THIRTY TALES OF MODERN HORROR! In his newest collection, Charles Allen Gramlich, who has a Ph.D. in psychology, explores the dark territory of modern horror, from monsters, to serial killers, to the surreal landscapes of the insane mind. ...
Judas Payne was the devil’s spawn, a product of rape, a half-white, half-Indian outcast who was loved only by his pretty half-sister, Evangeline. When the Reverend Payne finds the two naked in the barn, he takes out one of Judas’s eyes, and Judas chops off one of the Reverend’s arms and then runs for his life. He meets up with a number of colorful characters out there in the weird wild west, from a white slave-trading ex-Confederate colonel to a ...
"In Don Webb’s «„Weird Wild West,“» Henry James avenges his brother Jesse, Robert E. Howard’s serpent people are a modern gang, Satan flies a Zeppelin, and hobos liberate a zebra from a stolen train. Great weird fiction set in the west! <P> “Don Webb can write straight tales or he can go out to the fringe, where the cutting edge hasn’t even cut yet, [where he] plays head-churning games and word games: [he’s] a full spectrum writer.” ...
What happens when your weird cousin sends you a telegram stating that your aunt's dead and the butler did it? Lindsay Graham discovers that there's more in store than a traditional English funeral and the requisite neighborhood gathering. Way more. <P> Maria Lima's Agatha-Award nominated short story is a great read! (Just don't go into it expecting a novel-length work – it's a short story, and priced accordingly. ...
Here are five funny, entertaining, delectable mystery stories featuring Peter «Pit Bull» Geller, who may be a bit damaged physically (in an auto accident), but has lost neither his biting wit nor his keen sense of how the upper crust manages their criminal ways. Included are: «Pit and the Pendulum,» «Pit on the Road to Hell,» «A Christmas Pit,» «Dog Pit,» and «Horse Pit» (winner of the Black Orchid Award from the Nero Wolfe Society and Alfred Hi ...
The murder of UN observer Carl Neal on a lonely outpost of the Asteroid Belt would seem to be only a small human tragedy, and yet it opens up vistas both of millennia of time and of unimaginable distances. Inspector Tom Dooley, Chief of Security of the American Sector of the Belt, together with his faithful «Watson,» Ralph Phelps, must sift through the many clues to unravel the mystery of Neal's death–and then keep the aliens from interferi ...
A young man, relatively new to Fox Creek and living with his elderly grandmother, is discovered dead in his bed after having been severely beaten. Unfortunately, the first person to see the body is Carver Ellis; and the first police officer on the scene is already convinced that young Ellis not only found the body but murdered the victim. It’s up to Victoria Sears and her new best friend from down-mountain, Lynn Hanson, to work hand-in-h ...
Gerald Dawson was the first to die—in an apparent road accident. But when other members of his family receive mysterious telephone calls informing them of their own imminent demise, and the predictions come true, Scotland Yard soon realizes that a serial killer is at work. Baffled, the police call in Dr. Sawley Garson, a specialist in scientific puzzles. But can even he save the few remaining Dawsons from the cunning killer—a man who appears not ...
The girl had been lying dead all night. There'd been a terrible struggle, but in the end, the woman had lost her life to the jagged top of a cologne bottle–her jugular vein severed. Suspicious immediately falls on Richard Lane, who'd planned to meet the deceased at seven o'clock, just before she died. But is Richard really the killer? Only criminal psychologist Dr. Adam Castle can unravel the perplexing mystery. An edge-of-the sea ...
