Dean Wesley Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    369 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1995
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Bryant Street Story

I Killed the Clockwork Key (Mar-2011)
For Your Consideration (Jun-2011)
Call Me Unfixable (Aug-2012)

A Bucky the Space Pirate Story

Cutting Down Fred (Jan-2011)
The Waiting of the Wind (Feb-2011)
Long Dead New Love (Jun-2011)

A City Knights Novel

All Eve's Hallows (Sep-2005)

A Jukebox Story

He Could Have Coped with Dragons (Jun-2010)
A Golden Dream (Jul-2010)
Black Betsy (Jul-2010)
The Songs of Memory (Jan-2011)
She Arrived Without A Song (Mar-2011)
The Wages of the Moment (Aug-2011)

A Poker Boy Story

Luck Be A Lady (Jul-2010)
Sighed the Snake (Jul-2010)
The Old Girlfriend of Doom (Jul-2010)
Dead Even (Nov-2010)
Daddy is an Undertaker (Jan-2011)
The Smoke That Doesn't Bark (Jan-2011)
Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy (Feb-2011)
Shootout in the Okey-Doke Casino (Mar-2011)
Pink Shoes and Hot Chocolate (May-2011)
Dried Up (Jun-2011)
Just Shoot Me Now! (Oct-2011)
For the Balance of a Heart (Aug-2012)
The Empty Mummy Murders (Oct-2012)
Nonexistent No More (Jan-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

Famous Characters: Superman

Whodunnit (Mar-2003)

Marvel's Spider-Man

Spider-Man: Carnage in New York (Aug-1995)
Goblin's Revenge (Oct-1996)
Emerald Mystery (Oct-2000)

Marvel's X-Men

The Jewels Of Cyttorak (Dec-1997)

Men in Black

The Green Saliva Blues (Feb-1999)
The Grazer Conspiracy (Feb-2000)

Shadow Warrior

For Dead Eyes Only (Oct-1997)

Smallville

4 - Whodunnit (Mar-2003)

Star Trek

Klingon (May-1996)
Echoes (Jan-1998)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Jul-1998)
Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth (Nov-1999)
Strange New Worlds II (Jan-2000)
Strange New Worlds III (May-2000)
Strange New Worlds IV (May-2001)
A Hard Rain (Mar-2002)
Strange New Worlds (May-2002)
Strange New Worlds VI (Jun-2003)
Strange New Worlds VII (Jun-2004)
Strange New Worlds VIII (Jul-2005)
Strange New Worlds 9 (Sep-2006)
Strange New Worlds 10 (Jul-2007)

Star Trek: S.C.E.

1 - The Belly of the Beast (Aug-2000)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

A Hard Rain (Mar-2002)

Star Trek: Voyager

Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth (Nov-1999)
15 - Echoes (Jan-1998)

Unreal

2 - Prophet's Power (Apr-1998)

Vor: The Maelstrom

3 - Island of Power (Apr-2000)

Book List in Order: 369 titles

  • Spider-Man: Carnage in New York

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    The Amazing Spider-Man must go head-to-head with his most dangerous enemy: the psychotic murderer known as Carnage! A vicious serial killer named Cletus Kasady has had his body chemistry altered by an alien creature. Now, Kasady can transform himself...

  • Klingon

    Star Trek

    The Klingon Empire remains the Federation's most fearsome and uneasy ally, but can any human fully understand the heart and soul of a true Klingon warrior? During crucial negotiations on Deep Space Nineā"¢. Gowron, leader of the Klingon High Council,...

  • Goblin's Revenge

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    A deadly serum that causes anyone it touches to go violently insane has been stolen. Spider-Man must find the culprit before the serum is used to wreak havoc on the city. As if that weren't enough, someone has freed Carnage, the psychotic, super-powe...

  • Steel

    Metallics expert Henry Irons discovers that the top-secret weapons he helped create have found their way to the streets of L.A. and dons the guise of STEEL, a justice-fighting superhero wielding an array of counterweaponry. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • For Dead Eyes Only

    Shadow Warrior

    Lo Wang: The Shadow Warrior. The darkness made whole, the night made flesh. Master of all martial arts. Master of all explosive weapons. The Shadow Warrior fights neither for good nor evil but for himself alone, bent on finding those who betrayed ...

  • The Jewels Of Cyttorak

    Marvel's X-Men

    THE X-MEN VERSUS A FIGHTING-MAD JUGGERNAUT! Since bonding with the ruby of Cyttorak, Cain Marko became the unstoppable force known as the Juggernaut -- and one of the X Men's most vicious foes! But an archaeological dig reveals a fragment of the o...

  • Echoes

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: Voyager - 15

    The U.S.S. Voyager finds itself in a system where a planet might have existed, but doesn't. Where the planet should have been, millions and then billions of people are appearing from nowhere and dying in the vacuum of space.To solve the mystery and s...

  • Prophet's Power

    Unreal - 2

    PROPHET'S POWER: Haute, the lowly Na Pali slave who would soon be called the Prophet, had fled to safety in the desolate hill country. There he found the hidden wreckage of an ancient spacecraft, and even more important, found the artificial intellig...

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    Star Trek

    Back by popular demand! Our fifth anthology featuring original Star Trek,Ā® Star Trek: The Next Generation,Ā® Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,Ā® and Star Trek: VoyagerĀ® stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! The past five Strange New Wor...



  • The Green Saliva Blues

    Men in Black

    In a universe full of scum, their job has just begun. They are all that stands between us and the terrifying truth. They are the men--and women--of a supersecret organization formed to police, monitor, and conceal alien life on Earth. But first and ...

  • Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: Voyager

    Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when Real Men with ray guns and beautiful women in beguiling outfits battled hideous monsters from outer space! Return with us to the days when Captain Proton ruled the skyways! When the queen...

  • Strange New Worlds II

    Star Trek

    Back by popular demand! Our second anthology featuring original Star Trekā€ , Star Trek: The Next Generationā€ , Star Trek: Deep Space Nineā€ , and Star Trek: Voyagerā€  stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! Our first Strange New Wo...

  • The Grazer Conspiracy

    Men in Black

    When aliens check in, they check them out.

    The brand-new action-packed adventure with characters from the blockbuster movie continues!

    The truth may be out there--but sometimes it comes too close for comfort. That's when the men and wom...

  • Island of Power

    Vor: The Maelstrom - 3

    Earth is ripped from the universe and humans are forced to face a range of horrifying alien monsters in this sci-fi thriller for the ages. Torn from the universe by an insatiable cosmic vortex, Earth is trapped in the grotesque parody of reality cal...

  • Strange New Worlds III

    Star Trek

    Back by popular demand -- again! Our third anthology featuring original Star TrekĀ®, Star Trek: The Next GenerationĀ®, Star Trek: Deep Space NineĀ®, and Star Trek: VoyagerĀ® stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! Each Strange New Wor...

  • The Belly of the Beast

    Star Trek: S.C.E. - 1

    When ancient alien technology is found on a colony world, when robot soldiers from an eons-old interstellar battle restart their war in a highly populated sector, when a global computer system starts to break down or take over, in goes the Starfleet ...

  • Emerald Mystery

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Death is an ugly business, and no one knows that better than the amazing Spider-Man. In a city like New York--crammed to the rafters with thugs, pugs, and superpowered losers--the chilling embrace of the Grim Reaper comes with the territory. Death...

  • Strange New Worlds IV

    Star Trek

    In the fourth year of its ongoing mission, the Strange New Worlds writing competition has once again sought out exciting new voices and imaginations among Star Trek's vast galaxy of fans. After scanning countless submissions for signs of style and or...

  • Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

    Earth, 2065 A.D.: Destruction and confusion are everywhere. Cities are deserted, the population is decimated, and the few humans who remain struggle to survive against an insidious alien presence that is consuming the very life energy of this wounded...



  • A Hard Rain

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Captain Jean-Luc Picard has long enjoyed playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled private eye straight out of American pulp fiction. His holographic excursions into 1940s San Francisco, a colorful world of gunplay and gangsters, provide a welcom...

  • Strange New Worlds

    Star Trek

    Here's what you, the fans, have demanded for decades! An anthology featuring original Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next GenerationĀ®, Star Trek: Deep Space NineĀ®, and Star TrekĀ®: Voyagerā"¢ stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! After...

  • Brute Force: Betrayals

    At the dawn of the 24th century, the Confederation of Allied Worlds maintains an uneasy peace among the many races and worlds of its fifty star systems. When trouble erupts, the Confed's most effective weapon--swift, savage, and totally secret--are s...

  • The Core

    When a series of bizarre disasters begin to happen around the world, Professor Josh Keyes traces the problem to the magnetic core of the planet and leads a band of NASA on a desperate mission aboard on an experimental ship to journey to the very hear...

  • Whodunnit

    Famous Characters: Superman
    Smallville - 4

    Based on the WB's hit series. Clark, Lana, and Chloe search for a missing friend, but instead find an entire family murdered. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor's father is abducted. Neither Clark's superpowers nor Lex's wealth can help in either case. Original....

  • Strange New Worlds VI

    Star Trek

    In the sixth year of its ongoing mission, the Strange New Worlds writing competition has once again sought out exciting new voices and imaginations among Star Trek's vast galaxy of fans. After scanning countless submissions for signs of style and ori...

  • The Rundown

    BLOOD AND GOLD! Deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle, far from the constraints of civilization, the wild and lawless town of Helldorado attracts only the most daring of visitors -- and the most foolhardy. When Travis, the son of an underworl...

  • Strange New Worlds VII

    Star Trek

    Our seventh anthology features original Star TrekĀ®, Star Trek: The Next GenerationĀ®, Star Trek: Deep Space NineĀ®, Star Trek: VoyagerĀ®, and Star Trek: Enterpriseā"¢ stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! Featuring new stories by n...

  • Strange New Worlds VIII

    Star Trek

    This newest volume of Strange New Worlds features original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation ®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, and Star Trek: Enterprise™ stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! Each of t...

  • All Eve's Hallows

    A City Knights Novel

    Dragons, giants and goblins are all around us, magically hidden within human society as they and a whole bestiary of fantastic creatures have been for a thousand years. But when conflicts with humanity arise, someone has to keep the peace between the...



  • Strange New Worlds 9

    Star Trek

    Strange New Worlds 9 celebrates the 40th anniversary of Star Trek by featuring stories that span the entire universe! Each of these unique stories is based on original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Tre...

  • Strange New Worlds 10

    Star Trek

    Ambassador Sarek meets his future wife. Captain Ransom atones for his sins. T'Pol pursues a composer, after she is captivated by the human's music. Strands of DNA are woven together from four Starfleet captains, creating one man with one mission. An ...

  • The Call of the Track Ahead

    Do you risk your life, your safety, and the women you love for a dream? Sometimes just a single step from a moving train can provide the answer.A heart-warming contemporary fantasy story by USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith.Bestselling a...

