Demonic sheriffs, ghostly travellers, and vampires abound in the untamed, wyrd west. Just when you thought it was safe to take to the rails and cross the plains, the monsters come out to play.Moonlight might turn the desert sands to silver, but these ten wyrd stories are pure gold.

Some people deserve to die for the things they've done.In a few cases, the law runs its course, and the execution is carried out in the clinical environment of a state prison.But in other cases, everyday men and women have to take matters into their own hands.And they don't always get it right.Judicial Homicide contains ten horror stories of executions, both official and improvised, that will leave you wondering if the sentence fits the crime......

In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and try to determine how one can understand how Earth, the third in distance to the central star, is essentially unique and capable of sustaining life. The knowledge gained from this original perspective is then applied to the search for other planets outside the solar system, or exoplanets.Since the discovery in 1992 of the first exoplanet, the number of planet dete...