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Roam the gritty streets of Boston with a private investigator in the neo-noirish “Ghost Fight.” Meet a werewolf trying to make ends meet after he loses his job and his wife walks out on him in “The Alphie Wolf.” “Filet of Soul” helps answer the age-old horror buff’s dilemma: What happens when a vampire meets a mermaid? Rednecks and shapeshifters collide in “Wolf & Swann,” and Bram Stoker’s Dracula gets a poetic new viewpoint in “The Brief Romance of Augustine.” Find out how to make your own real-life monster in “The Girl Who Was Spared No Expense!” Dry wit and wet gore combine in this campy collection of semi-serious tales.
Lighthearted Darkness is a collection of short stories and poems depicting classic monsters with contemporary twists. It's a title for lovers of humorous horror in the vein of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ghostbusters, Fright Night, Vamp, Sean Of The Dead, The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Practical Demonkeeping, Blood Sucking Fiends, Frankenweenie, Edward Scissorhands, and so many others. The horror is not so in your face gory, the humor comes naturally, the overall tone intentionally awkward and light. From a little noire in the depths of B | |  | | Quasar 169: Illusions
Four more stories following the surreal adventures of Alexander Roglitz and his dreamy partner, Quasar 169, a.k.a. "Amanda".
The conviction behind her thoughts was quite a rush as I felt it, too. The adrenaline, the sensation of a mighty captain going down with the ship, the pride, the heroism...quite a turn-on. I stretched and caught her and forced her head toward mine so I could kiss her forcefully, turning her urge to cry to an urge to seduce me, and she balanced on the very edge of the mattress, clinging to me, tasting me, when something unnaturally cold brushed my jaw and I turned enough to see a dying bit of purplish haze and larger strands of it drifting toward me from behind her. I jolted, and she fell, her | |  | | Quasar 169: Physical Evidence
Alex and Amanda are back in their third collection!
A Quasi-Reality, or Quas-R for short, is a person's dream self set loose within the wakeful realm. What keeps them from taking over the world? Well, they're not the brightest things walking the planet. I mean, how many of you are solving complex mathematical formulae in your dreams? More likely you're standing in front of an assembly in your underwear using the Pythagorean theorum to prove that fresh half and half tastes better in coffee than that powdered crap, right? So ArtReal, a dream research facility, has partnered with StarNet, that para-policing&nb | |  | | Quasar 169: Silver Sphere Sightings
A collection of three stories which follow the trail of Quasar Force Officer Alexander James Roglitz after he's been given one last partner unlike any he's ever worked with before!
“Does he hit you?”
No, he’d never physically struck me that I could recall. Terrible thoughts of violence in his mind had felt
like the real thing on more than one occasion, but had he ever really raised a hand against me? No. All the time,
the terror and anger pulsing through his frequently intoxicated mind. The way he’d always considered David
before even giving me a spare thought. David always got the bigger portion of food. David always got the Goodwill
sweater with the fewest holes and stains, the largest, thickest blanket. When Daddy found a wallet and turned it | |  | | Trumpet Of The Unicorn
Young New York veterinary student Geoff McKenna finds himself badly misplaced at a paleontological digsite, but that's the least of his worries when a rare artifact is stolen and the body count begins to climb!
Strasberg smiled, chewing one gritty thumbnail in his excitement. "What is it?"
The other paleontologist adopted a look of doubt and wonder. "Protoceras. Male. Somewhere around 35 million years old."
Geoff wanted to know how he knew what sex the bones were.
"Nuh-uh."
"Nuh-uh?"
Strasberg's grin spread even wider. "Jack?"
Havilland removed the ball of canvas he'd left purposely wadded by the creature's skull. McQueen looked again, blinked, then knelt to examine further. "It's without the horny growths along the skull. The skin-covered horns. |
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Pieces of Eight, Part II
by Jay Dubya
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 Pieces of Eight, Part II is an eclectic collection of eight imaginative novellas that complement the eight tales that appeared in Pieces of Eight. The selections are a blend of different short story/novella plots and themes. Science-fiction, paranorm |
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