YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never gone but never found. No one seems to notice the insanity surrounding them... or if they do, they keep it to themselves. After all, those who notice and call attention to it ten...

2020 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book AwardAlongside the various people moving into and through the nineteenth-century Texas frontier was a group of European intellectuals bent on establishing a socialist utopia near the hamlet of Dallas. Their inspiration, French philosopher Charles Fourier, envisioned a society in which basic human ambitions would be expressed and cultivated, tied together by the bonds of emotion. Fourier’s self-appointed disciple Victor ...

Horrible Stories for Terrible People, Vol. I is a collection of 15 monster-themed short stories. Ranging from straight-out horror to tongue in cheek, denizens include...- A rockabilly vampire whose idea of heaven is 24-hour truckstops.- Two men fated to cross paths on the night of a full moon.- An imaginary friend who might not be so imaginary after all.- A legendary killer resurrected and given a new purpose.- Two brothers who receive a strange pair of ...

This collection of fifteen Lovecraft-inspired tales spans human history and genres. Ranging from high fantasy to martial arts epic to the far future, they are all linked by a common theme of the alien unknown. Among the stories' inhabitants, you will find:Jonas Bell Presents "The King in Yellow" - A cursed play that may be a doorway to another reality or something far worse.Sanitarium - The dark secret of the forgotten patients locked away in the bowels of a seaside asylum....

In this fantasy short-story, Yorick the vampire and his glum companion Horatio the ghoul are ordered to assassinate an influential baron set to unite the baronies of the Affiliation against the undead-controlled Shadow Kingdoms ruled by their master, the lich-king Nazgoth. Unfortunately when Yorick and Horatio are involved, things rarely go according to plan.

A zombie tale with Lovecraftian overtones set in the Old West. After the dead start to rise in the town of Purgatory, Sheriff Lucas McMasters recruits William Whateley, a gunfighter alleged to have dealings with the forces of darkness, to help him get to the bottom of things.

Featuring characters introduced in the weird western tale "Restless On Boot Hill", gunfighter William Whateley returns to the Old West town of Purgatory at the request of Sheriff Lucas McMasters. When the pair suspect a connection between a spate of violence and the mysterious owner of a traveling magic lantern show, a showdown is inevitable.

This collection of strange tales ranges from high magic to monster romance to weird western. Stories includes "The Devil's Outhouse", "The Awkward and Ill-Conceived Death of Baron Kritzler", "The Haggard Brothers Go to Town", "Emissary of Decay (A Tale of the Devil's Outhouse)", and "Tolkien World".

Even before they were remade by their Pa into something not quite human, the Haggard brothers were the terror of the strange place they called home. When Pug Haggard decides to woo Lenore, the beloved daughter of the infamous necromancer Emo Mulcifer, his brothers tag along to run interference against Mulcifer's undead hordes. The question is, what could a mutant redneck like Pug Haggard possibly say to impress Lenore?

Ex-Confederate solider turned gunslinger Jacob Burden's adventures continue in that strange realm some call the Devil's Outhouse. Still searching for a way back to the town of Purgatory, Jacob makes a bargain with a sorcerer that leads to a confrontation with a dangerous new enemy. Startling revelations await in the Devil's Outhouse.

"A clown with an axe walks into a church..." It sounds like the start of a bad joke but in a dark future overrun by unspeakable horror, an evil clown with an axe that tells him to kill things might be just what the doctor ordered.

After a bank robbery goes terribly wrong, ex-Confederate soldier turned gunfighter Jacob Burden flees into the desert where he might hope to escape the posse but certainly not his conscience. Somehow, Jacob winds up in a place far stranger than any tall tale and more dangerous than a hanging judge. If he keeps his wits sharp and his pistol loaded he might not only survive but find redemption.