Tim Curran | Severed Press

TERROR CELL

severed_press_ — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 17:18:32 +0000

For a hundred million years, the monstrous cell waited in the pit. Covered in tons of rock and earth, it waited for men to disentomb it. To bring it up into the world of the living. That time is now. It is awake and it is hungry. Humans are its prey, its pets, its toys to torment and break with fear. One man stands between it and its conquest of the world. If he fails, there will be no more human race. Only a global, insatiable evil without end.

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HERE THERE BE MONSTERS

severed_press_ — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:49:30 +0000

In a lonely house on the moors, a man encounters a soul-eating monstrosity from beyond time and space. A scientist peers into another dimension and finds something peering back. A mentally ill woman battles a nameless entity that has drained the emotions from the human race. An evil 17th century wizard grows like a fungus on a living scholar. A zone of blackness old as the Big Bang threatens to devour the Earth. The horrible, winged servitors of an ancient Egyptian god rise from the tomb to seek vengeance. A hideous, undimensioned horror hides in a ruined church…

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GRIMWEAVE

severed_press_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:51:46 +0000

In the deepest, darkest jungles of Indochina, an ancient evil is waiting in a forgotten, primeval valley. It is patient, monstrous, and bloodthirsty. Perfectly adapted to its hot, steaming environment, it strikes silent and stealthy, it chosen prey: human. Now Michael Spiers, a Marine sniper, the only survivor of a previous encounter with the beast, is going after it again. Against his better judgement, he is made part of a Marine Force Recon team that will hunt it down and destroy it. The hunters are about to become the hunted.

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ZOMBIE PULP

severed_press_ — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:25:26 +0000

Dead men tell tales. From the corpse factories of World War I where graveyard rats sharpen their teeth on human bones to the wind-blown cemeteries of the prairie where resurrection comes at an unspeakable price…from the compound of a twisted messianic cult leader and his army of zombies to a post-apocalyptic wasteland where all that stands between the living and the evil dead is sacrifice in the form of a lottery. Dead men do tell tales. And these are their stories. Zombie Pulp is a collection of 9 short stories and 2 never before published novellas from the twisted undead mind of Tim Curran.

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LEVIATHAN

severed_press_ — Wed, 27 May 2015 21:47:11 +0000

Tim Curran – Der Choreograph des Grauens! Seagull Island … eine geheimnisvolle Insel. Man munkelt, sie sei das Tor zu einer anderen Welt – einer Welt urzeitlicher Monster. Die Einheimischen reden nicht darüber. Sie verleugnen es. Aber plötzlich ändert sich alles …
Auch Johnny Horowitz, ein unbeliebter Paparazzi, hat von dem Mythos gehört und ist ganz besessen von dem Gedanken, als erster einen Blick auf die andere Seite zu werfen.
Während Hurricane Amelia über der Insel tobt, wird das Tor in die prähistorische Welt weit aufgestoßen, und Johnny plant dorthin zu gelangen, mit der Kamera in der Hand, unabhängig von den Konsequenzen.

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KOPFJÄGER

severed_press_ — Wed, 27 May 2015 13:59:46 +0000

Vietnam 1970. Eine grüne Hölle, wo der Tod hinter jedem Baum, in jedem Schatten und jedem Nebel lauert. Sprengfallen und Munition, Landminen und Raketen. Mike McKinney ging dorthin, um über den Krieg zu schreiben, über den Terror und die Frustration, über Soldaten und Menschen und eine Landschaft, die durch den Krieg für immer verändert wurde … doch dann begegnet ihm noch etwas anderes: Ein urzeitlicher Horror, entsprungen dem dunkelsten vietnamesischen Aberglauben. Eine groteske Abscheulichkeit, die durch den Dschungel und über die Hochebenen schleicht, auf der Suche nach menschlichen Köpfen.
Nun ist es auf der Jagd nach ihm.
Und nichts kann es stoppen.

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AFTERBURN

severed_press_ — Mon, 25 May 2015 07:18:46 +0000

Be quiet. Very quiet. Don’t scream. They can’t see you, but they can hear you. And they’re coming. Knocking at doors and reaching through windows, hungry to incinerate anything that moves, anything that breathes. Born in a searing hellstorm of radioactive dust, they own the night and if they touch you, they’ll burn the flesh from your bones. Listen. They’re coming now. Don’t even whisper. And don’t scream.

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LEVIATHAN

severed_press_ — Mon, 25 May 2015 07:09:30 +0000

There’s something wrong on Seagull Island. When the atmospheric conditions are right, a doorway opens to a primeval world of monsters. The locals won’t talk about it. They live in denial. But that’s all about to change. Johnny Horowitz, a much despised member of the paparazzi, has gotten a glimpse of something from prehistory and he isn’t going to stop until he gets a photo of it. With Hurricane Amelia bearing down on the island, the doorway to the prehistoric sea is about to be thrown wide and Johnny plans on being there when it opens with camera in hand, regardless of the consequences.

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HEADHUNTER

severed_press_ — Mon, 25 May 2015 07:07:15 +0000

Vietnam 1970. A green hell where death waits behind every tree, in every pooling shadow, and in every mist-haunted hollow. Boobytraps and bullets, landmines and rockets. Mike McKinney went to write about the war, about the terror and frustrations, soldiers and people and a landscape forever altered by the conflict…but he ran across something even worse: a primeval horror straight out of the darkest Vietnamese folklore. A monstrosity that stalks human heads among the twisted, jungled hills of the Central Highlands. Now it is hunting him. And nothing can stop it.

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MORBID ANATOMY

severed_press_ — Mon, 25 May 2015 06:53:16 +0000

In Lovecraft’s original story, he only touched upon Herbert West’s experiences in World War I, but now the entire dark truth can be revealed–the secret laboratories, the legions of walking corpses, and the gruesome experiments that defy description. As a war correspondent closes in on the truth and West’s assistant tries to cover up his mentor’s unholy delvings, a mutant monstrosity nourished on the dead rises up to claim the battlefield as its own and something unspeakable, something beyond death itself stalks the night in search of its twisted creator. Bonus Material: “Herbert West—Reanimator” a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. First serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media. The story is the first to mention Lovecraft’s fictional Miskatonic University. It is also notable as one of the first depictions of zombies as scientifically reanimated corpses, with animalistic and uncontrollable temperament. Charnel House a short story by Tim Curran. Five years after the disappearance of Herbert West, the legends of his deranged experiments on the dead live on as twice-told tales and stories for dark nights. But when mutilated, half-devoured corpses are discovered in Arkham, the police find themselves on the trail of a grave-robbing horror, the hideous end result of one of West’s experiments that still prowls lonely burial grounds and plucks children from cribs to satisfy its grisly appetites.

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TOXIC SHADOWS

severed_press_ — Mon, 25 May 2015 06:51:03 +0000

Cut River, Michigan. Population: 0. The town the Devil built. Once it was a sleepy backwater town and once there were people in it.Then a lurking pestilence ate the flesh from its bones. A pestilence born in the smoldering graveyards of nameless, forgotten battlefields. And now there is only a shifting darkness in Cut River, a darkness populated by hideous shadows that pretend to be people. Seven strangers will arrive. If they can stay alive until dawn, they’ll survive. But to do that will mean engaging in a bloody war of attrition against the things that crawl and hunt in the night. Things that wear the faces of men, women, and children. Toxic Shadows. Welcome to Cut River. Welcome to the graveyard. War is Hell.

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