The Middle Reaches, an epic of horror and dark fantasy, begins with Cycle One: Shadow Man. When five friends reunite to seek the truth about the otherworldly place where their high school friend, Sheldon, disappeared more than a decade earlier, they journey into a dark realm of sex, violence, and creatures hungry to keep them forever."A tale of dark dreams & sharp teeth, L. Andrew Cooper pens a story here that unravels slowly and sweetly, leaving scars imprinted o...

After university authorities observe a gruesome experiment that psychologist Dr. Stanley Burrows performs on rats, an experiment during which one of his graduate student assistants is injured, Dr. Burrows and his only loyal assistant, Edward Pine, accept exile from the academic world and embrace new supporters who want them to do different sorts of experiments on human subjects. Dr. Burrows has limitless resources to develop innovative processes for behavioral conditioning that achieve ext...

Carter and Megan Anderson’s six-year-old daughter Caitlin is dying from bone cancer that has spread throughout her body. Medical science can’t save their little girl—but they know something that can. When they were in college, they discovered a book of rituals, The Alchemy of Will by Dr. Allen Fincher, that enables people to do almost anything when they combine the power of will with the right sacrifice. Carter and Megan can save Caitlin if they sacrifice their second-born. But Ca...

The Middle Reaches concludes with Cycle Four: The Army of Ghosts. As chaos and madness spread, gods, monsters, ghosts, and humans battle for the fates of both the earthly realm and the realms beyond.

In The Middle Reaches, Cycle Three: The Flood, new travelers collide with some familiar from earlier cycles as they all journey deeper into the horrors of Carcosa, exploring the roads to Lake Hali and the Palace of the King in Yellow. A lawsuit in the earthly realm over the ownership of the land between the two Acton Ways, the entryway to The Middle Reaches, manifests in Carcosa as a struggle among gods and ghosts, a struggle that could unleash an apocalyptic Flood.

Fourteen-year-old psychopath Alex Packard has his own house, a shadow version of his parents’ house that THEY helped him build. He takes people there to kill them in the most entertaining ways he can imagine. After murdering his parents, he moves to Los Angeles to live with his married gay uncles, Bruce and Aaron. Alex bonds with his uncles immediately, coming out as gay, too. His bond with Aaron, a documentary filmmaker, tightens as he shares in Aaron’s passion for the camera, and he toys...

After a bloody rite of passage, Felix becomes a True Son, one of Father’s chosen inner circle, someone with a special vantage on the secluded society of the Settlement of Passing in the Nothing Lands, where all brothers and sisters revere Father. Father is life, and Father is death, and Father governs rituals that guide his followers on their journeys to meet the void, as death is the greatest good and the only worthy desire. Felix witnesses and participates in many rituals: the violence a...

The Middle Reaches, Cycle Two: A Rift in Time and Space introduces Bobby Lightfoot, a boy lost in The Middle Reaches and tormented by a fiend called The Man in the Grinning Mask. Heather, Bobby’s former babysitter, and her friend Janet are lured into The Middle Reaches by Max, a charming young man with secrets. Stalked by psychopaths as well as the region’s many other monsters, these travelers follow paths that cross Cycle One’s, and they go farther and deeper into the da...

On a dark urban highway, bright, introspective thirtysomething Lily Henshaw survives a brutal attack by men who announce that “It’s Crazy Time!” and kill her friends. Months later, still crushed by survivor’s guilt, Lily suffers another serious trauma—and another, and another, and another. Deaths, especially suicides, surround her, as do strange occurrences that, despite her agnosticism, seem to have Biblical import. She becomes convinced she is cursed like Job from the Bible, but unlike J...

Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence--this book puts these beliefs to the test. After examining the assumptions behind critics' fears, it considers nineteenth-century concerns about sexual deviance, showing how Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, and other works helped construct homosexuality as a pathological, dangerous phenomenon. It then turns to televisio...

Experience the Illustrious and Adventurous Life of the Most Easygoing and Coolest Man that America Ever KnewIt is unlikely if the world has ever seen anyone more relaxed and laidback as Dear Martin. He was everyone's favorite man and an astonishingly talented show business professional. Whether you listened to him sing "Let it Snow" or watched "Rio Bravo," he had you. Every woman loved him, and every man wanted to be like him.There was a genuineness about h...

He was a mediocre student and early on in his career sold encyclopedias for a living. Unsure of what he wanted to do with his life, he joined the navy during World War II but returned to his love for acting which was instilled in him by his mother. Initially landing Broadway roles, he later moved to Hollywood where his life changed. During his career, he was an 8-time Oscar nominee, a generous philanthropist, a highly successful entrepreneur and an unpretentious man who was absolut...