When Mark and Paula left the Everything For a Dollar store with some figurines, they had no idea that what they were... More > bringing home was about to open the door into other dimensions and would ultimately result in the battle of the ages and the eventual destruction of the earth.
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In VELVET SINS, the first of the Velvet books, we meet Velvet Sinclair, a beautiful woman who as a young girl purposes that... More > she will not spend the rest of her life in poverty.
After the death of her first husband, she marries Rod Harden, the wealthy owner of a salvage ship, and moves into his mansion on Longboat Key. The saga now continues in VELVET SINS III (Velvet Meets an Angel). < Less

The night train represents the emptiness and futility of our present temporary existence and our barreling ahead into an unknown future.

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
Dracula... More > has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and repressed sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and was first... More > published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of the psychopathology of a split personality; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to mean a person who may show a distinctly different character, or profoundly different behaviour, from one situation to the next, as if almost another person, possibly because of the rare disorder "multiple personality disorder” (more recently renamed "Dissociative Identity Disorder).
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was an immediate success and one of Stevenson's best-selling works. Stage adaptations began in Boston and London within a year of its publication and it has gone on to inspire scores of major film and stage performances. < Less

In CROSSOVERS we met Randy Peters, a man trapped in a dysfunctional marriage. When he met Virginia Vickers, who was... More > suffering in the same kind of relationship, they bonded.

The hiring of two contract killers resulted in the murders of Randy's and Virginia's spouses, and it appeared that they were free to live out their dreams with each other.

In CROSSOVERS II (Welcome to the Gray Bar Hotel), things are going well until Sgt. Brad Davis from the Sherriff's office comes knocking on their door... < Less

Frankenstein is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor... More > Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In modern popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein" (especially in films since 1931), despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science-fiction novel. The novel raises many issues that can be linked to today's society. < Less

A small book of poems and comments about our society and the human condition. Thomas Weston lives in Florida in the USA and... More > is the author of a number of novels and non-fiction works. < Less

The first chapter of the book was published, in substantially its present form, in the Atlantic Monthly for April, 1913. The... More > book examines the nature of capitalism and other political theories. < Less

In an earlier story, Mavis and the Painted Ladies, we followed the history of Mavis Ash as she rose from obscure beginnings... More > in the small California town of Mojave to her elevation to the position of High Priestess of the mysterious Serpentine Order in San Francisco.
After vanquishing Apocrypha, the demonic wraith of the Dark Lords, Mavis now tries to begin a new life.
Our account begins as Mavis leaves the accursed mansion on Nob Hill and strikes out in an attempt to escape her sinister past. < Less