Emma is unhappy at home. Her parents fight, and party too much. Her stepsister just moved away, and Emma feels alone.When the mysterious Jester Giraurd appears, he convinces Emma to go with him through Strange Corridors, promising to take her to her older sister. Soon, Emma encounters many bizarre creatures, such as the Hanged Man, the Talking Crow, and the Woman In Black.With her newfound friends Paul and Orgo, Emma tries to rescue children shanghaied through the Strange C...

A lot can happen in 7 days. Everyone knows that. And the next seven days in the quiet rural village of Middle Berrywood are no exception to that rule.Over the next week curious villagers will attempt to learn the answers to important questions which could affect the entire world. Will Eliza and Ben escape from the Mushroom Farm? Who will become the Mushroom King and What will this year’s Toga party be like? Is that a dust-devil? Is that purple smoke? Why are the vans so sinister? Did that ...

Odarko, Oklahoma, 1956. Scratch Williams is a Yardbird: someone employed to do menial jobs, legal or otherwise.After oil tycoon George Spiff hires him to break up the relationship between his daughter and her newest conquest, a fight breaks out. Later, Scratch wakes up in his car, with the body of the boyfriend lying next to him.Who set Scratch up, what's the hat box, and where is Scratch's glass eye?This book contains adult content and is not suitable for reade...

Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to follow him into any genre he chooses to write in, including horror, western, crime, adventure, and fantasy. Within these genres, his stories, novels, and novellas explore friendship, race, and life in East Texas. Hi...

Everything was fine for P.I. Richard Cole, until the murder of soul music singer Bobby Clarke and a mysterious statue called The Obelisk brought some strange things to the town of Odarko.Strange things appear from TV screens at random and people vanish without warning. Flying saucers and shadow people watching his every move,are just some of the weirdness in this Acid Noir novel set in 1975.

Our 240 page Issue Nº10, Summer 2019 edition of Mystery Tribune is a must-have featuring Reed Farrel Coleman, Erica Wright, and Casey Barrett among others.Issue Nº10: Summer 2019 features:A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Reed Farrel Coleman, Rusty Barnes, Casey Barrett, Brett Busang, Vincent H. O’Neil, David Rachels, Scott Loring Sanders, Mark Slade, and Robb White.Interviews and Reviews by Alex Segura, Nick Kolakowski, Tobias Carroll, and ...

Sirus Logan rides into the town of Bedlam and discovers it's like no town he's been to before! Logan is hired by the wife of a wealthy ranch owner to take her far away, only to find out she's not whom she appears to be, and becomes familiar with other citizens of Bedlam: hordes, a demon, and harpies. Will Logan's mission for the Queen of Light deliver her salvation, or will the west never be quite the same again?

Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to hard-working men and women looking for a good time. Offering hot music, cheap food, and generous amounts of liquor, jukes and tonks are often a community's unofficial gathering spot, where Saturday nights are spent committing the sins church leaders rail against the following morning.The stories in Jukes & Tonks introduce you to many sinners and few saints, love begun and lo...

When it comes to love...Blue Collar is better!It's time to set aside those sexy billionaires and enjoy stories about the everyday, even sexier bad boys you meet in real life. They may have dirty hands and wear tool belts and jeans instead of Rolex watches, but they're earthy alpha males unafraid to get down and dirty when face to face with a woman in need--whatever her need may be!Just a few of the titillating stories inside......

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Joyce Lempiere tells the Tuesday Night Club of an incident that occurred five years ago when she was vacationing at a small inn on the Cornish coast. She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on the balcony of Denis and Margery Dacre, when she realised she had included blood stains on the pavement. A few days later Margery is found hav...

Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post.Collected here are interviews with forty-seven accomplished authors, including Michae...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “terrifically charming” (The Washington Post) collection of short stories, John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi—the setting of his timeless first novel, A Time to Kill.“Ford County is the best writing John Grisham has ever done.”—Pat ConroyWheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a bizarre road trip through the ...