Eighteen tales for your yuletide pleasure. From vampires and Frankenstein's monster to alien invaders and Lovecraftian squidgies, G. W. Thomas offers up a treeful of presents, each decorated in terror. Features tales of Ara the trapper in Northern Alberta to stories of John Clancy set in the rural Texas of Robert E. Howard. Finish off with egg nog and an afterword on Christmas ghosts by the author.

SWORDS OF FIRE 4 offers four new novellas of savage tales of Sword & Sorcery. This volume contains "Between the Dragon and His Wrath" by Will Parker, an unusual tale of redemption and ancient magic. "The Star of Kanshalsus" by M. D. Jackson is the second tale of Bradik the Wanderer. "The Twilight War" by G. W. Thomas brings the Arthan the Bear man series to Swords of Fire, with a saga of spiders and armies. To finish off, we have the Sirtago & Poet short novel, "The Dragon God" with the tw...

This collection is the fifth in the Bearshirt series about Arthan the Bear Man, a were-bear who meets monsters and evil with a sword when he isn't using his claws and jaws. This volume is set in Arthan's youth when he is only seventeen and recently on his own, having left the Mountain where bears train. "Hunter's Moon" starts us off with an encounter with a werewolf that surprises the young man."In Dark Wild Hills" has Arthan stumble upon a strange underground race that worships something ...

Enter the world of Arthan the bear man! When the forest is invaded by strange creatures, the bear must give up his free-roaming life to stand against a foe that can turn ordinary people into new monsters. Arthan must fight the dark folk, the slaves of the bees, but also the local humans. Ventus has raised an army to defeat the bee queen but uses it for his own ends. Arthan faces off against gigantic insects, evil townsfolk and finally the strange evil behind the rise of the bees. Ultimatel...

G. W. Thomas returns from Strange Detectives to bring you more tales of brave heroes who face off against the darkness. You will meet former Deputy Brett Hope who finds terror in the Old West. Zombies, vampires even a woman created by magic. Hope deals with them with a six shooter and a knowledge that not is all that it seems. Also you will experience a tale of the Swiss Alps and a race of killer apes, and another of Labrador and fearless trappers who face off against a most famous enemy. ...

Ships of Steel is the first in a line of anthologies for the fan of Space Opera, Space Westerns and Science Fiction Adventure stories. Call it what you like, but these four novellas are filled with aliens, robots, spaceships, pirates, assassins all set on far planets or the depths of space."Rolling Stone" by M. D. Jackson introduces the space agent, Steel, and his spaceship Darling."The Hidden Heart" by G. W. Thomas features Sudana and Zaar, characters from his book Whisper...

Meet the strange detectives! Dr. Drayk solves a mystery from another continent that haunts an English lord. Delamare and Bainbridge have four adventures involving everything from white hands that appear in the night to werewolves and faeries that seek a young woman to create a new age of evil. The Athenodorians are a secret group that guard the world from all things occult and nasty. Led by the dapper Baron von Klarnstein, we also meet his sword-swinging and aeroplane flying daughter, Ores...

Monster 1 sets up the series with essays on the nature of monster stories, what they are, why we write them, then goes on to look at vampire stories featuring Japanese snow ghosts, Pulp vampires in Weird Tales and the occult detectives who chase them. Next are tales of slime monsters, bug-eyed monsters, vampires in space, ape monsters, vampires in Fantasy stories, and finally, the little people. The appendixes to the book include writer's advice on how to create your own monsters using exa...

Enter the world of Arthan the bear man! In this fifth novel and sixth book about Arthan the bear man, the were-bear and two companions go to the world beyond death to retrieve a stolen child. The two who journey with him are Vih the fox woman, who meet in Bearshirt #4 The War of the Weres. The other is Jach, a strange wizard that Arthan had rescued as a boy. Now grown to a man, the white-skinned mage leads the trio into a strange dimension where souls go after death. It turns out to be ver...

Short.Sharp.Shock is a collection of one hundred micro stories from G. W. Thomas, who used to edit a daily micro-fiction newsletter called FLASHSHOT. Here are strange and unusual tales of Horror, Humor, Fantasy and Science Fiction told in only one hundred word bursts. The story-fest ends with an article on "How To Write Micro-Fiction" in case you want to try it yourself.

From the southern kingdom of Trigassa come two warriors destined to blaze a path throughout the known civilizations.Sirtago, the Ka of the kingdom and his companion, Poet, battle evil and sorcery throughout the land when it threatens sirtago's family. As young men they defend the empress and emperor against a deadly beast whose secrets threaten to topple a neighbouring kingdom.With Sirtago's mighty sword and Poet's deadly twin daggers, these two adventurers travel the land,...

The first new collection since 2006! This time we brings together 10 great writers from the pages of the daily genre micro-fiction newsletter. 500 stories including the flash fiction of Mike Whitney in a special section all his own, "The Mongo Files" as well as Guy Belleranti, Ellen Lindquist, Adrian Ludens, Terrie Leigh Relf, Stephen D. Rogers, Esther Schrader, G. W. Thomas, Pavelle Wesser, and Grayson What.