Vigilante is a short story about a small-town police detective called upon to assist in the investigation of the bombing of a motorcycle gang's clubhouse. The reader follows the junior detective through his fact-gathering process and eventually learns the identity of the bomber.

George Severe leads an expedition to a Colorado mountain top near Durango, Colorado. A tragic incident thrusts him to a strange land where mythical creatures exist, stone is alive, and traditionally incompatible animals and plants thrive harmoniously.George is drawn into a developing conflict between the leaders of a local village and the suzerain of the land. As much as he tries to focus on his research, he is forced to choose between the villagers he thought had rescued him and t...

As a child, the author often spent his summers in Wells, Maine. While exploring the rocky shore between Moody Beach and Crescent Beach during low tide with a local friend, they discovered a lobster trap. His friend retrieved the lobster and took it home. Many years later, the author related this adventure to another friend who warned him about Fishermen's Justice.Fishermen's Justice is a short ghost story that takes place at sea after two lobster trappers from a New England fishing...

Tom Billings is a dying homeless man, struggling to stay alive until Christmas. Believing he hears some church bells, he promises a reward to a friend if he will take him to the church. When they arrive, Tom discovers the church has fallen on bad times - a fate similar to his own. During the last moments of his life, Tom makes an impression on three people.

Anastasia Severe is a young woman of twenty years in search of her estranged father, George Severe, who had abandoned her and her mother ten years earlier. A telephone call from the Mount Washington weather observatory in New Hampshire propels her search onto a mysterious levitating land, but she is not alone in her search. Characters from both worlds seek her father and Wind Castle for their own purposes.All she wants is to ask her father why he went away, why he would not take he...

George Severe, a former Meteorologist, is a reluctant leader in a strange levitating world he had discovered while working for a clandestine agency. The Land is at peace, but George knows it will not last. He asks the Land's Warriors and Dragons to prepare for an impending conflict.Having been thwarted in earlier attempts to gain control, George's nemesis, Mark Waxman, is determined to find and occupy the Land. The agency he serves demands immediate action, but Waxman doesn't want ...

On February 4th 2013 Neil Gaiman embarked on a fantastic art project in partnership with BlackBerry and millions of his fans. He tweeted twelve questions to the world, one for each month of the year. From the tens of thousands of responses he received, Neil picked his favourite answers and wrote twelve short stories inspired by them. Releasing these back to the world, Neil asked people to contribute art to illustrate the stories. To Find out more about A Calendar of Tales visit www.blackbe...

“A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post“Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells.” —Richmond Times-DispatchThe incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller, Rebecca Wells’s ...

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD • While investigating his nephew’s disappearance, a man discovers a twisted web of secrets that threatens everything he holds dear in this “masterful tale of ultra horror” (Entertainment Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story.“A nuanced, layered reworking of the haunted house story.”—The Philadelphia InquirerA woman commits suicide for no appar...

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to meDreadful relations, high expectations, a**nd a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee.It is the event of the season—on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the Prince Consort himself is expected. Captain Ian Hollys brings his fiancée Alice Chalmers to London to attend and to meet his family...

CHRISTMAS COMES WRAPPED IN DANGER…Holiday Hero by Shirlee McCoyEmma Fairchild never expected to find trouble in sleepy Sagebrush, Texas. But when she's attacked and left for dead in her own diner, her childhood friend turned K-9 cop Lucas Harwood offers a chance at justice-and love.Rescuing Christmas by Terri ReedShe escaped a kidnapper, but now a killer has set his sights on K-9 dog trainer Lily Anderson. When fellow officer Jarrod Evans appoints himself he...

The cat sat comfortably on the wall.Are you sitting comfortably?Then I will continue.As you know cats like to sit. Sometimes they like to sit and think, and sometimes they just like to sit. But on this occasion the cat was sitting and thinking,'What a lovely day'.But little did the cat know that it was all going to go horribly wrong.