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...

Karmic Winds is a memoir of power, collapse, and reckoning by Peter M. Hoffman, a Yale-trained lawyer and Hollywood insider who once stood at the center of the independent film boom and later found himself stripped of status, freedom, and certainty.

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...

Cody Jones owes the corp a lot of money. Decanted from a cryotube with a mountain of debt and very few options, she works corporate black ops in Downside—home to the gene-freaks, gangs, and dispossessed who don’t have a place in the gleaming towers of Helix City.Cody’s latest job is simple: recover a fresh cache of cryogenically frozen citizens from a local gang before they're bartered to the highest bidder. Deliver them to Bellamy and knock a little more off her debt.Pity ...

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...

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...

Vicious storms of red rain sweep across Australia, raising the dead as zombies hungry for human flesh. Fortunately, we’ve all seen zombie movies and know what comes next, allowing the locals to band togetherand live small, desolate, ordinary livesdespite the ever-present danger.Drawing inspiration from George Romero and Raymond Carver in equal measure, Peter M. Ball presents six dirty realism tales of quiet desperation and spare, razor-sharp narration in a world overrun by the walk...

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)

The twelve stories in this collection touch upon science fiction, horror, and fantasy, but all see people brush against the sublime and discover who they truly are. In “One Saturday Night, With Angel,” a young man staffing a convenience store frets as angels hunt his customers. In “Say Zucchini, and Mean It,” the world is overrun by a plague that robs us of three very important words. In “Clockwork, Patchwork, and Raven,” a clockwork man dreams of a fairy-tale ending while trying to protec...

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.