Nance hasn't been herself lately. The dime-a-dance girl and pride of the steno pool has been having visions. Visions of coal-black eyes and things in the darkness, visions of blood and conquest. Whispers to wait. Wait.

It’s 1958 and the night sky of Mars sings to a hot-jazz tune played by a quartet of slot machine, rocket engine, laser fire and broken bone. The Outfit and the corporations run Mars, keeping the mines running and the Strip humming. Deputy Marshals ride between the waystations and the city, bringing rough justice to the roughest beat in the solar system. Barsoomist rebels fight a hit-and-run war, staying one step ahead of the law and the Mob, knowing they’ve got miles to go before they slee...

Palookaville is a blue-collar supervillain antholology set in the shadows of the superheroic world. Second-string criminals, masked mooks and clued-in henchmen leave the stresses of the criminal world behind and live “normal lives” in the sleepy bedroom town of Powell Heights until the outside world muscles its way in. Fortunately, the citizens of Palookaville know all about muscle work. “PALOOKAVILLE is a wonderfully weird, occasionally violent, often funny, deeply twisted revisionist loo...

Acclaimed poet and author A.E. Ash's first collection with Pine Float Press, "Almost Night" floats through a world of skewed melancholy, where the familiar landscape of the everyday is made strange. "Almost Night" is a singular work, an uneasy meditation on the language of our past and an incantation that leaves the reader transformed.

Prepare for heart-racing suspense in this original collection by thirty of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing romance suspense today. Bodyguards, vigilantes, stalkers, serial killers, women (and men!) in jeopardy, cops, thieves, P.I.s, killers-these all-new stories will keep you thrilled and chilled late into the night.

A dark comedy short story about a man who adopts a stray cat that makes his life a living hell.

Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream.Young men in Miami are being abducted and tortured after their drinks are spiked with a cocktail of drugs that leaves them unable to recall their ordeal. Despite this, Detective Carson Ryder knows the predator’s name, height, age, colouring … everything. It’s impossible for the perpetrator to avoid detection. Yet he does.When Carson seeks...

When Detective Terin O'Brien is assigned to an investigation involving the Gold Vipers, she is blind-sided by the strong attraction she has for their newest member, Cole Davis. Now Terin is caught between wanting Cole behind bars and wanting him as a man, which she knows is wrong, stupid, and above all else... dangerous.This story contains crude language, sexual situations, and violence. Is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. Please do not buy if any of this offends you. ...

In 2,700 words and eight illustrations, an ordinary chicken finds himself in an awkward situation and needs to get away—fast. He soon discovers he is inventive, smart, and sneaky enough to become a temporary zombie (and a stylish one), a magician of dazzling feathers, and a half-mastermind hero.Suitable for all readers who wonder how far nonsense can go while enjoying a ridiculous series of events.

All five Black Stiletto books in one stunning sagaThis USA Today and New York Times best-selling five-book saga tells the entire amazing story of Judy Cooper, the famed Black Stiletto of vigilante fame. The story is told by Martin Talbot, the Stiletto's son, in the words of the Stiletto herself through her diaries. Martin does not discover these diaries until his mother, suffering from Alzheimer Disease, is confined to a nursing home. Imagine his ...

Jazz, Season One, Episode TwoJazz and Ship were forced to crash-land in one of the most dangerous places outside of the wilds, the monster ghetto known as Clowntown. She's already hurt, tired, and hungry and time is running short as even her shadow sight won't do her much good against the residents of this nightmare neighborhood once it's dark. If she keeps moving, keeps quiet, and gets lucky she might make it out unnoticed.But a golem of make up and design too horrible to ...

Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by hard-boiled crime master Mickey Spillane and written by New York Times bestseller Max Allan Collins, returns in Masquerade for Murder. Hammer is at a high society party when a wealthy and well-respected man, Colby, is hit by a car and badly injured. When all he expected was a night on the town, Mike is hired to find out who was driving the car. His search leads him on a trail of murders, the victims often exhibiting the same kind of strangulation as th...