B.W. is a 13-year-old comic book fan. When his neighbor, Stan Scheiner, becomes the new writer on his favorite comic book, the unbelievable happens. Mr. Scheiner offers B.W. a summer job as a gofer. As the afternoons pass, B.W. learns more about the comic book business than about actual writing. Deadlines loom and Scheiner's household life falls apart. Coping with his own family, his view of himself, and a pesky fantasy life which intrudes on reality, B.W. offers his own ideas for the stor...

Alonzo Crash survived the zombie apocalypse to be appointed police detective in a world where the victims re-animate and the perpetrators have done so much worse to survive than commit one murder.Dashiell Hammett meets Brian Keene in a neo-detective noir that dares ask how you define murder after the zombie apocalypse.A pulp detective story set in a late 50s science fiction zombie world with post-modern aspirations, but that may be overthinking it! An existential noir insid...

Family destroying cosmic horror! Government files on human-angelic contact! Halloween at the witch's house! The greatest non-writer ever! The online meeting to end all online meetings! A circus story about the pandemic! Nine stories and ten poems! Quite possibly fewer exclamation points inside the book!Contains [poems, grief, cosmic insanity, and so much more!

Mira, Sterling, Igor, Lionel, Farrah, Gil, and Brian are a family with a long history. They go years without speaking, but somehow always find their way back into one another's lives, even if those lives are undead.

pain/pān/nounFish in private partsHumor in a horror bookLampreys under the skinWhat's with all the existential dread?Horror in a humor bookPoetry when you expected a short storyWhat the hell is this?Read all the Little Books of Pain:#1 Hammer Nail Foot#2 Thick As A Brick#3 The Book Of Practical Monste...

Five tales to make your pulse race toward rage and catharsis."In this collection, you'll find a coven of witches taking very direct action to make the world a better place, Nazis trying to bend the ghost of Charles Darwin to their perverted will, queer psychics revealing the true monstrous face of a nation, a suburban conspiracy of men, and a Thanksgiving gone very, very wrong. " - from the Introduction by Bitter KarellaA contemporary Splatterpunk collection as a balm for y...