Most Popular Books by Ian Thompson

After being slain in the epic Trojan War, Prince Hector found himself reborn on an extraordinary new world. He befriended the Nemalite people, lived among them, met their Viron gods... and set out to save the Nemalites from the vicious threat of the Atlans... But everything since his rebirth had been lies and manipulations. His attack upon the Atlans plunged those innocents into hellish turmoil and condemned many to a fate far crueller than death. Now Hector fights alongside the surviving Atlans in an effort to undo the terrible harm he has unleashed. Despite the Atlans hating and condemning him, he teaches them how to fight the Nemalites

Another super-saving Short Horror Tales omnibus... #CANCELLED: Fifteen-year-old Becca Robbins loves to see celebrity lies revealed. Tonight she watches a live internet exposé... Its host recounts that years ago TV star Bob Vanut was accused of a horrible crime and #cancelled. He committed suicide. Now Vanut''s innocence will be proved - and the real culprits will be punished before millions of viewers... Is this a macabre joke, a twisted hoax or something far more terrifying? LETHAL SYMMETRIES: In 1861, Dr Tomberton and Police Inspector Evans investigate the mystery at the Carmichael mansion. A corpse has been found, hideously transformed by a malignant force. The Carmichael household and two policeman have seemingly vanished... What is the entity inside the mansion? How was it unleashed? How do the murders in 1861 relate to events in 1502... and to the genius Leonardo da Vinci? SLOWLY, UNDER SIEGE: Injured, exhausted and trapped in a derelict house, the assassin Mr Slowly finds his hideaway under siege - by a kill-team of vampires seeking vengeance. Seventeen blood-hungry horrors against an ailing assassin and his untrained companion Pearl are lousy odds. There can be no escape, only a desperate fight to the death... Luckily, killing is Mr Slowly''s trade. And business will be very good tonight... Short Horror Tales are quick reads written to captivate the reader with thrills, chills and unexpected twists. Reviews from this author''s horror releases: "Absolutely horrific! Excellent rendition of the power of today''s social media, with its instant judgement and no way to know truth from fabrication." (#Cancelled - Short Horror Tale #16) "...thoroughly spooky, enticing and well written from start to finish." "...great... I could feel the fear..." "...shows true mastery of the short horror story... a wildly imaginative antagonist unlike anything I''ve read before... a quick, captivating read full of horror and thrills. The tense action and suspense of Glancing Blow make it incredibly hard to put down..." (Glancing Blow - Short Horror Tales #1) "...When the blood starts to splatter, Nigel''s day gets really rough. Thompson has devised a brilliantly brutal creature to sic on his leading man. Creative and twisted, the monster is a total terror... Hooker is an absolutely insane, blood-pumping ride... With a wicked cool monster and a page-turning climax, this is one Creature Feature you won''t want to miss out on..." (Hooker - Short Horror Tales #2) "Great short story..." (Ignition Source - Short Horror Tales #4) "...well-written, descriptive and enthralling page-turner, that''s not for the faint-hearted... The twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat..." (God Of War) "...extremely well written and very dark. The author did a great job of creating a palpable sense of doom that surrounds the main character from the beginning, and then creating more tension and horror as the story went on..." (Into The Hole)

The year is 2060, the month June, and it''s raining outside. So starts this tale of a time when the men and women of the United Kingdom, more specifically the residents of Stoke Hammond - a place some seven miles south of what used to be Milton Keynes - have to rise up and vanquish a posturing foe. Set forty years after the collapse of the European Union, this story tells of a titanic struggle between Europe''s strangling, new shadow, EZICASH, a plumber called Phil Lud and his apprentice, Snot. Called out to what appears to be nothing more than a dripping tap, they are soon pulled into a conspiracy where their actions could very well change the world forever. Banding together, a community is formed, one that could see these fair isles free, truly free, from its controlling yoke just a few watery miles away. Can they defeat EZICASH? Will another European behemoth fail? Will Britain finally succumb to a destiny plotted so many years ago? Or can a plumber put a spanner in the works...

In an exclusive English village for millionaires, residents believe their safety is guaranteed... until the infamous celebrity Gemini Hart is found horrifically murdered in her own home. Reporters Ray Hammett and Jessica Summers investigate. They are shrewd, courageous and caring, and share a humorous camaraderie. Soon their new partnership is tested to its limits. Inside the village, the pair find eccentricities, deceptions, hatreds and dark secrets, which reveal that this suburban paradise is rotten to the core. As more murders compound the mystery, Hammett and Jessica struggle against vicious gangsters, disbelieving police and murderous attacks. Nothing makes sense. Many people lie about knowing Hart. Everyone is hiding something. Hart''s enemies form a huge list of suspects. Some of the killer''s new victims are ex-lovers of Hart, others enemies, others seem to have no link to her. Hart''s past, from beginnings as a prostitute to her rise to fame and fortune, proves vital to the case. As the bodycount rises, every suspect is alibied for at least one murder... If Hammett and Jessica work fast and hard, they might just stop the slaughter - if they live long enough. "The concept for Paradise Exhumed was to combine several elements which are widely loved: the quirky character-style of classic Midsomer Murders; the twisting mystery of Sherlock Holmes; and the action and danger of a hard-boiled private detective tale. I wanted a fast-paced, baffling whodunnit with an atmosphere of dire threat. Once I began writing, the novel evolved quickly into a form of its own and I hope readers really enjoy the result." Special Promotion: Want to read the FIRST THIRD of Paradise Exhumed for free before you decide whether to buy? Over 100 printed pages (or 40,000 words) - longer than some full eBooks. Visit my website via my Amazon Author Page.

