Penny Dread Tales Volume IV explores the darker side of steampunk, where demons reign and the human spirit can be as unwholesome and unholy as your worst nightmare. Immerse yourself in this tome of light and darkness. Revel in the triumphs of adventurous heroes and despair in the maleficence of heartless villains, human and inhuman alike. These short stories will take you across the globe and across dimensions. You will find yourself soaring through the skies over America and Europe. You will visit the seedy underside of Seattle, the dusty plains of the southwest, and the great savannahs of darkest Africa. Within these pages are ghosts, demons, and the undead seeking to take your very soul. Necromancers feed upon the blood of the innocent. Murderers and thieves abound, and the line between good and evil blurs to nonexistence. Limitless worlds and landscapes lay within in this latest installment of Penny Dread Tales ... for it is truly Perfidious and Paranormal Punkery of Steam.

Penny Dread Tales Volume IV: Perfidious and Paranormal Punkery of Steam

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Riley, David

Knight, Sam

Boop, David

Ritchey, Aaron Michael

Chinakos, Mike

Kessler, A.L.

Ficco, Christopher

Huntman, Gerry

Harleth, Jezebel

Stone, Mark Everett

Science Fiction

RuneWright LLC

Nightmares come in many forms. Some rend the veil of sleep with heart-stopping madness. Others defy sanity to leave a helpless corner of your mind twitching for release. Sometimes, hours after waking, a nightmare drifts across your memory, tainting your day with wisps of discomfort. NIGHTMARES UNHINGED reveals horror in all its mutable forms—abject to absurd—through twenty tales of terror. Contributors include Mario Acevedo, Edward Bryant, Dustin Carpenter, Sean Eads, Keith Ferrell, Warren Hammond, Jason Heller, Gary Jonas, Stephen Graham Jones, J.V. Kyle, Aaron Michael Ritchey, Jeanne C. Stein, Steve Rasnic Tem and Dean Wyant. Foreword by Steve Alten. Edited by Joshua Viola. Illustrations by Aaron Lovett. A portion of the book's proceeds will be donated to Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance in honor of Melanie Tem. “Featuring an impressive line-up of speculative fiction luminaries—Mario Acevedo, Jason Heller, Jeanne C. Stein, Steve Rasnic Tem, Warren Hammond, etc.—this stellar collection of twenty nightmare-inducing short stories is appropriately titled: it’s a check-underneath-the-bed-before-you-go-to-sleep kind of anthology.” —PAUL GOAT ALLEN

Nightmares Unhinged: Twenty Tales of Terror

Literature & Fiction

Viola, Joshua

Jones, Stephen Graham

Stein, Jeanne C.

TEM, Steve Rasnic

Kyle, J V

Wyant, Dean

Genre Fiction

Hex Publishers

Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Meyers is an overweight, unhappy teenager enduring a dreary suburban life when her grandmother awakes from a catatonic state and announces that the two of them must go to France and solve four magical puzzles to reach a long-lost prince from another world. Elizabeth doesn't believe this, of course. She has no intention of helping her grandmother escape the nursing home, elude the authorities, find a way to steal passports and fly to Paris. And yet Elizabeth finds herself doing exactly that.

Elizabeth's Midnight

Teen & Young Adult

Romance

Black Arrow Publishing

Magdalena Marquez is a teen-aged girl struggling with adult responsibilities and choices. She knows right from wrong, but realizes that with her back against the wall and her brother’s life on the line the division isn’t as black and white as she wants it to be. Forced to choose between an angel and a demon, Lena must first confront her own broken dreams and allow herself to find hope again before she is stripped of all she loves. When do we struggle to change the world? When do we let go and embrace life’s broken beauty?

The Never Prayer

Seventeen-year-old Jim JD Dillinger knows exactly how his miserable suburban life is going to play out. At least drugs added a little chaos to his life, but after almost losing his soul, JD knows he has to quit. Now clean, he figures he has another sixty years of plain old boring life followed by a nasty death. JD decides to pre-empt God by killing himself. However, once he decides to die, his life gets better, more interesting, and then downright strange. New friends. Possible romance. And donuts. Lots of donuts.

