Steve Vernon

Welcome to the hard streets....

Will has got a secret. He keeps that secret hidden in the field out back behind his house. Sam and Artie will do just whatever Will tells them to do because they know what Will's secret is....

"Leave Luther's body right where we flung him," Bates said....

His name was Adam Kyler. He had eyes as black as licorice jujubes and a spit curl hooked across his forehead that reminded me of a young Superman. He was nine years old....

A short story involving a Celtic water spirit (the kelpie), an assassin, a librarian, a ghost, and a Santa-mugging street gang - a wild weird paranormal romance shoot-em-up story....

In 1691, the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her--but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. The first man died as a gust of wind harrowed the meat from his bones. A root,flung like a dirty javelin, cut a second man down. Many more deaths followed....

This isn't John Wayne. Lone Star is just a beer. Forget about the Alamo. Here are a trio of Texas tales of terror spun from the fevered brain of a nightmare-riding cowboy....

"There's things out there that you ain't dreamed of. Like back-from-the-dead mountain men, mountain spirits, time-traveling mad scientists and zombified buffalo. And that's just for starters....

This is a collection for the seriously messed up minds of all you listeners who have grown tired of the trite detritus of day-to-day storytelling....

Hammurabi Road is a dark redneck-noir novella of retribution, backwoods justice, and getting closer to a black bear than was ever dreamed possible....

In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them....

In 1691, the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her; they shot her; they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive, Thessaly set the field against them....

So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes? Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl? You don't know nothing....

The story is told from the point of view of a young Kamikaze pilot preparing to fly his fighter plane into the side of an American battleship....

There are superheroes, and then there is Captain Nothing - ready to crack knuckles and break heads - no matter what the cost....

A touching and humorous, and almost-mostly true, short story by Steve Vernon - the man who brought you cat tales. Listen to find out more....

It started out as a simple drive down a country road. Oh sure, Hillman was thinking about suicide. Oh sure, the dead woman is in his back seat was goading him on. What was the point? Why bother living? Who am I? It turns out Coyote has something to say about that. Coyote...and a troll....

This is the final book of the trilogy - a fat monstrous volume of pure undiluted scarecrow terror....

Bobby Kaye's life story started and ended with an email, and then the monkey dung hit the fan....

Meet Lady Macbeth - a high school librarian, ex-assassin, and part-time kelpie. Now she has to take on a Sea Hag - eight legs of Godzilla-ugly poured into a bucket full of meanness....