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In Fall of the Ark, a prequel to the novel Kestler's Bane, we witness the events of the final fateful days aboard the great space ark Proteus, before its disastrous crash onto the mountains of a distant planet. We meet the chief character, Tropas Bejeon, and his companions at the colorful Swarthout Penal Institute and travel with them on their heroic journey, struggling valiantly to save themselves and perhaps a remnant of humanity from impend...

Taking his cue from James Joyce's Dubliners, Jago Muir offers up twelve stories about people from his hometown, Glenby, Texas. An eclectic mixture, we are given touches of humor and mystery-a sloppy airplane landing, a midnight trip down a lonely dirt road seeking a ghost light. But we also find twisted sketches of men and women consumed by moral depravity, given to incestuous lust, sadistic abuse, even murder most foul. Meet these Glenby trav...

Hidden for 40 years, they are found in a box of old books! The accidental discovery of a cache of manuscripts-stories and poems he wrote long ago-leads the author on a journey through time. Here is an eclectic mixture, including a bizarre nursery rhyme, a "troggy" jump rope chant, a magic junk house, zombie forest musicians, and a little boy who wants to climb the "death wall." Travel back with Muir to the 1960s as he provides intimate glimpse...

The accidental death of two popular students devastates Glenby High School. Indeed, the entire community is shattered. And soon afterwards the town must cope with the tragedy of Maybelle Lowther, this coming right before Christmas and followed quickly by a ghastly discovery-the tortured remains of her father, a prominent businessman, high-ranking Freemason, and deacon in the First Baptist Church. What satanic forces have been let loose in this...

Beware of the Oxen! You'll howl as Harvey encounters a Cajun "grabber" and a porpoising Cessna Cardinal. But then things turn dark when he finds himself caught up in an FBI investigation of a double murder. What is the mysterious Ox Club? Who are its members, and what baleful, unholy rituals do they practice? Finally, what is the terrible secret carried by Maybelle Lowther, Harvey's mentally challenged sophomore student? You'll find yourself s...

Harvey Smith, handsome young English teacher, is beginning the 1972-73 school year at Glenby High School. Glenby, a small SE Texas town, is noted for its Pentecostal and Southern Baptist churches and its high school football team. Harvey is concerned when he discovers that Maybelle Lowther, a 15-year-old borderline mentally retarded girl, has been placed in his regular sophomore English class. George Tilson, high school counselor, informs him ...

In 5465 C.E., a routine mission goes horribly wrong when Captain Truman Hale's space cruiser is destroyed in a freak storm. He lands in an unfamiliar world, where five strange allies join him. Together they must battle The Molester, the leader of horrifying creatures who live in an underground maze, torturing and devouring their victims...especially the peaceful and gentle Boat People. The war turns personal when Truman discovers that the Boat...