Edward Ahern

Gordon Lormor is a defrocked priest and con man. And something more. He treads a path between light and dark magic, a risky journey he avoids unless he's required to take it. But his ex-girlfriend makes a fear-laced telephone call to him, pleading that he come to Vermont and free her from a witches' coven. Gordon leaves his business, Profane Possibilities, in the care of his assistant and drives north. Death arrives before he does, and Gordon tasks himself with solving the murder and eradicating the coven. As his situation worsens, he asks for help from both his decidedly unfeminine assistant AJ and a Catholic cardinal. Death revisits often as Gordon, joined by AJ, picks open the protective scab the witches have clotted over their activities. He teeters further and further over the edges of physical and spiritual death as he struggles to prevent infant sacrifice and solve the murder of the woman he had loved.

Something is hiding in the shadows... Everywhere you go, it follows...there is no escape... A soft hiss floats up from the darkness, and you know it draws nearer. Terror grips your heart, and your mouth goes dry. Your first instinct is to run, but at the same time you can't deny your own curiosity. What is it? What is this unknown thing that is hunting you? No longer able to stand it another second, you turn around to face it... and well... you know what curiousity did for the cat... In this book, you will find 13 stories on new, mysterious monsters. No vampires, no werewolves and no serial killers. Perhaps if you're lucky, you will learn their identity before they rip out your throat.

The Singularity is a speculative fiction magazine, based in London, England, that publishes short stories that are singular in voice and style. Issue 4 features another ten stories from award-winning and new writers from around the world, and marks the end of the publication's first year. The Shell, by Jon Wallace Automatic Diamant , by Philip A. Suggars Foreclosing on the House of God, by Andrew Wilmot Motherhood, by Elana Gomel A Weekend with Malume, by Tom Learmont Beer, Wine & Spirits, by Jon Etter Birthmark, by Himanshu Goel Jump Cut, by Lauren C. Teffeau Caveat emptor/Caveat venditor, by Edward Ahern, and The Extractor, by Corbett Buchly.