Fiction

A humorous take about gypsy life.

1st edition 1998, PDF 53 pages.

A humorous take about gypsy life.

1st edition 1997, PDF 40 pages.

A story that speaks against nuclear warfare through a biblical creation and destruction story.

1st edition 2015, 8 pages.

Read about the adventures of Kirstin, her dog Spunky and a dog whistle she found in the attic.

Illustrated by the author.

Third ebook of short stories by Arthur Herzog. Other ebooks in the series Body Parts and Beyond Sci-FI.

1st edition 2014.

Crimeworld is a dark crime novel written by Steve Valentine and illustrated by Daniel J Frey.

Meet Izzy DeKiller, the bizarre, charismatic owner of Hollywood's only Crimeshop, CRIMEWORLD. Spikey hair, tattoos and a bullet in his head, not the kind of guy you take home to Mum. When the brutally murdered body of a beautiful girl is found sealed within his locked store, Izzy becomes suspect number one. He's forced to prove his innocence as the clock ticks and a terrifying serial killer makes his presence felt.

But just who is Izzy, how can he recall so much detail and why does he refer to...

Crimeworld is a dark crime novel written by Steve Valentine and illustrated by Daniel J Frey.

Meet Izzy DeKiller, the bizarre, charismatic owner of Hollywood's only Crimeshop, CRIMEWORLD. Spikey hair, tattoos and a bullet in his head, not the kind of guy you take home to Mum. When the brutally murdered body of a beautiful girl is found sealed within his locked store, Izzy becomes suspect number one. He's forced to prove his innocence as the clock ticks and a terrifying serial killer makes his presence felt.

But just who is Izzy, how can he recall so much detail and why does he refer to...

Crimeworld is a dark crime novel written by Steve Valentine and illustrated by Daniel J Frey.

Meet Izzy DeKiller, the bizarre, charismatic owner of Hollywood's only Crimeshop, CRIMEWORLD. Spikey hair, tattoos and a bullet in his head, not the kind of guy you take home to Mum. When the brutally murdered body of a beautiful girl is found sealed within his locked store, Izzy becomes suspect number one. He's forced to prove his innocence as the clock ticks and a terrifying serial killer makes his presence felt.

But just who is Izzy, how can he recall so much detail and why does he refer to...

Crimeworld is a dark crime novel written by Steve Valentine and illustrated by Daniel J Frey.

Meet Izzy DeKiller, the bizarre, charismatic owner of Hollywood's only Crimeshop, CRIMEWORLD. Spikey hair, tattoos and a bullet in his head, not the kind of guy you take home to Mum. When the brutally murdered body of a beautiful girl is found sealed within his locked store, Izzy becomes suspect number one. He's forced to prove his innocence as the clock ticks and a terrifying serial killer makes his presence felt.

But just who is Izzy, how can he recall so much detail and why does he refer to...

A war between a good and a bad shaman illustrates a lot about the shamans' world, their rituals, practices and believes.

This ebook is beautifully illustrated by the author himself.

"I never used to go with girls," said Holly as we lay in bed together. "Before I was a vampire I mean. Before I was a vampire, I used to like boys well enough. But soon as I got turned, well, girls just seemed more, I don't know, appealing somehow."

London, 1888. 18 year old Katie Bell is an average girl working in an East End hat shop, but that is all destined to change the night she is bitten by a vampire. Falling in with a gang of lesbian vampires led by the enigmatic Poppy, Katie is thrust into a world of carnal lusts and forbidden pleasures, where the desires of the flesh go hand in...

A shallow earthquake slides a California town full of bigots into Mexico. The Mexican mayor of the town across the border declares the Americans "drybacks" and won't let them leave. The two countries verge on war.

The small towns of Hinchville, CA, and La Lacrimosa, Mexico, dispute ownership of a small strip of land on the border between them. When an earthquake causes a bizarre landslide, and several of the houses in Hinchville end up in La Lacrimosa's town square, the minor dispute becomes an international incident.

