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In the seedy depths of Angel City a new kind of scum is taking root. Working girls are going missing and when they show back up again it's bad news. The pervs and freaks seem to be winning but the deal is they never counted on Mel Thompson. Not just any shamus or private dick, Mel has a certain, shall we say, connection to another place down under but it's not Australia. The clock is ticking for Mel to solve the case because the deeper he gets into it, the better the odds that he's going to get his block knocked off, and then it's not just curtains, but a one-way ticket back to Hell for the...

I am Thomas Hunter, a paranormal investigator and part-time ghost charmer. I walk a thin line where the shadows of perception reshape the definition of reality. I used to be a cop. I used to have a wife. Then I died. When I woke up, I had three entities in my head, a bad case of amnesia, and an insider's view of the occult.

Hunter finds himself pacified in the quaint and cozy village of San Ragita, living with Avril, the love of his life, and her charming daughter Jenny. But all too soon it becomes apparent that San Ragita has another purpose that is anything but cozy or quaint. His quest to discover the truth pushes him deeply into a shadow reality where occult phenomena and everyday occurrences are indistinguishable; what the ancient’s called Chapel Perilous. Here, Hunter finds that his own existence is tied intimately with those who are made Incorruptible.

This sci-fi fantasy adventure introduces the worlds of Rigil Kent, where the back-engineering of alien artifacts booms economies and enigmatic cultures clash on the verge of war. Jace, a trader and sometimes smuggler, finds himself shanghaied into running a mission for a ruling dynasty of the “spider folk”, members of New Earth’s rival faction. The mission takes him to the alien world of Matdu—the original home of the mysterious First Race—where a red dwarf sun presides over a half-lit world chock-full of arcane treasure.

Jack Fuller’s life took a swan dive after he cheated on his wife two years ago. His most recent spate of “bad luck” is a list of symptoms that don't seem to fit any particular disease profile. Things get worse when a mysterious blood deposit is found in his bed. Then, there is the intense hunger to contend with, the repeating erotic nightmare,s and the panic attacks. When the cause of the illness finally manifests, it is wilder than Jack could ever have imagined. The illness has a name. Its name is Jerry.

Annabelle was born immaculately, coming from a place of dreams and memories into the corporeal world, a Gemini or doppelganger of the ever popular Chelsea Clarke. She was meant to remain in secret. Discovered by Chelsea, Annabelle finds herself in the grip of a dysfunctional sisterhood, unable to do anything right and totally subject to Chelsea's cruelly whimsical treatment of her. Chelsea's overbearing control and insistence on immoral personal errands keeps Annabelle from finding out what her true purpose really is.

The morphocyst population has grown by orders of magnitude, the denizens of which are building their homes in the forgotten sectors of Rigil Kent’s many slums. Jace and Nyx have stable employment as Silurian operatives paid to investigate morphocyst developments with particular attention to the phenomenon of the criminal serial morph.

Their ship crashed on a primitive planet inhabited by giant predatory cats and prehistoric hominids. The only ones who survived were housed in a portion of the ship that was built more securely: the nursery.

"Prizm is one fantastic novel. It starts mundane, then gets wild, with truly awful werebears and challenging alien cultures. How do Amazons reproduce? Violently! How do you control the leader you assign? You make a clone, and replace it if it gets ideas. Things make savage sense."—Piers Anthony "Prizm takes the most awesome elements of many of the major blockbuster sci-fi and fantasy movies in the last twenty years and gives them a dazzling spin! Were-monsters, ruthless villains, Amazon warrior women, runaway clones, and take-no-prisoners Scotsmen are just the start." --M.B. "Don't let ...

"A masterpiece of Shakespearean horror. A first of its kind." "It's Shakespeare meets Freddie Krueger. Serial killers, fairies and the apocalypse, the bogey man just got a hit of steroids." "An instant cult classic." Faeries return to San Francisco, and they don't believe in happily ever after's. Sarah Montgomery wasn't planning on saving her relationship, let alone an entire city, but when she learns of her father's transformation, she is swept into a world of weird magic and decayed gods. Here the rules don't apply, the police can't help you, and to stay "real" a serial killer called ...

