Kirjahaku

A wealthy man sells his last golden egg and wonders what to do next.The owner of a sculpture gallery insists that her date close his eyes before she takes her mask off.The secret masters of Hell debate popular culture.And eight more."What I've always loved about Brendan's writing is the headlong immediacy of it. This is important, it's happening right now, and you are going to pay attention."BL Sichling, creator of The Beauty of Poppies

A ghost is a dead person with a job. Charlie Harmer's is about to get a lot more complicated. Ever since the big commotion last year, Charlie's boss has had one big rule: nobody living talks to the dead, and nobody dead talks to the living. Charlie's job is to keep an eye on things and smooth over both sides of the great divide, to make sure nobody does anything stupid.One problem. A sweet kid with a punk rock haircut just cast a magic spell from a bunch of old liner notes, and thanks to an ancient contract, he's entitled to ghostly help figuring out who murdered his girlfriend. The boss wants this wrapped up quickly, so she puts Charlie in charge. Give the kid what he wants, keep it quiet, wrap it up as soon as possible.One more problem. There's another player on the board, a very special lady who's keeps a very low profile. Someone Charlie won't see coming. Someone who's going to make the trouble last year look like a beach vacation. Someone who's been keeping a close eye on our friend Mr. Harmer...

A nurse gives a tow truck driver her number while the spirits watch attentively. Sasquatch and Chupacabra clash across universes. A skeleton billionaire throws his annual halloween party. A woman kisses her husband good night and locks him in a room in their basement. And twelve more.

The Illinois Youth Center in Millersville is a maximum security prison for teenage girls. There are no newspapers allowed in the facility, no internet, no TV news. No way to tell that something in the world beyond the fence has gone very wrong. At least not at first. Brendan Detzner's short fiction has appeared in Podcastle, Pseudopod, Chizine, One Buck Horror, Tales to Terrify, the Exigencies anthology from Dark House Press, and many other venues. He is the author of two story collections, "Scarce Resources" and "Beasts".

Andrew's fifteen. He's been sent to stay with his grandmother for the summer while his parents finish their divorce, but the summer's over and he's still in Wisconsin. And his best and only friend is a monster named Shadow. Shadow lives under a park gazebo, has a body made of spare parts, and likes to play chess. Andrew doesn't tell anyone about Shadow. Nobody listens to him anyway. Andrew's uncle Paul comes to town. Paul knows about Shadow. Paul knows a lot of things, and he's interested in teaching. But before that can happen, a confrontation with Shadow leaves Paul in a coma, a flood of invisible monsters on the loose, and scary people from all over the world converging on their town. If Andrew's going to survive, he'll have to learn about the hidden world that he's stumbled into. But learning might be the biggest threat of all. Because there are worse things out there than a teenager with a little magic and a chip on his shoulder, and Andrew's heading right for them.

"The Orphan Fleet" and "The Hidden Lands", the first two parts of the Orphan Fleet saga, available in print for the first time!

The third and fourth installments of the Orphan Fleet series, available in print for the first time!

A ghost is a dead person with a job. In life, Charlie Harmer was a disc jockey with a lot of suspicious friends. In death, he makes creepy songs play on the radio and whispers in the ears of the living when they get too close to places they shouldn't be. It's a good gig, or at least it was until the new boss showed up. The new boss used to be a serial killer. The new boss is bad news.Charlie and the boys have been talking. The new guy has got to go. To make that happen, Charlie's going to need help from someone with a pulse...