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Every Dark moon, the river must be fed.A thousand years ago, a girl walked out of a dying desert and struck a bargain with the god of the deep: one life, given freely at every dark moon, and the great Ombara River would never fail her people. Since then the Ba-Teluma have lived on its banks in...

Before she was a monster, she was a priestess.The only mortal daughter of the old sea, Medusa gave her life to Athena because the goddess was wise, and just, and eternal. Then the god of the sea came into Athena’s temple, and Athena punished the one person she could reach.Cursed with serpents...

The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty coal-wagon to be hauled 2000 feet up the terrifyingly steep Incline - the cable-haulage system that brings the coal down to the railway line. All sorts arrive here to work the mines and bring out the coal: ex-goldminers down on their luck; others running from the law, or from a woman, or worse.

Are you a fan of the upside-down worlds of the Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, or Black Mirror? How about Stephen King or Neil Gaiman? Then spend some time reading these 26 twisty, turny stories that cross genres and blur the lines between reality and fantasy. In "Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six", a timid bank clerk working in the Arizona frontier encounters a strange man and an even stranger gun. In "Captain Coffee", a caffeine-powered superhero comes to the rescue...and many more fun ways to spend a few minutes of your day.