Detective Story presents four distinct glimpses of noir fiction in this and other worlds. Steampunk fantasia, fembot legal rights, a demon possessed hero and a wicked foster home combine to make an anthology of the dark, strange and unforgettable Shark Bait follows anthropomorphic shark Detective John Harlow, of the Psychic Crimes Division, through the dystopian neighborhood's of St. Warfield where he must find the source of an hysterical outbreak of Vanity Sickness. Mired in a dark web of religious occultism and mad, steampunk science Harlow is challenged to uphold his own code of conduct ...

They told him it was just a parasite... Jack Fuller’s life took a swan dive after he cheated on his wife two years ago. His most recent spate of “bad luck” is a list of symptoms that don't seem to fit any particular disease profile. Internet searches and medical hip shots are as close as he can get to an actual diagnosis. Things get worse when a mysterious blood deposit with no apparent source is found in the middle of his bed. Then there is the intense hunger to contend with, the repeating erotic nightmares and the panic attacks. When the cause of the illness finally manifests, it is...

It's not only Tenebrosorum vamps that are after Hunter, or an assassin from another plane, but also San Francisco’s ruling pack of werewolves. Why? Because they all think he knows the whereabout of the key. He doesn't even know what he had for lunch with all that amnesia caused by the body swapping. Add to that bouts of phantom pain, a keen taste for alcohol and a broken heart and he's going to have one hell of a time staving off the end of the world. Or, perhaps, causing it.

Abby Winston wants to die. Her darkness inside is too great to face. The Universe agrees. Even her fortune cookies are shooting blanks. She can't do it herself, but her Death-Wish is not in vain. Something hears her plea and means to derive purpose from her erasure: a man-made demon meant to save the world. She can't return to the life she decided to leave and so takes the first step on a path darker than death.

Intergalactic gentleman and Multiverse traveler, Beasil Benedictus the Ninth, wakes up inside an elaborate trap made of clockwork jails, genetic experiments, and fantastical forests where men are beheaded for sport. Here everything is a game, except you don’t get to know the rules.

Timothy Beale isn't crazy, he hopes, but he is seeing things behind the wallpaper in his bedroom. Every night. The secret messages and neon-blue lights, leaking out from underneath the picture frame, mean something, he is certain. Just what they are trying to tell him remains a mystery, but he is sure that if he doesn't find out quick something very bad is going to happen.

Ancient giants, invading pixies and cannibal killers make San Francisco their home. Sarah Montgomery has no idea how her life turned into one long installment of strange, but last year when she went toe-to-toe with Poppycock, the most infamous serial killer the world had ever known, and survived to tell about it, she decided to just “go with it.” Now, she finds herself investigating an outbreak of a rare human growth disorder and dodging bullets from The Big Game Hunter, an eight foot killer with a sniper rifle. Meanwhile, a renegade Satanic priest is developing a grizzly blood magic, ...

A new Thomas Hunter adventure. The world has changed. The Rise of the Sirius star is showering Earth in a surfeit of occult radiation, giving birth to a host of new phenomena, not the least of which is a novel strain of vampire. The Old-World Therians are in danger of extinction and a new species of bloodsucker is on the rise, and they’re not interested in merely sipping blood like a fine wine. It was business-almost-as-usual with Hunter exterminating the regular occult creepy crawlies, and the occasional wayward vamp that just had to get in his way, when a certain blondie showed up on ...

Amy’s father has changed… Gone is the loving dad whose little girl was the center of his life, gone is the level headed parent who raised her. This new father’s enthusiasm for living borders on a manic depressive rage. He brags of a newfound verve for living, but instead of discovering life, he only seems intent on devouring it. Below his wildly smiling eyes and officious grins, exists a clenched jaw and brooding temper that threatens to engulf them both if he can’t have all of what he really wants: her.

Welcome to Umberia, a land where magick is as potent as one can maintain interest, where dogheaded sailors traverse the vast seas, and where the gods sent a great flood that nearly destroyed the world. Enter Jake, Tessa and Charlie, three friends from California, who have no idea how they got there or what the strange disk like scars that have suddenly appeared on their backs mean. It isn't long before certain interests pray on the three "smoothskins" from elsewhere and put the friends to the test on whether or not to help with the crusade to kill the gods, and who to trust meanwhile. Jake ...