Author: jmstine

A #1 Horror bestseller! It is nearly Christmas and the zombie apocalypse is right around the corner. Young and pretty Julia Hobart, an unemployed screenwriter, goes to a leather bar for a drink with her two housemates—Vinnie, a part-time actress and full-time bimbo, and Nate, an unsuccessful novelist—when they're suddenly caught in the middle of a riot as the bar is invaded by a horde of murderous zombies in drag.

Barely escaping with their lives, they go to a local mall to calm their nerves, and find themselves in the middle of a no-holds-barred battle between a zombie Santa, his undead elves, and hundreds of hysterical Christmas shoppers. They finally escape, go home, and discover that Vinnie has accidentally put four large sacks of high-grade marijuana, brought home by Julia's handsome brother Jason, into a charity drop-off box.

The dope belongs to big-time pot grower Juan Loco, who is going to wipe out Jason unless he can come up with the stash or the cash. Loco's hired guns force Jason to take them to the drop-off box—and while they're gone, another group of mayhem-minded zombies shows up and attacks the house, nearly killing Julia and her friends.

It's obvious that the zombies are working up to an attack on Los Angeles that will destroy the city—or make it vote Republican. From the Glendale Galleria to historic Griffith Park and the Los Angeles Coliseum, with takeout pizza and cherry soda, the heroes of this fast-paced, zany look at the undead are only one step ahead of being murdered, torn into bloody bits or—even worse—turned into members of the zombie invasion themselves.

Meanwhile they have to answer the age-old question that every woman asks: How do you bonk a zombie without all of the bits falling off?

A Must-Read Horror Anthology!

Horrors! unearths and restores to print classic tales of grim and grue that have languished unnoticed and unreprinted for too long. Among the selection of rarely seen horror masterpieces from the early years of the past century are "Meshes of Doom", a tale of sentient plants by Neville Kilvington; "Unburied Bane", a tale of ghostly revenge by N. Dennet; "The Whistling Room", a tale of invasion from another dimension by William Hope Hodgson; "The Caretaker's Story", a tale of supernatural horror by Edith Olivier; "Nightmare Jack", who will haunt your own nightmares forever, by John Metcalfe, and other gems of terror and the supernatural. How many have you read before?

Three Complete SF Classics!

Earth's first colonists face difficult challenges in Star Born. The starship Solar Queen finds itself caught in the crossfire when cosmic magicians duel on the Voodoo Planet. When invading aliens decimate a Terran colony, only its most menial employee is left to prevent war breaking out in Storm over Warlock.

All three sf bestsellers for the price of one eBook!

"Exciting adventure conceived with splendid imagination," —New York Herald-Tribune.

Move Over Tarzan, the Jungle has a New Sovereign—Sheena, Queen of the Jungle!

Born in the Congo, the orphaned daughter of a white explorer, Sheena was adopted by a female Abama shaman named N'bid Ela, who raised her to be the next Wise-Woman of the Abamas. Sheena's abilities soon outshone those of all of the young men in archery and the spear, while on foot she was swifter and more agile than any male. She developed a rapport with many wild creatures, spoke fluent Swahili, could read the jungle drums and became a familiar sight to many tribes in the region. Her jungle friends were a chimpanzee named Chim, a powerful, black-maned lion named Sabor and a great elephant named Tamba.

In this rare reprinting of one of her only five pulp magazine adventures, she rescues a hunter and tangles with bad men.

Murder, corruption and intrigue in a world on the brink of chaos!

Ruthless gang warfare, salacious dens of vice and fearsome high-tech weaponry! In 2048, the rich live in Protected Zones. Outside the PZ walls, crime flourishes unchecked. Lieutenant Jeri Stone still believes the police can make a difference in the crime-infested slums outside the walls.

When a solid citizen from inside the PZ is shot dead in the street by a relatively minor gang, Jeri goes after the killers. But the case quickly leads her to something much bigger and more deadly. Suddenly everyone is against her. The Chief, the politicians and the money men want her to drop the case. The criminals she's facing turn out to have more firepower than the police can handle. If she refuses to back down from the case—well, cops do get killed in action sometimes...

Bestselling Morgaine Series Author's First Collection!

Here, from such e-zines as Dark Moon Rising, SFF World, Aphelion, Sword's Edge, and Planet, are some of the most dazzling fantasy and sf short stories of our time, as only Joe Vadalma could have written them.

From heroic quests complete with dragons, to lonely starmen, to the very human plights of inhuman androids, to time travel, and more, here are a baker's dozen of his best, including "The Sands of Time," "Absolute Creation," Androids in Pax," "Anomaly," "The City Behind the Door," "Immortal Homecoming," and other mind-stretching, spell-binding tales.

"A great collection, worth reading, and rereading, and rereading." —SF Sagas.

Is it Murder to Kill an Intelligent, Self-Aware Robot?

Is it murder if the robot kills a human?

Those are only some of the questions raised by this superior novel about the creation of a humanoid robot named Isaac. The novel begins when Sam, the night watchman for a robotics firm, finds a scientist dead at his computer. As he examines the body, Isaac approaches him. Sam panics, shoots the machine through the chest and flees.

