antarctic ice. Undiscovered for decades...it should have remained that way. A team of climatologists are sent on a routine expedition to Antarctica to investigate a rapidly melting glacier, where they make a startling discovery. In Europe, a secret Nazi document surfaces which points to a historical government secret, and which appears connected to events unfolding in Antarctica. Robert Spire, tasked to hunt for the secret document, soon becomes the hunted, as he is chased across Europe.

For Amber Lee, a lawyer working in London, the thought of the approaching long bank holiday weekend fills her with joy - a chance to catch up with friends and generally relax. But as the weekend gets underway, news starts filtering through of unidentified objects entering Earth's atmosphere. As Saturday morning unfolds, Amber will soon wish that the long weekend never arrived....

When eminent climatologist Dr. Dale Stanton - in the process of studying the Atlantic Ocean's thermohaline circulation - is found dead in his London apartment, environmental lawyer Robert Spire is given the task of administering a large legacy left to global warming organizations. The job is straightforward until a second climatologist, Dr. Jack Bannister, drops dead on the other side of the Atlantic.

It's a dreadful shock for Horrid Henry when Perfect Peter is born, and despite his best - or worst - efforts, he can't manage to get rid of him. As Peter gets bigger, Henry gets crosser. But the day comes when Henry inadvertently finds himself saving Peter from a big fierce dog, and discovers that it's rather nice to be a hero.

Susan is whisked back through time to Ancient Greece, and finds that helping Hercules clean the Augean stables is much, much worse than tidying her room. One hair-raising experience follows another as she goes down into the Underworld with Orpheus, just misses being turned to stone by Medusa, and rides on the winged horse Pegasus.

It's just an ordinary day at Mother Goose's Academy. There's Miss Good Fairy teaching the Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood to read and write, while Miss Bad Fairy is inciting the Ugly Sisters, the Big Bad Wolf, Troll, Wicked Stepmother, Wicked Witch, and Jealous Queen to gobble them all up. The result? Chaos!

An hour of manic ingenuity with music and sound effects throughout. Enjoy Horrid Henry's ghoulish antics in this, the fifth entry in the series.

Four uproarious new stories, enhanced by Miranda Richardson's manic reading and really horrid music and effects, in which the Queen visits Horrid Henry's school and watches the children make wattle and daub; and Horrid Henry tries to hypnotise Moody Margaret, tricks Perfect Peter into doing his household chores, and gets his own way at bathtime.

Horrid Henry slugs it out with brother Perfect Peter over who uses the remote control, then he stays in a haunted house and gets a nasty shock. He finds out where the X is going to be on the map in the school treasure hunt, and finally makes a memorable appearance as a TV star.

Four complete stories enhanced by Miranda Richardson's manic reading and really horrid music and sound effects:Horrid Henry makes a stinkbomb that becomes a weapon in a deadly intrigue between two double agents (Perfect Peter and Moody Margaret), creates chaos in his team project (to build the Parthenon), accepts an invitation to a sleepover from the new kid at school, and acquires a new pet: a tarantula, of course.