Bøger af Brian Martinez

From the mind behind The Mountain and The City, The Body Farm, Bleeders, and A Chemical Fire comes Brian Martinez's most daring endeavor yet: a short story collection that promises to plunge readers into the depths of horror like never before.Thirteen years of cultivating terror have led to this ominous tome, a blood-curdling compendium of nightmare fuel designed to thrill, chill, and downright terrify. In this haunting collection, discover stories that will sear themselves into your memory. Twenty in total, each tale is an exploration of the macabre, a journey into fear.Prepare yourself for a phantasmal feast of fright, a cascade of chills running down your spine, a symphony of screams echoing in your ears. Brian Martinez's anthology is not merely a collection-it's a challenge. Do you dare to step inside and face the unknown?

Welcome to The Eldridge. Andrew Langston is a struggling New York artist on the verge of complete poverty when he receives news too good to be true: he's inherited an apartment, from an estranged uncle he never knew about. The moment he sets foot in The Eldridge, an old building with an even older history, nothing seems right. Between the strict rules, the unusual tenants, and the visions that haunt him while both asleep and awake, Andrew doesn't know what to do or who to trust. He has to decide between staying inside the building's storied walls, or being out on the cold street. Then again, the choice may never have been his to make. Because in The Eldridge, nothing is what it seems. A slow-build Lovecraftian horror story full of mystery and cosmic dread, The Eldridge is written and visualized by author Brian Martinez, utilizing the strange, wonderful technology of MidJourney's artificial intelligence.

Christopher is an odd-job man, making a living doing the chores no one else wants to. He doesn't drive and he just may have a crush on the sword-swallower girl who performs down on the boardwalk. When he agrees to be the test subject for an experimental drug named ReQular, a transdermal patch with unknown effects, things begin to change. Between reporting to the three scientists who lead the research he becomes wrapped up in the lives of various people- Eddie, a man who lives on the street, Jeanie, a spoiled rich daughter, even the Sword Girl, who regards him as a stalker as she draws him close then pushes him away. Most dangerously he becomes obsessed with destroying the life of a random man he passes on the street, for reasons even he himself can't be sure of. Through stranger and stranger turns, Christopher gets wrapped up in a world of questions: what is ReQular, who are the mysterious Murphy Group, and who can he trust?

He's digging up more than trouble.Liam Cain is big, he's mean, and he's not, strictly speaking, human. He's also between jobs since fleeing the city of Santa Fausta in a bit of a hurry.Why all the rush? A hired killer never tells.Cain heads into the desert, not just to escape all the death and the angry crime bosses, but to find a place where he can hide from the world. When he comes across a town called Dirt, a place so small it doesn't show up on the map, he thinks he's found it.But death has a way of following a man like Liam Cain. After a dead body appears in his trailer, he learns that Dirt is a place where threats come from both above and below. With the bodies piling up, and deadly creatures on all sides, will Cain run once again? Or will he stand his ground and fight?The Unseen is a bold new take on familiar myths, from doppelgangers to vampires, demons, monsters and more. This is a series that can't be missed. But be careful- once seen, this world can't be unseen...

The debut novel from Brian Martinez, A Chemical Fire is a minimalist, noir vision of the apocalypse. The story unfolds through the eyes of John Cotard, a science teacher who drugs his life away. After a car accident turns him onto prescription painkillers he allows first his job, then his marriage to crumble, doing nothing to stop it, lost in a haze of chemicals.Then, one night, the world ends. When a great fire sweeps through the land, wiping out most humans and leaving behind a scattering of zombie-like burn victims, he carries on, breaking into houses to steal drugs and hide away. For John the end of the world actually seems to make sense- it's the next logical step in his self-destruction.One-by-one he meets the few remaining survivors including a woman starving herself thin, a combat-obsessed survivalist and a dangerous face from the past he hoped to never see again. As the group travels across the country to seek safety, they face not only the dangers of the dead world around them but of each other, discovering the strange connections they share along the way.

He drinks too much. He can't hold a marriage together. And he's our only hope against the monster that just came to town.Franklin Butcher is a young cop with a few rough years behind him. Freshly divorced, he decides to make a new start in the small town of Shallow Creek. What better place to coast until retirement than a town where nothing happens?His plan doesn't work. Soon people start disappearing, and Butcher is the only one who seems to want to solve the case. He believes a new couple in town are to blame for the vanishings, but the truth is even darker than he thinks.Before he knows it, Butcher is drawn into an unseen world of supernatural creatures that has existed in secret for centuries. It's also a world he has more connection to than he ever imagined. Because, like Shallow Creek, Franklin Butcher has a few secrets of his own.The Unseen is a bold new take on familiar myths, from doppelgangers to vampires, to demons, monsters and more. This is a series that can't be missed. But be careful- once seen, this world can't be unseen...Note: A version of this story was originally published under the title Shallow Veins. This version has been heavily edited and expanded by the author.

New town. Old demons. The Unseen continues...Karen Kimura thought she was well-hidden. Running her small dojo in the corrupt city of Santa Fausta, she's spent her life in the shadows, guarding the secret of her Unseen heritage- but no secret stays hidden forever.When a young girl with her own dark past comes seeking help, Karen decides to step out into the light. It's a decision that doesn't sit well with the girl's step-father, a corrupt businessman who runs Santa Fausta. With his own plans for the darkness living inside the young girl, he takes the fight to Karen's doorstep, plunging her back into a world she ran from years ago.He's about to discover he messed with the wrong woman. Because Karen Kimura is part ninja, part spider, and all kinds of pissed off.The Unseen is a bold new take on familiar myths, from doppelgangers to vampires, demons, monsters and more. This is a series that can't be missed. But be careful- once seen, this world can't be unseen...

The virus wiped out mankind in a matter of days. Now the survivors are being hunted by what it left behind. Years after global extinction, a young woman with no name hides in a mountain above a dead city. She lives her life with the door and windows taped shut, because survival comes down to two, simple rules: stay quiet, and protect the air. Anything less means death, or worse: becoming one of them. But one day a curious, little monster comes up the mountain. It's a meeting that leads to a fateful decision, and a sacrifice that will change everything. Collected here for the first time, The Mountain and The City is a post-apocalyptic serial that has kept its faithful readers on the edge of their seats time and time again.

It was supposed to be easy money. A temp job as a night guard on some deserted island. But why wouldn't anyone tell me what I'd be guarding?Do you know what a Body Farm is? I didn't, either. Apparently it's a research facility where decomposition can be studied in a variety of settings. How, you ask? By letting a bunch of corpses lay out and rot. Yeah. Fun stuff.But that doesn't explain the voices I'm hearing over the radio. Or the strange lights I've been seeing outside. Or why some of the bodies have this funny habit of disappearing when I'm not looking.And it definitely doesn't explain what's happening to my mind...The Body Farm is a popular creepypasta with more than 200,000 views on Youtube, as well as thousands more readers around the internet. See for yourself what has people saying: "Absolute perfection. I was enthralled in the story." -ZoOoZ"I am speechless..." -Claire_9207"I can't believe how well the story is written. So many layers! 10 out of 10 from Hell." -Lucifer"Wow I don't care how long that took me to read, I read it over and over." -Yelloguy"Compellingly written and expertly executed. Very well done." -DrBliss"Great story, didn't want it to end." -Catc8"I love love love this! Will even be reading this again. 10 out of 10." -Jennyest"This story was amazing, not at all what I was expecting! The story sucked me in. I couldn't stop reading!" -Kosher"This is the best thing I've read in my entire life." -XxCutelolzxX"I guess I won't be sleeping." -Chara666