Bøker av Dan Henk

Strange worlds and creatures lie all around us. Humanity was once a slave, and is still the prey of creatures no one dreamed existed. The universe is much darker and stranger than we can ever imagine.Our world borders a multiverse and the walls are dangerously thin. Now, it is collapsing, a seething abyss is swarming in, and nothing will ever be the same again.Some children are adepts-mutants that have developed powers even they don't understand. But there is precious little time for them to learn the truth.No one is your friend, there is no help and there is no way out.

Visions of pulp era heroes fill his thoughts. He dreams big, but harsh reality digs in as he grows up, and he resigns himself to building surveillance drones for the military. After a brief probative period, he's moved into the clandestine world of investigating crashed alien craft. Fascinated beyond anything he thought possible, it's a dream come true.A strange find leads to obsession. Combined with his lack of social skills it eventually gets him fired. But he's seen too much. A year later he returns and pulls off a bloody heist. Fleeing into the woods, the military in hot pursuit, he makes a mad scramble up the coast.

As Rod Sterling famously said, "You unlock this door with the key to your imagination". Sixteen tales of horror and woe are ensconced here.A record played backwards opens a portal to a dimension of monsters.A victim of abuse exacts her revenge when her werewolf gene takes over at the next full moon.Skinheads try to kill a local kid, only to discover the horrible reality of what he really is.A father watches his son die in antipathy but evolves into an apocalyptic preacher as humanity descends into chaos.A cassette tape dropped by a local records store drives its listeners mad.And eleven more stories that harken back to the horror of old! The Tales From The Crypt, Outer Limits, Weird Tales; whispers of a reality that lies just beneath the surface of our mundane lives.

In a not-too-distant future, the US has fallen into near social and economic ruin. As the fringe elements of society and ordinary citizens alike struggle to deal with the terrifying new reality, a maelstrom of governmental deceit and malevolence churns just beneath the surface.Against this chaotic backdrop, strange new beings have risen out of the rubble. A former government worker, who in a fit of obsession and delusion steals and inhabits alien technology during a violent raid... A teenager whose reality contorts, making him privy to the cries of the dead as he stumbles in and out of worlds in a surreal game of musical chairs... Soon things take a dark turn for the newly emerged pariahs.A long-running conspiracy involving a highly proficient military-industrial complex is attempting to resurrect an ancient horror, and the very outsiders laboring to cope with the dangerously altered state of the world might be the only ones who can do anything about it.

In 1994, with the advent of majority rule, the new South African government faced the hopeful, yet sobering task of negotiating the country's past while crafting its future. This book explores the significant historical and ideological obstacles overcome, and the rehabilitation of the arms industry to contribute to the country's redevelopment.