David W. Amendola
Hell's Highway
Louisiana, 1947. During World War II, a man-made virus escaped from a Japanese biological warfare lab in occupied China. Nicknamed the Manchurian Fever, the disease swept the globe, wiping out much of the human race. Civilization collapsed. A rag-tag convoy of American soldiers head out to retrieve an abandoned fuel truck - and outlaws will not be the only danger. In this post-apocalyptic world, mutated strains of the virus have warped plants and animals into terrifying monstrosities. This is my thirteenth published story, appearing in the anthology SNAFU Comms.
SNAFU Comms
Published May 2024 by Cohesion Press
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This anthology features seven stories of military horror by various authors as well as myself. Given out free to subscribers of the publisher's newsletter. Edited by Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding, cover art by Sabercore23art.
Brainjacked
In a future where oligarchy rules, a team of elite cyborg operators from the U.S. Space Force must recover or destroy the wreckage of a crashed communications satellite before it falls into unfriendly corporate hands. But someone hacks their systems, seizes control of their neuroprosthetic limbs, and forces them to kill each other. As unknown, inhuman enemies close in, two crippled survivors must hold out somehow until evac arrives. This was my twelfth published story, appearing in the anthology SNAFU Punk'd.
SNAFU Punk'd
Published October 2023 by Cohesion Press
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This anthology features seventeen stories of military horror by various authors as well as myself, cyberpunk the underlying theme. Edited by Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding, cover art by Sabercore23art.
The McAllister Hall Massacre
Northern Ireland, 1972. "The Troubles," the bitter war of terror between Catholic republicans and Protestant loyalists, is tearing the province apart. A loyalist religious fanatic targeted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army holes up in his fortified country estate, guarded by a hard-bitten team of mercenaries who once served in the French Foreign Legion. One cold, foggy night they come under attack, but by something altogether more terrible than IRA hitmen and older than Christianity itself. This was my eleventh published story, appearing in the anthology SNAFU Holy War.
SNAFU Holy War
Published November 2021 by Cohesion Press
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This anthology features eighteen stories of military horror by various authors as well as myself, religious conflict the underlying theme. Edited by Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding, cover art by Dean Samed.
The Valley of Death
North Africa, summer 1942. The British Eighth Army is dug in at El Alamein. If the German Afrika Korps can break through they can overrun Egypt and capture the Suez Canal, maybe even reach the oil fields of the Middle East. A reconnaissance team from the 21st Panzer Division ventures into the treacherous salt marshes of the vast Qattara Depression, an impassable quagmire. The Germans learn of a path through it known only by the Bedouins, a route that may allow the panzers to outflank the British defenses. But there's a reason why the Arabs call Qattara the Valley of Death - and marshes, British patrols, and the relentless desert sun will prove to be the least of their worries. This was my fifth published story, appearing in the anthology SNAFU Unnatural Selection.
SNAFU Unnatural Selection
Published July 2016 by Cohesion Press
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This anthology features ten stories of military bio-horror by various authors as well as myself, all with the theme of soldiers confronting prehistoric or mutated monstrosities of the animal kingdom. Edited by Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding, cover art by Dean Samed, and internal art by Montgomery Borror.
The Secret War
The Soviet Union, winter 1942. The unspoken conflict had lasted for over twenty years. In the dead of winter, when the nights were longest, the things emerged from holes in the vast, frozen forests of Siberia, hungry for human flesh. Ghouls they were called, but just exactly what they were and why they appeared, no one knew. Stalin's ruthless security troops failed to eradicate them, so the bloody task fell to a special Red Army unit - Spetsgruppa X - comprised of soldiers who were hunters and trappers in civilian life, men who knew how to survive and fight in the primordial wilderness. This was my fourth published story, appearing in the anthology SNAFU Hunters.
SNAFU Hunters
Published February 2016 by Cohesion Press
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This anthology features thirteen stories of military horror by various authors as well as myself, all with the theme of soldiers hunting supernatural creatures. Edited by Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding, cover art by Dean Samed.
The Fenrir Project
Occupied Austria, summer 1945. American soldiers from the elite 761st Tank Battalion are sent to investigate reports of continued German resistance near the Austrian town of Teufelsdorf. Disturbing rumors surround this mysterious place, untouched by the war and home town of wanted Nazi war criminal Rudolf Krebs, who conducted unspeakable experiments blurring the line between science and the occult. This was my third published story, appearing in the anthology SNAFU Wolves at the Door.
SNAFU Wolves at the Door
Published January 2015 by Cohesion Press
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This anthology features nine stories of military horror with shapeshifter themes written by various authors as well as myself. Edited by Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding, cover art by Dean Samed.
The Shrine
The Soviet Union, summer 1941. A platoon from the 9th Panzer Division is sent on a peculiar mission: capture an Orthodox shrine in the middle of the trackless Ukrainian steppe. A shrine that for reasons unknown was left intact by the Communists and once guarded by Stalin's security troops. The Germans are not told why - nor what they will find there. All they know is that they will rendezvous with a special SS detachment with secret orders from Heinrich Himmler himself. This was my second published story, appearing in the anthology SNAFU.
SNAFU
Published July 2014 by Cohesion Press
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This anthology of military horror features sixteen stories by various authors as well as myself. Edited by Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding. Cover art by Mel Gannon, frontispiece by Greg Chapman, internal art by Montgomery Borror.