Nebula finalist and Prometheus Award winner Brad Linaweaver has been
writing science fiction, fantasy and horror for two decades. This is his first collection of short stories.
Here you will meet a clown who
doesn't need makeup, a dwarf who tells his psychiatrist all about
invisible dinosaurs, a Nazi who learns the true horror of Atlantis, a
technological Aztec empire bent upon enslaving the Plains Indians, a
barber who prefers werewolves as customers, a robot conscience that
discovers its own soul, a mathematician who can conquer all the laws of
space and time, a crazy chef who has very strange rules about his
kitchen, a Halloween witch who is trapped in a world of Wiccans, the
ultimate secret kept hidden beneath the Vatican, a President who loses
his authority to characters out of a comic book, something more
frightening than the Necronomicon found at Miskatonic University, a sexy Hollywood actress who challenges the supernatural to help a producer, a science fiction writer who finds himself at the exact center of the
universe, a mysterious killer in the swamp who wants to murder his way
to salvation and a Utopia built on the ideas of H. G. Wells that is
threatened by the one thing Wells would never forget!
These
stories will stay with you long after you read them.
Contents:
- Introduction: God's Carny Barker by
Victor
Koman
- Man of the House (poem) by
Berl Boykin
- Clownface
- The Lon
Chaney Factory
- Pavlovia
- Clutter
- A Real Babe
- Her
Morbid Desires
- Wells of
Wisdom
- Paranoia
Doesn't Pay
- Shadow
Quest
- High Road
of Lost Men
- The Last
Short Story Writer at the End of Time
- Blood Orgy
of the Swamp Butcher
- My Wiccan,
Wiccan Ways
- School
Prayer
- Ice
Daggers for Amberthorn
- Unmerited
Favor
- The
Darkest Doctrine
- Under An
Appalling Sky
- The Bison
Riders
- And to the
Republic For Which It Stands
- Destination: Indies
- Press
Conference
- Close
Shave
- Scavenger
Hunt
- Vamway
- The Kong
Company
- Red Clay,
Crimson Clay
- Poisoned
Dreams
- Milk Is a
Sauce
- Freezer
Queen
- Blind
Sceptre
- The Other
Scabbard
- Critique
of Pure Math
- Piecemeal
- Imagicide
- Executing a Pirouette for Belphegor
- The
Competitor
- Broken
Charm
- ...Just a Hunk of Burnin' Love...
- ...Every
Dwarf Should Own a Dinosaur
- About the Author
