Download or read book Christmas Eve at the Purple Owl Caf written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a massive row with her parents over intolerable relatives, Katie finds herself all alone for the holidays. So she heads for the one place in town where everyone is welcome on Christmas Eve, the legendary Purple Owl Café. The Purple Owl Café has a chequered sixty-year history. These days it's not just a place for good music and conversation, it also happens to be a lesbian bar. Katie doesn't mind, though so far her life was too busy for romance of any kind. But that's about to change when Katie meets Jess at the Christmas Eve party at the Purple Owl Café… This is a short and sweet holiday romance of 4700 words or approximately 16 print pages.

Download or read book The Christmas Collection written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen tales of Christmas by Hugo winner Cora Buhlert. Romance, cozy fantasy, murder mysteries, pulp thrillers, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, horror and humor – we have all that and more. Watch young people find love in the pre-holiday shopping rush at Hickory Ridge Mall, at a Christmas tree lot, on the parking lot of a shuttered outlet mall and at the one bar in town that’s open on Christmas Eve. Experience Christmas in Hallowind Cove, the permanently fog-shrouded seaside town, where strange things keep happening. Watch as Santa’s various helpers unite to depose him. Massachusetts 1695 AD: Follow apprentice witchfinder Matthew Goodson and condemned witch Grace Pankhurst, as they try to dodge both witchfinders and a creature that lives in the woods and hunts around the winter solstice. Follow Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd and her team as they investigate the death of a robber dressed as Santa Claus as well as a wave of thefts at a Christmas market. Meet Richard Blakemore, hardworking pulp author by day and the masked crimefighter known only as the Silencer by night, as he fights to save an orphanage from demolition in Depression era New York City. Watch Alfred and Bertha, an ordinary married couple, as they decorate the Christmas tree and live their marvellous twenty-first century life. No one ever expected the robot apocalypse to begin in the little town of Brighthaven. And no one ever expected it to involve murderous robot turkeys and their even more terrifying brethren, robot Santas that fire laserbeams from their eyes. Experience Christmas on the space colony of Iago Prime as well as after the end of the world. Enjoy sixteen novellas, novelettes and short stories in six genres. This is a collection of 136000 words or approx. 420 print pages. Contains the following stories: Christmas Gifts Christmas Shopping with a Broken Heart The Crappiest Christmas Ever Christmas Eve at the Purple Owl Café Driving Home for Christmas The Bakery on Gloomland Street Revolt at the North Pole The Solstice Horror A Bullet for Father Christmas Santa’s Sticky Fingers St. Nicholas of Hell’s Kitchen The Tinsel-Free Christmas Tree The Robot Turkey Apocalypse Invasion of the Robot Santas Christmas on Iago Prime Christmas after the End of the World

Download or read book Christmas Shopping with a Broken Heart written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her boyfriend dumps her four weeks before Christmas, Hannah throws herself into holiday preparations in order to dull the pain. But nothing seems to help, until Hannah quite literally bumps into Owen, while Christmas shopping. Hannah and Owen hit it off immediately. But Owen is nursing an old grief of his own… This is a short and sweet holiday romance of 5900 words or approximately 20 print pages.

Download or read book The Crappiest Christmas Ever written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica is having the worst Christmas ever, when her parents announce that they are getting a divorce two days before the holidays. Stuck on her own with no home to go to, Jessica heads for the mall to buy a Christmas tree for herself. Here she meets Matt, who sells Christmas trees and is having a really awful Christmas himself. Matt and Jessica bond over their shared pain and also manage to make each other laugh. So maybe, this won't be the worst Christmas ever after all... This is a short and sweet holiday romance of 12000 words or approximately 40 print pages.

Download or read book Revolt at the North Pole written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellion is brewing at Santa's compound at the North Pole. The elves and the reindeer both are overworked, underpaid and angry, so they unite to take down Santa. However, there's still Santa's most fearsome enforcer, the horned, clawed and fanged holiday monster known only as Krampus… This is a short holiday horror story of 3900 words or approx. 14 print pages by Hugo finalist Cora Buhlert.

Download or read book Open Season written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absolutely no one is sorry when the infamous Ruislip Wood Ripper, a serial killer who has already murdered three women, ends up dead in the forest, shot by a hunter while on the cusp of attacking his fourth victim. But there are just a few coincidences too many in this case for the taste of Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd. Was it really just pure luck that hunter Reginald Hargreaves just happened to be in the right place at the right time? And why did no one warn French tourist Anne Marie Sauvage that there was a killer on the loose in Ruislip Woods? This is a crime short of 6200 words or approx. 20 print pages altogether in the Helen Shepherd Mysteries series, but may be read as a standalone.

Download or read book Baptism of Fire written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cadet Anjali Patel had hoped for something more exciting than guard duty for her first mission with the legendary Shakyri Expeditionary Corps, the best fighters in the Empire of Worlds. However, this boring job quickly turns hot, when an enemy convoy comes up the mountain pass Anjali is supposed to guard. This is a prequel story of 4500 words or approx. 18 print pages to the "In Love and War" series, but may be read as a standalone.

