Good Omens meets Office Space in this darkly humorous and suspenseful supernatural thriller by author Tim Lees.There's an art to capturing gods for electricity, and Chris Copeland is good at his job. Or at least, he was, until his insouciant partner accidentally loosed a pagan god on the world. Luckily, Chris had the good sense to smash the thing over the head with a lamp. It's dead.Or is it?Six years later, Chris is contacted by Anna Ganz, a brusque, chain-smoking ...

"It's a perfect circle, Chris. The god receives his audience, the grid receives the power—and we light up Chicago."After the perilous retrieval of a long-dormant god from Iraq, Chris Copeland—professional god hunter and company troubleshooter—is about ready to quit his job. But his employers at the Registry have other plans…plans to build a power facility on the shores of Lake Michigan. Adam Shailer, a rising star at the Registry, thinks he can cage the god, drain its energy, and p...

In the newest Field Ops adventure, god hunter Chris Copeland must track down an enigmatic figure distributing shards of deities to unwitting citizens across the countryChris Copeland has a bizarre job, seeking out gods to convert into energy, but when hes tasked with retrieving a deity from an elderly woman in New York, hes truly out of his element. Before he can learn who sold her the dangerous object, she swallows a piece of it and goes into painful convulsions in fron...

I hope the title of this book is not misleading. If you are expecting an entire volume of spinoffs from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, complete with consciousness-swapping across the aeons, cone-shaped scholarly beings compiling their archives while dinosaurs roam outside their cities and some nameless doom threatens them from below, this isn't it. I did indeed include a few stories of that sort, as such titles as Robert Guffey's "Toward a General Theory of Yithian Psychology" and Rob...

Building on the evocative chill captured by 2024's Winter in the City , editors R.B. Wood and Anna Koon are back with a spectacular multicultural lineup to explore Spring in the City —yet wildflowers aren't the only things finding their way through cracked concrete in these dark speculative tales.Even in the shadows of skyscrapers, spring sees an awakening in the concrete jungle...

In the first volume of the In the City anthology series, editors R.B. Wood and Anna Koon bring you new tales from eighteen authors both established and debut, including Sam Rebelein, Sarah Read, Bracken MacLeod, Gwendolyn Kiste, and more.The city.Noisy, crowded, and ever in motion, the city can be more than a setting—it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being, with as many traits and quirks ...

This book is a topical review of venous disease providing an up-to-date view of management and current issues. It is aimed at professionals involved in the management of patients with venous disease, whether they be a vascular specialist, nurse or technologist, physicians with an interest in venous disease, as well as primary care doctors and nurses who wish to complement their knowledge of the area. Acknowledged experts, active in the field, have covered topics ranging from the history, e...

Ted Hall is worried. He’s been sleepwalking, and his somnambulant travels appear to coincide with murders by the notorious Hang Wire Killer.Meanwhile, the circus has come to town, but the Celtic dancers are taking their pagan act a little too seriously, the manager of the Olde Worlde Funfair has started talking to his vintage machines, and the new acrobat’s frequent absences are causing tension among the performers.Out in the city there are other new arrivals – immortals se...

Stephen King's The Gunslinger meets Breaking Bad in Laura Bickle's novel Dark Alchemy.Some secrets are better left buried …Geologist Petra Dee arrives in Wyoming seeking clues to her father's disappearance years ago. What she finds instead is Temperance, a dying western town with a gold rush past and a meth-infested present. But under the dust and quiet, an old power is shifting. When bodies start turning up—desiccated and twisted skeletons that Petra can't scientifically e...

"[A] suspenseful, well-plotted neo-noir set in L.A. . . .[features] a quirky, thoughtful detective with a wry sense of humor and a philosophical bent." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewLos Angeles Private Detective John Darvelle is a man of specific tastes—simple design, smart women, cheap American beer.He's a man of specific opinions—drive a car nobody can remember, avoid brunch at all costs, and don't live in...

"An excellent regional mystery, full of local color and historical detail." — Library JournalFormer Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a future. But when he solved a series of local murders, Sam found new meaning for his life. Now he and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving mountain ...

For a war-haunted bounty hunter, flirting with death is the only thing keeping him alive, in this powerful new crime thriller by "a knock-em-dead writer"(Anthony Neil Smith, author of Slow Bear).Jack Keller is a man on the edge. Numb from the horrors of Desert Storm, he lives only for the adrenaline rush of his work as a bounty hunter. But when a routine job to capture a petty criminal spirals out of control, Keller is thrust into a brutal whirlwind of viol...