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Ghosts. Monsters. Harry Houdini Meets Charles Dickens in Outer Space.

A man and woman, apparent strangers, sail over a surreal desert landscape on their way to a dangerous and uncertain destiny.
Tiny predators who live in the wall and feed on memories prove without a doubt that you are what you read.
A little boy defies the curse of a mummified Indian princess, prepared to halt the emergence of an ancient god, even if it costs the lives of everyone close to him.

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Sadia has been betrayed.

Get in. Get the data threads. Get out. It was a standard job. But when Sadia arrives, she finds her contact dead and the only ones who could be responsible are from her own faction. Unable to trust anyone, she goes looking for answers.

When she witnesses another unjust death, something inside her awakens. A power takes control of her body and in front of millions of witnesses, Sadia brings the dead man back to life. Suddenly, shes the most sought after woman in Novus...

It was an impossible task. The creative talent behind the ninth movie in the central Star Wars storyline were given an impossible task. They were asked to take a franchise that has dominated popular culture for more than four decades and bring it home. This effort must have required a planet-sized gut check for all concerned. They had to know there would be dissatisfied fans for one very simple reason: different groups of fans wanted differenteven diametrically oppositemovies.

What J.J....

With the upcoming release of my first science-fiction novel, Hollowfall, my publisher asked what I thought of The Mandalorian television series, available now on the Disney+ streaming service. I wrote up a review and it was posted on the Future House website.

To read the post, please Click Here.

Look for Hollowfall to debut on March 17, 2020, available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and most bookstores and ebook services. Signed copies will be available on this website.

Goethe Got Luck hasnt been to a lot of weddings, but it doesnt take a detective to know its a catastrophe when the bride is weeping, the groom is bleeding, and the choir children have vanished into thin air.

When the FBI shows up at his door accusing him of kidnapping, Got knows something is vastly wrong. Hes done a lot of things, but stealing children isnt one of them. To clear his name, Got goes on the hunt for the missing kids and finds himself trapped in the realm of dreams. Ruled by a...

From the creators of Old Scratch and Owl Hoots, It Came from the Great Salt Lake, Apocalypse Utah, and The Hunger, comes the next installment of New Utah Horror: Peaks of Madness: A Collection of Utah Horror.

The Horror Inside will drive you mad!

Some will resist. Others will give in willing. You may even find that you like the psychosis, of original Utah Horror. Thirty lunatics have come together to produce the finest and most original unpublished writings, since losing their minds....

This is a project near and dear to my heart, not only because its a wonderful novel but also because of the people who have worked on it. When our mutual friend, Zach Hill, passed away suddenly, he left a manuscript that just begged to be completed. Some truly wonderful and creative souls did just that and it all benefits Zachs widow. The book is now available for purchase and I cant recommend it more highly.

You can find out more on Amazon. Click Here.

And here is my full review, posted...

There is a theory that says if you give typewriters to one hundred monkeys, and let them type for one hundred years, they will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. We decided to put that theory to the test with a few minor modifications. We didnt have one hundred monkeys but we did have the membership of a League of Utah Writers chapter that calls itself The Infinite Monkeys. Most of them didnt have typewriters, but worked on laptop or desktop computers, smartphones, and tablets....

The short story Feasty-Feast has been recommended for a Bram Stoker® Award in the Short Fiction category. The Bram Stoker Awards are presented annually by the Horror Writers of America organization and represent one of the most prestigious honors in speculative fiction. So far, the story has only been recommended, which is not the same thing as nominated. To make the ballot, works need to be recommended by at least five different members of the organization or selected by a panel of...

The West has always been a symbol of the wild frontier, rugged adventure, and dangerous exploration. However, if it wasnt for fear of the unknown, the West would just be another cardinal direction. Old Scratch and Owl Hoots delves into that fear and captures it in fourteen tales of terror set in the West ranging from the 1800s to the present day. Take a gander inside and youll find stories dealing with

a strange creature on Antelope Island that can never satisfy its hunger
a young girl...