Tales of Speculative Fiction from this century's most creative and paranoid minds. If Secret Societies exist, ILLUMINATI AT MY DOOR offers an unrestricted view of their playbook while explaining their need to control every aspect of our lives... Short Stories inspired by Secret Society rumor and folklore.

NovoPulp: The Speculative Fiction Anthology - Volume 2 The NovoPulp Anthology is back with it's second volume of speculative fiction, written by and for those who love the genre. Pushing boundaries, asking questions, demanding answers, and even providing some. Bringing back the best of Pulp! "NovoPulp is an exciting and promising initiative." - Himmelskibet Magazine "The good old days are back. NovoPulp deserves our attention." - Dr. Edwin Thomasson "An excellent example of what speculative fiction is all about." - Paul Pavlinovich This is the second NovoPulp anthology to be published by Hermit Studio. Learn more at: http://www.NovoPulp.com http://www.HermitStudio.com

Mr. Blinky is a little blue-eyed white collar guy in red working a cozy little job in a cozy little life. He processes a termination order that turns out to be an order for murder and things get very, very complicated for the little guy living in the big, big complex.

The Strawberry Banana Gnome--24" tall, hundreds of millions of years old and deeply whimsical. Come and hang out with a deeply silly mystical being who parades around looking like a stuffed animal.

Love defies time, crosses the infinite distance of space, and sparks formidable magics in the hearts of those it touches. And immortality? Yeah, it's got that covered, too. In this powerful volume, Pop Seagull Publishing presents twelve science fiction and fantasy short stories on the theme of love and its role as a force of nature. Follow an ambitious 1930's journalist and her high-society boyfriend as they defend the world from evil beings that hide in shadows. Can love prevail when science fails? Take a wild ride with Zephraim Cochrane as he searches for his long lost love through inter-dimensional travel. After all, the best inventions are always made to get dates. Embark on a whirlwind romance with a creature of the Fey in seven days, a beautiful story of friendship and finding self-love before all else. Descend into a very Torontonian sort of hell in search of lost love in Melanie in the underworld... just don't forget to pet the corgi. You'll find these adventures, and many more, inside.

THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR CUTS BACK Welcome to a macabre cinema for the imagination, to screenings of twisted tales projected not on a movie screen but on the page. In Reel Dark you'll find stories and poems by authors ranging from new voices to bestsellers to Bram Stoker Award finalists. From the battle for recognition between a child actress and a vengeful, long-forgotten film star in "Whatever Happened to Peggy...Who?" to a madman controlling a student a la The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in "Caligarisme," to a hapless Dreamist, whose talent propels him into a nightmare of jealousy and revenge in "The Dreamist," the authors have created worlds filled with madness, twisted desires, and broken dreams. The genres inside include suspense, horror, science fiction, and fantasy. You'll meet a lone deputy whose pursuit of justice harkens back to the wild West (complete with a gunfight), a director who literally puts himself into his film, a young woman haunted by a mysterious stranger who warns her of her impending demise, and an aging actress who may have been a little too good at playing her roles. In a world where the lines between reality and fantasy blur, where film frames flicker at 24 frames per second, we catch a glimpse of strangers' dreams and nightmares. As David Lynch puts it, "This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top." As Karen Head writes in her poem responding to Lynch, "In the movies / everything is illusion." But in a world with cameras everywhere, how do you know whether you're in a movie?"

"Suggested Torture" is a 2016 Scars Publications' cc&d magazine (v261) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1993, but since 2014 cc&d has been released every other month (with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1068-5154, Internet ISSN# 1555-1555), but also an ISBN#. With ISBN#s for issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design. Writers and artists in this book include writers Michael Ceraolo, Janet Kuypers, Charles Hayes, A.J. Huffman, Simon Perchil, Jeanette Brune, Kenneth DiMaggio, CEE, Elizabeth Harper, Ronald Charles Epstein, Liam Spencer, Patrick Fealey, Eric Burbridge, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Phil Temples, Drew Marshall, Allison Whittenberg, Russ Bickerstaff, and Rod Dixon, and artists Aaron Wilder, the HA!Man of South Africa, Cheryl Townsend, Uzeyir Lokman Cayci, David J. Thompson, Peter LaBerge, Kyle Hemmings, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, David Michael Jackson, Eric Bonholtzer, and Wes Heine.

