Searching for her runaway child, Jaclyn Ellsworth is led into the unmarked, derelict parts of western Pennsylvania. After befriending Trixie Carter, and hearing of the supposed miracles of tech industrialist Anthony Charles, she suspects her child is swept up by the surrounding cult. But as she winds up in the run-down township of Dourmsburg, its practices turn more sinister and grotesque by the hour. The cult's leader is about to return. Horrifying rituals are hidden behind the walls and under the streets. Despite Jaclyn's desperate attempts to escape, she discovers why this place seems so familiar. Cult of the Eclipse is Winfield Winfield's explosive debut, and an electrifying ride of body horror, delusion, and why people are lured into malicious cults. WINFIELD WINFIELD is an international author of body horror, psychological horror, and science fiction. He was the winner of an Editor's Choice award for his early work. A local music nut, he lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and can be found on Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and Patreon.

The second volume in the cyberpunk trilogy A Song Called Youth, this thrilling chapter recounts the struggle between guerilla fighters and neofascists for control of an orbiting space colony.

Bruised and bleeding stuntwoman Shay Waco and her eleven-year-old daughter have just survived a car crash and a sixty-foot drop through a nest of conifers. They enter a lone house for help and instead find a family sitting around a dinner table--with bullets in their heads. Sheriff Tobin Bonner, an ex-DEA agent with past he'd like to forget, investigated. His son has a bullet lodged in his brain, a gift from drug dealers when he was two. Tobin delves into the case, only to receive photos of his boy, alone and vulnerable on his daily outings. Tobin and Shay must now rely on each other to solve the murder in sunny Arizona, and if they slip up, it will be their children who pay the price.

This publication provides new information about the temple ritual texts from ancient Mesopotamia, in particular from the cities Uruk and Babylon, and shows how important the public cults were in Hellenistic times, at least until the first century B.C.

World War III has finally happened. We won, but the price was too high--the great cities of Europe are dead, and no one wants to claim the survivors. When NATO turns over the wreckage to a supposedly neutral security force, the New Resistance is born.

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Main description: In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker's sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt. Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Gogh's work unprecedented commercial value. It also called into question a world of defined values and standards that had already begun to erode during the war. Van Gogh emerged posthumously as a hero who rejected organized religion and other suspect sources of authority in favor of art. Self-pitying Germans saw in his biography a series of triumphs-over defeat, poverty, and meaninglessness-that spoke to them directly. Eksteins shows how the collapsing Weimar Republic that made Van Gogh famous and gave Wacker an opportunity for reinvention propelled a third misfit into the spotlight. Taking advantage of the void left by a gutted belief system, Hitler gained power by fashioning myths of mastery. Filled with characters who delight and frighten, Solar Dance merges cultural and political history to show how upheavals of the early twentieth century gave rise to a search for authenticity and purpose.

This volume deals with the cuneiform tablets discovered by Sir Leonard Woolley in his excavation at Atshana, as interpreted by D.J.Wiseman, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum. The book forms an appropriate companion to No. 1 of this series, The State of Idri-mi, by Professor Sidney Smith, which was published in 1949.

A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Mithraism is described from the point of view of the initiate engaging with its rich repertoire of symbols and practices.

Retired murder investigators Baltan and Eureka decide to take on one last case involving a young boy, a cult of child murderers, and their own history.