A collaborative endeavor between artist-of-the-fantastic Alan M. Clark and author Eliza;beth Engstrom, this volume includes eight pieces of fiction and eight paintings. Clark illustrates four of Engstrom's favorite dark and haunting stories, and Engstrom "literates" four of Clark's disturbing images. "Crosley," one of the stories contained in this volume, was selected for inclusion in the 13th annual Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow.

The Alchemy of Love

Literature & Fiction

Clark, Alan M.

United States

Triple Tree Pub

Escaping Purgatory: Fables in Words & Pictures

Genre Fiction

Ifd Pub

A dark medical comedy that is a picture book for grownups. Horror/science fiction. Stories set within the surreal and disturbing "Facility" environment of "The Pain Doctors of Suture Self General."

Pain & Other Petty Plots to Keep You in Stitches

Edwards, Mark

Johnson, Jeremy Robert

Fox, Randy

Guinn, Troy

IFD Publishing

A limited edition hardcover art book spanning several years of Alan Clark's artwork. The book also contains a CD-ROM with examples of works in progress.

The Paint in My Blood: Illustration & Fine Art

A story that illuminates the dark corners of creative endeavor in which inspiration, no longer an elusive, spritely muse, turns deadly and begins stalking the artist. In this gritty, poignant novel, the life of an alcoholic artist and author, Aiden, collides headlong with that of a serial murderer. The artist fights a serious brain infection and struggles to hide his addictions, while holding his family together. The wall between reality and imagination comes crashing down when psychopathic Frederick invades Aiden's life, with a horrific lust for violence against young women. The artist's world careens out of control toward pure terror.

The Surgeon's Mate: A Dismemoir

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Angie Smith and Curtis Loew are having dreams they can't shake. At the heart of each is Angie's daughter, Kaya. Angie's dreams end in death, the spreading of hand-shaped bruises across her daughter's throat. Curtis' dreams end in something else, something closer to obsession than love. Angie is worlds away, trying to keep her drug-shattered mind from falling apart, traveling through an American underbelly filled with inhuman shapes, dark whispers and old friends with empty eyes. Curtis is Kaya's new neighbor. He's getting closer to her, and her mentally unstable grandmother, Colleen. He's had families before, but he'd always made mistakes. Mistakes that led to new names, new towns. But this one time, he swears, things will all work out. He's got so much love to give.

Siren Promised

An imaginative reconstruction of the life of Elizabeth Stride, the third victim of Jack the Ripper. The beast of poverty and disease had stalked Elizabeth all her life, waiting for the right moment to take her down. To survive, she listened to the two extremes within herself--Bess, the innocent child of hope, and Liza, the cynical, hardbitten opportunist. While Bess paints rosy pictures of what lies ahead and Liza warns of dangers everywhere, the beast, in the guise of a man offering something better, circles ever closer.

Say Anything but Your Prayers: A Novel of Elizabeth Stride, the Third Victim of Jack the Ripper (Jack the Ripper Victims)

Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th century London. Late in life, circumstances and and her choices led her to earn her crust by solicitation. After a bruising brawl with another woman over money and a man, she lost her lodgings and found herself sleeping rough. That dangerous turn of events delivered her into the hands of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Contrasting her last week alive with the experiences of her earlier life, the author helps readers understand how she might have made the decisions that put her in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Apologies to the Cat's Meat Man: A Novel of Annie Chapman, the Second Victim of Jack the Ripper (Jack the Ripper Victims)

Of Thimble and Threat: A Novel of Catherine Eddowes, the Fourth Victim of Jack the Ripper (Jack the Ripper Victims)

Dramas & Plays

The story in The Door that Faced West is a little known piece of history that takes place in the American South as the 18th century ends and the 19th century begins. At the time, the western frontier still occupied territory east of the Mississippi. The novel is based on actual events involving the early American serial killers, the Harpe brothers, Wiley and Micajah. The Harpes are often considered America's first serial killers. They were land pirates who prowled the wilderness of Tennessee and Kentucky looking for victims.\nAlthough a character-driven fiction novel, it is also something of a true crime book. The story is an Early Western, distinguish from traditional westerns by the technology of the period. At the time, firearms were single shot weapons and hand-to-hand combat was much more common.\nThe story unfolding from the point of view of the brothers' third wife, Sadie Rice, the 16 year old daughter of a minister, it provides some education about the limitations of women's rights of the time. As Sadie endures life on the trail in their company, she benefits from the Harpes' ability to defend their own with extreme violence. The deeper into the savage wilderness they travel, the more dependent upon the brothers she becomes. Too late, she realizes that their capacity for violence is, in truth, a ravenous hunger.\nThe novel has numerous illustrations.

The Door that Faced West

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