Super-saving Short Horror Bundle... IGNITION SOURCE: Late at night, at a huge warehouse, a disabled security guard expects another boring, routine shift of work. He is utterly unprepared for the horror and terror he will have to endure. First there are intruders, then a raging fire, horrific murders... and a monstrous secret that is both alive and utterly lethal. In the face of a challenge which makes him doubt his sanity, can he survive..? HOUSE OF MY DREAMS: Sometimes the worst monsters are human. Luke remembers nothing from the first ten years of his life - but whatever happened causes him hideous nightmares. Was something done to him... or did he do something terrible? Dr Maybury can cure Luke, but at what cost? And what does Luke''s newest, most awful nightmare mean? BUG HUNT: Something is terribly wrong at an underground bio-weapons facility. Have research teams gone insane? Has some awful virus escaped? Or is the cause even more disturbing..? A team of elite mercenaries descend to investigate. Their mission soon becomes a raging battle for survival against an outnumbering, nightmarish force... Things spawned by nature, then made even more lethal by science. Short Horror Tales are quick reads written to captivate the reader with thrills, chills and unexpected twists. Here are some reviews from this author''s horror releases: ..".thoroughly spooky, enticing and well written from start to finish." ..".great... I could feel the fear..." (Glancing Blow - Short Horror Tales #1) "Great short story..." (Ignition Source - Short Horror Tales #4) ..".well-written, descriptive and enthralling page-turner, that''s not for the faint-hearted... The twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat..." (God Of War) "Gory, scary and totally unpredictable." (God Of War)

Super-saving Short Horror omnibus... IGNITION SOURCE: Late at night, at a huge warehouse, a disabled security guard expects another boring, routine shift of work. He is utterly unprepared for the horror and terror he will have to endure. First there are intruders, then a raging fire, horrific murders... and a monstrous secret that is both alive and utterly lethal. In the face of a challenge which makes him doubt his sanity, can he survive..? HOUSE OF MY DREAMS: Sometimes the worst monsters are human. Luke remembers nothing from the first ten years of his life - but whatever happened causes him hideous nightmares. Was something done to him... or did he do something terrible? Dr Maybury can cure Luke, but at what cost? And what does Luke''s newest, most awful nightmare mean? BUG HUNT: Something is terribly wrong at an underground bio-weapons facility. Have research teams gone insane? Has some awful virus escaped? Or is the cause even more disturbing..? A team of elite mercenaries descend to investigate. Their mission soon becomes a raging battle for survival against an outnumbering, nightmarish force... Things spawned by nature, then made even more lethal by science. Short Horror Tales are quick reads written to captivate the reader with thrills, chills and unexpected twists.

Adam Farrisher, President of Avernus Studios, has created a new TV show - and people are dying to watch it. Over a hundred have been murdered so far. Mr Slowly is an assassin plagued by nightmares of the victims of his own deadly work. He no longer kills people, and instead eliminates supernatural threats. His new mission: to stop Farrisher and the TV show dead. Entering the studios at night, Mr Slowly is baffled by what he finds. The building is a ruin, filthy and decrepit. There are no signs of Farrisher''s workforce. And grotesque, flesh-eating horrors prowl the dark corridors... Mr Slowly will need all his lethal skills to succeed and survive the night... Yet some evil force in the studios is wearing him down - making him sick, wracking him with terrible pain and twisting his mind. The longer he spends inside, the weaker and more vulnerable he becomes... Can Mr Slowly solve the mystery, kill his target and get out alive? (Mr Slowly first appeared in ''Kill Him, Slowly'', the seventh Short Horror Tale) This is the thirteenth in the series of Short Horror Tales - quick reads written to captivate the reader with thrills, chills and unexpected twists. Here are some reviews from this author''s horror releases: ..".thoroughly spooky, enticing and well written from start to finish." ..".great... I could feel the fear..." (Glancing Blow - Short Horror Tales #1) "Great short story..." (Ignition Source - Short Horror Tales #4) ..".well-written, descriptive and enthralling page-turner, that''s not for the faint-hearted... The twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat..." (God Of War) ..".extremely well written and very dark. The author did a great job of creating a palpable sense of doom that surrounds the main character from the beginning, and then creating more tension and horror as the story went on..." (Into The Hole)

Super-saving Short Horror Tales omnibus... GLANCING BLOW: Late at night, a man drives through a hellish storm on a dark, secluded forest road. When a creature lunges out in front of his car, he strikes it a glancing blow... Resulting in a nerve-shredding drama of pursuit, violence and suffering as his unintentional victim seeks revenge. Can he survive this grotesque beast? HOOKER: Beauty can be only skin deep. Horror can go right through to the bone. Nigel Fawson is down on his luck - he''s lost both his job and his family - so he sets out to get drunk in a seedy bar. Soon Fawson is comforted by a beautiful girl named Valerie. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he decides to throw caution to the wind and return to her apartment with her... And that''s when his night turns from awful to utterly lethal. CHAINED: A derelict building. The police find forty-two human skeletons... and one man chained to a wall. He is barely alive. He looks helpless, starved and possibly tortured. What happened to him? What did he witness? What is responsible for all the horrors of this house? And what is the reason for the victim

Many of us these days sense there is something real beyond the scope of naturalistic science. But what? Must mental and religious lives always remain a mystery and never become part of scientific knowledge? In this well-argued book, physicist Ian Thompson makes a case for a ''scientific theism''. He shows how a following of core postulates of theism leads to novel and useful predictions about the psychology of minds and the physics of materials which should appear in the universe. These predictions constitute a kind of ''theistic science''. It meshes surprisingly well with the structure of reality already revealed by modern quantum field theory and by theories of developmental stages in human minds. The result is a serious look at a promising new rational structure encompassing theology, psychology and physics.

Looks at who prehistoric people were, where they lived, their lives and activities. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.