**A USA Today Bestseller!“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built**A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF.After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to dete...

A.S.Chambers collects seventeen more of his best-loved tales of horror into one memorable volume.With stories ranging from a psychopath who buys a castle to a guy whose luck runs out when the universe changes around him and a homicidal sock monster whose job drove him over the edge, be prepared to be whisked away into the deepest, darkest depths of the quirky mind that brought you Sam Spallucci, the whiskey drinking, chain-smoking investigator of the paranormal.

Welcome to the latest outing from Lancaster's Master of the Macabre, A.S.Chambers!What would you do in order to survive on a desert island? Can you trust that charming chap who invites you back to his place on the first date? Why does Christmas hold no cheer for an ageing sea dog? Could the archaeological discovery of a lifetime be the beginning of the end for all creation?Once again, A.S.Chambers applies his unique style to a set of short horror and urban fantasy stories, ...

What could possibly be worse for your health, smoking or the cure for the common cold? Is a former wild child, now in her final days, still able to defend herself from the not so romantic advances of a past lover? Can an oppressed wife use a dinner party as a means to release herself from her overbearing husband?As well as these quirky tales of horror, A.S.Chambers also draws to a close the Justice and the Nightingale vampire trilogies. In doing so, he paves the way for the well-lo...

Two young orphans living in a post-apocalyptic land are tasked with delivering a precious artefact that is supposed to bring about the downfall of their world's tormentor. However, danger constantly lies in their path and no one can be trusted as they set out upon their quest.Set in the far distant future of the world of paranormal investigator Sam Spallucci, Bobby Normal and the Eternal Talisman gives a tantalising glimpse into the world post-Divergence, where Kanor rules supreme....

Welcome to eleven weird tales designed to enthral and entertain!From a four-year-old girl on an Arthurian quest to a pair of fallen angels lamenting their present-day existence. From a murderous golem seeking its next victim to a neglected housewife who has turned into a brick. A.S.Chambers continues to mix a satisfying blend of his trademark quirky humour and dark insight into this, his latest short story anthology.

For the first time, A.S.Chambers collects the popular stories of the vampires that feature in the expanded universe of his paranormal investigator, Sam Spallucci.Follow Justice the Wild West gunslinger as he tries to come to terms with his newfound supernatural abilities and heavy weight of being a king in waiting. Then, when finally reunited with his father and newborn sister, tragedy strikes.Accompany Nightingale, the all too human regent, as she creates her first offspri...

What happens when a teenage girl finally meets her estranged demonic father? Are workplace outings actually all that safe? When an alien miraculously appears in a bored youngster's back garden, who is at most risk? What lengths would an individual go to in order to bring about peace in a world that is addicted to technology?A.S.Chambers provides answers to these questions and many more as well as providing the final two prologues to the sixth Sam Spallucci novel, Bloodline.

THE BLOODLINE SHALL DIE...After a visit from a deceased friend, Sam is plunged into a world that is a crazed parody of Wonderland. Not only this, but he is accompanied by a less-than-impressed fallen seraph who happens to be dressed as an albino lagomorph.And that's just the first case in his latest set of weird adventures!THE HARBINGER SHALL BURN...An ancient prophecy is unfolding, and events leading to the apocalyptic Divergence are beginning to come to pa...

Lancaster's beleaguered investigator of the paranormal, Sam Spallucci, is dragged kicking and screaming to an amateur production of Macbeth. If this was not bad enough, he suddenly finds himself frocked and lost in sixteenth century England with a rapidly diminishing chance of ever getting home.This short story was originally written for and performed at Morecambe's 2016 Bard By The Beach festival.Also contains a taster excerpt from Sam's first case: The C...

Follow a young Nightingale through the late Victorian era as she escapes from abject poverty to become the ruler of the secretive vampire society known to its members as the Children of Cain.She travels from begging on the streets to a life of servitude under a sadistic parish priest before being liberated under the light of the moon by the vampire king, Doulos. With her new father, she travels to the Wild West in search of her older sibling, only to be cast into a tale of tragedy ...

MEET ALEC...Alec thinks he is just another normal teenager. He hates his home life and his annoying parents. He finds school to be tedious. Sure, he might drift off into weird daydreams and hear a peculiar voice in his head from time to time, but doesn't everyone his age?HE COULDN'T BE MORE WRONG...Then, one day, the voice tells him to kill his parents and the quiet teenager is dragged off back in time to Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Victorian Britain as Alec d...