Collected here are twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric stories. Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before. A new strong, confident voice has arrived. Zelazny could have chosen to make a career of covering the same ground that his father had already plowed. Instead he has chosen to strike out on his own and prove right out of the gate that he is his own man. Trent Zelazny is off and running. I have someone new to admire." -Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award winner and seven-time Bram Stoker Award winner "Trent Zelazny is a master of tension, frisson, madness, and mayhem. I love the way he writes and read everything I can get my hands on. You should do the same." -Gerald Hausman, author of Time Swimmer and Castaways "A gift for storytelling is in Trent Zelazny's genes. It's a pleasure to crack open his book and let him carry you away." -Charles Ardai, Edgar and Shamus Award winner "You can tell Trent Zelazny is having fun when he's writing, because his work is so much fun to read . . . You should try it sometime." -Brian Knight, author of Broken Angel and Sex, Death & Honey "Trent Zelazny pulls off ideas most other writers wouldn't dream of, never mind attempt. That he succeeds is testament to the length of his imagination and the breadth of his talent. He will not live long in the literary shadow of his father, but will soon take his rightful place beside him as one of the most important writers of the fantastic this country has produced." -Garrett Peck

If only he hadn't found the hat. Or the dead guy. Or the steamer trunk. Or the rag doll. If only he hadn't found any of these things, everything might have been okay. But he had found them. All of them. Now Carson Halliday is on the run, trying his damnedest to keep one step ahead of a dangerous gang of outlaws and mad men. A run leading him from town to town in the dry wasteland of the southern New Mexico desert, over dark hills and dangerous plains, through shantytowns and city streets, and, most frightening of all, into the mysterious depths of the human heart. Features a new introduction by Billie Sue Mosiman. "A powerful and good writer... someone who's been through hell and come out, I hope, the other side." --Neil Gaiman "Trent Zelazny has already begun to carve out his own genre niche. He's got the right stuff to make fiction both engrossing and literate." --Tom Piccirilli

Something illusory, without substance or reality. The sticky threads that communicate the meaningless in a thousand different ways. Collected here are 17 tales of darkness and dread, teetering on the edge of reality and unreality, nightmares and dreams, brought to you by some of the best voices in dark fiction. Tom Piccirilli, Jeffrey Thomas, Barb Lien-Cooper & Park Cooper Lee Allen Howard, Tina Swain, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Gerald Hausman, Billie Sue Mosiman, Scott Bradley & Peter Giglio, Kealan Patrick Burke, Lori R. Lopez, Jason S. Ridler, Leigh M. Lane, Joe R. Lansdale, Curt Jarrell, E. A. Black, Edward Morris

Grant Harrington is a man forced to kill a teenager by the name of Lecy Newsted. Gaining the confidence of Lecy's sister Cora, Grant thinks he may have figured out a plan... But Lecy Newsted is not any little girl.

Today many of the old pulp crime writers have achieved success to one degree or other. Sadly, like so many artists, they had to die before anyone took their work seriously. Featuring stories by Frank Johnson, John P. Rees, Carlota M. Hardy, Frederick C. Davis, David Goodis, C.S. Montanye, Norman A. Daniels, David Manners, Edward Ronns, William O'Sullivan, Jerome Severs Perry, Neil Moran, Robert Leslie Bellem, Mat Rand, Michael Bittner, Robert Turner, Joe Archibald, David James, Henry Herbert Knibbs, Benton Braden, and Cyril Plunkett.

When career criminal Jack Dempster gets caught and put away for five years in prison, he finds time to seriously reconsider his chosen line of work. Before he can make any serious decision, some old acquaintances track him down with a proposal. They want him to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico. With the help of an inside man, he's to lead a small group of professionals on a daring robbery of the El Dorado Hotel, one of the finest, and most secure establishments in the Southwest. Double-crosses, love triangles, and immersion in his own self-destructive past conspire to lead him to ruin. It's not easy to sleep when searching for normalcy in the heart of a brutal past. "Some people write from the heart, but Trent Zelazny leaves his blood on the page." -Underwords "Trent Zelazny's work is pure Punk Classicism, with a spirit and heart and ferocious inquiry that dance across multiple genres and forever change their landscape... He never disappoints." -Edward Morris, author of Fathers and Sons: Blackguard "Trent Zelazny is the best hard-boiled noir writer of this generation " -Sarah L. Covert, Editor of She Never Slept "I have someone new to admire." -Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award winner and eight-time Bram Stoker Award winner "Trent Zelazny has already begun to carve out his own genre niche. He's got the right stuff to make fiction both engrossing and literate." -Tom Piccirilli, winner of two International Thriller Awards and four Bram Stoker Awards

Was she an angel from above, or a walking time bomb of doom? His life having crumbled, Blake Gladstone returns to his hometown of Santa Fe, and tries to settle back into the unsatisfying life he'd had before he left for Florida. When he meets Denise, a pretty young blonde with a bag full of tricks, his sad routine breaks, and the more they get to know each other, the more Blake can't figure out if he's on a road to salvation, or a road back to hell. "Trent Zelazny is off and running. I have someone new to admire." -Joe R. Lansdale "Trent Zelazny has already begun to carve out his own genre niche. He's got the right stuff to make fiction both engrossing and literate." -Tom Piccirilli "A gift for storytelling is in Trent Zelazny's genes." -Charles Ardai "Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before." - Warren Lapine "Obtain Trent Zelazny's Fractal Despondency. It's your only hope of escape. Break out Read the book " -John Shirley, author of Black Glass "Passion. Power Fear Zelazny is a force of wonder . . . and darkness " -Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Collected here are twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric stories. Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before. A new strong, confident voice has arrived. Zelazny could have chosen to make a career of covering the same ground that his father had already plowed. Instead he has chosen to strike out on his own and prove right out of the gate that he is his own man. Trent Zelazny is off and running. I have someone new to admire." -Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award winner and seven-time Bram Stoker Award winner "Trent Zelazny is a master of tension, frisson, madness, and mayhem. I love the way he writes and read everything I can get my hands on. You should do the same." -Gerald Hausman, author of Time Swimmer and Castaways "A gift for storytelling is in Trent Zelazny's genes. It's a pleasure to crack open his book and let him carry you away." -Charles Ardai, Edgar and Shamus Award winner "You can tell Trent Zelazny is having fun when he's writing, because his work is so much fun to read . . . You should try it sometime." -Brian Knight, author of Broken Angel and Sex, Death & Honey "Trent Zelazny pulls off ideas most other writers wouldn't dream of, never mind attempt. That he succeeds is testament to the length of his imagination and the breadth of his talent. He will not live long in the literary shadow of his father, but will soon take his rightful place beside him as one of the most important writers of the fantastic this country has produced." -Garrett Peck