Download or read book The Wicked Haze written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Diverse Media. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Grabowsky presents three previously unfinished, unreleased tales written during his days as Nicholas Randers, the name he once used penning bestselling paperback horror. Here, fused together to make a psychedelic fantasy tale both nightmarish and brashly idiotic, are a series of parables and visions brought about by two strangers on a chance meeting on the street one foggy night under the influence of hallucinogen-laced sugar cubes.
Download or read book Wicked Marigold written by Caroline Carlson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a funny and charming fantastical romp, overlooked Princess Marigold is nothing like her perfect, just-returned sister—so she runs away to an evil wizard’s tower to prove her wickedness. Princess Marigold—who hadn’t yet been born when the remarkable Princess Rosalind was kidnapped—is eleven when the unthinkable happens: her older sister escapes her captivity and comes home. Marigold has always known she’s not as good, sweet, or kind as the sister everyone adores, but amid the celebration of Rosalind’s return, Marigold realizes something new: if Princess Rosalind is good, then Princess Marigold must be wicked. And there’s no place for wickedness in the kingdom. When Marigold tries to find a new place for herself in an evil wizard’s fortress, though, the results are disastrous. Before she’s even learned to cackle or scowl properly, she gets tangled up in a magical plot to ruin all the Cacophonous Kingdoms. Is Marigold too wicked to make things right? Or can she—with the help of a kitchen boy, a well-dressed imp, and a grumpy blob of glop—find her own way to restore peace? This endearing fantasy will have princess and anti-princess fans alike chuckling and cheering.
Download or read book The Story of Susan written by Mrs. Henry Dudeney and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Wet Dirt written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing three short stories & three novellas: While on vacation, a young man's fiance becomes a heart-collecting Yuletide Thing on Christmas Eve. Get stuck in traffic when The Freeway Reaper claims another soul. A suburban family is plagued by a horde of were-rats. Special Agent Sam Cross, mortally wounded by a Jamaican specter, journeys into a psychedelic Festival of Fallen Souls in search of a supernatural healer whose lover's touch brings in contrast instant death. A legendary flesh eater arrives on the shores of an ancient Minoan city, infecting its population, beginning with a teenage boy's father who's summoned by the pompous king to become an undead garbage disposal. In Red Afterworld, an ex juvenile preacher gets his childhood wish of becoming a vampire when he's recruited into a male-only biker fraternity and finds himself one of the few survivors of global nuclear war, discovers a time portal in the Arizona desert with the hope of saving the world, and finds true love. Including extra minor works from the author's youth and the short screenplay Cutting Edges, the basis for an upcoming film and the author's directorial debut, Red Wet Dirt is to die for and is destined to become a classic way beyond its genre. “I don’t know what else to say about this that has not already been said by some of the best writers of the genre. All I can do is join them in singing his praises. Grabowsky is a master of taking old legends and giving them new life… discover for yourself one of the best up and coming writers of our decade!” --Eve Blaack, Hacker’s Source Magazine, on RED WET DIRT
Download or read book Flatty Kat Tales of an Urban Feline written by Phyllis Haupert and published by Blue Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatty Kat, Mister Babee, Stinky, and Crispy the Wonder Ghost Cat love to sit and tell stories at the Moove On In milk bar. And oh, the tales they have to tell! Read Flatty’s strange & wacky origin story on how he became flat, how he came to live with Miss Locks the Blue-footed Boobie Bird and the rest of his roommates at his second floor apartment on 9 Lives Drive! Read about Crispy’s skyscraper penthouse where her owner runs a beauty salon for wealthy yak housewives, and about how a green worm saves the world. So grab yourself some blackberry seed cake and Thunder Kitty soda, you’re invited to a grand party courtesy of the funky Cat Master Flash and contemplate the mysteries of the universe, like how cats and birds and even walking stick insects can all learn to get along. A full color, fully illustrated, fun and witty treat for children of all ages!! From concept and conceptual art by Phyllis Haupert (renown furniture/mural artist), illustrations and backgrounds, story by Phyllis Haupert & Nicholas Grabowsky (Halloween IV, The Everborn) based on characters created by both, interior design, cover and story text by Nicholas Grabowsky. This is the first official title from BLUE BED SHEET BOOKS, the children's line from horror publisher BLACK BED SHEET BOOKS!
Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE written by SMITH and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Afterworld written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Dayton Monday wanted was to make a difference in this world. But the world isn’t what it used to be. Global nuclear war has already begun. The world is in chaos. The water supply of major amusement parks has been tainted with LSD by terrorists. But Dayton’s neighbor, Toad, promises that if he joins his male biker fraternity, the Brotherhood of the Black Heroes, he can help make the world a better place. Through his laborious initiation, he discovers the frightening truth about the Black Heroes: they represent all male vampires, and he is about to become one of them. Vampires are reckless and don’t know sex or love, are addicted to household cleaners and endless supplies of red meat and blood, and despise females of their kind. Just before the world ends, the Second Coming happens, but the returning savior is not what everyone expected: it is Sam Hall, a man hung for murder in the Old West, who died for the world’s sins. That said, crosses no longer protect against them. Now, any image of the Sam Hall hanging tree will do. And then the nukes arrive. What a way to end the world. After the nukes hit, Dayton finds himself one of the few survivors, wandering the wasteland of the Arizona desert where survival seems to be the only meaning of life under an endless red-tainted sky….. until he discovers a strange portal that leads to the barrel pond in the backyard patio of his home at a time just before his initiation, a new hope of saving the world, and true love. Author's note: “Symbolism is only potent when it is given meaning.” --NG RED AFTERWORLD is an important story for me, infused with a multitude of important personal influences and themes. It’s where the name Black Bed Sheet comes from and incorporates my grade school delusion that I was a vampire myself, and my own initiation over eighteen years ago into The Ancient & Honorable Order of E. Clampus Vitus, a fraternity of rowdy & charitable drinking men sprung from the Gold Rush days. It’s inspired by Johnny Cash and Harold Camping (the evangelist who proclaimed the Second Coming a couple years ago and whom my parents are still devoted to). It’s also a response to the mental anarchy that’s been going on in my head for years about how vampires are increasingly portrayed and marketed as dashing romantic teen lovers. In RED AFTERWORLD, they are in many ways a reinvention…..male and female vampires have despised each other and been feuding ever since the “Countess Bathory Incident” where Bathory was betrayed by the Black Hero of Hungary, Count Ferency Nadasdy (an event from which sprung all modern vampires and essentially a true story). They know no romance, sex, or real happiness. I particularly love the female vampire characters, members of a defunct feminist band called Blamia Kiss, and they kick ass, especially Tricks Matrix. In fact, I think RED AFTERWORLD kicks ass. I think it’s like nothing you’ve ever read, and you’ll never think about vampires the same way again.
Download or read book The Everborn written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Grabowsky's award-winning, widely-praised aliens-among-us horror/science fiction epic, available for the first time packaged and edited the way it was intended to be! The Everborn concerns the offspring of fallen angels that have lived among us since the dawn of man. Throughout the ages, they live life after life in normal society until each one falls in love and fathers his own child. Before that child is born, they undergo a rapid degeneration into a fetal state before they disappear entirely and become reborn into a new life, essentially becoming their own fathers. All of them male, they live out their commonplace lives under the covert protection of Watchmaids, inter-dimensional female beings whose purpose is to ensure no harm comes to them under penalty of banishment into a state of eternal loneliness. When an Everborn is reborn as a set of twins, one a soulless serial killer on a quest to be born again into a sinless life and the other a kind-hearted ghostwriter for a world-famous rock-and-roll horror novelist, a banished Watchmaid claims her role in an ancient prophecy to use the soulless twin as a means to re-enter our world and bring about its destruction.
Download or read book Read Us or Die written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2013-08-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first official publisher’s anthology featuring the exemplary talents of the authors of BLACK BED SHEET BOOKS! "Black Bed Sheet is not only a publisher of fantastically creative horror books but knows the meaning of heart and integrity....Grabowsky has taken BBS to heights that few could have imagined with his drive, determination and talent, along with the talent in his stable. If you haven't read anything from BBS, it's past time you did but it's never too late!" --- Gene Tipton, A SHOT IN THE DARK COMICS "I had this idea for an anthology. A crazy, outside the box thought that I hoped would at least ignite some interest. Well, it not only ignited, the damn thing drenched the entire office at Black Bed Sheet Books and its publisher Nicholas Grabowsky in a orange and red hue of excitement. This has now become a solid joint effort spanning the many talented authors of Black Bed Sheet Books, highlighting the core value of writing: character depth. When Nick gave me the green light, I began to construct this list of talented writers. Some are veterans of the writing landscape [such as myself], others are brand new and cutting their jagged incisors deep into the skin of the publishing world. My only requirement for the authors became the simple task of all, write a story that has deep characters and emotion. A story evolves only so far as the characters propel it. I wanted the characters stripped down to their skeletons. Heroes, villains, somewhere in the middle? Bring them through the