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In this sixth installment of the Anthology Askew series, we asked our authors to imagine Askew Horizons - and to stretch the boundaries of what has been referred to as Science Fiction. They answered us in some amazing ways, and reached beyond the standard fare of mere space exploration and alien encounters, to bring you stories of wonder. You will encounter man's interactions with lifeforms beyond his comprehension, monsters both microscopic and gigantic, and a few stories that are reminiscent of episodes of Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone.

This book explains the gospel of the grace of God (God's unmerited favor extended to everyone, everywhere) and is designed to empower individual Christians to stand confidently and securely in the favor of God.

Camp Lakewood seems the perfect place for Ginny and her students to learn survival tactics. The camp is serene and peaceful, at least it seems that way. But Camp Lakewood holds a very gruesome and deadly past which Ginny is unaware of. The terror is unleashed on the campers as soon as they arrive. Terrifying sights can be seen in the water, a man with a knife terrorizes the campers, and a couple bearing horrific wounds beg for help. Ginny soon believes she is losing her mind as the terror reigns on.

It's the early twentieth century, and the tragic deaths of her mother and two younger siblings have left Grace Harmon responsible for raising her sister Miriam and protecting her from their abusive father Luther, a zealot preacher with a penchant for speaking in Biblical verse who is on a downward spiral toward insanity. In the midst of his delusions, Luther believes God has abandoned him and devises a plan to get back into His good graces.

Kade Truth awakens in a strange house sideways of reality, where he learns he has "died" in a mysterious attack on the Statue of Liberty. Rather than facing the afterlife, he now wields energy powers, including flight. Kade joins and befriends Caduceus - eccentric caretaker, magician, and feeder of soup - and Mao F'Yang - an intoxicating girl with the uncanny ability to disappear - in a quest to regain his memories, uncover who is behind the attack, and discover why he has been so drastically altered.

When young girls start showing up dead in family-friendly locations around the city, Detective Deidre Tordano is called to solve the case. But between similarities to her daughter and the case getting close to home, does she have what it takes to find the culprit?

Thirty-four years have passed since Kevin Reynolds perpetrated the most heinous crime the citizens of Carver, Montana had ever witnessed in their small, alpine community. Now, Kevin's great nephew, Mitch, has found a bundle of old letters written by Kevin to his father in 2001, the year of Kevin's execution. His curiosity piqued, Mitch has recruited two of his good friends to hike up to the Blind Valley caldera and scout out the scene of the crimes of 1969 and to try to find the hidden cave where the old mountain man, Sam Elliott, once lived.

Charlie has risked his academic career, and his relationship with his son, to pursue the legendary creature known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Charlie's son Rick thinks Bigfoot is a hoax, but at the same time he wants to connect with his father - and with Katy, Charlie's new protege. Katy believes in Bigfoot and desperately wants to see one face-to-face.

Anthony Saxon, a mysterious troubleshooter better known as The Man with the Green Eyes, suddenly finds himself and his two aides involved in the mystery of the Purple Goblin and his unholy plans to spread death and destruction across the land.

Famous novelist Rhys Carter loved to take long walks through his beech tree forest. It was relaxing, and the walks helped him think through the writer's block that oft times visited him while working on a novel. Today though, was different. This time he had been following the smell and sight of a stream of smoke coming from his woods. What had brought him here today was the need to find the source of the smoke. Where it led him was to something he had never seen before.

Overcoming fear is not about getting rid of everything scary in your life. Living life without fear is not about locking out emotions so that you don't feel fear. It isn't even about tricking your mind into believing there is nothing to be afraid of. So what is it about? Some of us deal with the fear of something to the point it becomes a phobia. Others of us accept our fear as a normal part of life, not realizing how much it is holding us back from a better life. The list of potential things to fear is long.

Equal parts riveting and stirring, Carter takes a staple of campfires and rainy nights - the ghost story - into surprising new territory in this collection. No gore or gratuitous splatter here - these tales are meant to raise the hairs on the back of the neck and leave the reader feeling quietly discomfited hours after reading. These five tales have all the makings of good ghost stories with a touch of strange thrown in for good measure.