Maligoth — William Tedford

Sixty-million years ago, an asteroid spelled the end of the dinosaurs. The eons-ancient bio-geneticist responsible for Earth's ecology at that time was heart-broken, left with desolation, and his ruined creation displaced by the rise of mammals. Not often are such advanced beings criminal, but Maligoth skirts the rules and commandeers an empty parallel Earth, and, seeing as Homo sapiens closely matches his future hopes for evolved dinosaurs, he abducts the inhabitants of a small town and spirits them away for some clandestine genetic engineering. Lovely teenage Sasha and her klutzy boyfriend Wallace are conscripted by a large talking grasshopper, an apparition of the Stik. Are they children pitted against a deranged god, or has Sasha already been tainted by an abduction she escaped under the most mysterious of circumstances? Is her strange behavior symptomatic of her metamorphosis into something more that human? Can mere humans hope to pit themselves against veritable gods? Why not? Humans have been bested by mice in the walls, and the end product of Maligoth's tampering are none too pleased themselves when their violent nature ends in thermonuclear war and looming extinction in their parallel world. They seek refuge in our world, but nobody particularly enjoys the thought of bringing Maligoth along with. Time to run and hide for all concerned when that happens. The epitome of monsters is on the loose.