  • Dinner on a Flying Saucer

    Sometimes saving the day and telling your wife the truth about it just ain't a good idea, especially when it comes to eating dinner and snacks on a flying saucer.This story first appeared in the Front Lines anthology edited by Denise Little and publi...

  • He Could Have Coped with Dragons

    A Jukebox Story

    Richard Cone thinks that a bar napkin is giving him the chance to go back in his past and change something. But does he have the courage to believe in himself and his ability to change his own past?USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith retur...

  • In the Shade of the Slowboat Man

    For a vampire, saying goodbye to your mortal lover can be the hardest thing you ever have to do. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a Nebula Award nominated story from USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith. Dean ...

  • Playing in the Street

    Sometimes a lost gold mine offers up more than just gold. And sometimes a secret should remain a secret. A science fiction short story by bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith that ranges from early Idaho to the future, telling the story of family and...

  • Between Showers

    All he wanted to do was wash his green Rambler Classic, but the volcano blew and started dumping ash everywhere.And just wouldnā€™t stop. An end-of-the-world story for one man who just really wanted it to rain by bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith....

  • Black Betsy

    A Jukebox Story

    Shoeless Joe Jackson made a mistake and was banned from baseball for life. Sometimes, in the Garden Lounge, the special jukebox lets a customer go back in time to a mistake and fix it. Shoeless Joe never had a chance to let the jukebox help him fix h...

  • Cold Comfort

    A science fiction short story with a Twilight Zone twist by bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. About to die a horrible death alone in the asteroid belt, his crew members already dead, Ben discovers that he might yet have a future. And he might get...



  • The Ghost of the Garden Lounge

    The special jukebox inside the Garden Lounge takes a listener back through time to the memory from a song. But sometimes that memory can be deadly for the time traveler. And time-loops do exist, even in the Garden Lounge. A twisted-through-time love ...

  • A Golden Dream

    A Jukebox Story

    Sometimes very special friends, even friends you canā€™t remember, give you a chance to change your past by following the memory of a special song. Should you take the special Christmas gift, take the trip, and change your own history? Or maybe take ...

  • Growing Pains of the Dead

    Mathew died at the age of fourteen, but that didnā€™t stop him from wanting to grow up. Set in the primative area of Idaho, ā€œGrowing Pains of the Deadā€ tells a gentle ghost story of a young boy named Mathew who finally gets a chance to grow up on...

  • Husband Dummies

    When two couples decide to play the Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice pretend game, things can take a nasty turn for the worse. Especially when the wives want to change the movie. Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred p...

  • In Search of the Perfect Orgasm or How Doing it with a Big Lizard Can Be Fun

    Ask what happens when the powerful lust of a teenager gets on a collision course with aliens fighting an ancient Japanese monster. Go ahead: Ask.USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith bets you donā€™t come up with this answer. Bestselling wri...

  • Jukebox Gifts

    A bar, five friends, and a very special jukebox that lets you time travel back to a memory for the length of the song. What could go wrong with giving such a special trip and the gift of a second chance to each of your closest friends? Story by bests...

  • The Keeper of the Morals

    Do you really need a lack of morals to climb the corporate ladder? What happens if the morals you used to cherish get taken by the women you love? A story by bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith of love, greed, corporate ladders, and blondes. Lots of...

  • Luck Be A Lady

    A Poker Boy Story

    A Poker Boy story. Laverne, Lady Luck herself is missing. Poker Boy, Front Desk Girl, and Screamer are on the case as well as every other Gambling God and hero in the gambling universe. The three of them have the power to get to the truth of what hap...

  • The Old Girlfriend of Doom

    A Poker Boy Story

    Even superheroes canā€™t always save the girl. As one of the greatest superheroes in all of the Gambling Universe, Poker Boy does everything he can to help, but when the damsel in distress doesnā€™t want to be rescued from her own deadly breasts, wha...

  • Our Slaying Song Tonight

    Sometimes the special jukebox in the Garden Lounge does more than take a person back to a memory. Sometimes it brings a memory to the bar. And when that memory is of a murder, Stout and the rest have to risk their lives to do the right thing. A speci...



  • Peter the Hermit

    The world destroyed by an asteroid in five days? What would you do? We all like to think we wouldnā€™t act like Peter. Or maybe we would. A close-up look at the end of the world by USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.USA Today bestselling ...

  • Sighed the Snake

    A Poker Boy Story

    Poker Boy has saved the world a number of times, but never from an alien. With the help of his sidekick, Front Desk Girl and Leverne, Lady Luck herself, Poker Boy must do battle with an alien snake across the only battlefield Poker Boy knows: a poker...

  • A Vanilla Three-Way With a Cherry

    When the ghost of Marilyn Monroe joins you and your girlfriend for a milkshake with a cherry on top, things change in a relationship, sometimes for the better. Especially when your girlfriend thinks she just might be Norma Jean.Bestselling author Dea...

  • The Yellow of the Flickering Past

    He killed her with a magic spell, buried her in the basement, and now she nags him every day to take her to the movies, just as she nagged him when she lived. The woman never got tired of buttered popcorn and a dark theater. A really strange ghost st...

  • Clicking Sticks

    When the girl next door... the girl haunting your dreams for years... comes to you for help, you know things may change. Just maybe you might get a dream to come true. But sometimes dreams share a dark side with death. A mystery story by bestselling ...

  • The Last Burp of a Very Good Woman

    Mary did her best in her small restaurant to keep everything just perfect. She swept and cleaned constantly and didn't much like crude behavior near her. And everyone knew of her bad stomach. But now even a handful of Tums couldn't help Mary do what ...

  • Santa's Snack

    A mystery story about a grown man, an attorney, alone on Christmas Eve, who can't allow himself to believe in Santa Claus. But someone keeps eating the cookies. Every year. Just like it happened when he was a kid. Maybe Santa Claus really does exist....

  • Shadow in the City

    Carey went back into the dead city of Portland, Oregon four years after something killed just about everyone. She mostly wanted to see if anyone still lived.Instead, in the dead city Carey found a life and a future. ā€œShadow in the Cityā€ is based ...

  • Dead Even

    A Poker Boy Story

    A Poker Boy story. Superheroes in the gambling universe sometimes find themselves helping people that normally don't need help. Poker Boy met Bob on Christmas Eve and proceeded to take his money at the table because Bob was simply a bad poker player ...

  • Last Man Out

    Golf Professional David Moore never expected a naked woman to be the prize for winning a golf tournament. Yet there she sat beside him in the golf cart. So perfect. She didnā€™t even sweat. By the time the tournament finished, she revealed everything...

  • Tumbling Down the Nighttime

    Ed lay in his nursing home bed, his sheets wet, the nurses running late in their nightly routine of cleaning him up. He hated the place. He had lived a long and wonderful life and the waiting to die just seemed like too much for him to have to put up...

  • Sprinkle on a Memory

    When murder matters more than the cookie.Decorating Christmas cookies brings back memories of a murder he canā€™t remember. But Christmas cookies can also bring out a dream, or maybe a different reality. Reality, dream, or memory: Only murder matters...

  • Cutting Down Fred

    A Bucky the Space Pirate Story

    One fine summer night Buckey the Space Pirate takes his girlfriend for a little excitement to a local park. He hoped for a sexual adventure and ended up meeting Fred, a talking oak tree. With a talking oak tree, adventure and bad limericks never end....

  • Daddy is an Undertaker

    A Poker Boy Story

    Whatā€™s a girl to do when Daddy wants her dead? Especially when Daddy is Mortuary Dan, otherwise known as Death himself. Poker Boy and his team must help the only daughter of Death understand that sheā€™s really not going to die as she turns twenty-...

  • My Socks Rolled Down

    When a fella wins the lottery, he learns all sorts of things, including how his magic socks really feel and how much they want some companion magic socks. But sometimes, even after winning the lottery, magic socks don't always get what they want.Best...

  • The Smoke That Doesn't Bark

    A Poker Boy Story

    Gambling universe superhero Poker Boys loves saving dogs, even though that's not part of his duty in the gambling universe. He sometimes thinks he saves more dogs than he does people. Now he and his team must use every skill they have to save not jus...

  • The Songs of Memory

    A Jukebox Story

    As the owner of the Garden Lounge and the time-traveling jukebox, Stout faces a critical decision when the love of his life comes to visit him and the regulars of the Garden. Many lives hang in the balance, including his and the future of the Garden ...

  • Hand and Space

    Sometimes the elderly can make a real difference when given a chance. Captain Brian Saber must recruit a ninety-one-year-old discredited scientist to help save all of humanity from a deadly attack by aliens deep in space. Science fiction with a human...

  • On Top of the Dead

    Benny Slade came out of his vault one fine December afternoon to find the world changed. Something had instantly killed almost everyone in the city, including his two employees. The death wasnā€™t limited to just the city. The event had killed almost...

  • The Waiting of the Wind

    A Bucky the Space Pirate Story

    When Buckey the Space Pirate decides to take a creative writing course, of course he turns for help to his best friend, Fred the talking oak tree.Fred knows the English language better than any human alive. But Fred is still an oak tree, and oak tree...

  • Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy

    A Poker Boy Story

    When the world is threatened, what's a poker player to do? When a purple Searchlight appears and tells you the world is about to be destroyed, it's hard to keep a straight face. Until you discover how really, really serious the threat is. Can a simpl...

  • The Challenge: Volume #1: A Collection of Five Stories

  • I Killed the Clockwork Key

    A Bryant Street Story

    We are all born and raised with an image of a perfect life, an American Dream illustrated by a simple subdivision street called Bryant Street. But in chasing and holding the American Dream, we often forget why we are in the race. For those of us livi...

  • She Arrived Without A Song

    A Jukebox Story

    Stout, the owner of the Garden Lounge always thought he could control the time machine disguised as a jukebox by keeping it unplugged. Then one day the jukebox started up without power and a visitor from the future asked a very important favor. A fav...

  • Shootout in the Okey-Doke Casino

    A Poker Boy Story

    Poker Boy and his team must stop a possible war between fairies and trolls, a war guaranteed to start at a poker table in the hidden Okey-Doke Casino. Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and well over...

  • The Challenge, Volume #2: A Collection of Five Stories

  • Love and the Proper Fantasy: Five Very Strange Love Stories

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written some of the strangest love stories ever published. This book contains five of the strangest. ā€œThe Call of the Track Ahead,ā€ ā€œThe Keeper of the Morals,ā€ ā€œSantaā€™s Snack,ā€ ā€œIn th...

  • Pink Shoes and Hot Chocolate

    A Poker Boy Story

    When youā€™re a superhero, you donā€™t often notice pink tennis shoes. Poker Boy is usually far too busy saving the world from evil, saving dogs from sure death, or playing professional poker, his day job that pays the bills of being a superhero. But...

  • Cheerleader Revelation

    Sometimes, to save the world, a guy must take on the cheerleaders. John Divine lived through a vision of the end of the world, a world ruled by cheerleaders, a world he refused to live in. His choice obvious.... He must stop them.A humor story by bes...

