These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby.

Welcome to our third annual merry-go-round of heroes and villains of popular literature, the danse macabre of of the Shadowmen. Fantômas is dead, long live Fantômas! Captain Kronos and Doctor Omega challenge the might of the Vampire City! The Animalists overthrow Babar, King of the Elephants! King Kong journeys to the Center of the Earth! Hercule Poirot stalks a Murderer from Beyond! The Sûreté du Temps Perdu faces the Vampires and the Cat-Women of the Moon invade the 20th Century--but which 20th Century? Also Tarzan, Fu-Manchu, Judex, Maciste, the Black Coats, Biggles, James Bond, Modesty Blaise, Madame Atomos, John Devil, Barbarella, Solomon Kane, Curious George, and many more! This anthology of all-new stories, featuring Heroes and Villains from Pulp Literature, edited by JM & Randy Lofficier, combines the talents of renowned authors such as Michael Moorcock (Jerry Cornelius), John Peel (Doctor Who, Star Trek), Brian Stableford (Inherit the Earth , Architects of Emortality), Chris Roberson, Paul Di Filippo, Xavier Mauméjean, David McIntee, Alfredo Castelli, with a new generation of gifted storytellers such as Matthew Baugh, Win Eckert, G.L. Gick, and Micah Harris.

Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer). From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. Here, in ten brilliantly written chapters, King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers. With the insight and good humor his fans appreciated in On Writing, Danse Macabre is an enjoyably entertaining tour through Stephen King’s beloved world of horror.

Is it still revenge if you kill the innocent?Fast, furious, and with an iron will—Louie Thorne is the woman they fear. Crime lords the world over go to great lengths to escape her retribution. But with her terrifying gift and relentless drive, there is nowhere in the world they can hide.For Lou it's personal. When her father was murdered by drug lords, Lou survived not only because of her supernatural ability to be anywhere at any time, but because she found a reason to live: revenge. She vowed to destroy those who carelessly destroyed the lives of others.Yet Lou's freedom to exact these plans lies in her anonymity. She kills without repercussions because she is little more than a ghost haunting the dark underbelly of the world.Until a young reporter desperate for the story of a lifetime starts to unravel the mystery of Louie Thorne and threatens to expose Lou to the light…Praise for the Shadows in the Water...

Daniel Jacobus, reclusive blind concert master and amateur sleuth, returns to solve a most despicable crime and to clear an innocent manJust after his Carnegie Hall swansong and before his imminent departure for retirement in France, beloved violinist and humanitarian Rene Allard is brutally murdered with a mysterious weapon. His young African American rival, crossover artist BTower, is spotted at the scene of the crime hovering over the contorted body of Allard with blood on his hands. In short order the aloof and arrogant BTower is convicted and sentenced to death, in part the result of the testimony of blind and curmudgeonly violin pedagogue Daniel Jacobus, like millions of others, an ardent admirer of Allard. Justice has been served...or has it? Jacobus is dragged back into the case kicking and screaming, and reluctantly follows a trail of broken violins and broken lives as it leads inexorably to the truth, and to his own mortal peril.

Welcome to Arcana Universalis, a strange world where mystical starships pierce the endless dark in service of a millennium-old dictator, and strange creatures live in hiding from the hegemony of mankind.Enter Caleb Gedley, a bright but neurotic apprentice fresh from the academy who has a beautiful fiancee and a respectable career as a researcher waiting for him back home. The only obstacle standing between him and that cozy future is a six-month externship aboard the Imperial Dragonslayer Ashkalon, an ancient and powerful military starship patrolling the lesser spiral arm.But now his plans have stumbled off course. After a disastrous mission on an uncharted planet, Caleb awakens back on the ship only to find his entire world turned upside down. His externship has become outright slavery, and everything he knows about the Imperium is suddenly called into question.Can he somehow come to grips with this new order? Will he ever find his way back home?Danse Macabre is the second volume of the upcoming fantasy novel, Arcana Universalis: The Hanged Man's Revelation, currently slated for release in Summer 2012. This novella-length release is the second of five planned episodes that will together form the final novel.The first episode, Arcana Universalis: Terminus, is available exclusively through the Amazon Kindle Store: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005AHNA6EFor more information about this release, please visit our website at: http://oktopods.wordpress.com/

This anthology could be the most unusual and original collection of stories you will ever read! Editor Nancy Kilpatrick has collected twenty-six literary reflections that embody the themed, classical artwork devoted to the spectrum of intriguing interactions with the Angel of Death in all his/her/its manifestations. Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper includes works by: Brian Lumley, Tanith Lee, Tom Piccirilli, Nancy Holder and Erin Underwood, Brian Hodge, Lisa Morton, Lucy Taylor, William Meikle, Gabriel Boutros, Brad Carson, Suzanne Church, Dan Devine, Lorne Dixon, Tom Dullemond, Opal Edgar, Ian Emberson,Edward M. Erdelac, Sabrina Furminger, S S Hampton, Sr., J. Y. T. Kennedy, Morgan Dempsey, Timothy Reynolds,Angela Roberts, Lawrence Salani, Bev Vincent, Bill Zaget, with an introduction by Nancy Kilpatrick.

DANSE MACABRE is a unique combination of fantasy and autobiography of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge; an analysis of horror, terror and the supernatural in films, television and books by the bestselling master of the genre - Stephen King. Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels, and how he bring it to bear in his own inimitable novels.