In flashbacks we meet the people at the heart of Isaac's origins—and at the heart of the story—including: his creator, Geri Chrenowski, a strong-willed robotics expert and ambitious woman whose drive to climb the corporate ladder makes enemies of her underlings and ruins her love life; Jack Westcott, a scientist once brilliant in the field of artificial intelligence, whose passionate pacifism (and his fight to keep his young mistress) endanger the Isaac Project; Frederick Wolfgang, petty tyrant and bigot, whose egoism and prejudice cause a major disaster; Elizabeth Wolfgang, psychologist and browbeaten wife of Frederick, whose empathetic personality, although marred by her low self-esteem, teaches Isaac about humanity—and then of course, there is ISAAC himself, their creation, childlike and super-intelligent, who begins to have a mind of his own.

Reawakened in the Far Future!

When Joe Hermann, a twenty-first century man, submits to cryogenic freezing in hopes that a cure for his cancer will be found when he awakens, what he thinks will be a short sleep turns into a 3,000-year snooze.

The new world he wakes into is very different from the one he knew. Mostly wilderness and underpopulated, it is also a world only of women. Men are the stuff of legend, but not in a heroic way; they are, instead, considered devils.

At first Joe thinks he's awakened into a dream come true—the only man in a world of women! But soon Joe realizes he is a freak in this world, and most women are repulsed by the though of sex with him; they consider it a perverted form of bestiality. They call him a "bagod," their word for "devil". To pay for his hospital bills, he is indentured as a slave to two women, one with very strong desires of her own. Once she discovers her highly kinky taste for intercourse with Joe, Joe finds himself rented out by his two mistresses as a stud.

When Joe learns there are still men alive—just not on Earth—he determines to escape and join them. Before him stretches an epic odyssey, one that will take him into slavery, to a satellite of pleasure orbiting Saturn, to the dangerous zone of the Kuiper Belt, to adventure, peril, strange cultures, and finally to self-discovery. For when Joe realizes he has fallen in love with his mistresses, he discovers that there is a way he can to return to Earth and their companionship forever. If the bagod is willing to pay the price!

Rated Mature; some sexual content.

What Price Love—for a Witch?

When Melody falls in love with Michael, a psychic, he gives her an ancient manuscript to read that seems to suggest he is a centuries-old former knight who sold his soul to the demon Asmodeus for immortality. But when she asks, "Are you really a thousand-year-old sorcerer?" he evades the question, and tells her a plausible story which cannot be verified.

Then, Michael implores Melody to marry him—and despite her doubts, she cannot resist his hypnotic eyes, and agrees to become his bride. For the first time in her life, Melody knows the feeling of true passion.

On Halloween night, Michel wakes Melody to go out in the woods where a second pagan marriage is performed, and they dance naked in the moonlight. A few days later, when Michael is out of town, his friend Morgaine (whose name also appeared in the manuscript) tells Melody's fortune with Tarot cards—and sees something that sends her screaming from the room.

When Melody presses Michael for answers, he finally admits that he is the knight described in the ancient manuscript, and that the demon Asmodeus is coming to claim his soul on Halloween night (the witch's New Year). He renounces his allegiance to evil and the pair decides to face the demon, armed with their newfound love for each other. But unknown to both, Morgaine, who was Michael's lover in ancient times, is still in love with him and has conceived a diabolical plan to trick Asmodeus into taking Melody's soul instead.

Cover art: Sami Hursey

Morgaine's centuries-long love for Michael the immortal knight reaches a dramatic turning point in this third installment of the popular series featuring romance, the occult, magic, witchcraft and alchemy. The series is "A fine, original new work of dark fantasy," raves Horror Sagas.

Raven Lenore, a tough, young, former cop, private investigator and Wiccan, must investigate the mysterious disappearance of renown psychic, Michael Ellul, by his wife Melody, an attractive, moneyed, middle-aged woman. Questioning the couple's friends Raven stumbles on a fantastic tale about the suicide of Michael's associate, Morgaine Fabiano, which involves black magic, demon summoning and ritual human sacrifice.

She also learns that a Father McGuillicutty committed suicide on the Ellul's estate, and discovers a daguerreotype from the nineteenth century in which one of the people has a strong resemblance to Michael, the missing psychic. Jack Westcott, a computer scientist, dismisses the notion of supernatural happenings, but informs Raven that the missing Michael studied alchemists such as Doctor Dee to find out the secret of eternal youth.

Soon, what started out as an ordinary missing persons investigation turns into a dangerous game against mysterious demonic forces. In the course of the investigation, Raven encounters gunmen, a decomposed corpse, a computer printout claiming that Doctor Frankenstein was a real person, and a pagan chapel with a bloody altar surrounded by human bones. What Raven doesn't realize is that even if she survives, it is a case that will leave a multitude of loose ends and unanswered questions.

[Introduces Raven of the author's Raven Lenore, Psychic Investigator series]

Cover art: Sami Hursey