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Burdizzo Book's Matty-Bob and Em invited some of their favourite indie authors to write stories inspired by their most beloved songs. The result is The Burdizzo Mix-Tape Vol.1, their most diverse anthology yet. These are tunes that resonate from the beach to the mountains, from rain dogs to spirits in the sky, from Old Ones to cold ones. Be it multi-dimensional romance across space and time, Cold War sexual paranoia, campfire cowboys, gypsy caravans, or demented disco balls, there is a song for everyone within these stories.

Laura's got a few pounds to lose, nothing major, so she joins the local slimming class, Nu-You. Psycho Kassie and her two morbidly obese friends are livid. They have been struggling for years. Battling obesity. The worst thing for them is people who don't look overweight blazing in all optimistic and raring to go. They want to educate her on the definition of over-indulgence. Could there be such a thing as death by chocolate?

Jacob's hearing voices. Voices from the future. Voices claiming that he has the power to save the majority of Europe from a deadly virus. Are they part of his imagination or something far more fantastic?

When Courtney and her friends accidentally vandalize one of their town's forgotten historical landmarks, they unleash something sinister, poisonous, and hell-bent on revenge. Old Ma Lacey, the last woman to be burnt as a witch in this state, has awoken and she's brought her babies.

A mysterious suicide. An airbus A380 heads over the Colorado mountains, before crashing through the snow clouds. The only bridge over the River Styx is taken out. No phones, no internet, no communication with the outside world. Then things start to get strange. Welcome to a town called Hell. This collaborative collection of short stories takes place over the last seven days in Hell. Poisonous green slime, murderous rampages, talking trees, rogue wolf-packs - the residents of Hell are having a bad week.

What would you do if you found out your compulsions were not your fault? That something else had been controlling you all along? What would you do if you discovered there was a dark part of you, a part of humanity, that was put there by an entity older than the stars?

Deep within the heart of the Black Forest there lives a family with a dark secret; after generations of living reclusively, their secret is about to be exposed by the worst kind of people. Aging scientist Victor Krauss cannot believe what they have found. For fear of retribution against him and his wife, it is up to him to discover their secret biology and find out whether it can be replicated and how it works, whatever the costs.

When Philippa spots the bungalow, it's love at first sight—and she is filled with the sense of safety and warmth whenever she's there. She's not a believer in the supernatural, unlike her best friend, Niamh, but she has to admit there is a energy about the bungalow, a vibrancy that fills her with joy.

The events which killed dozens of people and put the word "werewolf" on people's lips have been covered up. Deaths blamed on gang warfare, drugs, and costumes. A secret operation is in process to make sure that the truth about what happened in Boxford stays buried. But some things refuse to lie down and be still. There are perpetual loose ends that continue to multiply and carry on a legacy that began well before the Second World War.

All villages have their secrets. Brantham is no different. Twenty years ago after foolish risk taking turned into tragedy Shane left the rural community under a cloud of suspicion and rumor. Events from that night remained unexplained, memories erased, questions unanswered. Now a notorious politician, he returns to his birthplace when the offer from a property developer is too good to decline. With big plans to haul Brantham into the 21st century, the developers have already made a devastating impact on the once quaint village.

Five people wake up in a warehouse, bound to chairs. Before each of them, tacked to the wall, are their witness testimonies. They each played a part in labelling one of Britain's most loved family entertainers a paedophile and sex offender. Clearly revenge is the reason they have been brought here, but the man they accused is supposed to be dead. Opportunity knocks, and Diddy Dave Diamond has one last game show to host, and it's a knockout.

After a hard week at work, Zoë just wants to go home; pyjamas, Netflix, and junk food beckon. The prospect of catching the last bus is always a daunting one, but seven days' relaxation seem like a worthy prize at the end of another journey with drunken louts, along with their weed clouds and loud music.

Keep your family safe from bulbs and batteries that go bump in the night by listening to Sparks. Fifteen electrifying tales of horror, sci-fi, bizarro, and fantasy. Visit post-apocalyptic nightmare worlds, listen to recordings of the dead, feel the friction of electric lady love, and be struck by lightning from the past.

Two years ago, publicly shunned comedian Diddy Dave Diamond convinced the nation that he was dead, only to return from beyond the grave to seek retribution on those who ruined his career and tainted his legacy. Innocent or not, only one person survived Diddy Dave Diamond's last-ever game show, but the forfeit prize was imprisonment for similar alleged crimes. But there's a sudden glimmer of hope: Someone has surfaced in the public eye claiming to be the dead comedian.

Walsall, once named the fattest town in UK, has a major sewerage problem. Like the arteries of many of its inhabitants, the main sewer is fast becoming blocked. A fatberg of record proportions has formed and finally clogged up the sewer system. But something foul and gluttonous awaits them buried deep in the thick, greasy rank smelling lard.

When three burglars break into an old man's home, they take home more than they bargained for.

Something happened deep in Charlie's past to make him the way he is. Something causes the visitations, the disturbances, the ghosts. Is it something in his current life or something from a previous existence? Something haunts Charlie, has followed him for years. Something relentless and unstoppable. Something that only wants to torment, torture, and ruin.

Sandy thinks there's something wrong with her resident's new hearing aid. It's picking up numbers that only he can detect. Evil carer Lisa thinks he's just an attention seeking senile old imbecile. They're counting down, but to what?

After a decades-long span of serial raping two perpetrators introduce a third to their fold.

This collection of tales is what happens when one man’s art meets 12 authors' fiction, and when writers are free to ignore their genre of choice and typical story conventions. Twelve eye-challenging op-art designs were used to inspire these 12 mind-bending stories, which contain everything from futuristic sci-fi to fantastical comedy, and heartfelt life musings to near-cosmic nihilism.