Download or read book Dead Drop written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeless teen Chris certainly isn't the most reliable of witnesses. And so no one takes her seriously when she walks into a police station and claims that her boyfriend Max, nicknamed Zorro, has been kidnapped. Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd is initially inclined to dismiss Chris as well. But then Chris mentions a ransom demand, a mysterious phone call demanding an envelope in exchange for the safe return of Max. Chris claims she has no idea what the kidnappers are talking about. But when Helen and her team investigate the abandoned warehouse that Max and Chris have made their home, she notices unusual activities in the area. But what precisely do the kidnappers want? And whatever happened to Max? This is a mystery novelette of 8700 words or approximately 28 print pages in the Helen Shepherd Mysteries series, but may be read as a standalone.

Download or read book The Night Court written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Vanadur suffers under the thumb of the Night Court, whose bailiffs snatch random people off the streets and whose masked judges know only one verdict: guilty. Meldom, thief, cutpurse and occasional assassin, is one of those who are snatched off the streets and put on trial by the Night Court. The accusation: murder. But while Meldom may have done many questionable things in the past, he knows that he did not commit this particular murder. However, the Night Court is not inclined to believe him and so it’s up to Thurvok, Sharenna and Lysha to save him from the gallows. This is a short story of 7100 words or 25 print pages in the Thurvok sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.

Download or read book Double Cross written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together. Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living on the independent worlds of the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them. When they are hired to retrieve a shipment of bootleg medical nanobots, it seems like a routine job at first. But it quickly turns out that they are not the only ones who are after the nanobots. And their client has an agenda of her own. This is a story of 5100 words or approx. 20 print pages in the "In Love and War" series, but may be read as a standalone.

Download or read book Paris Green written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When intern Kitty Chan is found dead in the basement of the Victoria and Albert Museum, dressed in a Victorian ball gown, the cause of death is quickly established. Kitty died of arsenic poisoning. But who gave her the deadly dose and why? Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd investigates and quickly realises that there is more to this case than meets the eye. This is a mystery novelette of 8500 words or approx. 27 print pages in the Helen Shepherd Mysteries series, but may be read as a standalone. Warning : There are some rude words in this story.

Download or read book The Beast from the Sea of Blood written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They seek a treasure and find a monster… Thurvok, the sellsword, and his friends Meldom, thief, cutpurse and occasional assassin, the sorceress Sharenna and Meldom’s sweetheart Lysha are on the hunt for a legendary pirate treasure, when they find themselves marooned on a desolate isle. To add insult to injury, there is no treasure on the island. There are, however, monsters… This is a short story of 5400 words or 20 print pages in the Thurvok sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.

Download or read book Invasion of the Robot Santas written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one ever expected the robot apocalypse to begin in the little town of Brighthaven. And no one ever expected it to involve murderous robot turkeys and their even more terrifying brethren, robot Santas that fire laserbeams from their eyes. However, Brighthaven's finest are ready to tackle any robotic holiday menace that might come their way. Two interlinked holiday stories of approx. 6000 words by Hugo winner Cora Buhlert

Download or read book Double Feature written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1956: Judy is the designated town slut of Stillwater Creek. After getting thrown out of a sock hop at the local high school, Judy winds up going to the movies with bad boy Hank instead, where a science fiction double feature is playing. However, before the first reel of the second movie is through, the night is interrupted by a very real invasion of flying saucers from outer space… This is a novelette of 8500 words or approx. 30 pages in the The Day the Saucers Came… series, but may be read as a standalone.

Download or read book The Tear of Chronos written by Richard Blakemore and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year of the forked serpent, Kurval came from beyond the sea, slew King Orkol and became King of Azakoria. On the day of his coronation, Kurval consults the oracle in the temple of the goddess Ashvarya, where he is supposed to gaze into a magical jewel called the Tear of Chronos, hoping for a vision of the future. But before Kurval can receive his vision, a young woman named Stella suddenly appears in a flash of light in the inner sanctum. Not only is Stella a deadringer for the goddess, she also wears the Tear of Chronos around her neck. Can Stella help Kurval retain the throne he's barely won? And is she truly a goddess or just an imposter? The new sword and sorcery adventure by two-time Hugo finalist Cora Buhlert and her occasional alter ego, 1930s pulp writer Richard Blakemore. This is a novelette of 13500 words or approx. 45 print pages in the Kurval sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.

Download or read book The Spiked Death written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Constance Allen wanted was to dance with her fiancé at the annual charity ball for police widows and orphans. But when your fiancé is Richard Blakemore, the man hiding behind the steel mask of the mysterious vigilante only known as the Silencer, even such simple wishes are often thwarted. And so Constance finds herself stood up at the ball, while Richard is out hunting Baron Tormento, a villain who terrorizes the city and blackmails powerful men – by torturing young girls to death. At first, it's just another case for the Silencer, albeit a particularly grisly one. But it quickly gets personal, when Richard's friend police captain Justin O'Grady is kidnapped. And soon Constance finds herself facing Baron Tormento's spikes of death… This is a novelette of 14700 words or approx. 45 print pages in the Silencer series, but may be read as a standalone.

Download or read book The Great Fraud written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles William Finchley made his fortune selling novelty products of questionable value via ads in the backpages of pulp magazines. Finchley is well on his way to becoming a millionaire, until his unscrupulous business practices put him in the crosshairs of the Silencer, a pulp hero come to life to fight crime in the streets of Depression era New York. And the Silencer is not at all pleased that Finchley uses the crimefighter's good name to peddle worthless junk… This is a short story of 6000 words or approx. 19 print pages in the Silencer series, but may be read as a standalone.