Unholy evil lurks in the shadow of a magical kingdom. When a duke and his family are butchered in their sleep, a beleaguered king commands his brother Rellen to uncover not only who committed the heinous murders but why. Was it sedition? Political assassination? Or is it the gruesome machinations of a blood-hungry demon goddess and her cult?Like fighting a hydra, every riddle Rellen solves exposes two more. The investigation quickly mutates into something far more sinister. As ancient artifacts, secret organizations, and hidden mysteries creep in at every turn, he sinks deeper and deeper into a foreboding conspiracy that threatens everything he knows.Always one step behind, Rellen desperately chases one clue after another. To his growing horror, he realizes the duke's murder was only the latest piece of a far-reaching legacy of deceit spanning centuries—perhaps even millennia—and the entire kingdom has been taken in by...

Out Through the Attic takes you on thirteen amazing and very different journeys from cross-genre author Quincy J. Allen, including science fiction, steampunk, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and paranormal. In this first volume of his short fiction, you’ll go down more rabbit holes than you can eat … err … well, you know what we mean…. Includes: “Family Heirloom” “Brainstorm” “Cornelius” “Sol Crystalis Miracalis” “17” “Lasater’s Lucky Left” “Cap’n Plat and the Wrath of Caan” “Baby WEI” “Entropy Seed” “Vessels of Abaddon” “The Resurrection of Samhain” “Salting Dogwood” “Out Through the Attic”

The Fantasy Short Stories collection from Quincy J. Allen includes five fantastic tales set in fantasy realms. With hints of epic fantasy, noir, Celtic legends, portal fantasy, and a little steampunk mixed in, these tales are sure to tickle the fancy of every fantasy reader. The stories included are: "A Turn of the Ring" A young rogue finds herself at the end of her rope and on an orc hit list. When a warrior maiden is attacked by the same orcs, she must choose between helping the woman and risking discovery or doing nothing and saving her own neck. Her choice will change the course of her entire life. "The Godfairy" A New Jersey detective lost in Fairyland is dragged into a crime scene straight out of The Godfather. He must use his wiles and a bit of ancient lore to not only solve this mystery but make a dwarven lass happy. "Fomorian Legacy" In a twisted, post-apocalyptic mashup, a young apprentice must save his people and discovers he has become part of an ancient legend six thousand years in the making. "Such is the Jungle" Dragons are real, or at least were. In this not-so-fantasy, a young warrior must slay the dragon that nearly wiped out his people. Along the way, he discovers that death is a natural part of life. Such is the jungle… "Cornelius" In a bizarre take on an old fairytale, a dwarf on the run tells six new friends of how he destroyed a perfect life and ended up in the gutter. You may recognize the characters in this one, but I assure you, that is pure coincidence.

A young man helps transplant an ancient Earth landmark to another world, and a ghostly Celtic tradition is reborn.

The last thing Los Angeles needed was a high-tech, ex-assassin from another world setting up shop as a private detective. They got one anyway, in the form of Justin Case, a smart-ass killing machine looking for a little redemption. When one of Case's closest friends turns up dead, the alien detective and his predatory partner Magdelain track down an Italian mobster secretly hammering L.A. with a new designer drug. Case must call in favors from a bare-knuckles brawler tied to the Russian mob and a hot-bodied sniper who makes a mean cappuccino. Before the end, he’ll even put the love of his life in harm’s way and risk everything by revealing his greatest secret.   

“Salting Dogwood” is a tale of heartache and retribution, set at the turn of the 20th century, where the ghost of a young girl must seek out her father’s killer across decades. …. The vision faded and she found herself standing before the ladies’ room door. She shook her head, trying to clear the frightful vision, and walked in. She stepped up to the sink, turned on the water and started at her reflection in the mirror. The face seemed almost foreign to her, and a chill coursed its way through her body. She leaned down, splashed her face with water and lifted her head. It was not her own face looking back at her, but the face of a teenage colored girl in a plain, thread-bare dress of gray covered with a dingy apron. It should have surprised Madge, but it didn’t. She merely stared at the face and knew the girl’s name was Harriet . …. “Tasty Morsels” is what you get when you cross the X-Files, Iron Chef, and Big Trouble in Little China. In it, a down-on-his-luck FBI agent nearing the end of his career has one last chance to be a hero. Unfortunately, his one shot at redemption may end with him as a tasty morsel. …. I suddenly understood exactly what my boss Dickerson had felt. Some things the mind just didn’t want to latch on to. And without a firm grasp, the mind tended to cast the impossible aside with a big fat BULLSHIT label stamped on it. But I’d seen what was left of the bodies, and I couldn’t argue with Francois. Everything fit. “To it,” Francois said quietly, “we are nothing more than tasty morsels.” His eyes burned with fierce determination. “But tonight, the tables will be turned, non? We shall track the beast to its lair and end this reign of terror.” …. “The St. Elmo Dämonjünger” pits a veteran demon hunter from a distant land against evil threatening the residents of small Colorado town in the old west. …. “You are very observant,” the padre clarified. “I’m actually both an ordained Jesuit priest and a practicing witch of some ability.” Earl, Tate, and Bob—who had remained silent the whole time—stared at the padre in disbelief. “How the hell can you be both,” Bob asked incredulously. “Don’t you believe in God?” “Believe in God? Of course I believe in God.” There was a terseness in the padre’s voice that had its roots in Germany when he was a young Jesuit. “I know it personally. I don’t particularly like the son-of-a-bitch, but it does seem to have its uses for me. I am a dämonjünger because it wants me to be one.” ….

Clockwork Gunslingers • Chinese Tongs • An Epic Quest THE BLOOD WAR CHRONICLES When assassins jump half-clockwork gunslinger Jake Lasater, he knows the Chinese Tong wants to finally settle an old score. Unfortunately, Jake has no idea the Tong is just the first milepost on the road toward a destiny he refuses to believe in. With his riding partner Cole McJunkins in tow and his ward Skeeter secretly hidden away, Jake squares off against a deadly clockwork mercenary from his past and a troop of crazed European soldiers who want him dead. Add an insane Emperor with knowledge of Jake’s past and a mysterious noblewoman who desperately needs his help—and Jake is faced with a whole mess of trouble, with no end in sight. Blood Ties launches an epic saga that spans worlds and threatens the human race itself. ** Clockwork Gunslingers • Chinese Tongs • An Epic Quest THE BLOOD WAR CHRONICLES When assassins jump half-clockwork gunslinger Jake Lasater, he knows the Chinese Tong wants to finally settle an old score. Unfortunately, Jake has no idea the Tong is just the first milepost on the road toward a destiny he refuses to believe in. With his riding partner Cole McJunkins in tow and his ward Skeeter secretly hidden away, Jake squares off against a deadly clockwork mercenary from his past and a troop of crazed European soldiers who want him dead. Add an insane Emperor with knowledge of Jake’s past and a mysterious noblewoman who desperately needs his help—and Jake is faced with a whole mess of trouble, with no end in sight. Blood Ties launches an epic saga that spans worlds and threatens the human race itself. **

This holiday season special edition from Quincy J. Allen contains two fun-filled science fiction short stories. The first story is entitled "17," a distant future yarn about what ol' St. Nick might look like in a few hundred years when he is "not of this earth." The second story is an alternate history action adventure where young engineering genius takes on rebel airships and must save his home town from annihilation. It's called "Jimmy Krinklepot and the White Rebels of Hayberry," and it's bound to leave you dreaming of a white Christmas.