A CLASH OF ICHOR AND BLOOD.For Rusby Once the house in Splinter Junction is supposed to be a sanctuary, somewhere to recuperate after the dreadful events that happened in London.Somewhere safe. She needs that.But shortly after her arrival her worst fears are confirmed. The Groom is back. And this time he won't fail. This time no one will stop him. He will take Rusby Once. Take her far away from Splinter Junction. Take her through an eerie doorway on...

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSCollected together for the first time in thisomnibus Box Set edition are the four story collectionsmaking up Mark Patrick Lynch'sCardianl Points series.North of Midnight - Ghosts and HorrorsEast of Never - Fantasies and WhimsiesSouth of Strange - Slipstream TalesWest of the Moon - Sceince Fiction StoriesOver 230,000 words of fiction now available

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are eleven tales.Eleven tales of science fiction.Eleven tales that take us to futures near and far,That show us planets and people bothfamiliar and strange.An undercover operative seeking a mysterious girl; a settler on Mars dreaming of open skies; a cop with a short fuse and a robot partner; a man seeking absolution on a distant planet; a couple trying to deal with social media bereavement; prosp...

East of NeverHere are nine tales.Nine tales of fantasy and strange creatures.Nine tales that take you from the world you thought you knew to places near but subtly different, and to others impossibly far away and beyond the wildest of imaginings.An outcast from Wonderland; a storyteller facing a nightmare; a businessman donw on his luck; a suburban couple waking to an unwelcome surprise; an obssessive determined to complete his life's work; ...

ALAEDORNIAIt's another world, vast beyond comprehension, and it exists right alongside our own. Amanda Hazel has known this since she was a child. She knows something else about it, too. It's dangerous. And she has been running away from it for years. All the way into adulthood. Now, well over a decade after her first encounter with Alaedornia, she has to go back.It's not just for her own benefit that she must travel there again. She owes her cousin Thom, badly injured when...

NORTH OF MIDNIGHTLOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are nine tales.Nine tales of supernatural mystery and weird imagination.Nine tales that take you from the deceptive comfort of the everyday to places strange and unlikely.A troubled neighbour, a woman with the answers to your prayers, a guy walking into a bar, a haunted man embarking on a new relationship, a pair of con artists driving away from their latest mark, a couple in a travelling mar...

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are ten tales.Ten tales that defy easy categorisation.Ten tales that take a look at the world from peculiar angles and bring a little-seen strangeness into focus.A young woman in an empty hospital; a man trying to hold onto his past; an architect who makes a mistake; a woman with a disconcerting line in conversation; a dying man learning to live; a couple confronting an invisibility virus; a newspaperman chasing the ...

Jeston Nash bears a striking resemblance to his cousin Jesse Woodson James of Clay County Missouri. After killing a Yankee soldier in self-defense, Jeston meets his cousins, Jesse and Frank, and joins them to fight in Quantrill's guerilla forces.Later, after the war, he rides with the James-Younger gang as they invent their special brand of bank and train robbery. All the while, Jeston seeks vengeance against Daniel Zanone of the Free Kansas Militia - the man responsible for the de...

In a hail of thunder and gunfire, Jeston Nash fled a new Orleans billiards hall with a land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the other. He'd won his gamble with Quick Quintan Cordell fair and square. But in seconds, violence flared, Cordell lay dead, and Sheriff Pat Garret's still rang in Nash's ears...somewhere, someday, they would meet again...Jeston Nash learned about robbery from his cousin, Jesse James. But it was the wild outlaw Billy the Kid who taught him that even a w...

Shady Rest, Texas, has the dubious reputation for being the deadliest town in America. Getting yourself killed is as easy as blinking and twice as quick. Sure enough, Matt Jensen hasn't swallowed his whisky before the town's marshal is gunned down before his eyes. Matt defends himself by putting two bullets in the shooter's chest, unaware that he's in line for a $5,000 bounty--as long as he stays in Shady Rest to collect it. And staying gets even more tempting when a red haired beauty deci...

'So they took one look at his rap sheet and kicked his sorry Irish ass clean out of Wonderland. They didn’t even pause to strip away his Glamour, they were that cheesed off with him.September wasn’t sure where he landed at first. Some out-of-the-way burg you couldn’t get a decent pint of mead, that much seemed obvious. The place was an endless warren of concrete canyons, blown through by cold winds from the Great Lakes. Snow fell in shards and iced the sidewalks. Cars trailed exhau...