Steve Vernon

"There's things out there that you ain't dreamed of. Like back-from-the-dead mountain men, mountain spirits, time-traveling mad scientists and zombified buffalo. And that's just for starters....

Welcome to the hard streets....

So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes? Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl? You don't know nothing....

This is a collection for the seriously messed up minds of all you listeners who have grown tired of the trite detritus of day-to-day storytelling....

The roots of evil run deeper than you can ever imagine....

Ghost stories. Everyone knows one. Everyone can tell you one. Ghost stories haunt and linger and tantalize....

There are superheroes, and then there is Captain Nothing - ready to crack knuckles and break heads - no matter what the cost....

Meet Lady Macbeth - a high school librarian, ex-assassin, and part-time kelpie. Now she has to take on a Sea Hag - eight legs of Godzilla-ugly poured into a bucket full of meanness....

A short story involving a Celtic water spirit (the kelpie), an assassin, a librarian, a ghost, and a Santa-mugging street gang - a wild weird paranormal romance shoot-em-up story....

So how does a kelpie, an ex-assassin high school librarian, Santa Claus, and others wind up going toe-to-toe with a Martian Expeditionary Force in a highly unidentifiable flying gravy bowl? Find out....

This isn't John Wayne. Lone Star is just a beer. Forget about the Alamo. Here are a trio of Texas tales of terror spun from the fevered brain of a nightmare-riding cowboy....

Meet Bass Clayton, a bounty killer turned professional drunkard. Silver Grimes is the man who inadvertently turned Bass Clayton into a drunk....

Here it is. The whole entire story of the Book of Genesis as told to you by the world's oldest storyteller, Uncle Bob. If you think you know the truth behind the Bible Stories you really ought to pick up a copy of this book. If you are one of those folks who thinks that it is bad manners to giggle a little in church - well....

You can smell that long-dying aroma of Autumn in the air. Kids are talking trick or treat and the leaves are already screaming at you in red and yellow and deep golden rust....

Nobody really knew how long the old Funnel mansion had stood empty, waiting up there high on Carpenter's Hill like a child's forgotten lunch box, any more than anybody knew just how long....

The story of a young farmer, a wishing ring, and a fairy named Queen Maab. This is old school fairytale telling at its very finest....

"Leave Luther's body right where we flung him," Bates said....

His name was Adam Kyler. He had eyes as black as licorice jujubes and a spit curl hooked across his forehead that reminded me of a young Superman. He was nine years old....

Everything that you have read about Bigfoot is a lie. Everything that you have heard about Bigfoot is the truth....

There is a big old sledding hill not more than two or three good snowballs' worth of distance from our home, just behind Hank Macabee's house. That hill was waiting for me and my brand new toboggan....