Everyone in Ashford stays out of Red Cap Woods and avoids the megaliths called the Goblins' Playground. If dark elves don't wash their caps in your blood, you might run into the Lord of the Woods, never a good thing. When ne'er-do-well Allan Cutter staggers into the snug bar of the Three Crowns and dies, no one is surprised. After all, he took up residence in that abandoned caravan deep in the heart of darkness, didn't he? And everyone nods knowingly when Oscar Lent is murdered in the shad...

The long-abandoned Stryker Farm was a cursed place, and everyone in Knight's Crossing shunned it, even the village's most potent magicians.Young Dale Stryker butchered his entire family, including the fearsome Wizard Ezekiel, then vanished. Thirty years later, a lost boy opens a cold case considered closed. DCI Ravyn and DS Stark find themselves searching for a long-hidden foe in a secretive village wary of strangers, where magic, both light and dark, is part of everyday life...and death.

In the village of Little Wyvern, located in legend-haunted Hammershire County, many residents do not have a pulse. The dear departed far outnumber the living, but that is the way it has always been in England's most haunted village. Will-o'-the-whisps, glowing shapes in the graveyard of St Barnabus and rattling chains at midnight are common. No one fears the dead. Things change, however, when a campaign is started by FOG (the Friends of Ghosts) to make Little Wyvern a premium tourist desti...

Two men discreetly leave the Mad Badger, making their way to a bridge arching the River Dresal, far from prying eyes and inquisitive ears. Moments later, something bulky splashes into the swift black waters. One man returns to the pub's car park and drives into the murky English night. The river should have swept the body to the depths of the sea, but it did not. DCI Ravyn and DS Stark of the Hammershire Constabulary must solve a murder with scant evidence, obscure motivations and a witnes...

In the title story, Sherlock Holmes and the Time Traveller battle cannibalistic Morlocks from Earth's distant future. In others, Holmes and Dr Watson fight Martians in the "War of the Worlds," Inspector Lestrade investigates a series of impossible burglaries, the star of a 1950s Sherlock Holmes television series finds redemption and rebirth. and an ace canine detective channels his inner Sherlock.

1882: From dark dimensions, long imprisoned gods invade the dreams of worshipers on Mars, Earth and Venus. Shadows rise. An ancient evil batters the gates of reality. A handful of adventurers stand against encroaching chaos. If they fall, so will the British Empire. And the Solar System won't be far behind.

From their fortified lair in the Haunted House, the Feral Gang terrorize and brutalize the pets and strays of a Chula Vista neighborhood. With all hope gone, their victims turn to the Three Dog Detective Agency, the only force standing between the Feral Gang and victory. They dare not fail.

Mere minutes from landing on Enceladus, sixth largest satellite of Saturn, a massive explosion shakes the Musk Venture, causing the exploration ship to veer off course and crash into the "ice shell" moon's sea. Out of forty, five survive, but they will not long survive unless they reach Supply Cache Alpha, where stores were deposited a year earlier by a robotic probe. Between them and safety lies a world filled with unknown perils, but the greatest threat to their survival might b...

When the plague known as Rot struck the world, crime lord Anthony Carrillo, known as El Jefe, moved operations to his Citadel in the wilderness, believing himself safe from both pestilence and the police. The Mexican police left him alone, but the American authorities were determined to arrest him, even though their own country was ravaged to the point of collapse. When a renegade doctor emerges from the desert offering El Jefe a way to defeat the plague and leverage the ...

Now, Mars is dry, dusty and lifeless, but it was not always so. Long ago, maritime empires throve on a wetter, warmer Mars, a Mars of vast oceans and splendid cities. In strange ships of bone and wood, traders, explorers and pirates plied those sparkling turquoise seas in search of trade, adventure and treasure. Explore that lost world in many of these poems. In others, experience the quantum realm and our even more absurdist modern world.

Sherlock Holmes vs creatures from HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos in two tales.In disguise and thought dead after his battle with Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes is stranded in a strange Italian village with a deadly secret in "The Adventure of the Abominable Inn."The rationality of Holmes, the monsters of HP Lovecraft and the dry British humor of PG Wodehouse collide in "London After Midnight."A gallery of Lovecraftian art is included as an appendix.

Poems of quantum entanglements, helium seas, bad days in Jerusalem, flights of fancy and plunges in the outer reaches of space and time.