"the Breaking" is a 2016 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the January/February 2016 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Denny E. Marshall (with Haiku (chicken/egg), Haiku (memory), Haiku (rivers/veins), Haiku (space), and Haiku (tossing)), Chris Johnson (with Politics in America), Zane Schneider (with You Are Dad), Janet Kuypers (with How He Failed), B. Mason (with Corpus Christine), Janet Kuypers (with study), Katherine McCormick (with The Breaking), Janet Kuypers (with years), Talon Lawrence (with Betrayal), Janet Kuypers (with knife), Dan Maltbie (with Fallen, Many Blessings, and Trustworthy), Eric Doubek (with Say Good-Bye To The Good Old Invisible World), Kenneth DiMaggio (with Poem #4 from The Oxycodone Highway, and Poem #5 from The Oxycodone Highway), Russ Bickerstaff (with The Shepherd of Potential), Poetic (with Please Read the Letter), Kyle Hemmings (with Who's Girl art), Wes Smith (with Life Over Breakfast), Janet Kuypers (with scorches), Ron Iannone (with Going Home), Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with Primary Primal art), Terry C. Ley (with A Stormy Beginning), Janet Kuypers (with forever), Doug Draime (with Sentences (lies), and Editor Gives Advice On How To Get), (with Published In His Magazine), Eric Burbridge (with Coldness in the Heat), Liam Spencer (with High Holidays), Janet Kuypers (with job), Christopher Godwin (with The Time I Took to Bed), John Zedolik (with Life Urges), Allan Onik (with The Forgotten Isle), Janet Kuypers (with defenses), Allan Onik (with The Rose), C. D. Bonner (with Fall), Liz Yohemoore (with here you have arrived, and Stone Singing), David Sapp (with Happy), Drew Marshall (with Inpatient Impressions), Janet Kuypers (with existence), Kristen Welker (with In a Bullet Home), Carmen Tudor (with Gravenhurst), Marlon Jackson (with Just Wonders), Lindsey Loyd (with Sadness in Three Parts), A.J. Huffman (with I've Been Trying to Think, Mishandled, and The Clean Up Crew), Debasis Mukhopadhyay (with No country for a Jew), Mike Brennan (with Date of Discharge), Maria-Jose Villamar (with Our Date), Peter Halliday (with pursuing propinquity), and Janet Kuypers (with unless it happens to you).

Winning! A Guide To Games That Never Were takes inspiration from the popular game guides of the 1980s and early 1990s, Winning! provides strategies, tips and cheats designed to help you excel at a collection of video games that never were nor ever will be, all in the style of the down and dirty, rough and ready collections so many of us knew, loved and cherished in the by-gone Golden Age of console gaming!

"Planets Apart" is a 2015 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the November/December 2015 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include John Feaster (with Adagio Ocean), David Hernandez (with What Reminds Me Of Christmas?), Chad Newbill (with Red Cape), Fritz Hamilto (with It feels like Saturday), Allan Onik (with A Lesson in Magic, Under Cover, and The Reading), Janet Kuypers (with upturn), Denny E. Marshall (with Cars, Prescription #L, Planets Apart, and Space & Time), Sean Lause (with The knife sharpener, and Why I read comic books), Neil Flory (with Wichita), Janet Kuypers (with of his thirst), Judith Ann Levison (with Last Act), David Nelson Hilliard (with Jen), Ester Avagyan (with Learning and Studying Went on Far Into the Night, and Putting My Brain In A Concentration Camp), Joann Spencer (with Apology Poem, Robbery, and Yoga), Michael Lee Johnson (with Abandoned), Brian Looney (with Alcoholic Murmurs (So Low), and Alcoholic Murmurs (Trust)), Andrew Schenck (with Home Alone), Janet Kuypers (with strike), S. R. Mearns (with Three Words Unspoken), Roger G. Singer (with Sheng Street), Mark J. Mitchell (with Actor, and Solo Fight), Francisco Diamond (with A Very Good Year, and Adventures in The Skin Trade: homage to Charles Plymell), J. Edward Kruft (with Heck Street), Janet Kuypers (with Quoting twitter with a found haiku), Dennis Vannatta (with Friends and Judges), Chris Johnson (with Down, Down), Stephanie Hammerwold (with The Service), Kylee Hemmings (with Smoke and Sun art), Bob Strother (with The Bump), Russ Bickerstaff (with The Face), Brian Looney (with Psychedelic Snail art), Christos C. Kallis (with The Perks of Being), Peter McMillan (with The Intersection), Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with Crossing the River art), David Sowards (with Email cartoom), Crimson Blackstone (with In The Light And The Dark), Janet Kuypers (with know), Ben Macnair (with Charity, and Film Studies), Danny Maltbie (with Incursion), Eleanor Leonne Bennett (with Sea Out art), Ralph Womer, Jr. (with The Storm, and Scars), Stefan Benz (with [art is not. perfection], and [bug-eyed. the little child]), John Grey (with Deep as the Bear, and Your Recovery), Richard Schnap (with Last Call, and leeping Beauties), Karen Jones (with Ka-'ula-o-ke-ahi, and Golden Necklace), and Naomi Kondo (with Visits to My Mind).