A house of haunted ghosts: it's horror in a sense, but not so much of the "horror genre" as of the small daily torments to which our choices lead us.Based on the enticing legend of the Winchester "Mystery" House—a labyrinthine edifice built by a guilt-ridden armaments heiress—the story is seen through a blind man's eyes. Raymond Smolett, a veteran tour guide on the verge of retirement, leads his final hour's gaggle of gawkers through the monstrous maze. For the first time in thirty...

The Promise, the Promise, the Promise . . .A casual bar-stool conversation with a mystery man—perhaps a Las Vegas bigwig, perhaps a sociopath—hooks chronic loser Vern McGurren on the chance of a lifetime, requiring a road trip from Chico CA across Yosemite and Death Valley to the monumental stone outcrop of New Mexico's Shiprock. It's a chance to bridge the gap between a desperate father, a suicidal son, and an exiled firstborn who know each other too well, while leaving the gritty ...

A year after the death of his co-creator and soul mate Lainie, a grizzled puppeteer struggles to build a solo show. But what Albert Fisher intends as a lightweight spoof turns sharply personal, and he labors to birth a raw myth of love and loss.His aging, pot-bellied Sir Galahad launches a second mad quest for the Holy Grail. To follow him, his lady secretly changes guises with their frail, androgynous Fool. As his play evolves, Albert finds kinship with Galahad's despair and dogged...

Historical fantasy. At the behest of his patron, a medieval scribe narrates his journey as an inquisitive, puzzled six-year-old on tour with his family troupe of players. Performing their farces across a landscape of war, plague, religious strife and feral cats, they transport a hamper of curse-bearing masks that intrude themselves into the boy's dreams and the troupe's reality, culminating in a Nordic Armageddon.Though set in Late Antiquity, it's based on the authors' own experienc...