  • Dried Up

    A Poker Boy Story

    Asked in the middle of the night to help the dangerous race called Silicon Suckers, Poker Boy faces a challenge like none other. He and Front Desk Girl risk their lives to help the alien-looking creatures, but then come face-to-face with what their b...

  • For Your Consideration

    A Bryant Street Story

    Sometimes, what we all wish for can happen in the Twilight Zone. Other times, our wishes come true on just a simple suburban street. Caro Rosefield must investigate a very strange foreclosed home. A nightmare or maybe a new future? On Bryant Street, ...

  • It's a Story About a Guy Who...

    Danny Evans needs a good grade in creative writing. His assignment? He must write about any person he sees in a public place, and really get inside that personā€™s head. He must make up a character. It seems like such a simple assignment. USA Today ...

  • Last Car For This Time

    When men start getting run over by slow-moving train cars in a gold rush town in the mountains of Idaho, Marshal Duster Kendal must solve the murders. But there might not be a motive besides the fact that Duster Kendal lives. Duster knows exactly wha...

  • Living Time

    In a casino in Oregon, Poker Boy beats a man fair-and-square at the poker table while a stranger watches, a stranger who knows too much about Poker Boy and his job. It turns out that much of Poker Boyā€™s future rested on that one hand of cards. A cl...

  • Long Dead New Love

    A Bucky the Space Pirate Story

    Sometimes you must go back to find the future. Buckey the Space Pirate travels back in time with his friend Fred, the talking oak tree, to learn why Fred refuses to recite his new limerick, the last limerick in Fredā€™s first poetry book. Over a hund...

  • Shopping Cart Lover

    They met on a Tuesday, a hot Tuesday in Southern California, and filled up an entire shopping cart with groceries and conversation and dreams. Sometimes not getting a shopping cart can lead to a lot more than just carrying your food to the checkout c...

  • The Women of the Felt

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written a dozen Poker Boy stories. In this collection are five of those acclaimed stories. "Luck be a Lady," "Pink Shoes and Hot Chocolate," "Nonexistent No More," "The Old Girlfriend of Doom," and "...

  • Not Saleable For Sale

    USA Today bestselling author and former publisher Dean Wesley Smith knows how to navigate the complicated world of publishing. And now, he shares his experience to help writers tackle the most challenging writing of all: Fiction Sales Copy.In this WM...

  • Five from the End of the World

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written many end-of-the-world stories. This book contains five of the strangest. ā€œPlaying in the Street,ā€ ā€œOn Top of the Dead,ā€ ā€œPeter the Hermit,ā€ ā€œLuck Be A Lady,ā€ and ā€œShadow in ...

  • The Wages of the Moment

    A Jukebox Story

    When Stout watches himself appear and dissappear a bunch of times right in front of his own jukebox, he knows his time machine needs some repairs. And in doing so, he finally gets to meet the inventors of the jukebox.But first he must deal with himse...

  • Just Shoot Me Now!

    A Poker Boy Story

    Poker Boy wants nothing more then to be left alone in a good game of poker. But a cherub circles overhead in the poker room wanting to talk. And Poker Boy knows this cherub and knows the little guy represents trouble. Even worse, the question the che...

  • Miss Smallwood's Goodies

    Sent to investigate the sudden appearance of the statue of a naked woman in a park, Pilgrim Hugh must first decide if placing a statue without permission constitutes a crime? And why the statue of the naked woman lost all her personal parts? Are thos...

  • Poker Boy vs. the Silicon Suckers: A Poker Boy Collection

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written a dozen Poker Boy stories. In this collection are five stories. "The Old Girlfriend of Doom," "Pink Shoes and Hot Chocolate," "Not Salable For Sale," "Dried Up," and "Mummy Murders." Each of ...

  • Call Me Unfixable

    A Bryant Street Story

    A perfect wife. A perfect home. A not-so-perfect husband. What possibly could go wrong? As a trial lawyer, Craig could face any situation and make it work. But facing his controlling wife and her lover (while they drank wine in his bed) turned out to...

  • For the Balance of a Heart

    A Poker Boy Story

    As a superhero in the gambling universe, Poker Boy works directly for Stan, the God of Poker. Poker Boyā€™s job? To save those who need saving and take money at the poker tables from those who need it taken.But when Lady Luck herself comes calling an...

  • Captain Proton!

    Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when Real Men with ray guns and beautiful women in beguiling outfits battled hideous monsters from outer space! Return with us to the days when Captain Proton ruled the skyways! When the queen...

  • The Empty Mummy Murders

    A Poker Boy Story

    For the second time in his life, Poker Boy finds himself trying to help a woman stalked by the alien-looking Silicon Suckers. He failed the first time and they killed an old girlfriend of his. This time the Silicon Suckers have killed three other wom...

  • Rings Of Tautee

  • Strange New Worlds V

    Back by popular demand! Our fifth anthology featuring original Star Trek,Ā® Star Trek: The Next Generation,Ā® Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,Ā® and Star Trek: VoyagerĀ® stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! The past five Strange New Wor...

  • Strange New WorldsVI

    The stories featured in Strange New Worlds VI rocket readers across the length and breadth of Federation space, from the earliest days of deep space exploration with Captain Jonathan Archer and the first USS Enterprise, to the epic journey of Captain...

  • Nonexistent No More

    A Poker Boy Story

    When the wife of one the guardians of humanity, herself one of the most powerful beings in the universe, comes looking for help, a superhero does what he can. Poker Boy and his sidekick (and girlfriend), Front Desk Girl, must help with no idea why.Be...

  • Dead Money

    Poker: a high-stakes, deadly serious professional sport. Doc Hill knows all too well the risks involved with the sport. Or so he thinks. But when one of the greatest poker players of all time dies, the stakes rise even higher. Doc must solve an incre...

  • The Case of the Intrusive Furniture

    Pilgrim Hugh solved some odd cases before, but an old, smelly couch sitting in the middle of a beautiful lawn seems to have full-blown strange written all over it. With his friend and beautiful assistant, Carrie, he must figure out why the couch ende...

  • Dead Post Bumper

    First published in "More Stories from the Twilight Zone" edited by Carol Serling. Elliot knew the world would not end in 2012. But his wife thought it would, so on the morning of December 21st, 2012, Elliot went out for a drive to avoid h...

  • Five From the Felt

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written over a dozen Poker Boy stories. In this collection are five stories. ā€œFighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy,ā€ ā€œSighed the Snake,ā€ ā€œDead Even,ā€ ā€œThe Smoke that Doesnā€™t Bark,ā€ and ā€œShoot...

  • Gambling Hell

    A beautiful woman sits down at a poker table and Poker Boy knows instantly everything feels wrong. She seems beautiful, but her appearance hides something far more sinister. Poker Boy, in a fair hand of cards, finds himself in a fight to save an enti...

  • The Gift of a Dream

    When Dot Leeds watches her friend, Brian Saber carried from his bed in the nursing home late one night, she decides to wait for his return. His story of fighting aliens in deep space seemed impossible. But maybe not.The origin story of how Dot and C...

  • A Life in Whoopees

    Great moments exist for all of us at different times in our lives. From a simple taste of a cookie to meeting the love of our life.Bill Wallace lived through five of those special moments. Bill considers himself lucky to experience five. Many people ...

  • The Life and Death of Fortune Cookie Tyrant

    When destined to rule the world, you must always be cautious when looking for more power. Steven, soon be known as Fortune Cookie Tyrant, hoped to find even more power and fortune by looking in the same place he first found his luck, fortune, and abi...

  • Me and Beans and Great Big Melons

    When Innis went shopping to get ready for the Packers-Rams game, he never expected to meet one of them aliens. But he also never expected to meet a woman who ate beans either. A strange supermarket romance as only USA Today bestseller Dean Wesley Smi...

  • Nostalgia 101

    One thousand years in the future, humans live very long lives in domes on the frozen surface. Boredom never poses a threat, but nostalgia does. When it becomes deadly to focus on the past, teaching nostalgia solves the problem.USA Today bestselling w...

  • Standing in Line at the Intersection

    Harold wants to end his life because he knows he will never attain perfection. Then, while waiting, he meets Linda, a woman who wants to end it all because she hates her perfection.When perfection meets imperfection, anything might be possible. Even ...

  • A Time to Dream

    Captain Brian Saber, his ship and other Earth Protection League ships face a suicide mission to save Earth. Can he succeed, even though seemingly moments before he lay slowly dying of old age in a nursing home on Earth?The first Captain Brian Saber s...

  • The Tragic Tale of a Man in a Duster

    Lost in deep space, Reeves knew rescue would never happen. But around him the Western, a supply ship full of a lifetime of living, could keep him alive.Fresh fish from the hatchery, fresh meat from the stored animals, fresh fruit and vegtables from t...

  • When Ghosts Have Stories

    USA Today bestseller Dean Wesley Smith has written some of the strangest ghost stories ever published. This book contains five of them. ā€œA Vanilla Three-Way with a Cherry,ā€ ā€œThe Last Burp of a Very Good Woman,ā€ ā€œGrowing Pains of the Dead,ā€...

  • The War of Poker

    Poker Boy somehow finds himself facing an imitation of his girlfriend, Patty Ledgerwood. Within a fraction of a second he somehow saves himself and maybe the world from another war. Or maybe he helps set up a new war. Bestselling author Dean Wesley S...

  • Five From the Aliens

    Bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith wrote about aliens in many of his ninety-plus novels and hundreds of short stories. It would be difficult to count the number of different alien races he has created. Some goofy, some dangerous, some just flat str...

  • Five From the Jukebox

    Songs often take you back to a memory of a friend or an event. In the Garden Lounge sits a jukebox with the special ability to take a listener physically back to the memory, but only for the length of the song. Included in this collection are five ju...

  • Five Weird Crimes

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written some of the strangest crime stories ever published. This book contains five of the strangest. ā€œThe Old Girlfriend of Doom,ā€ ā€œHusband Dummies,ā€ ā€œThe Yellow of the Flickering Past,ā€...

  • Time Streams

    Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writersā€™ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 ...

  • Smith's Monthly #1

    One hundred thousand words of original fiction every month from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this first volume, a full science fiction romance novel called "Dust and Kisses," four original short stories, the start of two origina...

  • Smith's Monthly #2

    Over one hundred thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this second volume the full and complete science fiction novel Thunder Mountain, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, ...

  • The Road Back

    USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to the world of his acclaimed thriller Dead Money with a new problem for professional poker player, Doc Hill. Doc agrees to help find a missing college student, the son of the Las Vegas Chief of...

  • Smith's Monthly #3

    Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this third volume the full and complete science fiction novel Against Time, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many o...

  • Dust and Kisses

    USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith weaves a tale of survival in a devastated future world.When Carey Noack returns to the ruined Portland, Oregon, hoping to meet other survivors after three years of living alone, she doesnā€™t expect the ...

  • Smith's Monthly #4

    Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this fourth volume the full and complete science fiction novel Monumental Summit, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and ...

