Lex H Jones

Howard is a lonely, isolated boy who lives in the run-down seaside town of Innsmouth. Most of the town's men left to fight the Great War and didn't come back, and those that did, like Howard's neighbour Mr Derleth, brought their own scars and strange stories with them. None quite so strange as what is about to happen to Howard, however. An undersea earthquake brings a strange black reef to the surface just off the coast of Innsmouth, and with it something else. Something old, and forgotten, and every bit as lonely as the young boy who discovers it. What follows is a unique and secret friendship that will change the life of both Howard and his bizarre new friend forever.

Burdizzo Book's Matty-Bob and Em invited some of their favourite indie authors to write stories inspired by their most beloved songs. The result is The Burdizzo Mix-Tape Vol.1, their most diverse anthology yet. These are tunes that resonate from the beach to the mountains, from rain dogs to spirits in the sky, from Old Ones to cold ones. Be it multi-dimensional romance across space and time, Cold War sexual paranoia, campfire cowboys, gypsy caravans or demented disco balls, there is a song for everyone within these pages. If music be the food of love, read on.

Carl Duggan has worked as a Detective in the city for a long time. The kind of long where you've seen everything, and seen it twice. With that in mind, it comes as no surprise to him when a pregnant nineteen-year-old girl washes up on the banks of the Styx. But something about this one is different, and before Carl gets any answers, two more bodies join the pile - a corrupt Judge and a big-shot lawyer. Carl's gut tells him there's a connection. There are the little things, the tiny details that others would ignore. The bodies keep on coming, then a second case rears its head: three young men with nothing in common except their sexuality, each murdered in their own home. Gaining little assistance from his fellow officers, Carl goes it alone into the darker regions of the City. Along the way, he makes acquaintances and enemies of the City's more colorful residents, including the beautiful sister of the first dead girl, a Catholic hit-man dubbed 'His Holiness', and a shady casino owner named Dice. The closer he gets to the truth, the more Carl's life is put in danger, forcing him to move further and further away from the rule of law. Never once does he suspect that the two cases are so intimately linked, or that the truth could be so close to home.

Every once in a while, God and Lucifer visit the earth and make a wager. Now it's time for the next one; the most daring yet, and quite possibly the last. "This venture to live as men for a full year had been such a hilarious idea to start with. Prove Abe wrong... again... then head back to their respective domains and gloat about it forever. Only it hadn't worked out that way. Things were different now. Having omniscient sight removed from him actually made Nick see things more clearly than he ever had. There's harm in getting too close to a picture, but a different sort of harm comes from getting too far away from it." What starts as a simple contest becomes something more as their newfound humanity forces them to revaluate their relationship not only with the world, but with each other as father and son. Seen through the eyes of two men, on opposing sides of a family feud of epic proportions, each of them faces trials, heartache, love and real pain as they learn what it means to be human. Can old wounds ever really be closed? Can the past truly be forgiven? And can anyone ever fall so far that it's too late for them to be caught? "After the fall? You rise."