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Diddlywick

by Marmaduke Balzac An ancient, haunted mansion perched high on a cliff above the Hudson. A centuries-old curse. A family of whacky eccentrics. Three ghosts with a problem. A tribe of dispossessed Indians with a grudge. An evil oil baron who wants the family's land. Into this menage steps a naive young governess determined to [...]

Halloween Night Fever – End of the Long Walk

by Dan Graffeo Willy Hynes can't understand how he pulled a patch of caribou skin out of his dream. Willy's mentor, Vince, explains that other residents of Sleepy Owl have had similar dreams. It is a sign to join the Pniese, a secret society formed for Halloween, when the undead are allowed to cross over. [...]

The Case Files of Roderick Misely, Consultant

by J. P. Rieger Roderick Misely wants desperately to pursue a career as a lawyer. He needs only to find an attorney mentor with whom to "read the law." But a scandal that unfairly sullied the family name has caused an absolute drought in apprenticeship opportunities. Instead, Misely is eking-out a living as a "consultant" [...]

Seven: Tales of Terror

by Michael P. Raff "The Door" - in 1963, two young, Catholic boys, Tommy Stockton and Roger Bartlett, discover an old, locked, metal door hidden beneath a stage in their school auditorium. Tommy suffers through two horrifying nightmares warning him that there is something evil behind it. Roger finds a key to open the door's padlock [...]

Stinger

by Diana R. Chambers An espionage thriller set in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. When a shipment of Stinger missiles disappears, a CIA officer becomes entangled in an unusual triangle with a journalist and her former lover, now an elusive mujahideen chief. These characters lead us into a world of danger, a world of spy versus spy, where hidden [...]

Cattle Capers

by Dawn M. Kravagna Lured out of early retirement, master detective Adam Steer partners with the cops of Precinct 13 1/2 to solve the kidnapping of newspaper publisher, ostrich Madam Griselda Portentsky. But the ransom demand may be impossible to meet by the Sunday deadline: deliver the fabled MooMoo Pearl or the bird gets plucked. [...]

Dead End

by Carol W. Hazelwood All Patty Harkin has left in the world is her father's new truck. Without any hope of getting work as a mechanic in northern Minnesota, she accepts the job of driving Josh, a mysterious blindman, and his trailer to Arizona. Along the way she learns Josh is trying to prevent a [...]

(Reluctant) Trips Book 1: Through Dimensional Detours

by Ryan Ratliff It's the 1980's. The Chapel brothers, proud inheritors of a successful bar located in the very small, very dry, and very hot town of Bowling, Arizona, proceed with their everyday lives completely unaware of the impending misfortune silently waiting in the dark viscous unknown. Things happen People disappear Even more things happen (as [...]

Adam and Eve Live Again

by John Class John Class had a lifelong fascination with stories, especially biblical stories. Stories somehow always ended at the grave. The promise of the resurrection of the dead would change this, and he envisioned stories in another dimension. His regeneration stories continue to unfold through seven thousand years of history as the regeneration expands. In [...]

Alive Again

by John Class Shakespeare said, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." The resurrection will make the evil that men do live much longer and pose more difficulty than was ever imagined. The good that men do will return with them as a medal of honor to [...]

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