A hit man. An apocalyptic cult. A demon with a grudge.Keith Murphy’s on the run after botching his last hit, fleeing Adelaide with a necromancer’s soul in his pocket and an apocalyptic cult on his heels. Seeking a hiding spot where magic can’t trace him, Keith heads for the one place nobody expects: home.Thirteen years ago, Keith left the employ of the demonic crime boss Sabbath, disappearing into the night without a word. Now he’s back, and Sabbath demands...

Read the first short story in Peter M. Ball’s Seraphim Plague series, One Saturday Night, With Angel (also available in the collection Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet).There’s an angel perched on the Nite Owl roof when Mike shows up for the graveyard shift. He thinks it’s the same angel that's been following him for most of the week.Everyone's convinced Mike will be purged before morning. Elvis and all the other regulars are tellin...

A Keith Murphy single set after the events of Crusade. Also available in the short story collection These Strange and Magic Things.Keith Murphy’s doesn’t understand professional wrestling, and he doesn’t care to try. But when paying back a debt means figuring out how a demon is feeding on the crowds at the local indie show, the hitman-turned-mage finds himself up against a creature far more powerful than he expected.With the aide of a conf...

The Gold Coast Ragnarok Omnibus collects the first three Keith Murphy Urban Fantasy Thrillers, Exile, Frost, and Crusade, which make up the Gold Coast Ragnarök arc.Killing demons, sorcerers, and necromancers isn’t an easy job. The successes are private, you spend your life on the run from creatures that go bump in the night, and the simplest mistake can unleash a death curse with catastrophic consequences.Keith Murphy screwed up his last job, and now he’s o...

The Black Dog’s been eating his girlfriends for years. Now Pete’s met someone the dog won’t devour.There are three things Pete believes to be true about his life: he loves reading; nothing interesting is ever going to happen to him, and the Black Dog who lives behind the fence will eat everyone he loves. It’s been happening since his childhood, and he’s mostly gotten used to it…right up until he meets Victoria.The dog seems reluctant to eat her, no matter h...

Peter M. Ball’s Short Fiction Lab Series offers a regular dose of weird fantasy, uncanny science fiction, literary horror, and other fictional experiments that blur genre boundaries. This bundle brings together the first four stories: Winged, with Sharp Teeth; Eight Minutes of Usable Daylight; A White Cross Beside a Lonely Road; and One Last First Date Before The End of the World.Winged, With Sharp TeethThey had chemistry...

When the zombies rose, Val and Janice retreated to small farmhouse in the mountains, putting up fences and joining forces with the local militia to keep their community safe. "At least we have each other," they thought, "everything will be just fine."It turns out long nights hunting the dead and long days wondering if something has gone wrong will take its toll on every marriage.Trouble is brewing out past the fence, and Janice fears it will soon find its way inside.

Rule one for surviving Ragnarök?Don’t piss off a Valkyrie.Ex-hitman Keith Murphy sold his services to a demon in order to stop an apocalyptic cult. Now he’s stuck fighting a gang way against a local biker gang who knows far too much about magic for a pack of mortals. A routine hit turns into a mystery, and that mystery leads to a series of deaths with a very unexpected source. Something has crossed over from the darkest parts of the Gloom, and it seems like Keith sold his s...

If you love hard-boiled detectives, dangerous fey, and cold cases that turn hot on a dime, then take this opportunity to introduce yourself to Peter M. Ball’s Miriam Aster stories. This omnibus collects the two books in Miriam Aster’s case files.HORNAward-winning author Peter M. Ball takes you into the world of exiled fey and dangerous magic in his cult novella Horn.Miriam Aster used to be a homicide cop, but a relationship with the queen o...

Keith followed orders.He came back home.He freed his soul and laid claim to a magic sword.But Keith Murphy doesn’t have time to rest, because his sorcerous partner Danny Roark is out of commission and the end of the world is thundering towards humanity like a freight train on steroids.As the elder entities from the depths of the Gloom break through the veil of reality with increasing regularity, Keith is forced to assemble a rag-tag army of demons, seers, an...

A cabin boy with a secret is lead astray in Tortuga’s last great house of ill repute, where the ladies have all returned after death full of mysteries to be unravelled. The Captain promised Tobias Truman a night to remember, but what Toby seeks behind closed doors is a truth only a lady of the house can reveal.The first story in the Crossbones & Sorcery series, available as a stand-alone ebook (also included in the short story collection The Birdcage Heart & Other Stories)

Their final gig ended with two hundred people dead. Patrick’s only regret is that he wasn’t there to be a part of it.There were three things everyone knew about the band: they played like demons, sang like angels, and there was definitely something magic about the way they glowed onstage. Patrick’s still hanging onto that, 15 years after their final gig. All those people may be dead, but they were part of something special and he chickened out before the end.