Victor Allen: 24 books

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We all have them. Bullies. And we'd all like to get back at them. So what would you be willing to barter for one moment's satisfaction against these incurable joy killers? Black-Eyed Allen has the remedy. He can fix it up to a fair ye well. Still, as they say, be careful what you wish for... One of twenty shorts stories in A-Sides.

It was to be an idyllic weekend getaway for Richard and Elizabeth, but wicked fate has separated them forever. Or has it? Love may be eternal, but sometimes the very things that bind you to someone can conspire to keep you apart. A simple little, traditional ghost story, one of twenty shorts in A-Sides. Enjoy!

For Hollywood A-Lister, David Moore, life and the world he knew has changed. Beckoned by a vast inheritance and an orphaned little girl to a hometown he knows almost nothing about, he finds in Vister a Paradise Lost. But no paradise is perfect. Boiling beneath the slow death of days and the friendly...

Because you asked for it -A-Sides, now fortified with Zombies! Novus Ordo Seclorum. A new order for the ages. Strap your tinfoil hat on tight 'cause there's something for everyone in "A-Sides." From Lost loves to Buckets O'Gore, "A-Sides" has it all. Ghosts, paranormal children,...

There are ancient impossibilities shaped by human hands that defy rationality. Cassandra Roberts has been summoned to the storied lands of Turkey to explore the myth become fact called Kirinjiru, an ancient underground city. But mysteries buried for millennia beckon and as the ruins grudgingly give up their secrets, the biggest secret of all is revealed. One of twenty stories in A-Sides.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, all art is surface and subtext, and the artist dives beneath at his own peril. Mark Wright is a moderately successful artist, yet he understands what it is like to lose himself in his art, to go too deep, to cut to the bone and all the way to the cancerous growth of an artist's...

George Walburn has found no comfort beneath fate's umbrella. His life has been one of being gut-kicked and back-stabbed, and the only thing that he anticipates with any eagerness is death. But whatever gods there might be will not be denied their fun. The old voodoo witch doctor, Unk Maum, had told...

Loretta Jones hated everyone and when the zombie apocalypse descended on the planet no-one was happier than she. As the old joke went, "When the zombie apocalypse starts, Loretta doesn't worry about surviving. The zombies do." She was ready to ride it out and emerge victorious into a world...

Some call them Seneca Guns, others call them Skyquakes, those unexplained booms from the sky. Daniel Knight heard it on November 17th. That, coupled with the mysterious black triangle and a military base where one shouldn't be would send Daniel Knight on an adventure that few humans will ever know. Skyquake, an old fashioned Space Opera. Get it now.

The simple things are the ones that stick: a flash of the eyes, the tilt of a head, a laugh. They endure through time, space, even death. Past lives intersect, intertwine and all debts come due and payable in this life or the next. Love is beautiful, and sweet, and cruel, and deadly. It is not mocked. Find out why in The Laughing Lady. One of twenty short stories from A-Sides.

The abandoned mining camp of Essex doesn't lie nestled in its picturesque valley; it is more accurately laid to rest there, out of sight and mind of decent people who would never want to know the unspeakable things that happened in its dark and hidden buildings and streets. Atrocities so appalling...

Andy Warhol once said everybody in America would have their fifteen minutes of fame. But what would you do and who would you use to get it? Heebie is a simple cemetery caretaker with a strange gift. A gift that will trap him in the nightmare of one deranged teen's twisted dream of fame and glory... Heebie. One of twenty stories in A-Sides.

In the backwoods of America there are those who believe in tent revivals, snake handlers and healers. Others don't, and will not stick at tearing down these fixtures of Southern Americana. But what if it's real? Would you really want to piss off a power that can create universes, destroy armies, and...