Creepin' CluesAn Occult Detective Anthology

Forget Fedoras—these gumshoes are far too busy battling legions of the undead to be stylish. And rather than fight off femme fatales or gat-wielding mobsters, the detectives of Creepin’ Clues hang out with Bigfoot or family ghosts and wield wooden stakes rather than .45s. They are still private investigators at heart, and this anthology presents a perfect mixture of horror, mystery, and action.

In “No. 42,” Vernon Smith, a freelance journalist and master of the occult, attempts to help a haunted family living in suburban London. “The Corpse in the Cockpit” features a similar sleuth, although Scotland Yard’s Inspector McCraith is a bit more dashing than Smith. To round out our Anglo invasion, Myles Cunningham and Professor Desmond Wellington of Michael Penncavage’s “The Horror at Blackthorne Manor” must figure out the riddle of why the manor is at the center of so many unnatural deaths.

More All-American fare can be found in Arbogast’s “The Strange Events at Ellsworth Farm,” where Special Agent Patrick Midnight of the Society of Gentlemen Geographers stumbles upon a howling family in Maine. In Parker Longbaugh’s “Agent Dodd Learns About Triangles,” a railway inspector meets the foul and vicious witches of 1950s Vermont.
These stories and more await your tender eyes. If you’re already scared, don’t be—these occult detectives will do the dirty work for you.

Contents

1. No. 42 by C. P. Webster
2. Nemean Games by Justin A. W. Blair
3. The Corpse in the Cockpit by Connor Boyle
4. The Strange Events at Ellsworth Farm by Arbogast
5. The Horror at Blackthorne Manor by Michael Penncavage
6. Operation Tornadogenesis by Max Palermo
7. Agent Dodd Learns About Triangles by Parker Longbaugh
8. The Lost Boy of Ford Heights by Steve Loiaconi
9. The Veneration of Twilight by Lee Clark Zumpe
10. Sara's Sorrowful Song by Chris Hutto