A government agent and his mentee are sent into a remote town on a mysterious and dangerous project...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Matthew Kressel's "Now We Paint Worlds" is a space operatic Tor.com Original short story.Orna, a representative of a universe-wide trade union, undergoes a drastic change in perspective while investigating the disappearance of three planets and their inhabitants on a newly terraformed world.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) by Matthew Kressel is a science fiction story about a dying writer who is trying to finish one final novel on the distant planet he settles on for his demise. His encounter with a young girl triggers a last burst of creativity.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Issue #133 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine (a grim monstrous ghostly special issue for Halloween!), featuring stories by Matthew Kressel and Alan Baxter.

Across the ineffable expanse of the Great Deep float billions of shattered universes: the Shards. Populated with vengeful demons and tormented humans, the Shards need Earth to survive just as plants need water. Earth itself is kept alive by 36 righteous people, 36 hidden saints known as the Lamed Vav. Kill but a few of the Lamed Vav and the Earth will shatter, and all the Shards that rely upon it will die in a horrible cataclysm.When Daniel Fisher is abducted on his wedding day by the demon king, Ashmedai, he learns he is a Lamed Vav, one of the hidden righteous upholding the world. The demon Mashit has usurped the throne of demonkind from Ashmedai and has been systematically murdering the Lamed Vav. On a desert-covered Shard teeming with strange creatures, pursued by a fearsome demon army, Daniel and Ashmedai, saint and demon, must join forces to stop Mashit before she destroys all of existence. Daniel's survival means he must ally with evil Ashmedai. Yet who but a...