Kevin Candela

A Seven Percent Grasp of the Infinite. The universe may be limitless but our senses are not. Just as the human eye sees but a small percentage of the cosmic wave spectrum, so most of us are only able to perceive a similar sliver of what we brazenly term

They wait... The ghosts were there the day it opened for business. The Leeward Hotel is a mirror. From the moment its first stone was laid, it has reflected the mysteries of the restless and the restless Atlantic Ocean over which it looms atop a stark cliff in Cornwall, with guests frequently seeing the highly eccentric owners walking around the halls while they were supposedly locked in their private haven upstairs. That was close to two centuries ago. Tantalized by the secret ledger of the Leeward's prying manager Spectra investigations has come to look into what appears to be a doubly cold case of apparitions seen in the monolithic inn's heyday. Still struggling to come to terms with the recent accident that took the life of one of their own and nearly that of their sponsor, the renowned Dr. Paul Rindelle, truth-at-any-cost team leader Dayla McCale and her team are about to learn that nothing - not even "life" - is how it seems. And some who walk among us are even more dangerous when they're dead...

Dracula, Wolfman, The Mummy, Frankenstein. You've lived with the stories your whole life. You've read the tales. You've watched the films. But what if the stories were different? What if the things you read about these monsters were warped and twisted? Here lie stories you may not have heard. Stories both weird and shocking. Bizarre and grotesque. Alternate versions of your favorite classic monsters you've never read and never will again. Featuring 13 stories by Jonathan Moon, The Sisters of Slaughter, Tom Lucas and more

Cleaning up is dirty business. Especially when you're Argiss Valance, ruthless corporate magnate, and you want the world to see you as its ultimate philanthropist...even as you secretly plumb the ocean's depths for the key to immortality. Enter Koalatron, towering garbage-munching mechanical marvel, brainchild of Valance's brilliant wife Deanna and cutting edge genius Dr. Max Shepperton. When Shepperton goes missing and an unspeakable, relentlessly growing sea horror rises, Deanna, her journalist half-sister Key Sharlayne and renegade eco-vigilante Jeremiah Savage find themselves in a terrifying showdown between titanic machine and irresistible leviathan: Krakenstein vs. Koalatron

Strange things are brewing in Oz, and not necessarily in a witch's cauldron. In the wake of Dorothy's departure, the enigmatic Wizard has enlisted the No Longer Cowardly Lion, the Too Much Heart Tin Man and the Brainy But Still Not So Wise Scarecrow to investigate the weirdness that's going on--in many places, and in many forms--all across the Land Beyond the Rainbow. Gritty Rory Mayne, Softhearted Stan Plumb and Sharp Haywood Fields will need all their talents, old and new, and more than a little luck to survive this ride. Giant carnivorous birds, robots that pass as humans, gangsters, unpredictable babes, shootouts--Rory and his partners are in way over their heads the moment they set foot outside the Wizard's palace. Can they sort it out or did Dorothy the Alien ditch the scene way too soon? Inspired equally by The Wizard of Oz/L. Frank Baum and Steve Martin's 1982 movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, this fast-paced, foulmouthed diary of a half-man/half-lion tec who's seen it all--but hasn't really seen anything yet--will have you guessing all the way through; that is, if you can stop laughing long enough to consider the actual mystery.