Hollow Press: 53 books

The American Civil War was by far the most dramatic time in U.S. history. No one could escape its influence who lived in America while it was fought; indeed, we can still not escape its influence today. It was a contest for the soul of the nation, to define who and what America was to be. And...

With the nation abuzz over the defeat of Custer, journalist Carlo Nelson is assigned to follow an equally colorful cavalry colonel, Jefferson McClannon, into battle. But Carlo is about to discover that war on the Plains is like nothing he has experienced in his previous travels… A short story by Peacemaker and Spur Award winner Troy D. Smith

*** TROY D. SMITH is an acclaimed author of genre fiction. He is a winner, and three-time finalist, of the prestigious Spur Award.

The railroads hated Judah King –but the people loved him, viewing him as a modern-day Robin Hood. Judah has a scheme to parlay that popularity into his gang’s biggest score yet –and his ambitions don’t stop there. His oldest friend, and trusted lieutenant, fears that the charming psychopath Judah King may finally be going too far… but what is he willing to do to stop it?

The first installment of the Raven Saga... a cycle of 12 heroic fantasy novellas. Wulfstan of the Hinterland had come of age, and was determined to cross the barren Winterberg Mountains and find adventure in the realms beyond. The mountains themselves would give the youth more than he bargained...

A fantasy short story by Troy D. SmithThe halfling Jod Gleefellow had not expected to find adventure in the Dark Wood; he had only hoped to find a rabbit for his supper. He had certainly not expected to find an Elven maiden, imprisoned for centuries by an evil sorceror. Jod beheld the bones...

U.S. Marine Jim Barnes survived Vietnam, and has returned home to the Maricopa Indian Reservation… but can he survive the memories that haunt him? His grandfather has a solution, if Jim is willing to listen to him, and trust the old ways… A short story by Troy D. Smith, winner of the Peacemaker and Spur Awards.

Will Shaw wanted a better life. A parenting license, maybe a physical upgrade for his wife. But he has a nasty habit of asking too many questions, an infamous radical brother, and a directive from the Committee of Programmers to report to The Marches—where reality and sanity blur, and which few...

A SHORT TALE OF TERROR by award-winning author Troy D. SmithColonel Jeffords has more to worry about than the Confederate Army. He has chosen to employ an infamous Union guerrilla band led by the mysterious Captain Vincent Caine -a band so bloodthirsty that the enemy may not be enough to satiate...

A fantasy short story by award-winning author Troy D. Smith Nikki was a scared little halfling girl, and the Dark Wood was the last place she wanted to be -but her pet squirrel had run into the mysterious forest, and she had to find him. But -what if some wicked creature or other was...

Magic is described as science we do not understand and illusions as tricks of controlling audience perspective. Black hat or white hat, good or evil, witches, hackers, and robots work types of magic a little beyond our day-to-day comprehension. And what is more exciting than the inexplicable? DARK...

'So they took one look at his rap sheet and kicked his sorry Irish ass clean out of Wonderland. They didn’t even pause to strip away his Glamour, they were that cheesed off with him. September wasn’t sure where he landed at first. Some out-of-the-way burg you couldn’t get a decent pint...

In a world sharply divided between the corporation and outcasts, Pieter Dwa, once a corporate private investigator, finds himself on the other side of the Cordon walls where societal outcasts are condemned to an abandoned world to fend for themselves.  But revenge and justice run deep and Pieter...

The spaceship destroyed, his family murdered, Duncan finds himself stranded on a planet circling Wolf 359.  Along with the only other survivor, a beautiful gladiator named Alexis, they encounter a civilization whose past reaches back only 1500 years.  Their fortune stumbles from the start when Alexis...