Though pompous with its modern advancements, Sybar City has always fostered a seedy underbelly stretching back millennia. Glory, a humble scholar with a talent for occult research, is unwillingly thrust into this world of ancient malevolent races and scientific exploitation. A girl with issues, she would just as soon crawl into a bookshelf and never come back out, leaving a . . .
The small town of Minde goes from being a middle American, everyone-knows-everyone mountain town to a town torn apart by fear and suspicion when fifteen year old Benny Jorgens disappears, and then shows up a few days later, a completely ruined form of life. His mind has been ripped from his body and left imprisoned, helpless as his body is . . .
Told in the style of classic pulp fiction and film noir, each week you can catch up on the latest in the adventures of none other than Samuel Swift, a private eye with a penchant for cases that are dark, dreary, and fraught with more than a touch of the supernatural. . . .
Part II of The American Book of the Dead – a novel about evolution and the apocalypse, which won Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival and the Gold IPPY Award for Visionary Fiction. In Part II, the writer of the first novel is commissioned to write another book that may help avert catastrophe, and pave the way for . . .
The Germhacht Episode is the second book in the Blackfeather Chronicles. It involves art, spiritualists, tea cakes, demon artifacts, and the continuing adventures of the Blackfeather family and friends. . . .
Delta Flight is an apocalyptic web serial novel written by Michael Hughes about a Special Forces unit that must save humanity by preventing a 2,000 year old Roman curse from awakening the Anti-Christ. . . .
Marin Astoris had a vision a few years ago, of a mushroom cloud rising beyond the university’s iconic clocktower. A voice whispered in her ear, take a breath and wait to die. That vision never came to pass. Something else happened instead: an asteroid, a botched attempt to stop it from hitting earth, and a resulting cataclysm that left only . . .
In an alternate past where magic is recognize as a true science, people are starving for land. To alleviate the burden, the government of Great Britain created floating islands, gigantic city that travels the sea. On the Island of King James, two people that have nothing in common must understand what is the link between a series of grotesque . . .
Anton Macquarie is having a bad day. He woke up with a pounding head. He was late for work. He was attacked by a homeless woman with an apple core. His boss’ house was burnt down, his boss is now dead, and his replacement is going to turn the newspaper he works for into a sensationalist tabloid. He can’t . . .
The exploits and adventures of college student, computer geek, and occult detective Elaine Hadaly Mercer. She begins her career as an undergrad at Arizona State University majoring in Computer Science and Engineering; but comes from a long blood line of dabblers in the arcane arts with a strong bent for the scientific—hitherto that strange alchemy of genius courses through her . . .
This story takes place in a world in which the demon gates have opened and destroyed just about every human being on the planet. Demons walk with the living. What humans are left are either hiding or fighting. Some have taken upon themselves to learn Demon Artifacts and mastered using them, and gained the names of “Witch”. The story . . .
UPDATE – July 2010. Proofreading quality is pretty consistent these days, and the writing style has evolved to a level of sophistication that leaves me with no more technical quibbles.
This is an intelligent take on urban fantasy in a Lovecraftian vein which shines due to the author’s extensive interest in [more . . .]
A solid premise, but lacks depth . . .
This review is based on 5 chapters, of which 7 are available. Before I begin, I want to stress that I DO like the premise of Tattoo, and the episodes are interesting once each problem is fleshed out and the action begins. [more . . .]