The Thing: From the Depths of Hell — V. Bertolaccini

An astounding mind-bending sci-fi horror action thriller with two novelettes about explorers encountering mind-bending alien entities from beyond the boundaries of space and time In the first story, Space Odyssey: Beyond the Universe (Part I), a voyager is created and launched to explore the deepest depths of space. In the depths of a colossal void explorers encounter something of unknown origins that has been hidden there since the dawn of creation. A hideous devil-like presence starts killing them to get the voyager, which it could use to destroy the universe. In the second story, The Alien Artifact (Part I), an alien artifact from beyond space and time crashes into this world, and explorers uncover the alien artifact after it has been buried away there for millions of years, with an entity/transcendent inside, waiting to be revived.