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On December 9th 1965 a strange, other-worldly craft crashes into a ravine in Kecksburg, a town south of Pittsburgh. It becomes known as Pennsylvania’s Roswell. The crashed UFO is witnessed by scores of local residents, including ten year-old Eliza Straight, a curious and intelligent young girl who is forever changed by the horror and wonder of what she experiences that night. On July 2nd 1993, fourteen year-old Shelly Stevens and her two friends have a close encounter with a glowing craft that descends down from the night sky, hovering above them. They awake three hours later with no ...

An illustrator at an ad agency creates a drawing of a woman taking a selfie for a smart phone ad campaign. Then, he comes across a real-life, living version of the exact same woman and image. In the tradition of "The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", and "Amazing Stories", "The Selfie" is a bold, shocking, romantic, unforgettable short story from the lurid imagination of James J. Caterino, author of “The B Girl” and “Caitlin Star: The Trilogy.”

When they decided to bring back a new, re-imagined version of “The Battle of the Network Stars”, writer James J. Caterino knew he had to find a way to get into the competition. And when he did, it became the adventure of a lifetime. “Battle of the Network Superheroes” is another wild, wickedly entertaining tale from the fevered imagination of controversial author James J. Caterino, creator of “Steel Phantom”, “Among the Stars”, “The Last Neanderthal”, and the “Caitlin Star” series.

Jenna lives in the year 2080. It is a dystopian nightmare; a world ravished by climate change and non-stop wars, an Earth on the verge of becoming a lifeless, barren rock with toxic air and acidic oceans. But there is hope as she finds a way to travel back into the past to 2019. Now she must try to change the course of history, create a new timeline, and save the planet. “Super 8 Images” is a clever, thrilling, touching tale of time travel from James J. Caterino, the author of “Fireflies”, “Watch the Skies”, and the “The Last Neanderthal.”

Angela is seeing things. Strange things. Dangerous things. She relocates to Pittsburgh and is haunted by intense visions of a menacing attacker clad in a welding mask who abducts her and takes her to an abandoned steel mill. The visions escalate, crossing the line into reality, and she soon learns the secret to stopping this Steel Phantom, may be buried in the dark mysteries of the forbidden past of her new hometown. Steel Phantom is a lurid, thrilling, supernatural horror story from James J. Caterino, the author of The Séance, Murder Psychic Incorporated, The Ice Mummy, Time Travel ...

An essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Girl Pop, Chrome Dome, What If, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, The Girl from the Stars, Watch the Skies, and much more.

Delila is a senior at Coral Springs High School. She loves movies, writes film reviews for the school newspaper, has only two friends who are as eccentric as her, and keeps to herself. Then one night, she gets noticed by the celebrity star quarterback, and just like that, everything changes. The Geek Girl and The Quarterback is a funny, romantic, endearing, entertaining homage to 80’s teen movies and pop culture from writer James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, The Promise, Time Travel Stories, and The Last Neanderthal.

“Alex, Jordan, Desiree, and the story behind To Meghan” is a fascinating, humorous, and heartfelt behind the scenes real life story about the four girls behind one of the author’s works of fiction. Both this story and “My Hilton Adventure part II” (contained in this volume) are part of James J. Caterino’s True Stories, sort of, a brand-new epic collection of twelve tales from the author’s real life. James J. Caterino is the author of True Stories, To Meghan, I Want To Believe, Miami Noir 1987, and much more.

Jack Tripper is a man obsessed with the past and the road not taken. When he is given a chance to go back and change things, he finds out that time travel is far more complicated, and emotionally painful, than he had ever imagined. And now, he is Lost In Time. Lost in Time is another wild, engaging page turner from the imagination of James J. Caterino, the author of Super Hornet 1942 and Pop Star.

He is not human. He is not an ape. He is…something else. He is, the Mesomorph. Dr. Anton Mason invents a revolutionary anti-aging formula by turning back the genetic clock to a time when humans were a more robust and durable species. When the project is taken from him, he continues the research by injecting himself, transforming him into a hominid from our evolutionary past. Return of the Mesomorph is an action-packed suspenseful science fiction adventure from James J. Caterino, the author of Time Travel Stories and The Last Neanderthal. Also contained in this volume is the riveting ...