emotional grinder, chew them up, spit them out, where will it take the reader? Or, what about a few stories with different spins on such figures as Dracula, Adolph Hitler, the Devil, and Snow White. A few of these stories are dark in nature, or splashed with a form of comic ingenuity. Others are entrenched in history with a different spin that left me squirming in my seat. These authors are bright, fresh, talented, comedic, compassionate, and downright scary when they want to be. So sit back, turn off the lights, and read the book. Or die. I wouldn’t want that to happen to you, but then again once you step inside our world, anything can happen. Close your eyes. Take a breath. The sounds you hear are real. There is no turning back. Keep reading. Or die." --from Introduction by Jason Gehlert --Featuring the talents of— Fred Wiehe - Cinsearae Santiago - Brandon Ford Jessica Lynne Gardner - Lincoln Crisler - Jason Gehlert - William Cook - Reyna Young - Tom Sawyer - K.K. - Rey Otis - Shannon Lee - B.L. Morgan - Tammy Gehlert - S.C. Hayden - Franchisca Weatherman - Patrick James Ryan - Horns - Jason M. Tucker Amity Green – Adam Aresty – Jennifer Caress And Nicholas Grabowsky Edited by Jason Gehlert
Download or read book Scary Stuff Things written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration and horror from Black Bed Sheet Books' 15th Anniversary Halloween Party 2023. This is the first commemorative anthology from participating authors on Halloween night 2023 to sign free copies given to trick-or-treaters along with candy at Black Bed Sheet Studios in Antelope, CA, (near Sacramento), otherwise known as Antelope's Halloween House throughout the region. By popular demand, we decided to make it available to sell. Features stories by Age Scott (Tales of Hip Hop Horror), Edward Martin III (The Blood-red Night of Hatchet Valley), Fred Wiehe (Fright House), and founder of Black Bed Sheet Books, Nicholas Grabowsky (Halloween IV, The Everborn).
Download or read book Nick Reads and Reviews written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Diverse Media. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2004, highly acclaimed horror fiction author Nicholas Grabowsky has reviewed books given to him from authors and their agents and publishers large and small, paying particular attention to what the smaller presses have to offer. Never reviewing for payment or profit, he used these reviews as a dscipline towards maintaining a reading schedule and as writing excercises, to critique and advise and express honest opinion, and to get lots of free books. These reviews comprise the first three years as originally published at www.downwarden.com, complete with new essays exclusive to this book.
Download or read book The Wicked Within written by Kelly Keaton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-apocalyptic New Orleans, Ari continues her desperate quest to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries, but the relic both she and Athena seek to control is missing, amid rumors that an ancient power is on the rise.
Download or read book Reserved for the Wicked written by Ashlynn Hartt and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With each passing generation, lands are lost to time and despair. In the very heart of Bohemia lies a realm much like this, a place where the worst is always suspected. One of the many drifting about her lands is Kade, a young runaway determined to flee from his fate when he crosses paths with Lia, a maiden wandering aimlessly through the woods. The pair of mysterious strangers finds respite in each other for a time until Kade discovers Lia is no resident of the forsaken realm. Though this story is not merely Kades to tell, nor does it belong to Lia for that matter. Silent endeavors flourish beyond their sight as a stark cat lingers in the shadows: a servant fears what sleeps inside him. A father struggles to save his country, a merchant quenches his thirst for gold, and a tyrant king lusts for power and the warmth of his harem. Cast aside all expectations in this dramatic story of love, loss, turmoil, and adventure. Each one of them bears a past, but will any hold a future?
Download or read book Waltzing with the Wicked written by Dave Sheskin and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 49 written by Samuel H. Kelly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between these pages are tales of battles told between life and death, love and hate, salvation and sin, philosophy and misanthropy, gluttonous narcotics and narcissistic bulimics. 49 is the debut collection of poetry from the twisted mind of Samuel H. Kelly. From rhythmic rhymes to doggerel dementia, the fine line which separates eloquence and cacophony is broken with Kelly’s style. The eclecticism in his poetry creates a myriad of imagery captured in an anthology of portmanteau titles and psychotic subjects. “A powerful and respected poet and one worth reading over and over again.” —Gary La Buda, author of Eyes of Separation “49 reaches the depths of darkness that most people never venture to and most shadows dare not dwell.” —Melyssa G. Sprott, author, The Dark series
Download or read book The Wicked written by James Newman and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ANCIENT EVIL RISES...BURNS...KILLS... After a fire consumes the Heller Home for Children, the residents of Morganville, North Carolina thought they knew evil... They were wrong. Unaware of the turmoil in their new hometown, the Littles--David, Kate, and seven-year-old Becca--are moving from New York City to Morganville in hopes of repairing their own lives, which were recently shattered by an act of sexual violence. Before long, David realizes that his family's troubles are worse than he could ever have imagined. An ancient demon lurks beneath the town of Morganville, an unholy creature conjured into existence by the Heller Home tragedy. Its name is Moloch. It is hungry for the souls of the townspeople. But most of all, Moloch wants the children. It will not rest until it has them. All of them.