  • Thunder Mountain

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past they both love and study. Offered a free trip into a remote Idaho wilderness that she loves and studies, ...

  • Against Time

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith introduces his galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe with a new novel. Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When...

  • Smith's Monthly #5

    Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this fifth volume the full and complete science fiction novel Sector Justice, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many...

  • Monumental Summit

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his Thunder Mountain universe with Monumental Summit, a science fiction novel of new times in the Old West. Bonnie and Duster Kendal, two of the worldā€™s great mathematicians, hire historical...

  • Smith's Monthly #6

    Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this sixth volume the full and complete mystery novel Kill Game, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other featur...

  • Sector Justice

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to a not-so-distant future in his acclaimed Seeders Universe series. Mattie Silks must team up with the most unlikely of partners to save the sector from a ruthless dictator. But her problem with...

  • Kill Game

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a brand new series focused around a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases. Retired Detective Ba...

  • Smith's Monthly #7

    Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this seventh volume the full and complete Poker Boy novel, The Slots of Saturn, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and ma...

  • Smith's Monthly #8

    Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this eighth volume the full and complete novel, Life of a Dream, plus five short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features....

  • Life of a Dream

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith finally gives the popular Captain Brian Saber his first full-length novel. Brian Saber and Dot Leeds constantly must leave their nursing home rooms and their aging bodies to fly across known space to sav...

  • Smith's Monthly #9

    Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this ninth volume the full and complete novel, Morning Song, plus four short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features....

  • The Slots of Saturn

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith brings you his first full-length novel featuring the origin story of his most popular character, the superhero Poker Boy. The Slots of Saturn takes place in 2004, the last year the World Series of Poker ...

  • Smith's Monthly #11

    Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this eleventh volume the full and complete novel, The High Edge: A Seeders Universe novel, plus five short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and ...

  • Universe Between

    Between the earth and the sky, between the past and the present, between the musical notes and the silence exist universes. Millions of them. The eighth volume of Fiction River presents fourteen universes, all different, all powerful. From a planetar...

  • Heaven Painted as a Poker Chip

    Starting into a brand new series, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith asks a simple question: What happens if ghosts can fight crime and bad guys? Just fifteen minutes after Dr. Jewel Kelly meets Deputy Sheriff Tommy Ralston, they both die...

  • Morning Song

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a third novel, Morning Song. A massive ship powers toward the Milky Way Galaxy, threatening to destroy entire worlds. The rogue ship, the size of ...

  • Heaven Painted as a Christmas Gift

    Poker Boy and his team have saved the world countless times. The Ghost of a Chance agency follows a similar charge. Superheroes and ghosts, all working for the greater good. But as the holidays approach, both groups face a challenge with higher stake...

  • The High Edge

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a fourth novel, The High Edge. Benny Slade lives in New York City. One moment the city around him (and everyone he knows) seems normal. The next m...

  • Smith's Monthly #12

    Near eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this twelfth volume the full and complete novel, Avalanche Creek: A Thunder Mountain series novel, plus five short stories, two ongoing serial nove...

  • Avalanche Creek

    Returning to the time travel western world of Thunder Mountain, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves his most complex story to date.In one timeline, to help with an advanced math problem, Bonnie and Duster Kendal hire Brice Lincoln.I...

  • Smith's Monthly #13

    Near eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this thirteenth volume the full and complete novel, Heaven Painted as a Christmas Gift: A Ghost of a Chance series novel, plus five short stories, ...

  • Smith's Monthly #14

    Near seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this fourteenth volume the full and complete novel, The Edwards Mansion series mystery novel, plus four short stories, an ongoing serial novel, an...

  • Cold Call

    When Retired Detective Bayard Lott offers to help Retired Detective Julia Rogers search for her lost friend near a remote Idaho lake, they find clues that might lead them directly to the most dangerous serial killer in Las Vegas history. Set in the r...

  • The Edwards Mansion

    Sherri Edwards only wanted to refurbish an abandoned old mansion that carried her family name. Her goal: To bring the mansion back to original glory. But the ghost of the original owner kept chasing away all workers. About to give up, two friends sug...

  • Lake Roosevelt

    In a small diner on the Oregon Coast, Kelli Rae meets a handsome man named Jesse Parks. Turns out she had seen him in a picture taken in an old mining town in Idaho over a hundred years before.And even worse, he had been following her. A time-travel ...

  • Smith's Monthly #18

    Near seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this eighteenth volume the full and complete novel, Calling Dead: A Cold Poker Gang novel, plus five short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and m...

  • Warm Springs

    Belle returns to her old hometown, looking for clues as to what happened to her great-great-grandmother a hundred years in the past. Zane, on a secret mission into the past, never expects to meet the woman of his dreams. A complex time travel novel t...

  • Calling Dead

    The retired Las Vegas detectives in the Cold Poker Gang work hard to solve cold cases. Sometimes, those cases bring back personal nightmares. Deciding to tackle one of the coldest cold cases in the files, retired detectives Lott, Rogers, and Andor un...

  • The Library of Atlantis

    Poker Boy specializes in asking stupid questions. But sometimes even stupid questions need answers.To save the fabric of all things from unraveling, whatever that means, Poker Boy must go to the Library of Atlantis and do something that no one ever a...

  • Heaven Painted as a Free Meal

    Poker Boy and his team have saved the world countless times. The Ghost of a Chance agency follows a similar charge. Superheroes and ghosts, all working for the greater good. But as two new members join the Ghost of a Chance team, both ghosts and supe...

  • Smith's Monthly #21

    Nearly seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this twenty-first volume the full and complete novel, Melody Ridge: A Thunder Mountain Novel. Melody Ridge is a time travel science fiction nove...

  • Stories from July

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith decided to take his love for short fiction a step forward. In July of 2015, he wrote thirty-two short stories, one per day and one extra. Then, every day, he also wrote a short article about the writing ...

  • Headed West: The Life and Times of Buffalo Jimmy

    1866: Jimmy Grayā€™s parents killed by an evil man, Jimmyā€™s brother wounded, the family treasure in the form of a gold mine deed stolen. Jimmy finds himself alone and facing a deadly journey west to track and find the man who killed his parents. Ca...

  • Melody Ridge

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith wrote for decades about a jukebox that took a listener back to the memory attached to a song. The Jukebox Series consists of more than twenty short stories and gathered numbers of award nominations and m...

  • Bad Beat

    The Cold Poker Gang consists of a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives getting together once a week to play cards and work to solve cold cases. Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers stand at an unmarked grave in the desert, about re...

  • Star Mist

    A dead alien ship appears close to human space. But in millions of years, no alien race managed to leave its own galaxy. The alien ship originated in a galaxy over two hundred thousand years of travel away. But the Seeders need to know about the alie...

  • A Bad Patch of Humanity

    Most of humanity died one ugly day four years before. Now the survivors wanted to rebuild.Angie Parkā€™s job consisted of telling survivors outside of Portland, Oregon, of the plans to rebuild. But some survivors wanted nothing to do with civilizatio...

  • Best Eaten on a Slow Tuesday

    Mark Estes flaunted his money, abused his power, cheated on his wife, and most of all loved to eat.Warned that a dozen sugar cookies would kill him, he ate them anyway. So how would Mark Estes deal with the ultimate diet challenge? A story that answe...

  • The Case of the Dead Lady Blues

    Private Detective Pilgrim Hugh loves solving strange cases. Very little stumps him for very long.But a woman by the name of Deep Blue, dead in her empty apartment and dyed blue, seemed like an impossible case.And more than Hugh knows depends on his q...

  • The Case of the Lost Treasure

    Hired by heirs to find two million in treasure hidden in a completely empty house, Pilgrim Hugh finds himself stuck.The house sparkles and no stick of furniture remains. Original house plans show clearly that no room hid behind any walls. And million...

  • Coffee Shop Comedy

    Danny needs a voice. Dora needs a way to deliver her jokes besides selling them to other comics.Both write and love comedy. Both love coffee. Their attraction catches them both by surprise. Can they solve each otherā€™s problems?The origin story of t...

  • Dreaming Large

    The Dreaming Large, a Seeders mother ship, vanishes without a trace while approaching the edge of a galaxy. Chairman West and his crew on the Rescue One must find out what happened to the huge mother ship. And the over half-million lives on it.But as...

  • For the Delusion That Waited

    Modern homes take care of themselves more and more. Called ā€œSmart Homes,ā€ new features get added every year.Imagine a spotless, five-bedroom home, self-cleaning, self-sustaining, and furnished with the best 2051 furniture human styles offered.The...

  • Gods Have History

    Poker Boy often solves problems and saves the world with his mutant talent of asking stupid questions.Sometimes really stupid questions. So when he asks the seemingly simple question over lunch one day about how the gods originated, he stirs up more ...

  • The Great Alien Vibration

    As first dates go, a failure for him, a total success for her. As first alien contacts go, he will walk funny for a few days.Jimmy Loche asks Stephanie Peters to a special test of a new movie done with brand new technology. A first date that never re...

  • Heaven Painted as a Cop Car

    Eve Bryson died and found herself dead and lusting after a cop? And not just any cop. Deputy McCall Cascade: Superhero. Can a ghost and a superhero find true happiness and sex and stop a few killers along the way? USA Today bestselling writer brings ...

  • Here to Stay on the Edge

    Stunningly beautiful Carol Lynn once again finds herself stood up on a blind date. A romantic patio, perfect warm evening, the smell of roasted duck in a thick cheese sauce, and a glass of red wine in her hand. Perfect. If the bastard showed up. But ...

  • The Lady of Whispering Valley

    Buckeyā€™s best friend loves to recite limericks and can travel in time. Not bad for an oak tree named Fred.But Fred must help Buckey and the love of his life find a way to live together. Not an easy problem considering Mary lives a hundred years in ...

  • Leaking Away a Life

    Poker Boy works as a superhero in the gambling side of the world. And he reports to Stan, the God of Poker.Very bothered, Stan comes to Poker Boy with a problem. Very personal and unusual.Another superhero working for Stan faces monster problems, and...

  • A Matter for a Future Year

    A single Seeder scout ship trapped on the edge of a distant, uncharted galaxy. Chairman Peter German holds the fate of the three thousand people on the Pale Light.Main drives mysteriously not working, the ship hobbles along at sub-light speed with no...

  • An Obscene Crime Against Passion

    James Ward no longer cares what his wife does in her spare time. He no longer cares about anything, actually. Deborah took his passion over years. Drained him until he could give no more. But on Bryant Street, sick relationships often reveal hidden s...

  • Something Wasted On

    Professor Johnson Hubbs, professor of psychology, knew exactly when he came up with the idea of his new study of human nature and patterns. In his new study, he wants to know how many times people say, ā€œI wasted my time on (blank).ā€He overhears a...

  • Start With a Coffin

    Brian Saber awakes with a start in his nursing home room. On missions, Captain Brian Saber defends the Earth Protection League in his warship The Bad Business. Tonight, he will be asked to do a very special mission without fighting.But he loves any c...

