Michael Merriam

• Mar-2024
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Strong women, ancient magic and the walking dead make for a heady mix. In Michael Merriam's tale, seven women are called to protect a small mining town in the New Mexico Territory, Tierra De Cobre, against an evil that has killed or stolen the town's...

• Jul-2021
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The brutal murder of a nobleman with connections to British and Fae nobility sends ripples of shock through the country. Arkady Bloom, half-fae Agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service Supernatural Division, is commanded by the Crown to assist the Metro...

• Oct-2017
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When several families vanish under mysterious circumstances and the sheriff investigating is driven insane, disgraced ex-U.S. Marshal Jefferson Stottlemyre is called back into federal service by order the President of the United States. Now Stottlemy...

• Apr-2015
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With By Polaris Bright, award winning small-press publisher Alban Lake Publishing and the 350+ member strong Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers follow up their successful Northern Lights and Sky-Tinted Waters anthologies with twenty new tales cert...

• Apr-2014
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Richard Martz, a broken mage cursed by his former colleagues, has removed himself from the world of magic. He lives anonymously until he encounters Holly Ellefson. She is not the human woman everyone sees, but a half-blood dark fey, who recognizes...

• Jul-2013
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What's in here, you ask, that I should read this?Dear Reader, if the contents of this book could be sound-byted, there would be no reason at all to read this. But you can't sound-byte possible futures and possible situations and po...

• Mar-2013
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When Jack Clausen shows mercy to a dying coyote, a Native American spirit approves from the shadows. The Great Coyote is about to change Jack forever, for the time has come to wake the Dreamer, while the Spirit Council watches and some plan to betra...

• Jul-2012
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At a late-night diner, the manager finds himself faced with a nightmare from his past: The Nalusachita, a mythical-creature of his Choctaw ancestors.Determined to protect his customers from the shape-changing soul-stealer but unsure how, the manager ...

• Jul-2012
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Arkady Bloom, Agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Supernatural Division, becomes embroiled with a deadly Italian spy, Turkish airship pirates, rebels bent on freeing India from British rule, a cursed artifact, and a statuesque sorceress with a ste...

• May-2012
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With Sky-Tinted Waters, award winning small-press publisher Sam's Dot Publishing and the 350+ member strong Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers follow up their successful Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales anthology with twenty new tales certain to...

• Aug-2011
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Michael Merriam's diverse stories unfold where the faery realm intersects with the mundane world of the Twin Cities, in the spacefaring future of exploration and adventure, and in a mythical land of sorcery and danger. Here you will find tales of...

• Jul-2011
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""The fare is ten cents, miss."Mae Malveaux, an attorney with Minneapolis Child Protective Services, is burnt-out, tired and frustrated. Passing on an invite from Jill, her flirtatious coworker, Mae just wants a quiet nig"...

• Mar-2011
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Horror At Cold Springs is a steampunk novella that takes you by train into the heart of the Midwest plains, where the town of Cold Springs lies empty. Once it arrives, even the train refuses to budge. What sinister forces have caused the town's evacu...

• Nov-2010
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A new world is emerging years after war destroyed society. In a Minnesota lake, the last surviving loons, direct descendants of the legendary First Pair, await the one who can help heal the earth. Each year a human sacrifice is brought to them to be ...