Pin up my hair, there's company coming.We'd better get some biscuits in the oven.You know I'll fry this meat and when I'm throughYou set the table and I'll sing a song for you.Named in honor of Red Bird of the Cherokee Nation, the Red Bird River is a tributary of the Kentucky River located in the Daniel Boone National Forest. The land surrounding the river, in what is today known as Clay County, has been home to Indigenous pe...

Weird tales from the ever-weirder Old West.Jimmy and Orville are back for more supernatural mayhem in these four stories. Their penchant for finding trouble is as keen as ever. In "The Wand" Jimmy and Orville face off against a dangerous witch who will not accept no for an answer. "The Miracle of Ed's Purgative" brings our hucksters face-to-face with a sasquatch who refuses to leave. The dead witch in "The Wayward Corpse" will not stay in her coffin. "The Flaming E...

The Big Feast Cafe is a weird and wonderful place.Victor's wife is missing. The police are making no progress. Victor believes they suspect him. Acting on a business card found in his mailbox, Victor goes out one night in search of The Big Feast Cafe, a place where the lost are said to gather.His search draws him into one crime scene after another. Soon a pair of cops are chasing him for a murder. The Big Feast Cafe proves to be a weird place indeed. Victor...

A ghost haunts King David's family. Brothers devour their enemies and each other. A rabbi opens a Chabad House in a sinister New England town. In this book, you will find seven stories as demented and horrifying as the Bible that inspired them.---------------------------Dark and enticing, the stories in King David & the Spiders from Mars explore Biblical themes with a paradoxical combination of religious irreverence and respect for the literary richness of the texts. Marked...

Enter our mysterious realms where the stories are as varied and rich as the types of soil on this and other planets. Enchanted forests are knotted with roots and vines. Dreaded paths take us through strange, unexplored places.Investigate new worlds and houses frequented by ghosts. Come across witches and wizards and an assassin tasked to kill Death.Meet hot robots, hungry winds, and the goddess of chaos. Explore alien lands, purgatorial realms, and a shocking place where pe...

What is a mermaid to a fisherman?A young woman's spirit trapped in a cat's body, Merliss has lived more lifetimes than she can remember. When an unlucky fisherman happens on an injured mermaid and carries the creature home, Merliss takes an interest in the mermaid's plight. Merliss fears for the community. She knows they will face retribution from the old gods if anyone kills the mermaid, assuming the old gods still have any power.The mermaid soon comes und...

The Great Corvid, a gem rumoured to be the source of the monarchy's power, has been stolen. The Queen and her council demand that wizard emeritus Learvin and his cat familiar Nightmawl come out of retirement to lead the search. The most likely culprit is a dragon living in a mountain lair on the other side of Swamp Deslolation. The journey to the dragon's cave will be hard, but negotiating with a dragon carries its own set of perils. Nightmawl would rather rest his old bones in a tree and ...

Plagues kill but Merliss has far more to fear than a disease.Merliss is no ordinary cat. She's a young girl's spirit trapped in a cat's body. While the magic that banished her has snatched away her ability to speak to humans, it has given her a life spanning millennia. For centuries she has lived with the cunning folk, assisting their efforts to heal the sick and ward off malevolent creatures. Now a bleeding sickness has thrown the medieval community into chaos.

Well-behaved children have nothing to fear from Krampus, right?Hans and Helga face a nasty encounter with bully Johan as the days to Christmas count down. But bullies are not the only threat the village children face. Krampus is long overdue to pay a visit. Chickens and ducks have gone missing with hoof prints leading away. Good children like Hans and Helga have nothing to fear, or do they? Johan knows he's a target. What plot is he hatching to save himself? Is Kra...

What would you do to save your landlady's cat?Aaron Sanderson overslept through his bar exam. Now, he's working the dead end of a grocery store checkout lane, waiting for his next shot at the bar. His boss is a jerk and the summer heat is stifling in the old building. Aaron thinks he's hit rock bottom, until his elderly landlady enters the store with her cat."The Cat Lady Is Always Right" is a humorous short story about making a stand for the underdog.

An enchanted blade. An evil old man. An ancient spirit.The Weird West just gets weirder.Hucksters Orville and Jimmy struggle to buy a decent meal.When an old man asks for help with a supernatural pest, Orville smells opportunity. Jimmy smells danger.And danger is what they find. Jimmy must retrieve an enchanted knife, while fighting a huge coyote, a shapeshifting opossum, and an ancient spirit determined to keep the blade wh...

Taking from a Barrow? Not a good idea.Ethan's family has fallen from owning a manor to scraping by on a small farm. As he approaches manhood, his prospects don't look very promising. And Arabella, the girl he's set his sights on, is the daughter of the Squire. Goaded by his younger brother, Ethan enters the Barrow, fights for his life with the tomb guardian, and escapes with a silver gorget.Ethan hatches a plan to impress Arabella with the gorget. At the sa...