Carl E. Reed

• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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The Donner clan is a tight-knit urban family with a growing problem: their oldest son, Alex, thinks he's a vampire. The crisis comes to a head one memorable evening around the dinner table. A story of dark whimsy and serio-comic horror....

• Jun-2014
• / Science Fiction
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An absurdist, anti-space opera that takes place almost entirely in the rec room of the death sphere: Hammer of God. A tale of cosmic genocide, chess, xenophobic patriarchal religion, the nature of beauty and the death of empires. A send-up of tired s...

• Dec-2014
• / Fantasy
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Professor Reichart is a very unhappy man: marriage failing, literary career going exactly nowhere, obsessed to the point of physical and mental exhaustion with the all-consuming genius and undying glory of one William Shakespeare. The Professor's fut...

• Dec-2014
• / Fantasy
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The Strange & Curious Tale of Prof. Robert Howard Wilson: An Instructive Account of a Small Victory in the Venerable Professor's Never-ending War Against Barbarism, Ignorance, & Banality: How Arkham's Most Accomplished Master of the Black Arts Weathe...

• Jan-2015
• / Urban Fantasy
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Stage: an all-night eatery in the early A.M. Dramatis personae: two women, a street gang, neo-nazi thugs, a Christian minister and an old man who claims to be Wotan. Cue winter storm and. action! (Note: inspired by Robert E. Howard's "The Gray God Pa...

• Feb-2015
• / General Fiction
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Ireland. The Dark Ages. Samhain Eve. Celtic warrior Owen Kerrigan dreads this holiday more than most. But then, he has good reason to . . ....

• Apr-2015
• / Science Fiction
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This is the statement of the captured doom ship John D. Rockefeller to the Intergalactic Council of 40. (Note: plus a bonus short story, Night Terror.)...

• Jun-2015
• / Fantasy
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NIGHT TERROR & OTHER WEIRD TALES is a book of thirteen stories of various genre types: horror, soft science-fiction, the weird tale and literary fiction. The stories in this volume vary in terms of subject matter and tone but are knit together by rec...

• Jul-2015
• / Historical
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Wil works the tavern alongside his father in an inn called "The Bucket of Blood". A fortnight after a Pyrrhic battle that saw guard cavalry butchered at the hands of enemy pikemen, aristocratic guardsmen and peasant soldiers alike gather to celebrate...

• Jan-2016
• / Literary
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Mr. and Mrs. Shapiro have promised Rachel a trip to the zoo. But once they step outside their house, the nightmare reality they have fought so long and hard to diminish in their daughter's consciousness hits home with terrifying force. A tragic tale ...

• Mar-2016
• / General Fiction
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Achok -- last shaman of the Sachawatomi -- has seen his people all but exterminated by an expansionist, late 19th-century alternate-Earth North American power: the United States. But Achok has one final card to play: a totemic summoning ritual in whi...