The backend of space is no place to get stuck without enough credits to fill the fuel tank on an interstellar frigate, but that's exactly where Captain Rick Cave finds himself. Stuck on a New Slav planet in the outer rings, waiting for the right opportunity to get back in action. "No questions asked, Captain Cave." When a scientist and his lovely assistant show up, requesting a ride, Cave agrees. Soon, he finds himself up to his neck in trouble with galactic gangsters and corrupt officials. "The Positronic Pretty" is action-packed space opera that harkens back to classic pulp sf. However, this is an adventure that only C. C. Blake could tell. This eBook edition includes a bonus story: "Trapped in the Star Sultan's Labyrinth of Doom."

Chuck Cave knows the value of an oath. When he promised to look after his war buddy's children, his word become a solemn bond. Now, that pal's daughter Selma is all grown up, leaving the heartland to go to college in Los Angeles. Things seemed to be fine, until Selma's mom reveals she hasn't called home in weeks. This is the mean old 1970s, a time when devils wear pleasing faces. Now, Chuck is coming to Los Angeles to find his goddaughter. Heaven help any devils who get in his way. C. C. Blake's first novel paints a thrilling, surreal picture of the 1970s. Packing a punch of dynamite characters, intense situations, Blake presents a historically-set but timely crime-laced adventure that will thrill you to the core.

Nightmare Stories presents five of C. C. Blake's most terrifying tales. Mad science and one man's desires mingle in Victorian Europe, seeking to find "Divinest Sense" from horror. The Inquisition demands an ingenue's pain while her lover races to her side in the contes cruels inspired, "Confess, Witch " A World War I pilot is trapped in a terrifying war torn underworld, haunted by a spectral nightmares leading the way to destruction in "Bearing a Red Scarf." Concert going teens learn the chilling price for "Free Parking." This will be one killer show... And finally, a washed up journalist returns home and finds the biggest scoop of his life, provided he is willing to make "The Sacrifice."

As he did with his Cave and the Vamp series of supernatural thrillers (available from Vampires2 Publishing), C. C. Blake once again tackles vampire fiction and injects the genre with new doses of adrenaline and imagination. In Bloody Business, a sexy vampire with a vendetta against organized crime meets a gangster in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their encounter triggers a shooting war in the streets, and a pair of cops are caught in the crossfire. Will anyone make it out with their skin intact? I Feel So Numb presents a new twist on immortality. When two ancient bloodsuckers grow world weary, only one game remains to stimulate them: the most dangerous game imaginable. What follows is a story with high stakes and ferocious action In Night School, the bloodsucker is an amoral teenager with plenty of time to kill. Yearning for company, he sets his sights on turning the girl who rejected him. Unfortunately, a mysterious group has identified him, and are about to take action. This is going to be one hell of a learning experience. These stories will thrill fans of Laurel K. Hamilton's early Anita Blake books, David J. Schow's hyperviolent fiction and Richard Laymon's horrors.

There's a magic show in the inner city tonight. It offers more than the typical cheap tricks. It offers a finale that is both mind-blowing and body-ravaging. Are you ready for the Murder Cage? Find your seat because the terrifying show is about to begin See the pretty girl enter the infamous cage. Watch her lifted into the air and cut to ribbons while the magician cavorts below. Witness the miracle of her return to stage, unmarked and unharmed. In this magic show of the damned, appearances are deceiving. Two people are drawn into a world of occult danger: Detective Dick Winthorpe has an impossible death for a case, one that ties to concealed crimes from the city's past. How many more victims will the Murder Cage claim before he learns its hellish secrets? Muckraking reporter Clarissa "Clark" Reynolds has a passion for investigating weird cases as well as antagonizing the police department. Is her drive to unravel the Murder Cage's mysteries more than a professionally motivated? In The Murder Cage, C. C. Blake performs the ultimate killer magic trick. This 15,000 word novella is an action-packed thrill ride, a suspenseful nightmare that will keep you up after bedtime.

C. C. Blake cut his literary teeth in neo-pulp magazines like Man's Story 2, producing exciting thrillers. His cinematic, emotionally intense and action-packed adventure stories feature ordinary people thrown into extraordinary situations, which test the limits of their courage and endurance. Nine Thrillers collects nine of the best stories he has produced in one, low priced mini collection. Here you will find: Daring espionage agents, chained women struggling for freedom, an experiment in terror, Nazi smashing, and four action-packed adventures of hero Chuck Cave. This collection presents over 34,000 words of exciting adventure from the storytelling master of disaster, C. C. Blake. It's the perfect opportunity to join the excitement