Cirrus@Austlit

'Now Dr Mossberg is gone, Tyler and Tourmaline take odd jobs and search for a new mentor. After several fruitless interviews, the teenagers meet Dr Hilbert Shaftsbury, a disgraced oneiromancer with maniacal plans to bring down a vile prison known as the Dream Factory.

'Tyler and Tourmaline despair that they will never find a new teacher.

'Then Dr Aloysius Dorian, their new friend from Up Above, reveals that he knows where their missing friend Kinsey is. He also has a favour to ask – that they help Dr Shaftsbury to fulfil his insane plan.

'Inside the Dream Factory languish not just hardened criminals, but poor unfortunates simply down on their luck. The oneiromancers are supposed to use their unique abilities to re-educate them to become useful members of society, but instead torture them to insanity.

'Can Tyler and Tourmaline help Dr Shaftsbury find Kinsey and bring down the awful Dream Factory? Or will they be drawn into the realm of madness themselves?'

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'On the hill overlooking Mojo Town looms the decaying edifice of the county orphanage, home to all the area's unwanted children. Brother and sister, Sissy and Zak Spindler, are paid to look after them and keep them safe. They seem to be doing a good job, for the youngsters are neither seen nor heard.

'Unwed mother Louisa Bigelow drops her newborn son Nathaniel off in the dead of night, and then leaves town in tears. One day she hopes to return with enough money to take Nate back and give him the life he deserves.

'But Sissy and Zak have other plans for the new baby delivered into their arms. In the dank basement of the crumbling mansion lies a freakish laboratory, where Sissy uses her surgical skills to corrupt innocent lives with a primordial ooze known as the Stuff.

'Mojo Town's unwanted youngsters have been transformed into horrific freaks.

'Only one child has not been affected by the Stuff: a fiercely intelligent boy named Bart. But Sissy considers him a failure, and treats him like a servant. Bart befriends little Nate, already affected and transforming into a cat-boy, and together they attempt a miraculous escape to track down Nate’s mother.

'But Sissy and Zak have a very long reach. Can Bart's brilliant mind help him and Nate to elude their evil clutches? Or will they be dragged back into the horrific plan Sissy and Zak have for the monstrous mutations they have created?'

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Alice Dibble and her friends have finally made it to the Nocturnal University, the only Nocturnal Academy that flies high above the Earth and can travel from place to place.They discover that life at the university isn’t that different, with lessons, new students to meet, and adventures in underground dungeons. But Alice is particularly annoyed that a dark aspect of her past has followed her. Will she ever escape the legacy of Unlucky Alice?Then Mt Takameetu, a nearby Pacific island volcano located at a nexus of leylines, erupts with explosive force. A deadly Magickal effect spreads across the entire planet.Only the Nocturnal University is spared. Once again it falls to Alice and her friends to find out what happened, and travel to Mt Takameetu to save the supernaturals still trapped there.But something else is brewing in that volcano, something dark and evil and more powerful than anything that has ever set foot on Earth before.

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'From the desert wastelands of Erda rises the ancient city of Monstrocity. Steel and glass towers soar above a tangled mess of railways and tunnels. Above is a paradise for the rich and successful, while below, in the stinking depths, the poor labour ceaselessly to keep from starving.In the misty chasms of Down Below, one child looks up, and for a brief moment catches a glimpse of blue sky. The boy, Kinsey, realises that all he has to do is climb. He is never seen again. Teenagers Tourmaline and Tyler reach out to disgraced weapons designer Dr Margot Mossberg for help. But then the doctor's latest experiment is stolen, and the three must embark on a harrowing journey through the labyrinthine alleys of Down Below, into the lairs of mad and exiled scientists. While some of these scientists are benevolent, others are downright evil and plotting to dominate the entire city!'

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'Imagine a wild west that isn't just full of cowboys and outlaws, saloon girls and gamblers. Imagine a wild west that isn't just cacti, tumbleweeds and rolling desert as far as the eye can see. Imagine a wild west of mechanical horses, mutant killer plants, flying dinosaurs, headless indians and fearsome zombie gunslingers hell-bent on revenge.

'Imagine the Weird Wild West.

'Six colourful characters, some not entirely human, embark on a perilous journey south from Sunbleached Plains to Kellyville. A dapper dentist, a southern belle, a wealthy madam, a retired banker turned gambler, an orphaned boy and a travelling body-parts salesman all trade their various stories to pass the time. Driving the carriage is one Zeke "the Freak" Sarandon, a retired soldier with more than one strange, nervous habit. Although he is an experienced traveller, and the only one insane enough to take the most direct route south, even he cannot prevent his passengers from each meeting their grisly demise, one by one. Hot on the trail of the coach, astride an ancient mechanical horse blowing sparks and belching out toxic clouds of smoke, is a zombie gunslinger, the risen corpse of a murdered prospector. For on the carriage is the one who killed him, and he must have his horrible, bloody revenge.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)