  • The Stone Slept Here

    Jennifer Bends collects stones.Special stones. She puts her stones, both of them, on a shelf. No one asks her about the stones because the stones look plain, heavy, pointless.But the stones contain memories.Special memories.And the stones contain a p...

  • They Were Divided by Cold Debt

    Bryant Street, a standard subdivision street, haunts us all. To escape Bryant Street often takes real courage.Meet Neil Prendell. He made a mistake. He lost his job but avoided telling his wife. Instead, he pretended to go to work while looking for a...

  • To Remember a Single Minute

    Remember Incorporated. A company that promises that once the disease took Mike Hanleyā€™s mind, he would remember one single minute of his life in stark clarity.Any minute.He just needs to pick the minute.But of all the wonderful minutes in his entir...

  • Why Delay? Just Rub

    Weird things happen on Bryant Street. Even when cleaning a double-car garage.Late spring, very little sports on television, weather threatening to rain so no golf for Jack. Time to clean out the garage. Also time to find the old lamp in a pile of gar...

  • A Bad Day for the Dream

    Thirty years ago in Las Vegas, Becky Penn said goodnight to her mother to go out with friends and vanished without a trace.Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers, members of the Cold Poker Gang, take on Becky Pennā€™s cold case.They love wor...

  • The Cavern

    Stout used to own the Garden Lounge where the time-traveling jukebox sat. He sold the Garden to live with his love, Jenny.Now Jennyā€™s cancer diagnosis gives her only five months to live. Bonnie and Duster, the original owners of the jukebox, will n...

  • A Great First Day

    Eve Bryson, ghost agent, assigned to work with Deputy Cascade, superhero cop.Cascade rolls nice guy, handsome stud, and superhero into a tight package. What could a horny ghost of a girl do?Before Eve suggests a ghost affair, they experience a first ...

  • Idanha Hotel

    1902: Boise, Idaho. Megan Taber loves her job baking at the Idanha Hotel. Widowed young, she knows the rest of her life revolves around her baking. Carol Kogan, a doctor and researcher from the future, eats breakfast every morning at the Idanha Hotel...

  • Make Myself Just One More

    Mary Jo kills people for money. After a thousand years, she knows patience and skill and how to cover her tracks.Mary Jo loves her job. She makes a lot of money as a hired assassin. She also loves vodka and orange juice. Passionately, but not in a da...

  • Nobody Slept Here

    How can a ghost make love to a live superhero?Ghost of a Chance Agent Eve Bryson really, really wants to figure that out. Superhero Deputy Cascade wonders the same thing.A ghost and a superhero in love. They share everything except sex. What to do?...

  • The Problem of Grapevine Springs

    Duster Kendal lost an Idaho mining town called Grapevine Springs. In 2020 he knew the town, spent time there. In 1901 the valley sat empty. The town never existed. Not possible.Duster needed to get back to the year 2020 to solve the mystery of the lo...

  • The Remodeling of a Life

    Mary Joā€™s last client tried to have her killed and then shorted her on her money. Mary Jo needs to remodel the clientā€™s life. And get her money. In the process, she also remodels her own life while enjoying the occasional vodka and orange juice.A...

  • Roses Around the Moment

    Eve Bryson died so fast that she felt fine, standing on a twisting mountain road in the rain, not realizing her body lay broken in her Miata down a slope. Then hunk-of-a-man Deputy Cascade steps into her life, arriving on the scene to investigate her...

  • Star Rain

    The fight with the genetically engineered aliens seems impossible. Benny and Gina, both Seeders, stand on the bridge of their massive mother ship knowing they needed miracles to win. They both know that if they work long enough and hard enough, mirac...

  • The Face in the Fullness of Time

    The dream vanished with the picture. Lena loves her life, being alone, until reminded that she killed a boyfriend in college. Self-defense, since he hit her, beat her, abused her. What did she do?What didnā€™t she do? And could she ever live in peace...

  • Grapevine Springs

    Could the entire history of an Old West mining town be false? Did Grapevine Springs ever really exist?Duster Kendal wants to know the answer to that question. But to get the answer, he must turn for help from two top researchers who must risk everyth...

  • The Rude Improbable Presumptive

    He calls himself The Presumptive.Poker Boy thinks that might be the most stupid nickname he ever heard at a poker table.So Poker Boy calls him Idiot Boy (but not to his face) because of the name and the guyā€™s bad play.But in Poker Boyā€™s world, no...

  • A Study of an Accident

    Dan remembers clearly the time before the accident.He remembers his wonderful wife and daughter. Impossible to forget. He refuses to eat or work or even move most days.He made a mistake, they died. He lives. He blames himself for their deaths.Someone...

  • They're Back

    Poker Boy and his team destroyed the Slots of Saturn. They know they did. At least, they think they did. But when people begin disappearing -- again -- poker boy must face what might just prove his greatest foe. Now, Poker Boy and his team must use t...

  • An Easy Shot

    USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes to the links with his latest fast-paced thriller. Seattle detectives Craig and Bonnie Frakes want nothing more than to enjoy each otherā€™s company and their golf vacation in Scottsdale. They need ...

  • Dead Hand

    More than two hundred couples get married in Las Vegas every day. And some people just go missing right before their planned wedding. Some show up later. Some are never found. The Cold Poker Gang decides to look into an old cold case of a woman who w...

  • Death Takes a Partner

    Mary Jo, one of the most beautiful and deadly assassins in all history, loves drinking vodka and orange juice after a job well done. She planned her next kill perfectly. Every detail thought through. But Mary Jo never planned on meeting Jean, the bea...

  • Star Fall

    USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seederā€™s Universe series with a seventh novel, Star Fall. Seeders never do anything in a small way, including their sports. Matt and Carey, the chairmen of the Starburst shi...

  • The Taft Ranch

    Duster Kendal knows something must be wrong when a tree blocks the road to the Taft Ranch. Turns out Lee Taft failed to return from his last trip into the past.Duster fears the worst, that time kicked Lee into a distant and inhospitable future with n...

  • Freezeout

    Sandy Hunter kissed her husband goodbye one normal morning on her way to work. She never made it. Last seen walking alone into a Las Vegas hotel room, she never came out and no sign of her remained in that room. Her missing personā€™s case went cold ...

  • A Night with a Forgotten God

    USA TODAY BESTSELLING WRITER Dean Wesley Smith returns to his most popular series that features the superhero Poker Boy and all his sidekicks.Poker Boy once again finds himself facing the task of saving someone. But this person seems to be a ghost.Ca...

  • The Case of Pilgrim Hugh

    Dean Wesley Smith, famous for being one of the most prolific and wide-ranging authors working today, draws on his library of strange detective stories to produce this collection of short stories featuring Pilgrim Hugh, one of the weirdest detectives ...

  • The Case of the Simple Passage

    A grandson goes missing in an old house. But he never left.Impossible. But it happened.The perfect kind of crazy case for private detective Pilgrim Hugh and his beautiful assistant, Donna.Another fan-favorite Pilgrim Hugh Incident....

  • The Gods Aren't Funny

    Poker Boy, still a freshly minted superhero just learning the ropes at the time of this story, runs smack into the charms of someone who knows his secret name, knows who he is. And wonā€™t let him use his superpowers.As a red-blooded young man with n...

  • Laying the Music to Rest

    A former college professor turned bartender, Doc finds himself trying to save his friends from a ghost under a lake in the wilderness of Idaho. From diving into a sunken ghost town to trying to stay alive on the sinking deck of the Titanic, this time...

  • Meeting the Sunset Kid

    You never plan on dying. Well, at least when young you never plan on it. But Gail Kelly died. And then things got really, really strange.Another wild and wacky story in the popular Ghost of a Chance series, where ghosts work as superheroes and anythi...

  • Starburst

    Exploring the vastness of space: The mission of the massive Starburst ships. Chairmen Cole and Echo of the Starburst ship Star Trail get wrapped up in finding lost ancient cultures. And in the process find far more than they ever could imagine. Starb...

  • Ace High

    1991. The famous Las Vegas hotel The Landmark scheduled for destruction. A girl's body found in one of the old rooms. Impossible to even tell her identity or what happened to her. Seventeen years later Cold Poker Gang members Pickett and Sarge take u...

  • Dead to Me

    Dean Wesley Smith, famous for being one of the most prolific and wide ranging authors working today, draws on his library of short mystery stories to produce this collection, Dead to Me. Hard-boiled Las Vegas coughs up a very dead and very cold body ...

  • Through the Jukebox

    Dean Wesley Smith, famous for being one of the most prolific and wide ranging authors working today, draws on his library of science fiction stories to produce this collection of short stories from his famous jukebox series. Through the Jukebox colle...

  • The Christmas Gift

    Poker Boy and his team have saved the world countless times. The Ghost of a Chance agency follows a similar charge. Superheroes and ghosts, all working for the greater good. But as the holidays approach, both groups face a challenge with higher stake...

  • The Cop Car

    Eve Bryson died and found herself dead and lusting after a cop? And not just any cop. Deputy McCall Cascade: Superhero. Can a ghost and a superhero find true happiness and sex and stop a few killers along the way? USA Today bestselling author Dean We...

  • The Free Meal

    Poker Boy and his team have saved the world countless times. The Ghost of a Chance agency follows a similar charge. Superheroes and ghosts, all working for the greater good. But as two new members join the Ghost of a Chance team, both ghosts and supe...

  • The Poker Chip

    Starting into a brand-new series, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith asks a simple question: What happens if ghosts can fight crime and bad guys? Just fifteen minutes after Dr. Jewel Kelly meets Deputy Sheriff Tommy Ralston, they both die...

  • The Deep Sunset

    Attorney Gail Kelly dies suddenly on her way to dinner and within minutes meets Dan Carson, aka Sunset. A Ghost Agent for over a hundred years, Sunset offers to help train Gail. But somewhere in their lust for each other (yes, ghosts can be horny) th...

  • The Adventures of Hawk

    USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith takes us on a thrill-ride adventure in some of the worldā€™s most exotic places. In search of his missing father, Danny Hawk must survive against all odds and a long way from home. In 1970, Egypt breeds...

  • He Meant No Harm

    In the near future, subdivisions sat dead. When Dennis Phipps goes to clean out his grandmotherā€™s old home in a dead subdivision, what he finds will change his life.A short story of a man reliving his past.Sometimes the old saying about the past sh...

  • The House at Thunder Rock

    Duster Kendal found a newly built cabin along a trail just south of the old mining town of Roosevelt, Idaho. But the cabin never existed before in 1905.The cabin should not exist. Period. Another time-travel puzzle in the acclaimed Thunder Mountain s...

  • The Man Who Used Shrill Whispers

    Bryant Street exists in that subdivision where reality tips over into the absurd.Accountant Frank Filby and his one special skill live on Bryant Street. He knows everything about everyone in the entire subdivision. Keeps track.Frank thinks of himself...

