Robin Ray: 12 books

No one knows when that dark day will come. You wake up, shower, put the TV or computer on to catch up on some news while you sit down at your kitchen table for breakfast. You jump into your car, or stroll to the bus like you've done over a thousand times, get to your place of employment, punch the...

Obey The Darkness: Horror Stories is a collection of novellas, novelettes and short stories that run the gamut from supernatural horror (The Soucouyant, Crystal Mine, Dark Lenses) to fairy tale horror (Ol' Tubby, Lamp Black, The Troll in the Basement) to psychological horror (Obey the Darkness, The...

It all begins one sunny day in Century City High’s School’s girls’ locker room with the gruesome murder of a cheerleader. Soon, the school valedictorian, Laurel, a promising chemist, is being stalked in one of the chemistry labs. She catches a glimpse of the intruder, but gets away by breaking...

Dustin Nguyen has the hots for 35-year-old exotic dancer Gwen Pham. He lives and breathes for her but there are just two slight problems - she thinks he's too young for her at 21, and she's not interested. Phong is engaged to be married to his sweetheart, the love of his life, violinist Violet Chang....

In one day everything can change. Strung Out: A Novella is a collection of a novella (Strung Out) and a novelette (A Walk in the Park with Mozart). A modern coming-of-age fable, "Strung Out" tells the tragic story of five homeless youth who struggle with addiction and other maladies in the big city....

April, 1960. It's been 15 years since the second world war ended and the Third Reich fell. Ex-Nazis were being rounded up one by one around the world, some as far away as Peru, Chile and Argentina. The planet, as a whole, still had a long way to go in terms of prosperity for all, but it was off to...

Life is tough. It's especially challenging if you were born to a drug-addicted mother, spent years shuffling between foster homes, barely recognized for your world-class classical pianist ability, and struggled everyday with Asperger's Syndrome. Finding it difficult to hold down employment...

The former US Ambassador to the Vatican and the bestselling author of The French Connection join forces to write an unforgettable, compelling novel about a humble fisherman who is elected as the next Pope. Locked in a stalemate after days of voting, the College of Cardinals struggles through...

An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge. This series of interventions on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics ranges from contemporary art's...

In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Now, in the most inspiring business book of our time, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of industry to share...

Short Horror Fiction

An enslaved woman in South Carolina is stripped and photographed. A night watchman in Cambridge is assaulted. An extra corpse turns up in a tomb. How are they connected—and who’s next? Cambridge, Mass., February–April 1858. Civil war looms in the United States as scientific frontiers are rapidly...