David wrote two similar memoirs in the form of lists. One was all the monsters he loved before he was 13. The second memoir was all the heroes he loved before he became a teen.This collects both 100 Monsters and 100 Heroes. What makes a hero you love? What makes a monster you love? Can they be the same character?These two little books were meant to be together.And now they are

Wouldn't it be cool to call up Santa and find out what's going on up in the North Pole?You bet it would. And thanks to pay call system you were able to call up Santa and see how the preparation for Christmas will be. It cost fifty cents a minute, but it was worth it to get the skinny from Santa and the gang.But what would happen iif you called after Christmas? What would you hear? Would you hear the real story of what it is like to live in the North Pole? Would you hear abo...

Where is Fancy Bread?There was a seminar on how to write the best book copy and one of the main rules is to get the potential reader's attention by a quick and pertinent question. Ask a question. Grab them. Drag them along to the rest of the ad copy.And this question is the best one yet. Where is Fancy Bread? Not only is it the title of the book, it is everything in the book. Every chapter is another time where Fancy Bread is visiting some location. He is also dressed to th...

David Macpherson knew the artist Edward Gorey. Well, he knew him a little bit. When David was a young man, he volunteered in the same place Edward Gorey did. This book is a memoir of that time in Cape Cod. It is also a meditation on the people we remember and the people we name drop. What makes a person worth name dropping? Is it acceptable to name drop an artist that you barely knew?

You know the story. Three pigs build three houses. One is of straw. One is of sticks. One is of bricks. A wolf comes around and tests the strength of the houses against his breath. He fails against the house of bricks.That's the motif.What can we do with variations of that theme? We present 27 little plays that take this motif and run with it.We look at aspects of the plot. We put different people in the stories like Mr. Punch and Baba Yaga. We blend all the folk ta...

Pat is the Eternal Bartender. He has worked at juke joints, mead halls, and floating barges filled with beer. As long as there have been public places to drink, Pat has been there with his white shirt and surly attitude.He can tell you stories about how bars used to be. And he will. All you need to do is tell him some bar lore and he can steer you straight. He can tell you how he helped create the Sandwich. He might divulge what the bar at the big bang was like. He can confess abou...

Josh helps run the science fiction club at his college. It's okay. It's fun enough. And then the djinn showed. He doesn't have genie powers as much as he can manipulate time and space whenever he finds it most amusing.The djinn lives in an action figure playset in the back of the club's space. He will force adventures onto Josh, whether Josh likes it or not. Caliban will appear. Another djinn will show up. Red-headed step children of literature will come out of paperbacks and start...

Santo was the greatest luchador that ever danced in the ring.His moves were so good they were like poetry.And that is why we present a book of poetry.Most are inspired by some of his great movies, where he fought vampires, werewolves and robots.These poems are irreverent and sometimes touching.There is a world to explore in the films of a masked wrestler fighting Aztec Mummies. There is a world of poetry in the saga of Santo.. We are brave enough to ...

David Macpherson collects original art from comic books and comic strips. He has the original art that was used to make the comic books.As part of this, he has a sub collection that looks at fine art through the lens of comic book art. He has art for comic strips that makes fun of abstract art. He has ones about art forgery. There are pieces about making and understanding art.The work goes from cartoony images to realistic images. The artists in this collection include John...

A lot of people read Perry Rhodan novels. Just not here in the English speaking world. In Germany, the science fiction novels about Perry Rhodan are published once a week. They are rip roaring space operas.There is nearly sixty years of Perry Rhodan novels. But they never took off in America.David Macpherson picked up a bunch of Perry Rhodan novels that were translated and published in the 1970s. He reads eight of those books and takes you along for the ride. While reading the book...

Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but some of these were real. All too real.What David Macpherson has given yo...

Who is Raft Girl?She is a young girl who is on the ocean having adventures while evading the mean Agent Hard Tack. She is aided by her friends, Raft who is a raft, and Bucket who is a bucket that can hold many things inside and Rudder, who is a rudder, but also so many other things.They have so much fun, but sometimes the ocean arises to stop them from having a good time. Like this adventure, the mischievous Mermaid Children pester them and steal Raft for their nefarious pu...