  • Death in the Morning

    Mary Jo hated her most recent job of killing a woman named Bonnie Malak. Something felt off.So Mary Jo, with her lover and fellow assassin, Jean, decided to figure out what seemed out of place. Sometimes a job to kill might not be on target.A Mary Jo...

  • Death Takes a Diamond

    When a contract comes in on another assassin, Mary Jo must discover why. Assassins donā€™t kill assassins. With four ancient-order assassins working together, anything becomes possible. Sex, murder, and diamonds. And pretty much in that order. Only M...

  • Dry Creek Crossing

    Concord Coaches hold a mythical place in the history of the Old West. Colfax Shaw and Anna Taber, born a hundred years apart, find a compatible interest in one old Concord.Anna studies the math of situations and timelines while Colfax focuses on the ...

  • Tombstone Canyon

    Tombstone Dan loved his life in the Old West. He loved building a wonderful home in a hidden canyon.Over a hundred years later, known as one of the best forensic historians in the business, Margaret ā€œMaggieā€ Lund finds herself faced with the impo...

  • Burn Card

    Retired Las Vegas Detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson think the solution to a very old cold case came easy.Turns out, a little too easy.And the deeper they dig into the old case, the more they uncover a very ugly side of humanity. And bodies. M...

  • Smith's Monthly #44

    More than fifty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. This issue contains Burn Card a new novel in the Cold Poker Gang series, plus four new short stories, A Look at His Heart: A Marble Grant Sto...

  • Alien Vibrations

    Dean Wesley Smith, famous for being one of the most prolific and wide ranging authors working today, draws on his library of science fiction short stories to produce this strangely twisted collection, Alien Vibrations. From two androids falling in lu...

  • Luck Be Ladies

    Superhero Poker Boy works for Stan, the God of Poker. But sometimes Poker Boy and his team come to the aid of Lady Luck, the most powerful God of them all. And the boss of everything.In these five Poker Boy stories, meet three of Lady Luck's four dau...

  • The First Thirty-Three

    USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith presents thirty-three different short stories ranging across most of his different series.Sixty-seven more stories follow in the next two volumes.Hours of reading from one of the greatest short story wr...

  • The Second Thirty-Three

    USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith presents thirty-three different short stories ranging across most of his different series.Sixty-seven more stories await in the previous and subsequent two volumes.Hours of reading from one of the great...

  • The Final Thirty-Four

    USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith presents thirty-four different short stories ranging across most of his different series.Sixty-six more stories await in the previous two volumes.Hours of reading from one of the greatest short story wr...

  • Ring Game

    Turns out retired Las Vegas Detectives Benson Cavanaugh and Bonnie State enjoy working together, even after years of working alone. And on their second time to a Cold Poker Gang Task Force meeting, they take home not only an impossible forty-year-old...

  • Romantic Firsts

    This unique bundle is a collection of romance stories. Each Novel the first in a series. Different authors. Different series. While each book stands alone, each one opens a new world by a new writer. Bundle also Includes a special bonus short story b...

  • A Twist of a Knife

    A Twist of a KnifeMystery Stories from the Pages ofPULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINEStories in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine cover all genres, from science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, romance, and literature. And just about everything in between all of ...

  • Always a Way

    Marble Grant and her partner Sim stumble on one of the darkest secrets of human nature.Can two former superheroes now turned brand new, but very dead, Ghost Agents figure out how to save hundreds of lives in their first large case together?And stop t...

  • Blind Date

    Dying on a first date sucks. Dying on a blind date sucks even worse.Marble Grant, superhero, finds herself suddenly dead in a disgustingly smelly back alley and not catching a white-beam ride to the other side of whatever.As a superhero, she knew abo...

  • Delightfully Dizzy

    Date Night for ghosts.Ghost agents and former superheroes need date nights. Marble Grant and her beautiful partner, Sim, hit the bars just as any young and healthy couple, even though they died a while back.Sex occupies their minds, plus drinking. Ma...

  • A Lady in Heat

    Marble Grant and her partner Sim stumble on a beautiful, drop-dead sexy woman moments before she actually drops dead.That sort of kills all the fun in the moment.While the Fremont Street Experience swirls around the three ghosts, Marble works to figu...

  • A Look at His Heart

    Marble Grant and her partner, Sim, discover a handsome and new superhero about to die suddenly of a heart attack.Canyon Stevens looks completely healthy and right out of a magazine ad.Can they save him?Another Marble Grant story with heart, in more w...

  • That Old Tingling

  • A Thief of Regrets

    Marble Grant's partner and lover Sim discovered her old boyfriend still pined after her, even though Sim died months earlier.The poor guy needed help. And who better to give him that help but two ghosts?With a little assist from Poker Boy and Patty L...

  • Aliens Among Us

    Where can you find stories that serve up not only high-quality fiction, but stories also just a little off? Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, of course!And wow do aliens bring out the Pulphouse factor in writers. This volume contains the best alien stories...

  • Black Coffee

    Ghosts Marble and Sims, with their new roommate, accounting superhero Canyon Stevens, must face a problem worse than death:A perfect cup of coffee.A cup of coffee so good, orgasms nearly resulted from a single sip.Yeah, that good. And that dangerous....

  • Blind Poet

  • Cat in a Different Place

    I always wanted to create a character in my Poker Boy universe who dealt with cats. Kris and I deciding to do a series of twelve cat anthologies gave me the perfect chance.And people love the anthology series, The Year of the Cat. Twelve volumes with...

  • Cat in the Air

    I always wanted to create a character in my Poker Boy universe who dealt with cats. Kris and I deciding to do a series of twelve cat anthologies gave me the perfect chance.And people love the anthology series, The Year of the Cat. Twelve volumes with...

  • Cat in Waiting

    Pakhet Jones works as a superhero in the world of cats. She exists in the Poker Boyuniverse in Las Vegas and eventually works with Poker Boy.Cats call the humans that take care of them companions. And do what they can tohelp them.But sometimes it tak...

  • Lost Time

    Marble Grant and Sims work as two ghost agents in the Poker Boy universe. They crawl into people's heads and try to help them.Working alone, late at night on the Vegas Strip, Marble runs into a man so lost in grief, he seems to be dying.Sometimes dyi...

  • A Menu of Memory

    Every day, J.C. Dunn comes home to his wonderful house on Bryant Street. He used to love the place, now he fears it. Every night it smells of spaghetti sauce and fresh garlic bread.He lives by himself and never cooks anything like that. But the smell...

  • Mystery Cat

    Poker Boy often saves the planet, other humans, sometimes other superheroes, and even dogs.But never a cat, at least until now.With cats, he needs the help of a superhero of cats, Pahket Jones.And as typical of Poker Boy, nothing ever remains simple....

  • The Portal of Wrong Love

    An elderly woman makes couples disappear right off the Las Vegas Strip.Poker Boy and Patty must first stop her and then rescue the lost couples from some unknown place in time and space.A story of aging, of love, and sanity.And maybe just a little se...

  • Profile Gap

    Institute traveler, Sharon Kent, wants to keep a man who existed in the past alive. She likes him, and they had set a date for dinner before he was killed.But in timeline after timeline, she keeps going back to find out what happened to him. Finally,...

  • The Remarkable Way She Died

    Picket and Sarge, two recently retired Las Vegas Detectives volunteer their time for the Cold Poker Gang task force that solves cold cases. Plus, they fell in love along the way.Connie Dipkin's case remains at the top of the strange cold cases of all...

  • Under Glass

    A woman's hand, perfectly encased in a box of glass. Found by kids in a field ten years before.Retired Detectives on the Cold Poker Gang Task Force in Las Vegas finally get assigned the case.What happened the decade before to the unknown woman?A twis...

  • Wrong Turn

    If The Twilight Zone exited in a subdivision…Bryant Street, where things just never seem right, never work right, never exist as expected.I created Bryant Street a long time ago when Stephen King said writers should write about what scares the...

  • Penny Dead

    Sky Tate (superhero detective in the Poker Boy universe) can see when someone seems about to die. Her new client looks almost dead.Sky first needs to find out why.And then keep her client alive. Somehow.No other detective like Sky Tate to bring some ...

  • Smith's Monthly #48

    More than fifty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Introducing Card Sharp Silver, a novel in the new Cave Creek series, a shared world Where the Unexpected Meets the Real World. Also included ...

  • Bitter Mountain Moonlight

    Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldA mythical town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas, Cave Creek attracts the strange, weird, and inexplicable.Founded by a few settlers in the waning days of the 19th century...

  • Card Sharp Silver

    Sheriff Blue West loves his pretend Sheriff job, tipping his hat to the tourists and reading all day. Fits him perfectly.But when Annie Silver Stevens, a card sharp from 1900, appears in the modern Cave Creek, Nevada, claiming to be the real Annie St...

  • Cat in a Hole

  • Half a Clue

    Picket and Sarge, two recently retired Las Vegas Detectives, volunteer their time for the Cold Poker Gang task force that solves cold cases. Plus, they fell in love along the way.Vicki Dix's disappearance remains at the top of the strange cold cases ...

  • Lost Robot

    This story resulted from an invitation from Writers of the Future to write a story around a wonderful Bob Eggleton cover done for Volume 35. One of Dean Wesley Smith's first stories appeared in Writers of the Future Volume #1, so thirty-five years la...

  • Open Ended Threat

     Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldIn present day Cave Creek, a powerful and dangerous current flows beneath the town's peaceful and prosperous surface.Strange, unexplained events long chased residents out of this...

  • Pleasing Pearl

    Sky Tate (superhero detective in the Poker Boy universe) sometimes, for fun, takes cases from insurance companies. She finds them mostly fun and she likes the woman named Pearl who gives out the cases.But sometimes the insurance cases turn out to be ...

  • Promise in the Gold

    Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldStrange, unexplained events long plagued residents of Cave Creek, a former mining town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas.In two previous anthologies, Bitter Mountain Moonli...

  • Remembering the Last Laugh

    If The Twilight Zone existed in a subdivision…Bryant Street, where things just never seem right, never work right, never exist as expected. Most of the time.I created Bryant Street a long time ago when Stephen King said writers should write ab...

  • Smith's Monthly #49

    More than seventy-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Including Bottom Pair, the new Cold Poker Gang novel and five new short stories in some of Dean's most popular series.This 49th volume of S...

  • Whistle for Help

    Marble Grant and Sims work as two ghost agents in the Poker Boy universe. They crawl into people's heads and try to help them.Two stunning women, both over a hundred years old and both very dead.A wolf whistle from a jerk never surprised them when al...

  • Bottom Pair

    Sandy Goodson in 2002 vanished without a trace.Seventeen years later, retired detectives Isadora Fawn and Hugh Halligan team up, working for the Cold Poker Gang task force, to look into the Goodson missing person's case.As active detectives years ear...

  • Cat in Love

    Pakhet Jones is a superhero in the cat world. In the Poker Boy universe, every detail of life has superheroes and gods to watch out for their area of life. This story, it is Pakhet Jones that needs saving by her own cat plus a little help from Lavern...

