George Pruitt rented a summer house in the country in hopes of getting away from the Manhattan rat race on the weekends. However, he didn't count on the place coming with its own in-home cook--one that's been dead for over forty years.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Someone's In The Kitchen: Haunted Home Cooking To Die For...
George Pruitt rented a summer house in the country in hopes of getting away from the Manhattan rat race on the weekends. However, he didn't count on the place coming with its own in-home cook--one that's been dead for over forty years.
Monday, October 8, 2012
The Pumpkin Child: A Southern Gothic Halloween Story
Hollis Railsback returned home from World War Two to find both his family business and his high school sweetheart stolen by the same man: Virgil Bayliss. Hollis had always envied Virgil's luck: everything seemed to come so easily to Bayliss, while he had to fight for everything he had.
Then one night,after taking a wrong turn on an old dirt road, Hollis finds himself at the shack of Granny Grimes, the old witchy-woman who lives in the middle of a pumpkin patch. Granny Grimes offers to swap his luck with that of Virgil--but once his luck is changed, he can never switch it back. The very next day his luck begins to while, at the same time, Virgil Bayliss contracts polio.
But, after years of good fortune in business and love, when he and his wife experienced trouble having children, Hollis decides to push his luck yet again--only to have his chickens come home to roost one dark Halloween night.
Then one night,after taking a wrong turn on an old dirt road, Hollis finds himself at the shack of Granny Grimes, the old witchy-woman who lives in the middle of a pumpkin patch. Granny Grimes offers to swap his luck with that of Virgil--but once his luck is changed, he can never switch it back. The very next day his luck begins to while, at the same time, Virgil Bayliss contracts polio.
But, after years of good fortune in business and love, when he and his wife experienced trouble having children, Hollis decides to push his luck yet again--only to have his chickens come home to roost one dark Halloween night.
CHARITY: A Hospital Horror Story
As if undergoing surgery without the benefit of health insurance wasn't scary enough...
The only thing worse than having to go to the notorious Charity Hospital in New Orleans for major surgery is having to keep watch for the cancer monster.
The only thing worse than having to go to the notorious Charity Hospital in New Orleans for major surgery is having to keep watch for the cancer monster.
Sometimes the walking dead hunger not for flesh, but for justice...
Over the last 30 years Virgil Marsalis has watched his friends and family die, one by one, of cancer--the result of the water table in his rural Louisiana parish being contaminated by run off from the local chemical plant. But now the time has finally come for the dead to cast aside their shrouds and speak their piece.
The One-Eyed King: A Dark Tale of Robin Hood
The battle between Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham is over. Robin has been given back his land and titles and granted a royal pardon by King Richard. The Merry Men have disbanded and Robin and Marian are now man and wife. But the peace that has come to Sherwood proves short lived upon the discovery of a trio of horrible torture-murders.
Although Sir Guy of Gisborne is no more, Robin Hood now finds himself facing a new and far more terrible foe--his long-lost evil twin brother, the murderous bandit Tamlane the Dragon, and his own dark, twisted version of the Merry Men, known as The Dragon's Teeth.
Caution: Contains some adult subject matter
Although Sir Guy of Gisborne is no more, Robin Hood now finds himself facing a new and far more terrible foe--his long-lost evil twin brother, the murderous bandit Tamlane the Dragon, and his own dark, twisted version of the Merry Men, known as The Dragon's Teeth.
Caution: Contains some adult subject matter
Monday, October 1, 2012
Lynch: A Gothik Western
For years Johnny Pearl tried to escape his demons by being a gunslinger. With his killer’s cool and famous pearl-handled pistol, he made a name for himself in the years following the Civil War as an outlaw. But fame has proved hollow, and Johnny finds himself on the outskirts of the Wyoming Territory, on the verge of taking his own life after one gunfight too many, until he finds redemption in the smile of Katie Small Dove.
Katie understands Johnny Pearl’s pain and helps heal his broken soul, giving him the strength to turn his back on his old life of death and destruction, and build a new future. Within a year he has a wife, a homestead, and a baby on the way, and for the first time in his life Johnny knows true happiness. Of course it can not last.
Johnny Pearl’s idyllic new world is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by the arrival of Captain Antioch Drake, a psychotic cavalry officer determined to avenge the recent massacre at Little Big Horn. Within minutes of Drake and his men arriving, the homestead is ablaze, his wife and unborn child cruelly slain, and Johnny left to hang from a cottonwood.
Normally, this would be the end of Johnny Pearl’s story—if not for the unexpected appearance of a medicine show wagon, driven by a strange old man called Doc Mirablis, who claims to have once been a friend and colleague of a certain Viktor Von Frankenstein.
The life and times of outlaw Johnny Pearl are over. But the adventures of the undead gunslinger called Lynch have just begun…
Cover illustration by SWAMP THING artist Stephen R. Bissette.
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Katie understands Johnny Pearl’s pain and helps heal his broken soul, giving him the strength to turn his back on his old life of death and destruction, and build a new future. Within a year he has a wife, a homestead, and a baby on the way, and for the first time in his life Johnny knows true happiness. Of course it can not last.
Johnny Pearl’s idyllic new world is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by the arrival of Captain Antioch Drake, a psychotic cavalry officer determined to avenge the recent massacre at Little Big Horn. Within minutes of Drake and his men arriving, the homestead is ablaze, his wife and unborn child cruelly slain, and Johnny left to hang from a cottonwood.
Normally, this would be the end of Johnny Pearl’s story—if not for the unexpected appearance of a medicine show wagon, driven by a strange old man called Doc Mirablis, who claims to have once been a friend and colleague of a certain Viktor Von Frankenstein.
The life and times of outlaw Johnny Pearl are over. But the adventures of the undead gunslinger called Lynch have just begun…
Cover illustration by SWAMP THING artist Stephen R. Bissette.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Werewolves of the Old West: Walking Wolf
Walking Wolf a/k/a Billy Skillet is the orphaned son of white settlers, found as an infant and raised to be a proud Comanche warrior. He also happens to be a werewolf. When he loses control of his darker nature and ends up killing the woman he loves and his best friend, Walking Wolf heads out into the White Man's world to learn more about who--and what--he is. This is his story of self-discovery as he travels the Old West, crossing the paths of a couple of deranged serial killers, a traveling medicine show, a vampire gunslinger, even a fellow werewolf, as well as such historical figures as Quanah Parker and Sitting Bull. But all the dangers he finds himself facing, none is as deadly as the bounty hunter known as Witchfinder Jones, who holds the secret of Walking Wolf's origins.
Award-winning novelist Nancy A. Collins, author of Sunglasses After Dark, spins a tale of strange doings on the high plains, in the vein of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Award-winning novelist Nancy A. Collins, author of Sunglasses After Dark, spins a tale of strange doings on the high plains, in the vein of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
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