Sarah Stegall

Thirteen authors, including Narrelle M. Harris, Jody Lynn Nye, and Sarah Stegall, come together in the second edition of Baker Street Irregulars to pen an original collection of short stories on the iconic and timeless character, Sherlock Holmes. In this new edition of Baker Street Irregulars, a cast of authors riff on the iconic figure of Sherlock Holmes in over a dozen captivating new ways. In Keith DeCandido’s “Six Red Dragons,” Sherlock is a young girl in modern New York City. In Sarah Stegall’s “Papyrus,” Sherlock is a female librarian in ancient Egypt. In Daniel M. Kimmel’s mesmerizing “A Scandal in Chelm,” Sherlock is a rabbi. Derek Beebe sends Sherlock to the moon, while Mike Strauss, in “The Adventure of the Double Sized Final Issue,” casts him as a comic book character. The backdrops run the gamut from a grade school classroom to Jupiter, from rural, post-Civil War to an alien spaceship. While preserving the timeless charm and intrigue of Sherlock Holmes, these authors pen stories of the world’s greatest detective as you’ve never seen him before.

The Castle of Horror Anthology is BACK with a collection of horror stories around the holidays, including but not exclusively the ones around the end of the year. We've reached out to the world's most skilled horroricians (TM) to bring you this new collection of work, so settle in with a cup of egg nog and join us We've got sly demon horror from Tony Bloodworth (in the second part of a long tale begun in the Castle of Horror Anthology, Volume 1), summer holiday river tubing horror from Jason Henderson (our fearless editor), pre-Columbian-demon-hunting horror/action from David Bowles, creepy Hannukah horror from Sarah Stegall, Christmas pervy horror from PJ Hoover, SAW-like Christmas survival/puzzle horror from In Churl Yo, autumnal coming-of-age ghost horror from Michael Aronovitz, sad, dreadful, druidic Christmas tree horror from Sam Knight, gothic werewolf/Krampus action horror from Stephen D Sullivan, Christmas science fiction bio-horror from David Boop, and Jersey-accented Santa action horror from John Helfers. Join us-- and be sure and pick up our other volume(s) on the way out

On a dark and stormy night in 1816, a teenage girl sat down and invented science fiction. Mary Shelley was no more than 18 years old when she wrote ""Frankenstein"". From the moment of its publication 200 years ago, readers have been wondering, as Mary put it, ""How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?"" ""Outcasts"" takes readers behind the scenes, to reveal the surprisingly contemporary thoughts and feelings of Mary, an unmarried mother and the lover of radical poet Percy Shelley, their friend Lord Byron, and the other guests at the ""most famous literary party in history"". What led the daughter of two of the most radical philosophers in England to turn her hand to horror? As the 200th anniversary of ""Frankenstein"" approaches, many readers will be rediscovering the novel, perhaps reading it for the first time. ""Outcasts"" reveals new insights into the origin of the most famous monster in the world, while showing us the stunning new science, radical politics and social turmoil of Europe in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. The world was on the brink of a new era, when anything and everything was possible, and in this brave new world a new literature – and a timeless Creature – was born.