  • Cattitude

    From the pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine come eight delightful stories featuring cats—some who charm, some who connive, even some who simply demand attention.In short, these stories have Cattitude.From some of Pulphouse's best and most prol...

  • Center Drives

    Sky Tate knows next to nothing about cars. She teleports everywhere.But now faced with a mystery about an expensive car, she must learn a little about cars. Just enough.The first Sky Tate story, Center Drives introduces the superhero detective. Sky g...

  • Let's Dance

    Dean Wesley Smith loves writing Earth Protection League stories. Old people in space, saving the Earth. Since he's old, this provides wonderful dreams for Dean.He wrote this story especially for Robert Jeschonek's wonderful anthology SPACE:1975 that ...

  • Under the Skin of Death

    Retired Detectives Pickett and Sarge and Robin working on a cold case given to them for the Cold Poker Gang cold case task force must figure out where a mummified body came from in the famous ruins of the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino.The Moulin Roug...

  • The First Year

    Superhero Marble Grant dies suddenly on a blind date, a bullet between her eyes. Maybe the worst ending of a blind date in recorded history.But instead of taking the white light to the next world, she finds herself still here. Her first year as a gho...

  • That's Really Messed Up

    A crazy collection of twisted stories in the tradition of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, from the editor of Pulphouse, Dean Wesley Smith.Head-shaking stories such as the one about a cop with a rose for a head in search of the evil murderer The Pruner. O...

  • The Big Tom

    Superhero Pakhet Jones works in the world of cats. She never faces murderers or real evil. At least not until now.With the help of her partner Diane, superhero detective Sky Tate, and two ghost agents, Marble Grant and Sims, she might be able to solv...

  • Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13

    The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up nineteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no top...

  • Something in My Darling

    Canning Boone starts noticing something changed with his wife Jenny when they moved onto Bryant Street. Of all things she seemed happy. And talked about losing weight.Shocked and horrified described Canning's reaction. And she lost the weight. Cannin...

  • The Story of Jean

    Sky Tate works as a superhero detective in the Poker Boy Universe. And sometimes she gets a client she finds attractive.But first Sky must solve Jean's problem with a man before the personal side gets explored.A Sky Tate story that shows a normal Sky...

  • That Human Fear

    The Cold Poker Gang, a task force of retired Las Vegas detectives that meet once a week to play a little poker and work on solving cold cases given to them by the Chief of Police.Retired Detectives Pickett and Sarge solved an eight-year-old cold case...

  • Cat Leading the Way

    Pakhet Jones works as a superhero in the world of cats. In the Poker Boy universe, every detail on Earth functions with superheroes and gods watching over that area of life.Pakhet, through her cat, discovers that her best friend and lover vanished wi...

  • Mule Creek Landslide

    Dita Jean Harris believed that long-haired Henry Nye died under the mudslide that submerged the mining boomtown of Roosevelt. Idaho in 1909. But common knowledge held that no one died.She wanted to prove that happened and go back over a hundred years...

  • Ball of Confusion

    A giant round spaceship the size of Jupiter flashes in from outside the galaxy, clearly out of control, headed directly for the Earth system.Captain Friday Disco Franks and Captain Emma Dakota meet in a nursing home on Earth where she feeds his strok...

  • A Case for Aliens

    Six really, really, really whacked out alien stories from the imagination of Dean Wesley Smith. A USA Today bestselling writer, Dean presents six very wild and different alien stories in this one volume.Includes:If Sex is All a Dream, Then Who Cleans...

  • Dannie Finds a Home

    Even though I am mostly known for science fiction and mystery, I occasionally write a romance short story. I wrote this story for Book Twelve of the Year of the Cat.Dannie lives in a shelter. Saying much more would ruin the story....

  • Don't Touch My Magic: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine

    Magic stories, by their very nature, create fictional worlds. Take a story with magic and twist it in a way that makes it a Pulphouse story, and you get fiction that sometimes shocks, sometimes challenges, and sometimes breaks your heart.From flying ...

  • Fantasy Love

    Six really, really, really whacked out love stories from the imagination of Dean Wesley Smith. USA Today bestselling writer, Dean presents six very wild and different love stories in this one volume.Includes:The Call of the Track AheadThe Keeper of t...

  • Ghosts Among Us: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine

    Everyone loves a good ghost story. Somehow the creepiest, scariest ghost stories always feature sadness at their core.From a story about a woman who must face her ghosts on Christmas Eve night, to a ghost detective stuck in his own cemetery helping o...

  • Holiday Insanity

    Six really, really, really weird holiday stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean presents six very wild and different holiday stories that will keep you smiling.Jukebox GiftsSanta's S...

  • Hot Springs Meadow

    Jenny Lind, a traveler from the institute, found a hidden hot springs back in 1902 near the boomtown of Roosevelt.In 2018, traveler Kathryn Flag Sinclair found an article that Jenny wrote for a local paper in 1903 about the hidden hot springs. And we...

  • The Man Who Tasted the Other Side

    Strange stuff happens when a person dies. Glen Gunderson died of a heart attack in a bank and found himself in a bakery full of the most heavenly goodies.Then the doctors brought him back to life and things got really, really strange. But since he li...

  • A Missing Sister Dream

    Marble Grant starts dreaming about her sister, the one she thought dead a hundred years before.Marble and her partner Sims know how to help others with problems in their minds, but helping Marble discover why she dreams now turns out to be a much har...

  • Run!! Creatures, Critters, and Pulphousers...

    Take your wildest imagination, and you might just come up with a Pulphouser: a rare creature only found on the pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.Add in some more strange creatures and critters, and you might just find yourself running—straigh...

  • She Lost a Period

    Sky Tate works as a superhero detective in the Poker Boy Universe. And sometimes she gets very unusual cases.This time Sky must help a woman find out why her period stopped since she had never had sex.A Sky Tate story that tests even her detective sk...

  • There'll Be Blue Popcorn Without You

    Blue Popcorn means sadness and loss and love. In the pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, it also means very weird and entertaining sadness and loss and love.The ten stories in this volume range from a dweeby guy trying to win the affection of a beau...

  • Time for Cool Madness

    Six really, really, really whacked out Marble Grant stories. Ghosts Marble Grant and her partner Sims crawl around in people's heads to help solve problems.Includes:Blind DateThat Old TinglingA Lady in HeatWhistle for HelpObvious CreeperReluctant wit...

  • Weird Crime

    Six really, really, really weird crime stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Dean details six very wild and different crime stories in this one volume.Includes:After the DanceDeath in the MorningCenter D...

  • Playing Scared

    Poker Boy hates playing with someone using scared money. When a player sits down at a table with money he or she must not lose, bad decisions tend to follow.When a guy sits down at a table with Poker Boy radiating fear and desperation, Poker Boy deci...

  • The End Might Be Interesting After All

    Six really, really, really weird stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean presents varied stories that show the end of the world, or the world being saved.Includes:Playing in the Stree...

  • Ghosts Are Weird

    Six really, really, really weird ghost stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean presents varied ghost stories that show a bunch of different sides of being a ghost.Includes:A Vanilla T...

  • A Poker Boy Christmas

    Five really, really, really weird Poker Boy stories from twisted mind of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean presents five very different Poker Boy stories from different parts of his life so far. All will keep you s...

  • Too Strange for the Name

    Six really, really, really weird former pen name stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean presents varied sf and fantasy and romance stories that touch on different elements of sex.Inc...

  • A Beautiful History

    Poker Boy sits peacefully in the MGM Grand, waiting for Patty, his girlfriend, to get off work. But the peace gets shattered when an older woman, skinny, not well-kept, and clearly starving walks in.Poker Boy decides he should help her. No way of kno...

  • A Brush With Intent

    On Bryant Street, really strange things happen. Usually they exist with a fantasy twist or a Twilight Zone feel.But every so often other things happen. Normal things.Things that real world people deal with in a place, in a neighborhood, they really l...

  • Cat Caught in the Art

    One of the stories that ended up in the Pakhet Jones short novel starring the Big Tom. Dean Wesley Smith originally wrote this story for Year of the Cat volume #9.This story takes Pakhet Jones over into the dark side of being a superhero in the Poker...

  • Cat Running Wild

    An earlier story featured a Pakhet Jones short novel starring the Big Tom. Dean Wesley Smith originally wrote this story for Year of the Cat volume #11 and when he'd finished it he knew he needed to write more about the Big Tom.So the Big Tom and his...

  • Cherry Jones

    Sometimes Sky Tate gets to play the hardboiled detective, with the good-looking dame walking through the door. But Cherry Jones and her problem lived miles from the detective cliché.And Sky really wants to help her with a problem that seemed i...

  • Crystal Blue Attraction

    Even though Dean Wesley Smith is mostly known for science fiction and mystery, he occasionally writes a romance short story. Dean wrote this story for Book Twelve of the Year of the Cat.Crystal, the cat, escapes her house, and Angel Daniels, Crystal'...

  • Ghost Diet

    Marble Grant and her partner Sims never managed to help a person with weight. Just hadn't thought about it, until meeting Stanley.But doing the wrong thing could kill him faster than being obese.What could two thin ghosts do?...

  • Hidden Box Inn and Casino

    Stan, the God of Poker sends Poker Boy on a wild goose chase, to find a casino in Northern Nevada. Surprise, Poker Boy finds it.And from that, the entire team gets to experience a fun holiday, just perfect for the season....

  • I'll See You

    Bryant Street needed a neighborhood watch. But none existed.So Rudy took it on himself to be that watch program, only like anything on Bryant Street, he took it just a touch too far.No telling on Bryant Street what a person might see....

  • Models Four

    Marble Grant works as a Ghost Agent. She and her partner Sims crawl into people's minds and get into all their hidden secrets and fears and desires.And sometimes they find crimes about to happen. Way past the planning stages.Stopping the crime gets c...

  • Obvious Creeper

    Marble Grant works as a Ghost Agent. Ghost Agents crawl into people's minds and get into all their hidden secrets and fears and desires.Yeah, creepy. At times. But Marble sort of thinks of herself as a gynecologist of the mind.Creepy.But she and Sims...

  • Patty Bluff

    Sometimes Sky Tate gets a client who really needs help for all the right reasons, just doesn't know how to ask.Sky, over the hundreds of years being a detective, learned that how a client asks for help makes no difference. Just helping matters, somet...

  • Reluctant With Intent

    Marble Grant works as a Ghost Agent. Ghost Agents crawl into people's minds and get into all their hidden secrets and fears and desires.Yeah, creepy.But sometimes Marble and her lover Sims find a mind just in a mess. Confused, mixed-up, strange.And s...

  • Stranger in the Shadows

    David Maguire, in his beautiful home on Bryant Street, suddenly starts seeing ghosts.Not just any ghosts, but future residents of his own home.That would be enough by itself to bother a guy. But the reason behind the ghosts turns out far, far worse....

