Eight authors. Ten stories. A world of possibilities.The AEGISverse just got a lot bigger.Based on the setting and characters of Airship Daedalus, A.E.G.I.S. Tales collects exciting new works of fiction written in the style of the pulps from the 1920s & '30s.Thrill to the adventures of stunt pilot Wanda "Wings" Jensen, ghost hunters Jim Holland & Mandy Hart, undead prizefighter John Mabry, The Gunshade - ghostly scourge of the Underworld, psychic detective David Li,...

A cat-and-mouse game across the skies. A summoned apocalypse.The fate of the world hangs in the balance.June, 1929 finds the Daedalus crew in the Peruvian mountains, working with an old comrade to retrieve a sacred artifact stolen from a native tribe.Handed one last mission by Edison himself, “Captain Stratosphere” Jack McGraw, Dorothy Doc” Starr, and the rest of the crew head to Seattle, where an aerospace innovator will re-fit the Daedalus

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Summer, 1982. When two local teens go missing from the riverside town of Calico, Oregon, it falls to a middle school nerd steeped in wild conspiracy theories to investigate.With a posse consisting of a busboy, a delinquent, an L.A. transplant, and a cheerleader, A.J. sets out to prove that a Satanic cult is behind the disappearances, all while dodging the local Sheriff, high school bullies, and a deputy drunk on authority. But instead of a dark cult, the group encounters a legion o...

A widowed mother fleeing her grief.A preteen girl lost in the dark.A soldier of God stalked by the demons of his past.A supernatural presence threatens a small town.Liz's faith in her church had always been rock solid. Until the day her husband was ripped from this world by an IED.Grief-stricken and desperate to flee the memories of her once-happy marriage, Liz uproots her daughter and moves to a small, rural town for a fresh start.But the promise...

Eight authors. Ten stories. Round Two.The AEGISverse just grew a whole lot more.Based on the setting and characters of Airship Daedalus, AEGIS Tales 2 collects exciting new works of fiction written in the style of the pulps from the 1920s & '30s.Thrill to the adventures of resurrected soldier Joe Desmond—aka The Seer, tech-spy Felix Fogarty, race car driving sleuth Lili LaRue, native waitress-turned-shaman Walks with Bones, rail-riding hobo Henry Kinkle, demon-summo...

A fierce battle at the top of the world, against a most ferocious enemy.November, 1928 finds Dorothy "Doc" Starr and Jack McGraw raising their daughter Ellen on a ranch in the Hollywood Hills, when the local AEGIS bureau chief taps them for a new assignment – investigate the source of a strange radio signal originating from somewhere off the northern coast of Greenland.When their home is attacked by agents of the Silver Star, they know Aleister Crowley has gone on the offen...

The Cat Screams by Todd Downing is a thrilling and atmospheric mystery featuring Hugh Rennert, a shrewd U.S. Customs agent turned amateur detective. Set against the exotic backdrop of a luxurious Mexican hotel, this riveting tale combines intrigue, suspense, and danger as Rennert unravels a web of secrets and deception.When an idyllic vacation takes a sinister turn, Rennert finds himself drawn into the enigmatic case of a wealthy American woman's sudden death. What begins as an appa...

April, 1925 finds ace pilot Jack McGraw fleeing hostile fighter planes and a mysterious zeppelin over the skies of New Jersey. Then a woman from his past invites him to dinner at Thomas Edison's home and drafts him into the A.E.G.I.S. foundation.And that's just Monday.Jack's mission is to fly an experimental aircraft and lead a crew consisting of his comrades from the Great War against a well-funded secret society bent on pillaging history's great treasures and amassing dan...

THIRTEEN WEIRD AND WONDROUS TALES populate this anthology by the author of the Airship Daedalus pulp adventure series. Spanning a thirty-year catalog and often satirizing the 20th century ideal of the nuclear family and social mores, Primordial Soup Kitchen is a collection of the stranger side of Todd Downingʹs short fiction.Automatons remember an idyllic past that never was.Ghost hunters track a psychic vampire in 1920s San Francisco....

A fierce battle at the top of the world against a most ferocious enemy.November, 1928 finds Dorothy “Doc” Starr and "Captain Stratosphere" Jack McGraw raising their daughter Ellen on a ranch in the Hollywood Hills, when the local AEGIS bureau chief taps them for a new assignment – investigate the source of a strange radio signal originating from somewhere off the northern coast of Greenland.When their home is attacked by agents of the Silver Star, they know Aleister Crowley...

The revolution will be streamcast.San Francisco, 2065.In the cold, uncaring shadow of a crowded city, the forgotten claw out a meager existence. Hope isn’t a luxury they can afford. When a new drug floods the streets, some local vigilantes find themselves caught between protecting the innocent and the blind greed of corporations seeking total control.Using their wits, grit, and a brotherly bond, a social crusader with chemically-altered DNA, an ex-c...