Hemelein Publications

Down the nights and down the days, down the arches of the years, down the labyrinthine ways, hear the call, the call of the hounds of history. Masterfully woven throughout Lee Allred's works are historical events, places, and people, echoing back through the labyrinthine arches of the years. Here find offers you can't refuse, changed allegiances, unquiet ghosts, vampires in redrock deserts, lake monsters, fell beings that plot and scheme with royalty, golems of clay, elder gods and unspeakable horrors-both slumbering and awake-and those brave souls that stand between the darkness and the light, protecting those unable to protect themselves. Follow the echoing of the hounds into this collection of tales, penned by a master of the imagination.

Contents:

• Legacy of the Corridor (essay by Joe Monson)
• Lee-ward Leaning (essay by Joe Monson)
• Author's Preface-The Hounds of History (essay)
• Murmuration of a Darkening Sea
• Nice Timestream Youse Got Here
• Suppose They Gave a Ragnarok and Nobody Came?
• Pirate Gold for Brother Brigham
• Where Nothing Lives but Crosses
• New England's God
• Can Such Things Be?
• Tracting Out Cthulhu
• Jesting Pilate
• Lump of Clay
• Naught but Death Stands Fast
• An Imperial Rescript

Set in world established by The Cunning Man, six stories follow Hiram Woolley in the intermountain west of the 1930s as he uses Grandma Hettie's traditional magical lore to battle demons. He discovers an ancient horror that explains an oddity of Utah geography, helps a deceased Shoshone war leader, finds an unappreciated consequence of the Mountain Meadows Massacre battles an ancient sorcerer in a secret mountaintop lookout, and more.

Other stories explore dark and somber themes, including two tales set in the Cthulhu Mythos; the weaving together of ancient Egypt, 1930s Massachussetts, and a future spaceship across time and space; a traveler in the Old West comes to an elaborately bad end. Eight more stories and three essays round out this collection.

Crime has always been around, and it will continue far into the future. Whether it's priceless artifacts disappearing from a sealed container, trading useless space rocks to aliens in exchange for something far more valuable, a genetically-modified, not-quite-human-anymore celebrity who dies under mysterious circumstances, ghosts achieving the perfect revenge, or robots finding the equivalent of digital drugs, the possibilities are endless for committing-and solving-any type of crime you can imagine.

Find all of these, and more, in Thin Air: The Cosmic Crime Fiction of Gustavo Bondoni. The twenty-one tales in this volume represent over fifteen years of storytelling, giving unique perspectives from both heros and villains alike. Three of those stories appear here for the first time! So, tip back in your chair and read a few while listening to the city as it bustles by on the rainy streets below. This is sure to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.