Dale T. Phillips

• Jul-2025
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• Feb-2025
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When Zack's friend is attacked and almost killed, his anger overflows to thoughts and actions of revenge. The trouble is, the people responsible are part of a large, untouchable criminal organization. Zack will have to undertake his own illegal acts ...

• Mar-2023
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Cole Hampton's military service and tough upbringing come in handy when solving dangerous problems for the less fortunate. But against his will, he's tasked with finding a missing woman. When the search leads down dark pathways, he must deal with an ...

• Jan-2023
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Here are tales of crime and mystery. Tales of people of all ages making desperate choices, calculated choices, and survival choices. Everything from killers and junkies on the run to innocents caught in a web of danger. Darkness and fear rule, and su...

• Aug-2022
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Dragons, princesses, creatures from our myth-pool, magic, monsters, and more. Journeys through dark forests, with unexpected results. Here are three books in one, all the collected stories from the Fables and Fantasies series. Twisted tales and some ...

• Jun-2022
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In this, the final volume of the Fables and Fantasies collections, we have a number of dark tales: a twisted version of an old fairy tale, a fantastic ride that does not end where the rider thought, horrible creatures from a legendary world of monstr...

• May-2021
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Welcome to Resurrection, a former mining company town with too many dark secrets, where science and religion form a shady alliance. Sixteen-year-old Judy Winstead is forced to move there with her recently widowed mother, but finds few allies among th...

• Oct-2020
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Horror comes in many shapes. Here are five more scary stories, where people meet their fate in a number of ways.Never-before tales of terror to keep you unsettled. You never know whether Death or salvation is just around the corner. Pleasant screams....

• Jul-2020
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Grieving over a past tragedy, troubled ex-con Zack Taylor has spent a lifetime in the shadows. He has finally found a measure of peace in Maine, helping others as a way of dealing with his grief, guilt, and rage. But he finds even simple problems hav...

• Jul-2020
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Here are five scary stories about different types of terrors that haunt us. Some are deserved, some come from pits of evil for the innocent. These tales come together for the first time to keep you up at night. Enjoy the ride on the scary rollercoast...

• Mar-2020
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When the ghosts of the past reach out and pull the present day back into secrets and murder, detective Jim Lloyd is called on to investigate. His own troubled history rises up, and he must contend with a host of issues as danger mounts with every tur...

• Dec-2019
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• Sep-2019
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While searching for a missing man, Zack Taylor stumbles across another body. Though it looks like a suicide, Zack doesn't buy it, and he tampers with the crime scene to keep the police on the case. They do so, but are suspicious of Zack's involvement...

• Feb-2018
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All The Crooked Paths is a collection of three books: Crooked Paths, More Crooked Paths, and The Last Crooked Paths. Five stories each of mystery and crime, dark chronicles of those who walk a crooked path, and so very often pay a terrible price for ...

• Nov-2017
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Here are five more tales of crime and mystery, telling of those who walk crooked paths and pay the price for it. Here are crooks and cops, killers and victims, and those who walk the line between good and evil. Take a few short trips down the darker ...

• Jul-2017
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Zack Taylor's life is once again in shambles. Having narrowly escaped death, guilty over the pain he's caused a loved one, he's hurting and angry. When looking into the disappearance of a reporter, Zack's death wish may be his cure for his troubles a...

• Feb-2016
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In these five tales you'll read serious stories about dragons, swords, castles, people on quests, demons, witches, and also fairy-tale characters acting out in fun. So there's a little something for everyone. These are lands where the people may be l...

• Feb-2016
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• Nov-2015
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Trapped by a final promise to a dying woman, a reluctant Zack Taylor seeks her missing grandson, a slippery con man of the art world. Zack discovers the corruption beneath the glossy exteriors, confronting murder, greed, fraud, and a host of crimes t...

• Aug-2015
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More tales of crime and mystery, those who walk crooked paths and pay the price for it. People on the spot, when things have taken a bad turn. A young woman facing a deadly challenge. A man who walks into the wrong bar with the wrong attitude. A boxe...

• Jan-2014
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This collection of ten tales of horror involves monsters, mayhem, and murder: everything from war to everyday homicide, to otherworldly terrors from hell dimensions. The horror may be internal or external, in your heart or in your cellar. Here are pe...

• Dec-2013
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Here are five books combined into one big volume of stories, thirty tales in different genres. Strange new worlds and encounters with the unusual, in stories from light to dark. Some to make you laugh, some to make you think, and some to scare you. D...

• Dec-2013
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In the snowy Canadian wilderness, a terrifying legend springs to life, sparking a series of gruesome crimes. Government agent Sean Laporte is sent to investigate, and must contend with an obsessive, resourceful foe, a hostile environment, and an elus...

• May-2013
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Zack Taylor's new life is crumbling. His fledgling business is in jeopardy, he's been dumped by his lady love, and a murderous gang leader is bent on revenge. A shattered Zack is enticed onto a movie shoot to provide martial arts expertise and securi...

• May-2012
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Here are five different tales of the end of the world. Some methods are long, drawn-out affairs, others threaten us in the blink of an eye. Even if our take on Mayan calendars was all misinterpretation, there are plenty of other terrors that we could...

• Mar-2012
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Here are five tales of people going off the beaten track of reality to experience something completely new and unworldly. Stories of individuals in pain who ride a rollercoaster of odd happenings that show life in a different perspective. People runn...

• Feb-2012
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This collection of five different tales gives some new takes on old stories, and is a mix of fear, fun, and fantastic elements. Some of these stories are humorous, some are scary, some end well, some badly, and some have mixed blessings for those inv...

• Feb-2012
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This blend of all previously-published stories crosses many genres: science fiction, crime, fantasy, horror, humor, magic realism, and mainstream. There are fractured fairy tales, cautionary parables, peeks into disturbed minds, and amusing little ro...

• Dec-2011
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In epic fantasy, we're given heroes to root for. Here, we have bad examples to avoid. Fatbird and the Gay Louser are an unlikely, mismatched pair, bungling their way through the mean streets of fantasy. From the dank-smelling alleys and ramshackle...

• Dec-2011
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When a single mother is wrongly accused of murder, Zack Taylor must work to clear her name. Not an easy task, as everyone in the Maine town of Mill Springs thinks she's guilty. Zack finds, however, plenty of people who wanted the victim dead. He disc...

• Dec-2011
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This dark fantasy tale tells of a grim plan to stop a marriage between the High Count and his intended. The High Count must follow the traditions of courting, and while he does, the young sister of his intended practices her magick to spoil the whole...

• Dec-2011
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You know the story, most people have heard it. But you've only heard one side of it. Let me tell you what really happened, because they twist it around, make me look like the bad guy. After all, I'm short, but I'm not evil. Sure, I've got a few tr...

• Dec-2011
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News from the forest reaches the ears of the young prince- a fair maiden lies enchanted, guarded in her shrine by a cadre of little men. He vows to journey there and discover her secret. When he does so, he awakens the maid with a kiss as t...

• Dec-2011
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This set of tales tends toward the noir school of crime and mystery, highlighting the dark spot on the human psyche that haunts people with the siren call of revenge, destruction, or ill-gotten gain. Here are featured a variety of characters and crim...

• Jun-2011
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Troubled ex-con Zack Taylor is haunted by the accidental death of his brother years before. Zack's guilt and anger have pushed him into a shadowy, wandering life, with little purpose and few attachments. When he hears of the death of his close friend...

Here are two sets of tales. One set shows people going off the beaten track of reality to experience something completely new and unworldly. Individuals in pain who ride a rollercoaster of odd happenings that show life in a different perspective. Peo...