Product Description: The Shudder Pulps are back! In fact, it's like they never left in this second great collection of new stories inspired by the classic Weird Menace magazines such as DIME MYSTERY and TERROR TALES. Those pulps may have ended in the early 1940s, but some of today's top authors give us the same sort of pulse-pounding, spine-chilling tales they might have published if they had stayed around...read more

Product Description: Baseball, romance and history are woven together in this lively trip into the past, as four middle aged men depart to a baseball "fantasy" camp that turns into a baseball "reality" camp. National and Negro League baseball action abounds amid engaging historical events of the late 19th century, as Burly, Otis, Rogie, and Turk live their baseball fantasy...read more

Twenty stories, including the Derringer Award winning "All My Yesterdays" and the Derringer Award nominated "Cuts Like a Knife," introduce readers to the hardboiled world of crime fiction writer Michael Bracken. Included are tales of hard-bitten newspaper reporters, average men pushed too far by an uncaring world, and criminals of all stripes. Each of these stories tears back society's scabs to reveal the festering fear, prejudice, and violence hidden beneath the surface. Whether alone or helped by family, friends, and co-workers, the characters in these stories ultimately face the darkness within men's souls.

Product Description: This still ain't your Mama's anthology. Whether they crawl up from the gutters or stroll down from the mansions, the private eyes and tough guys in these stories make the mean streets meaner and the dark alleys darker. While some stories punch you full in the face, others sneak up from behind and place the cold steel barrel of a ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fourteen delicious private eye tales guaranteed to whet your appetite for detection. Wining, dining, and death. Fast living and fine dining combine to present today's private eyes with culinary crimes suitable for even the most refined palate...read more

Product Description: tales of natural and supernatural noir Whether real or imagined, natural or supernatural, the horrors in these macabre tales of lost love, quiet desperation. These are dark, dark tales -- of lost love, of quiet desperation; painful memories that will linger in your thoughts long after you turn the last page...read more

Product Description: There's a serial killer loose in the Windy City -- a stalker picking off prostitutes in the red light district. His victims are ALL WHITE GIRLS

Product Description: (YA Duet) HIS FRIDAY GIRLS: As if having a hopeless crush isn't bad enough, high school sophomore Megan Linders has just been assigned a huge career project that her teacher claims will get her ready for the "real world". Problem is, Megan doesn't know if she wants to get ready for the "real world"-- she'd rather think about a hunky guy with green eyes...read more

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Product Description: PSI COPS / Geeks and freaks. / That's what Detective Sergeant Tony Carvelli thinks of Psi Cops until he's faced with a sadistic serial killer who leaves no evidence behind. / In a near-future St. Louis, after sexually-transmitted diseases have been eliminated and sex without commitment is a lifestyle for much of the population, Carvelli investigates the deaths of women dismembered in their own bedrooms...read more

Product Description: DEADLY CAMPAIGN / Covering City Hall during an election year was all the excitement reporter Dan Fox needed -- until he discovered Alderman Bill Franklin's bullet-ridden body. / Who killed the alderman? Why did they do it? Fox wants the story...read more

Product Description: Private-Eye Nathaniel Rose has seen it all--from dead strippers to exploding Mustangs to blackmailing lovers. After a brief tour of Korea and ten years as a cop, Rose now walks the dark side of the street, handling cases in St. Louis, Missouri...read more

Product Description: One Dozen Dangerous Dames Who Lie, Cheat, Steal, and Kill