YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never gone but never found. No one seems to notice the insanity surrounding them... or if they do, they keep it to themselves. After all, those who notice and call attention to it ten...

This collection of fifteen Lovecraft-inspired tales spans human history and genres. Ranging from high fantasy to martial arts epic to the far future, they are all linked by a common theme of the alien unknown. Among the stories' inhabitants, you will find:Jonas Bell Presents "The King in Yellow" - A cursed play that may be a doorway to another reality or something far worse.Sanitarium - The dark secret of the forgotten patients locked away in the bowels of a seaside asylum....

This collection consists of five short stories dealing with the end of the world, whether by biblical armageddon, a zombie plague, or something alien and unknowable. The means are irrevlevant. All that matters is the End of Days has come. Stories include "One of Granny's Tales", "I Eat the Living", "You'll Know When You Meet Them", "Halo of Flies", and "The Statement of Tom Carter".

"A clown with an axe walks into a church..." It sounds like the start of a bad joke but in a dark future overrun by unspeakable horror, an evil clown with an axe that tells him to kill things might be just what the doctor ordered.

Horrible Stories for Terrible People, Vol. I is a collection of 15 monster-themed short stories. Ranging from straight-out horror to tongue in cheek, denizens include...- A rockabilly vampire whose idea of heaven is 24-hour truckstops.- Two men fated to cross paths on the night of a full moon.- An imaginary friend who might not be so imaginary after all.- A legendary killer resurrected and given a new purpose.- Two brothers who receive a strange pair of ...

This short story collection is written in the vein of early 2oth century weird pulp tales. Stories include:-An Earth where monsters worship Godzilla and humans are a distant memory.-A man tracks down and has a conversation with the Lord Almighty.-The incarnation of ultimate evil tries to determine which replacement candidate best personifies the evil of the modern age.-A beloved musical re-imagined with zombies and spies.-A computer simulation that prove...

2020 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book AwardAlongside the various people moving into and through the nineteenth-century Texas frontier was a group of European intellectuals bent on establishing a socialist utopia near the hamlet of Dallas. Their inspiration, French philosopher Charles Fourier, envisioned a society in which basic human ambitions would be expressed and cultivated, tied together by the bonds of emotion. Fourier’s self-appointed disciple Victor ...

Written in the vein of the campy 1960s Batman television show, this superhero short story features the crime-fighting duo Hyacinth and Orchid facing the condiment-themed villainy of fast food icon turned costumed criminal Commander Catsup.

Engineers attempting to determine the nature of a mysterious alien artifact make a horrifying discovery.

In a strange future where humans and demons live and work side-by-side, a police detective and his infernal partner are tasked with investigating the improbable murders of corporate and industrial leaders who happened to be powerful demons. When the detective's theory regarding the nature of a very unusual serial killer proves true he must make a difficult choice.

Even before they were remade by their Pa into something not quite human, the Haggard brothers were the terror of the strange place they called home. When Pug Haggard decides to woo Lenore, the beloved daughter of the infamous necromancer Emo Mulcifer, his brothers tag along to run interference against Mulcifer's undead hordes. The question is, what could a mutant redneck like Pug Haggard possibly say to impress Lenore?

This collection of strange tales ranges from high magic to monster romance to weird western. Stories includes "The Devil's Outhouse", "The Awkward and Ill-Conceived Death of Baron Kritzler", "The Haggard Brothers Go to Town", "Emissary of Decay (A Tale of the Devil's Outhouse)", and "Tolkien World".