Victor Standish: Urban legend, abandoned child, mocker of monsters: “I learned to walk on cat-feet by living on the streets of too many hard cities for six years...since I was seven. I know why dogs howl at the dark and why cats prick up their ears after midnight. All too often I hear the...

MARDI GRAS.... MAGIC.... MURDER In 1947, New Orleans, THREE KINGS DAY marks the start of the official Carnival Season. Carnival, coming from the Latin words, carne vale, meaning "farewell to the flesh". Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, Our Lady of Holy Death, is stalking the French Quarter...

Welcome to New Orleans, Christmas Eve, 1946. The Darkness of New Orleans dozed fitfully during the war years, waiting for its chance to play with its toys again. It was a Darkness as carefully hidden as the gates to the small courtyards that lurk between buildings in the French Quarter. In the...

Darkness cannot claim what Light does not surrender.... But sometimes it follows you home. There are portals opening to realms far beyond the fields we know. Not since the Black Plague has Death taken so many lives across so much of the known world as has World War II. There is a Cosmic...

Each of us is a Frankenstein’s Monster. A piece of us is in every person we will ever meet. Usually we refuse to see those disturbing sides of us in others. The best stories lure us into facing them....

It is 1867 in an America a layer of existence from this one. General Sherman was denied his march through Georgia by forces beyond his ken. Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated, though he wishes he had been killed instead of his beloved Mary. The battered Indian tribes of America have a...

The supernatural is no delusion or illusion. It is a world of terrible wonders if you but look closely into the shadows as these 13 tales reveal....

"All of us have a path to follow, and that path begins in the heart." - Samuel McCord The world is filled with mystery and shadow. What is life? The years bring us the conceit that we grasp life. What we grasp is but illusion. Childlike we seize a fistful of seawater and say we hold the ocean...

The 2012 Apocalypse happened ... just not in the way anyone expected. How have we not noticed....

A ship lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Nearly half of its passengers the living dead or something even worse. One Texas Ranger on a hunt for a mysterious killer now must protect the living...

Learn from the ghosts of the true masters of writing. And as an added bonus, you will laugh along the way....

In a Time that could have been but wasn't, yet might still be, a young bear cub wanders a strange valley where all the myths of the world are very real... and very deadly....

Eternal evil never looked so beautiful. Before Indiana Jones… Before Allan Quartermain... There was... Samuel McCord. Join the cursed Texican as he clashes with the last survivor of an extinct species in the Missouri of 1848. He communes with the Spirit of the Earth in the Hawaii of 1866. He...

In a world of nightmare, do love, courage, and laughter stand a chance? Seven dark tales answer that question....

Voodoo in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania? A mystic travel trailer that has a life of its own and takes its name too seriously? A deadly, unbeatable worker of dark magic out to unravel the fabric of reality? A Hellhound named Puppy?...

For one Lakota author, the words he writes have the power of life...and death. The more he writes, the more real his creations become until they take on a life of their own. Worse, the dead now are drawn to him. Until the unthinkable happens.... He is accused of killing the ghost of Ernest...

Something has awakened in the Badlands. Undying hunger and hatred for Man seethe in the darkness. While below the brooding pinnacles, the first talking Western is being filmed. The fledging director, John Ford, has inherited a troubled production and fights his own insecurity over filming his...

Victor Standish, street gypsy living on the haunted streets of the French Quarter, should live in fear....

Fallen, the last Tuatha de Danann, is in love with a teenage mortal, Blake Adamson....

If Voodoo, vampires, and the Apocalypse fail to kill him, Victor must survive the deadly love of the Victorian ghoul, Alice Wentworth....