The Mexican mayor turns the tables on the Americans by forcing them...

A prize-winning scientist has a formula to conquer aging but it's stolen and becomes a blockbuster drug, Imortalon, which produces negative effects.

It was possibly the discovery of a lifetime: a drug that would reverse the effects of aging, seemingly indefinitely. The tests were all positive, first on rats, then monkeys and other large animals, and finally, on humans. It was a dream come true, the promise of a healthy, happy life, with all the benefits of youthfulness, including energy, vitality, and sex drive, for 200+ years or more. Tens of millions clamored to be among the first to take...

A man gives an innocent lie about his birthday and ends up with astrologer-crooks and a girlfriend.

Philip Castle, newly separated from an adulterous wife and afflicted by middle-age doldrums, is a professor at the University of Chicago off to the Caribbean for a relaxing vacation. But life is far from restful. His first day on the island he watches a small plane crash, piloted by a man who looks disturbingly like him. He then meets Marie-Celeste - a fabulously beautiful and provocative young woman with whom he makes love - only to find that she is the mistress of the powerful and mysterious...

A real estate woman succumbs to a male buyer only to learn he and his clan are from outer space.

Sally Edwards is the only realtor in the sleepy Hamptons town of Bayville, New York. Business is slow, and Sally is beginning to wonder if she will be able to make ends meet, when she receives an offer that seems to solve all of her problems. Her little company is bought out by Millennium 3, a large, multi-national conglomerate that has a mysterious history. Executives from Millennium 3 take over her office, and Sally is charged with the responsibility of purchasing as many homes in the community...

Four Americans seek refuge from skin cancer which has become an epidemic in the US. They meet in Canada where one has rented a gothic house close to the Eskimo village which add to the trouble. They fear the earths magnetic poles will trade places and exterminate the human race.

They try experiments that simulate a magnetic pole reversal. Then the polar swap actually happens. Will these engaging characters survive?

Short stories ranging from sci-fi, humor and horror, based on various body parts.

From imagination to materialism, the provocative stories in Body Parts cover the bases. Can brains survive without bodies? Will the love modem result in romance or homicide? Should a loose tongue reveal its secrets? Would a guru who brings bliss be killed by the government? What's to stop pigs being raised to provide artificial hearts from revolting? Could a rowing machine be used to commit murder? What happens when a fat woman sits on a lap dog and kills it? What's wrong with kidneys from Texas? Can feet lead...

A geologist predicted a major earthquake in an unlikely place (Rhode Island) and it happens.

You are an expert on earthquakes and you fear their awesome power to the point of insanity. Now you are sure that an earthquake is building below your very feet. Your house, your family, your friends, your town, are about to be destroyed.

The cracks appearing in the walls…the "accidental" deaths of local people…the strange movements of inanimate objects - all increase the certainty of your belief and the urgency of your warnings to those around you. The trouble is, there are others who have...

(The sequel to Make Us Happy.) The renegades try to govern but discover they need the computer.

Returning in triumph to New York City to announce their victory, the revolutionaries, Bil and Alce, the very, very old Ralp Nadir and the very, very sexy Dian Toffler, find that no one has noticed the revolution, and no one cares. Everyone just wants to keep on jogging, safe and secure and uninvolved.

Finally, the message of freedom breaks through the nearly fatal apathy of the people, and the painful, stumbling process of reinstituting democracy begins, with Bil as the new President. Then suddenly, it's...

Police Detective Mike Boyle is called to the scene of an apparent double-homicide. As he waits for his partner, Detective Yvonne King, he has difficulty connecting to the circumstances he finds himself in. When Yvonne arrives, he discovers that he is not alone in his uncertainty. But he must press on through the fog of his confusion, in order to solve the most important case of his life.

Why was he in denial? What was it that he couldn't face? Something terrible had happened. He felt terrible.

It's nothing, he reassured himself. Everything's okay.

Still, he felt discombobulated as if...