  • Viewing Susan

    Sometimes Sky Tate, with the help of two great ghost friends, solves a problem very quickly. Minutes. A superhero detective like her can do that.Not often that in solving a case you get to see a little more than you bargained for....

  • The Woman Who Knew the Time

    On Bryant Street, really strange things happen. Usually they exist with a fantasy twist or a Twilight Zone feel.But every so often other things happen. Science fiction things like time travel. Battling time travel.With robbery. Yeah, only on Bryant S...

  • Dead Woman Walking

    Sometimes Sky Tate can just see that a person seems about to die. If that person continues on without changes, the person dies. Period.Sky Tate often gets clients about to die and somehow, some way, most of the time, she manages to stop the death. Mo...

  • Green Valley

    Sage Green accidently finds in a satellite photo the ruins of an old log cabin and a stable in a high mountain valley in the Central Idaho wilderness. Nothing unusual except no entrance exists into that valley.Mike Hawthorne, on some of his many trip...

  • Old Memories

    Ghost agents Marble Grant and her partner Sims never managed to help a person fighting the life-and-death battles of homelessness. That all changed when they met Robert Mohnie, a Gulf War vet.Within hours of dying of heat stroke, Robert needed Marble...

  • Rainbow Peak

    Time traveler and historian Spaulding Johns loved watching the sunrise on Rainbow Peak from his cabin in a valley in the Idaho Wilderness.He stayed one more day just to watch the sunrise one last time before leaving for the harsh winter. That decisio...

  • A Song for the Old Memory

    Bryant Street seems to host a ton of different and odd things happening. Dean Wesley Smith tends to describe Bryant Street as where Twilight Zone lives.Ryan Peterson died on garbage day, alone in his home on Bryant Street. From there, nothing happens...

  • The Birth of a Superhero

    Poker Boy finds himself facing a possible future superhero in the world of poker. And Stan gave Poker Boy the task of telling the new kid what he would be.A tightrope of a story. How do you tell someone their life just changed? And everything you tho...

  • Blue Finds a Home

    Jennifer Betsy Stevens Blue, a traveler from the Historical Institute in the future, 2022 to be precise, watches a man try to cross a run-off swollen creek and not make it.Rescuing him from the biting cold waters proves to be very interesting. And op...

  • Debbie Does the Desert

    Sky Tate, the best female detective in the world, gets a new client by the name of Debbie. Debbie seems, at first glance, to be desperately trying to find her boyfriend.But first glances can often be wrong, and in this case, very wrong.Sky calls in h...

  • Kill for a Statistic

    Damon Felt, a walking, talking cliché of a meek human, lived on Bryant Street. Pathetically normal to fifty levels, Damon Felt did not belong on Bryant Street.Carson Range, a self-appointed expert on the strangeness that existed on Bryant Stre...

  • Big Eyes

    USA Today and New York Times bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to one of his favorite characters, Pakhet Jones, a superhero tasked with protecting cats.When cats become the target of an advanced weapon, it falls on Pakhet Jones, Poker Boy,...

  • Rescue Two

    From acclaimed Star Trek writer Dean Wesley Smith comes Rescue Two, the latest novel in the Seeders Universe—a space opera series that offers a vision of hope for humanity in dark times.In deep space, bubbles of void space form to keep a balanc...

  • Smith's Monthly #61

    This 61st issue of Smith's Monthly contains more than sixty-two thousand words of fiction and nonfiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith, including part one of the WMG Writer's Guide The Magic Bakery, and the entire novel Life of ...

  • Ashes to Weddings

    Las Vegas, wedding capital of the entire country. And at times, Marble and Sims end up watching very strange weddings.Like a wedding between two serial killers. Sort of. At least they killed old marriages.A strange wedding in a town full of really st...

  • The Curious Reason For Death

    To Mary Jo and to her partner and lover, Jean, nothing made sense about the contract to kill a regular housewife in a normal subdivision.Especially since the target was so easy and had no connection to the person paying millions for the assassination...

  • Deadly Invisible Sky

    Pakhet Jones loved the day. Beautiful view from her condo, a great new mystery novel to read.Then everything goes wrong as cats suddenly die from a beam from the sky. It takes Lady Luck, the Big Tom, and a nerdy scientist to help Pakhet solve the pro...

  • Death and Life in a Long Hot Day

    Marble Grant and the love of her life, Sims, chase down a stupid robber who tried to rob a casino for drug money. No reason for it at all.They leave the stupid robber face down, skin sizzling on a hot sidewalk and go and check on the cop he shot.Then...

  • Enough Time

    She raised a child when on a trip into the past of another timeline. Seemingly a great child with lots of accomplishments. She raised him in an infinite number of timelines.But what happens when the child turns into a monster? In an infinite number o...

  • Smith's Monthly # 62

    This 62nd issue of Smith's Monthly contains more than fifty thousand words of fiction and nonfiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith, including part two of the WMG Writer's Guide, The Magic Bakery, and the collection Luck Be Ladie...

  • Subdivision Survival: The Game

    Billionaire J.R. Kuchar bought all seventy homes in an enclosed subdivision. Every home monitored completely and a massive fence, impossible to climb, protected the entire facility, with military guards on patrol.Every house armed with the same weapo...

  • Trail Guns Meet

    Carson Clark, a historian and traveler from the future, rides upon two guns tossed on a trail in the remote area of Central Idaho.No reason for them to be there except as a trap, and that made no sense.But the real reason those guns filled the trail ...

  • Cowboy Nathan

    Cowboy Nathan resigned himself at seventy-five years of age to spend his last days in Shady Hills Retirement Center reading old westerns and trying to stay in good enough shape to avoid adult diapers.Widowed and with busy adult children, his tendency...

  • For the Show of It

  • A Gift from the Centuries

    Seeders ship Rescue Two rescues lost ships trapped in Void Space Bubbles. Often trapped for millions of years.While in search of an ancient lost ship, Rescue Two discovers something in a bubble they can hardly imagine.This short story was a chapter i...

  • It's My Party

    A woman decides to throw a surprise birthday party for her husband. She decorates, gets out the snacks and beer, and is ready for the party.Only this party takes place on Bryant Street.No party on Bryant Street works as intended. Or maybe it does....

  • Lost Canyon

  • Subdivision Survival

  • The Woman in the Wall

  • Ghost of Poker Games Past

    Poker Boy often finds himself in unusual situations. But time travel makes him uncomfortable. Really, really uncomfortable.So, when Poker Boy finds himself in the middle of a poker game at the Golden Gate casino in 1950, he knows he needs help. And f...

  • A Cold Case Future

    Superhero detective Sky Tate takes a job from Poker Boy and a new poker superhero named Ace.The job, to find Ace's mother, who had vanished years before without a trace.A very tough cold case for Sky, Marble, and Sims, but for Ace, Sky wanted to do w...

  • Lost Canyon Cave

    In the Thunder Mountain story Lost Canyon, published in Smith's Monthly #62, two travelers meet in a lost canyon and fall in love.Only problem with the canyon; five dead bodies in a cave.In this story, the two travelers get back together and find out...

  • A Marble from Sherry

    Some marbles hold fantastic value for their beauty, their age, their condition. But Skip Keepers looks for very special marbles, powerful marbles that only he sees.The first story about Skip Keepers on his first days in Las Vegas. And his lucky find,...

  • Will You Still Love Me in Five Minutes

    Marble Grant and the love of her life, Sims, while working, run into two psychopathic narcissists about to get married. Both broke and deadly, both want the other's imaginary money.Marble and Sims must find a way to keep the two from killing each oth...

  • Age Might Be a Number

    Poker Boy, for years and years, wondered how old his girlfriend and love of his life, Patty, could be. She never denied being older. Just never told him how much.Until the Goddess of Weather, Isis, turned out to be one of Patty's closest friends. The...

  • A Big Twisted Plot

    Ghost agents Marble Grant and her partner, Sims, watch a pair on Fremont Street in Las Vegas take a tourist couple's wallets.It seemed like such a simple crime until it wasn't. Bringing in superhero detective Sky Tate seemed like their best choice. A...

  • Can't Go Home

    Superhero detective Sky Tate gets hired by a woman from the middle-of-nowhere Wyoming. She saw her long-lost sister and wants Sky to find out if the woman she saw might be the one.Only problem, the case turns much, much worse.And Sky enlists her two ...

  • Enjoying the Company

    Paul Tegner's plan seems simple. Murder his wife, Helen, and bury her in the backyard under the patio. Nothing to it.But Paul forgot what street he lived on, and how nothing ever works out as planned on Bryant Street....

  • A Lack of Tomorrow

    Rose Brackhahn just lost her dear husband, but somehow managed to do the best she could in her wonderful home on Bryant Street.Then the world decided to kill itself, so Rose prepared to keep going, as she knew her husband would have wanted her to.But...

  • No Firing Squad Yet

    Marble Grant and the love of her life, Sims, while working in the Golden Nugget Casino, run across a man who they cannot read. Will he kill, will he not kill? No telling from his mind.So with their boss's help, the truth comes out.A very sad truth....

  • Passing In Time

    Andy Neilson noticed the time traveler, Terri Allen, one fine day in the caverns under the Institute.And seems she noticed him as well. But they missed talking.And connecting through all of time turns out to be a tough matter. Especially when a trip ...

  • Yesterday's Cold Grave

    Time traveler Jessie Fallon worked on researching the thirteen people buried in the most remote cemetery in the lower forty-eight states.But for all the years in the past, she could not figure out who the thirteenth body might be.What she ended up fi...

  • Case Card

    International bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to his bestselling Cold Poker Gang Mystery series with another twisted mystery in Case Card.Retired detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson return to the Cold Poker Gang Task Force after th...

  • The Beauty in a Puzzling Case

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    Sky Tate, the best woman detective in the country, as well as a superhero, needed to work with Beth Harrison, a stunningly attractive superhero in banking.Beth could not figure out a crime scheme that seemed to be happening right out in public. She n...

  • Heads Up

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    Retired Las Vegas Detectives Benson Cavanaugh and Bonnie State always worked alone before retiring. But joining the Cold Poker Gang task force push them to work together. Not something they easily want to do.Searching for clues on a long cold missing...

  • In Search of the Perfect Orgasm

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  • Live Performance

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    He loves live music. He lives for it.Once, live performances were an event: People dressed up, listened reverently, knew how to behave respectfully. No more.Now he must contend with coughs and whispers. Or does he…?Rusch's short fiction is gol...

  • Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #11

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    The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up nineteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no top...

  • Roger, at Sunset

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    September, 1963: Roger knows the future. Life in the 1960s, the same as in the 1950s, certainly better than the 1940s. Roger's future looks exactly like his present: the job of his dreams, the wife of his dreams, everything perfect and in a row.Roger...

  • Sci-fi July Fever Fun

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Dean Wesley Smith has published 369 books.

Dean Wesley Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Case Card, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Dean Wesley Smith, Spider-Man: Carnage in New York, was published in August 1995.

Yes. Dean Wesley Smith has 5 series.
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