California Dreaming: How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter is the entertaining and often hilarious tale of one man’s cinematic obsession and his attempt to get a movie deal done in the place where dreams are made. James J. Caterino is the author of Fantastic Films, Cult TV Shows, and Perfect Pop Songs, To Meghan, The Geek Girl and the Quarterback, and Miami Noir 1987.

While on the job, contractor Baker Rosen comes across an old analog TV that becomes a mysterious gateway into the past, where he must find a way to change history to save someone he loves. In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Amazing Stories, VHF is a sweeping, emotional tale of imagination from James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, Lost in Time, The Green Girl, and The Promise.

Dr. Anton Mason is a brilliant biologist and anthropologist who has a problem asserting himself and has never gotten his way in life. He develops a revolutionary anti-aging genetic formula that turns back the clock of evolution to a time when we were a less frail species. When the project is stolen from him, Anton decides to begin his own human trials, using himself as the test subject. The formula changes him. He begins to transform into something stronger. Something faster. Something primitive and primal. Something, other than human. Dr. Anton Mason is “The Mesomorph”. “The ...

Jim has always dreamed of being a film director. After decades of false starts and disappointments, he finally catches a break when his twenty-year-old supernatural horror screenplay Steel Phantom strikes Hollywood gold and he becomes attached as the director. He signs a major star talent to play the female lead and the shoot starts off as a smashing success. Then, as the intensity of the production ratches up, the lines between film and reality blur and Jim finds himself living in the world of his own creation, where the danger is deadly, and the horror is all too real. James J. Caterino ...

Jack Carlito is a writer, an artist, and a wannabe movie director looking for a deal. But time is running out and when he travels to Orlando for the annual Creative Screenwriting and Directing Convention, he knows this is his last best chance of making it happen. After checking in, he goes down to the hotel bar to grab some dinner, and then he sees her standing behind the bar, the real-life embodiment of the girl of his dreams. He leaves Orlando confident he has met the leading lady for the movie he is writing, and for his life. But when she vanishes, he is left without either, as he ...

Deeply personal, extremely self-indulgent book with something to offend almost everyone. Read at your own risk. You have been warned. True Stories, sort of, is an autobiographical memoir. Sort of. Each story is based on a real-life event experienced by the author. There are stories about best friends, mentors, lost loves, beloved pets, fanatical obsessions, an encounter with a Partridge Family style band, stories about being a stockbroker in the roaring 80s and 90s, pitching screenplays in Hollywood, the real story behind some of the author’s books, and even a dangerous, alcohol-fueled ...

In a dystopian world, Caitlin Star lives in the Congo rainforest with her animal and human friends, protecting this last paradise on Earth. After ten years of peace, her home is threatened by a new evil in the form of a ruthless tyrant who rules the remains of what was once America. To battle this new enemy, Caitlin finds she must travel back to her birthplace where she will face grave danger and new challenges beyond anything she could have imagined. The Legend of Caitlin Star is an exciting, brand new stand-alone Caitlin Star adventure from James J. Caterino the author of Caitlin Star: ...

Chrome Dome is an essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Jordan Rose and the Tomb of Resurrection, The Anti-Matter Girl, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, Ghost Stories, and much more.

Alycia is on the trip of a lifetime. She is deep in the rain forest of the Congo Basin, conducting field research for her doctoral thesis in Anthropology. She leads a team of fellow students and a professor. All is going well until they come across a murderous group of poachers who hold them at gunpoint, determined to torment the group of academics before leaving them for dead. Things get ugly and all appears lost, until, a mysterious bare-chested man appears, giving the poachers more than they bargained for. They say he lost someone in one of the countless American mass shootings. They say...

Anna Payton is a career woman, a mother, and a wife, living an ordinary existence in suburban South Florida. Then one night, during a wave of UFO sightings, she has a close encounter with something from beyond this world. Everything changes. She experiences missing time. She begins to have haunting visions of her twin sister April, a sister who tragically died in a boating accident twenty-seven years earlier at the age of thirteen.What happened to Anna during her close encounter and what does it have to do with her long dead twin sister? Anna needs to find out, no matter what the cost. As ...