The secret dream home of a poor teenaged boy…The recurring nightmare of a federal agent…Stolen dreams sold as drugs…Forbidden dreams running rampant into the waking world…Dream lovers, dream captors, dream saviours and dream kings…Dreams can be hopes, dreams can be visions, dreams can be prophesies, and dreams can be horrors. They cross over into our waking hours or are forgotten just before dawn. They prompt us to take new chances in our lives, or repla...

Duty or Love… she can’t have both.Dragon Queen Cadeyra has been brought up to do her duty, no matter the personal cost. But that doesn’t mean she can’t get a little… inventive.When a prince from a foreign land visits and she gets wind he intends to court her, Cadeyra needs to get engaged and fast. But who can she ask to be her fake fiancé who won’t let the honor go to his head?The only person she needs protection from… is him.Former general, and one of the f...

Powerful mage and dandy, Vaj Uldarian, has settled down into a rather quiet life after decades of wild adventuring. He has long since escaped the memories of his youth and settled into his role as semi-respectable, sometime decadent adult. So when he receives word from his first lover that his mother is ill, for the first time in decades he returns to his childhood home and the family he left behind one horrible, heart-breaking night.A lush, fantasy world of magic and danger seen t...

Eric Margrave, monster hunter for hire, and his ghostly partner, Lydia, have faced some truly horrible things in their short partnership. Ghosts, mad werewolves, and berserk gods have fallen before them.Then Eric's mother comes to visit, and it all falls apart.Katya Margrave is not the world's best mother. But she may very well be the world's best sorceress. When someone with that kind of power asks for a favor, familial affection only earns you so much leeway. In short ord...

Two short stories included in one fast-paced package.WOLVES IN THE MISTSacrifices must be made to protect a small coastal village from an annual danger. A monster from the deep rampages the town every year. This year a possible solution has been found, one that hits close to home. Will Nisbeth and her family survive the terror in the night?Bonus Story: DRAGONSLAYERS ANONYMOUSAfter years fighting dragons with his trusty Remington M700 and sword, John St. George...

Bud Mushroom, Useful Fairy, is playing hide-and-seek with a skunk when he is suddenly caught and caged by Pixies. Even worse, they force him to wear Trousers! When they take away his Useful Magic, he must rely on his wits - and his friends - to save his home of Twinkle Dingle, and more importantly, to Remove the Nefarious Trousers. Part of the 'Tales of Twinkle Dingle'.

Strange and unusual high-quality fantasy and horror stories and poems that will make your heart skip a beat.Lady Mary Speaks of Dreams by Sandi LeibowitzWith The Band by Carl BarkerBitter Mnemosyne by Sara NorjaJonesy by Evan PurcellAlice Underground by Brittany WarmanStarry Night by David LuntzLe Cirque by Jess Simmsthe moon, so low by Dan CampbellThe Kiss of Legend by T.H. LeeThis man by Erik AmundsenEmpire of ...

The cards won't stop screaming.Darney's Tarot cards were scorched by a wretched child who set fire to his card table. Their sobs and screams torment his conscience, but he can't heal them because he has no magic.In desperation, Darney seeks the help of Jasp, a well-known, but cruel, mage. Jasp is his last hope. Or his undoing and the cards' doom.Worldhop into the stories of Fate. Each fantastical tale takes place on Earth or Fate, where you’ll find magi...

From the Publisher that brought you popular short story series Witching Call, Hostile Hearts, Earthbound Angels, The January Morrison Files Psychic Series, Ralph's Gift, Song of Teeth, Children of Time, Chains of Darkness, Tropical Storms, Friend Zone, The Magaram Legends, The Night Sculptor Series, and now, Requiem for a Dream..."It was with a strange serenity that I accepted the fact that I was dying. Here, in the basement of this hellish house, I was going to die a sweet, slow d...

Chapbook of dark poems about vampires, aliens, angels, demons, monsters, diseases, villains, rogues, and the sea.The bulk of these were written during my years as an undergraduate student at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia, and represent some of my favorite themes: death, lost love, the ocean, alienation, and (odd as it may seem) disease.

***Ray Nelms wasn't born a monster. He had a fairly banal young childhood in West Texas, trailing around after the older brother he idolized. Ray didn't enter the world evil. No. He was made that way.A character warped at the hands of his father, a young Ray was guided on the first tentative steps down the path of darkness in an effort to save his brother. Reuben was everything good in the world, and Ray desperately wanted him to stay that way.Through the years, the ...

A companion book to Soul of Evil. Four short stories about Nickodemus Bedlam in his younger days.