Long Live The Suicide King

On a desperate road through the most dangerous place on earth, three sisters find a boy who could be their salvation, or cost them everything.\nIt is the year 2058. 
The Sino-American War has decimated several generations of men, and the Sterility Epidemic has made 90% of the surviving males sterile. 
Electricity does not function in five western states. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana are territories once again. Collectively, they are known as the Juniper. 
It is the most dangerous place on Earth. 
On a desperate post-apocalyptic cattle drive to save their family ranch, Cavatica Weller and her two gunslinging sisters stumble across a rare boy. Sharlotte wants to send him away, Wren wants to sell him…and Cavatica falls in love with him. 
Little do they know that an inhuman army is searching for the boy and will stop at nothing to find him. 
Disclaimer: This is a new cover and title for Aaron Michael Ritchey's Dandelion Iron book. There were no significant changes made to the content of the book.

Armageddon Girls (The Juniper Wars)

Children's Books

Independently published

Four years of Penny Dread Tales have revealed some fantastic talent. In this edition we’ve collected the cream of the crop. Herein lies the very Best of Penny Dread Tales: fourteen stories of boiler-splitting steampunk with a blend of sci-fi, paranormal, western, and horror. These stories will take you on a thrilling ride and you will love every minute of it! Including stories by: Cayleigh Hickey, Aaron Michael Ritchey, J.M. Franklin, Gerry Huntman, Laura Givens, Keith Good, Quincy J. Allen, David Boop, Vivian Caethe, Aaron Spriggs, David W. Landrum, Sam Knight, Mike Cervantes, and Jonathan D. Beer.

The Best of Penny Dread Tales

Givens, Laura

Allen, Quincy J.

Hickey, Cayleigh

Franklin, J M

Spriggs, Aaron Anansi

WordFire Press

It is the year 2058. The Sino-American War has decimated several generations of men, and the Sterility Epidemic has made 90% of the surviving males sterile. Electricity does not function in five western states. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana are territories once again. Collectively, they are known as the Juniper. It is the most dangerous place on Earth. On a desperate post-apocalyptic cattle drive to save their family ranch, Cavatica Weller and her two gunslinging sisters stumble across a rare boy. Sharlotte wants to send him away, Wren wants to sell him…and Cavatica falls in love with him. Little do they know that an inhuman army is searching for the boy and will stop at nothing to find him. Welcome to the world of The Juniper Wars.

Dandelion Iron (The Juniper Wars)

It is the year 2058. The Sino-American War has decimated several generations of men, and the Sterility Epidemic has made 90% of the surviving males sterile. Electricity does not function in five western states. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana are territories once again. Collectively, they are known as the Juniper. It is the most dangerous place on Earth. Cavatica Weller and her sisters have one chance to save their family ranch--a desperate post-apocalyptic cattle drive across a violent wasteland. Having escaped from Denver, the Weller family will have to face the worst of the Juniper’s outlaws, the Psycho Princess. And still an inhuman army dogs their every step. The mystery deepens—who is the lost boy Micaiah and why would the richest man on earth spend billions to find? And will Micaiah’s secrets tear the Weller family apart?

Killdeer Winds (The Juniper Wars)

Heroes and villains are not always on the opposite ends of the spectrum of good and evil. Sometimes, all that separates them is a fine line. The stories within "Parallel Worlds" explore the lives of such heroes and what drives them -- and what keeps them from crossing over to the other side.
This anthology features nineteen stories from bestselling, award-winning, and emerging authors, and includes brand new, never-before seen stories from Jim Butcher's, "Dresden Files," Robert Asprin's "The Myth-Adventures" by Jody Lynn Nye, and Neo Edmund's "Red Riding Alpha Huntress Chronicles."

Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within

Butcher, Jim

Nye, Jody Lynn

Nohelty, Russell

Butler, D.J.

Fahnestock, Todd

Virdi, R.R.

Copen, E.A.

Hehr, Colton

Hachmeister, L.J.

Short Stories & Anthologies

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