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Eleven extreme-horror authors explore whether Satan invades the innocent, or simply gives the willing permission to become what they already are. Evil doesn't always arrive with horns and fire. Sometimes it whispers. Sometimes it tempts. Sometimes it wears your face. Across eleven unflinching stories, Who's Satan Inside? digs into possession, religious terror, bodily violation, psychological unraveling, and the moment temptation becomes consent.

Welcome to Dethfest—the ultimate heavy metal festival, where the music slays... and so does everything else. You came for the riffs, the mosh pits, and the weekend of your life. Instead, you'll find yourself trapped in a nightmare where people are disappearing, riots are erupting, and something sinister is spreading through the crowd.

Vom "modernen Meisters dunkler und verdrehter Geschichten" kommt eine Geschichtensammlung des Schreckens, eine gruseliger als die nächste. Ein Pornograf, der ein schreckliches Morgenritual durchlebt. Ein Mann plant, wie er seinen lästigen Begleiter loswerden kann, während ein Serienmörder mit Gedächtnisverlust sein Unwesen treibt...

Ride into a lawless frontier town where the wrong decision can kill you before sundown. Welcome to Placerita. The whiskey's cheap, the guns are loaded, and the sheriff isn't especially interested in saving you. You're an outsider caught in a town where outlaws, grudges, bad luck, and something far worse all collide. Draw too fast and you might start a war. Trust the wrong stranger and you might end up in an unmarked grave. Wait for the law and you might die waiting. Read the room, pick your allies, and decide whether courage means standing your ground or getting on your horse.

For years, former fighter and Ivy League football player Mark Tullius ignored the warning signs. The headaches, memory lapses, and mood swings were just part of the game—until a brain scan changed everything. This raw and revealing traumatic brain injury memoir blends personal storytelling, medical research, and mental-health insights.

Author Mark Tullius speaks his mind and shares his writing: Horror, Sci-fi, Suspense, and nonfiction MMA.

A father no one in his house can hear anymore. A gang member who walks into a church where something is very wrong. A cameraman who exposes a trafficking ring and can't outrun what he saw. Then the collection turns on its author. In the final piece, Tullius counts the cost of a life spent absorbing punishment (football, boxing, MMA) and what it did to the man throwing the punches.

Trapped aboard a cruise ship during a manufactured outbreak, every choice could spread the infection, or make you its next victim. Your cruise was supposed to be an escape. Then passengers start getting sick, and panic spreads faster than the infection. The crew loses control. Armed men move through the restricted decks. And the whispers say this outbreak was no accident. You're Dylan, stuck on a ship bearing down on San Francisco Bay. Who you trust, where you hide, whether you fight. Every call matters.

The walls of Brightside no longer contain the danger, and freedom forces the surviving telepaths into a conflict far larger than the prison town they escaped. Escape was supposed to mean freedom. Instead it's a death sentence. The survivors of Brightside have made it past the boundaries of the telepath prison town, but the outside world has been taught to fear them, and the people who built Brightside won't let them simply disappear.

Inside a beautiful prison for telepaths, every thought can betray you, and every choice can get you killed. Welcome to Brightside, a peaceful mountaintop town where privacy doesn't exist. Everyone here is a Thought Thief, a telepath locked away because the world is afraid of what they can hear...

Follow the journey of Mark Tullius, former cage fighter and boxer turned author and stay-at-home dad as he puts his love of fighting and his sociology degree to use. What began as a personal exploration to unlock his reasons for continuing to train and pursue a fight career evolved into an in-depth sociological study of why competing in mixed martial arts (MMA) appeals to fighters. Why do these men and women subject themselves to the endless hours of grueling training required for the full-contact sport?

Twenty-four violent stories reveal the monsters hiding in ordinary people, damaged minds, desperate relationships, and the choices that turn fear into mayhem. Some monsters are born. Others get made. Untold Mayhem unleashes twenty-four tales of madmen, monsters, twisted minds, damaged relationships, and brutal ends. Mark Tullius moves from psychological horror and dark crime to supernatural violence, body horror, grief, and grim humor, always circling back to the choices that reveal what a person is capable of becoming.

Joshua's father raises him as the returned Messiah, and surviving every attempt to escape the prophecy may be the most frightening evidence that the old man is right. What if you were the Second Coming, and couldn't believe it? Joshua is born into a prophecy he never asked for. His father reads the boy's survival as a divine sign and builds a church around the belief that Joshua has returned to judge the living and redeem the faithful. Instead of love, Joshua gets worship, fear, abuse, and a lifetime of expectations he can't outrun.

Five familiar lives take one step beyond safety, and discover the horror waiting in homes, jobs, families, entertainment, and the mind of the author himself. Horror doesn't always wait in abandoned castles or distant woods. Sometimes it lives across the street, clocks in for work, comes on over the radio, or sits beside the people you love.

In the first of a series of short stories leading up to Brightside, the protagonist, a teenage Joe Nolan, finds himself in a comprising position. Listeners learn that from a young age, people in the telepath's life often assume they know just what he wants, when all along it's he who understands their most personal thoughts and desires.

Twenty-eight terrifying tales. Mark Tullius takes familiar relationships, private guilt, small disappointments, and moments of weakness and twists them into psychological horror, brutal violence, supernatural unease, and grim morality. A reunion might bring a family together, or expose what one of them has been hiding. A small choice becomes an obsession. A wounded person learns that revenge offers no road back to who they were. The stories range from creeping dread to graphic, disturbing ends, always circling the human decisions that make horror possible.

Joe's telepathy sends him to Brightside, a beautiful mountain town that is really a prison, where every resident can hear the thoughts he cannot hide. Across the country, people who can read minds are being rounded up. Joe is one of them. His ability lands him in Brightside, a secluded mountain town sold as a peaceful refuge and run like a prison. The residents have homes, jobs, relationships, and no privacy at all. Everyone around Joe can hear the thoughts he can't control, and the people running Brightside are watching for the first sign of resistance.

Five interlinked stories, each written from a different character's point of view, 5 More Perfect Days continues the dystopian nightmare of 25 Perfect Days, with more tales of the sacrifice, courage, and love needed to survive and overcome this nightmare.

Each Dawn I Die contains ten thoroughly twisted tales from Mark Tullius. The setting of each tale varies from the next, yet the idea that permeates all of them is the author's preoccupation with discovering evil in the ordinary.

A small collection of short horror stories that you should listen to with the lights on. Come join a soldier on the run in the jungle, a coed's late night at the computer lab, a doctor's visit to the insane asylum, an old man's quest for the perfect photo, and a family's unique Christmas ritual.