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Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal.  

This novel unfolds as the true-life memoirs of one of the Immortal Bard's most memorable characters, the feckless soldier of fortune Falstaff, aka Sir John Fastolf, based upon a real-life knight reputed to be cowardly. Dictated to various household secretaries as he is nearing death, at age 81, Falstaff's fictional memoir opens with the extravagant claim that he was conceived under a fig tree planted on the phallus of the legendary figure of the giant of Cerne carved into the chalk hillside near Cerne Abbas in Dorset.

Robert "Bubba" Brabham never wanted to hunt monsters. He mostly wanted to drink beer, hunt deer, and chase women, like every other giant redneck in the world. But life interfered, and Bubba found himself holster-deep in the family business: monster hunting. Now he's the Southeastern Regional Hunter for the Holy Roman Catholic Church...Bubba has to save the world from the things that go bump in the night! Just as soon as he's done with his beer. And maybe after one more lap dance.

Fans of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Good Omens - your wait is over! The next ridiculous sci-fi fantasy series from a snarky British guy is here! And now you can experience the complete Doomsayer Journeys Trilogy in one volume!

A mercenary company is annihilated. The record remains. Tasked with writing the final account, a chronicler learns that the Chronicle does not preserve truth—it selects what survives. Names written too clearly disappear. Clean endings are sealed and forgotten. Only unfinished stories endure. As the company is reduced to annotations and omissions, the chronicler is offered a choice: close the record and vanish with it, or leave the story broken and live on as its witness. A grim, Kafkaesque fantasy about memory, power, and the violence of being recorded.

A ferryman who trades in guilt. A bard possessed by the dead he sings for. A chronicle that edits its own scribe. And a wizard who finds god in the belly of a pig. The Playwright Carries Us All is a collection of grimdark fantasy tales set among the Plaguebearers — a mercenary company where memory is currency, death is negotiable, and someone always has to write it down. For readers of Glen Cook, Rob J Hayes, and Joe Abercrombie.

Verdi’s Falstaff repays careful study with real pleasure. It is opera’s happiest irony that the great Italian master should cap a career - distinguished for its blood-and-thunder tragic masterpieces - with the greatest comic opera in the Italian repertory. The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed (in a miracle of compression) by master-librettist Boito to give the 80-year-old Verdi a superb libretto, on which he lavished more wonderful tunes than most composers manage in a lifetime.

The Dowager Duchess of Kielder eagerly anticipates spending Christmas with her son and his family. Though their relationship has been strained, the duchess is determined to heal the chasm. Even with the help of the widowed local vicar, her plan will take a Christmas miracle. But during this magical season, anything is possible . . . even two second chances for love.

It's the 1930s. The Depression has a stranglehold on America, the shadow of fascism is creeping across Europe, and Daring Dorian Pace is strapping a jetpack to his back and flying straight into trouble. Dorian is a pilot-for-hire — part barnstormer, part secret agent, all nerve. In five pulse-pounding adventures, he'll go from carnival stunt shows in dusty Nebraska to the darkest corners of a world sliding toward war. An old gunfighter named Knight is pulling the strings, and every mission is more dangerous than the last. Five stories. Five impossible missions. One man with a jetpack. A ...

Saving the world—accidentally, and badly. Destiny has terrible timing—and even worse paperwork. Join John Goodheart, the most reluctant Chosen One in Glorboria, as he bumbles through prophecies, bureaucratic dragons, and a fellowship of the profoundly unhelpful.

He's the ass-kicking, wise-cracking, hard-drinking demon hunter you never knew you needed. He's Quincy Harker, and he's here to save your ass whether you want it or not. The immortal magic-wielding son of Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray from the classic novel Dracula, Harker now lives in North Carolina hunting down demons and sending them back to Hell. This Omnibus Edition collects the first 12 novellas in the Quincy Harker series.

This novel is Shakespeare's worst nightmare. It takes two of the bard's most famous plays, Hamlet and Othello, and recasts them with fantasy characters in a place called Gundarland. Hamlet is a dwarf and Othello is a dark elf. Iago and his wife, Emilia, are trolls. If that isn't bad enough, these two tragedies are now comedies with Falstaff, Shakespeare's most popular rogue, thrown in as a bonus. Not familiar with Shakespeare? No problem. You'll still enjoy this romp.

Powerless and scattered across the centuries with no way to return to their own time, they wrestle with their fates: Steven and Niklaus, banished to the Florida coast of 1945 as a deadly hurricane threatens to tear the state apart. Archie and Emilio, struggling to survive the bitter winter and flying bullets of 1890 Wyoming. Audrey and Lena, entangled in the mob violence of 1930s Chicago as a specter from the past makes an ominous return.

Collecting four novellas into one volume, The Cambion Cycle sees Harker and his cohorts battling bigger threats, teaming with legends of folklore, and trying to save the world from a demonic horde. All with snark, flair, and heaping helpings of bloodshed and mayhem.

Returned from their banishment across the centuries, Steven Bauer and the forces of the White must now rescue their abducted loved ones from the forces of darkness. Across North America, the Black have come out of hiding, occupying one national landmark after another with hostages certain to attract their enemies’ attention. Backed into a corner, Steven and his friends have no other choice but to fight for their lives and the lives of everyone they love.

Something is moving beneath the ice. In the Arctic, a research team drills too deep and awakens what should have stayed buried. In a Colorado mountain town, a carwash becomes the last fortress against an army of the frozen dead. At a remote ski resort, an ancient artifact resurfaces after centuries of silence. In an Alaskan wilderness, a lone caretaker discovers that the ghost town he's been maintaining has been dying from below long before he arrived. And at a drive-in theater on a winter night, four teenagers discover that some movies were never meant to be watched. They are patient. They...

A giant redneck in Fairyland, what could possibly go wrong? Everything. Absolutely everything. Monsters, Magic, & Mayhem collects four novella chronicling Bubba the Monster Hunter's trip through the lands of the Fae in search of his kidnapped sister.

A fast-paced sword-and-sorcery adventure of lost treasure, ancient ruins, and deadly sorcery—written in the raw, untamed spirit of Robert E. Howard. Korun has crossed half the world in search of gold, glory, and the kind of danger most men are wise enough to avoid. That search has brought him to a steaming jungle, where a mist-choked river winds past broken ruins and graves that do not stay closed. Something ancient moves beneath the black water. The deeper Korun goes, the more the jungle itself seems to hunger. Others have followed the River of Ghosts in pursuit of treasure. None have ...

One word, written in a familiar hand: Lovely. That was all the warning Pardon Starshield needed. Ralnor was coming. She chose the green dress. She drew the bath. She imagined his hands on her face, the way he touched her when he thought she was asleep — slow, barely there, as if memorizing her. He never made it through the door. When a Ranger is murdered outside the gates of Snowfort, Pardon follows the killers' trail into the frozen mountains. But the tracks don't lead where she expects. The orcs who fired the arrow were sent. The woman weeping over the body had reason to want him dead. ...

Damnation: Quest for Glory, Book I collects the four novellas from Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter, Year Three. The story concludes next year in Salvation: Quest for Glory, Book II.