WEIRD & TWISTED TALES
Jake Istenhegyi Omnibus:
Volume 1
- A Chick, a Dick, and a Witch Walk into a Barn
Bear Gunn goes missing on a simple job that sends Jake Istenhegyi into the bayou and into the dangerous world of blood magic and zombie chickens.
- Golems, Goons, and Stone Cold Bitches
A beautiful dame lies dead at the foot of the stairs and a mysterious package that everyone is willing to shed blood over.
- Boodaddies, Bogs and a Dead Man’s Booty
Lost pirate treasure, a vindictive head in a bag, and swamp monsters. A typical day for Jake Istenhegyi.
Jake Istenhegyi Omnibus:
Volume 2
- Fish-Eyed Men, Fedoras, and Steel-Toed Pumps
An ally from Bear’s past comes back to cash in a favor. And it’s fishy as hell.
- Road Trips, Acid Baths, and One-Eyed Bastards
Nothing cements a new friendship like a cross-country road trip. Being chased by bloody thirsty immortals and an enemy from your past is just icing on the cake.
- Corpses, Coins, Ghosts and Goodbyes
Things were finally looking up for Jake…until a guy shoves a gun in his face and accuses him of murder. Things just get worse from there.
Stone Baby
This is a collection of short stories that involve murder, lies, ghosts, and the apologetic thing that lives under your bed.
The Problem at Gruff Springs
Allan Pinkerton has been tasked by President Grant to recover Confederate gold stolen by a group desperate to fuel the fires of the Lost Cause. An intercepted telegram leads Pinkerton and Agent Sigerson to the town of Gruff Springs, a once lawless bump in the desert that is now a luxurious spa with miraculous water cures.
But something smells wrong. Pinkerton isn’t leaving town until he finds out what.
The Galvanized Girl
Late in Queen Victoria’s reign, a scientist receives messages from Angels, desperate to stop a future World War.
Delilah Ditch, an orphan and woman with no means, becomes his prototype for the Super Soldier that the Angels want him to build.
She, however, might have other ideas.
Rumble
BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU DIG…
There is something very wrong in the Gobi Desert at the natural gas mining camp, BST147. Two weeks ago, satellite photos showed a thriving operation. Two days ago, a war zone.
That’s where the Stonecipher Tactical Security team comes into play. Hired to do a simple search and rescue, the situation quickly turns when the sun goes down and the team is attacked by creatures from above and below. To say nothing of the other dangers lurking all around them: a wild man whose flesh is carved with arcane symbols, Eco-terrorists and, most dangerous of all, an office bureaucrat with a clipboard. It’s going to be a long night.
Gunn Takes a Gander
1920’s, New Orleans. Barrington “Bear ” Gunn is a WWI veteran who decides to live the life of his pulp heroes and open a detective agency. Unfortunately, the gumshoe business is more about avoiding bill collectors than punching bad guys.
Then one day, a terrified musician on the run comes to him for help. A few hours later, Bear Gunn is up to his belt buckle in voodoo, goons and, oh, yeah….geese.
Sherlock Holmes: The Shrieking Pits
Dr. John Watson returns home to discover that all of London is in a frenzy because Sherlock Holmes is missing and presumed lost. Watson is approached by a psychical investigator, Ulysses K. Todd and his secretary, Mrs. Dowell, who claim they know what has happened to Holmes: while on an investigation with the pair, Holmes was kidnapped by fairies.
What starts out as a frivolous excursion into hunting fairies quickly turns into something more sinister when Watson discovers that the World’s Greatest Detective is on the trail of a daring heist and in terrible danger. Holmes must use every skill at his disposal to discover the secret of the Shrieking Pits, while deftly maneuvering around ghost hunters and fairy enthusiasts and not add to the body count.
Revenge of the Blood Red Maid
“Let’s pull aside the curtain, shall we? What I do not need is pseudoscience poppycock. What I need is theatre.”
It is expected for an aristocratic family to have a ghost or two. But at the dawn of a new secular era, the damage to the property value isn’t worth it. It’s the late 1890’s and somewhere in an alternate England, Timothy Flood, a genius with contraptions, and Giselle Benedict, an actress with no equal, con their way through the aristocracy, with promises to oust their supernatural squatters. They are employed to perform their trade on an elderly Duchess who believes her family is tormented by a ghostly apparition, the Blood Red Maid. The tables are turned when it turns out that their foe is quite real. And the con runs deeper than either of them expected.