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From two-time Wonderland Book Award-winning author, Cody Goodfellow, described as "one of the best writers of our generation" by grandmaster of horror Brian Keene, and "the Ellroy of speculative fiction " by acclaimed cult author Jeremey Robert Johnson, comes a novel of desperation and degradation in the city of mutilated dreams.Loathe him or hate him, nothing can stop Charlie Parsons from living the Hollywood dream--not homelessness, not a shady agent who sends him on daily suicide missions, not even the combined might of the LAPD and the infamous Blood Eagle Security. With only a tattered tell-all bio of the most problematic child star in TV history for guidance, Parsons is going to get famous if he has to blow every studio mogul in town to make his dream come true.But Charlie slides into a nightmare when he touches the bulging belly of a runaway pregnant woman with the unborn son of a cult-leader so powerful, thinking his name could give you cancer.From the empty LA River to an eternal, interdimensional A-list party, Charlie is running for his life, crashing through twisted alternate Hollywoods where the religious right rules all and bloodthirsty studio execs hunt the homeless for sport. On a quest to save the proverbial damsel in distress, he'll have to pitch a dozen shit-hot movie ideas, slay the dragons of his problematic past and somehow overcome the temptation of the most dangerous addiction in the dirty business of dreams--true, unselfish love.Sleazeland is one of Cody Goodfellow's absolute best works of bizarro fiction. A parable for the harsh realities of surviving in one of the filthiest industries on Earth.

THEY CAME TO RAID... THEY STAYED TO GET LAID For centuries, alien drug-runners plundered the Earth, harvesting organs and freebasing fear. Few drugs could match the potency of humanity's dysfunctional two-stroke brains, so the Intergalactic Enforcement Force burned it down. Now, the last scattered, ragtag pockets of humanity strewn across a hundred backwater worlds are the most sought-after cash crop in the universe, and their only hope lies in the unsteady, oversexed hands of a pirate crew of intergalactic trash under the command of a devious cutthroat nymphomaniac known as Callista Chrome. But to save the unworthy human race, Callista and her drug-hungry horde will have to go through conniving alien cartels, buzzkill narcs, priapic platypuses, polymorphic ex's and bloodthirsty space-Vikings before facing the most devastating enemy in the worst place in the known universe... home.

A group of urbex explorers breaking into the world's tallest skyscraper in Moscow grapple with dangers from all sides in this pulse-pounding cinematic thriller for readers of Gregg Hurwitz and Patrick Hoffman. Michael Foster, Cam Buckley and Maddie Acosta-all former activists in the infamous Les Furies urbex crew. Outlaw athletes and political pranksters-together they scaled impossible buildings and slipped into the spaces no one else could, chasing a rush that still calls them long after they broke up. Now, Michael grinds it out coding for a dead-end start-up, recovering from a near-fatal injury. But Les Furies are a force of nature. When he learns that Cam and Maddie are reuniting the crew for one last mission, he is both skeptical and angry. But conquering the world's tallest building, the Korova Tower in Moscow, on Russia Day, is simply too irresistible. However, Michael soon discovers that the 'vertical city' has a far more sinister purpose than Les Furies could ever imagine. Threatened by mounting catastrophes, ruthless security teams, and with simmering internal rivalries coming to a boil, this crew's one final stunt might well be the last thing any of them ever do.

Containing the stories: PURITY BALL (2015); LIFE COACH (2012); HOWL OF THE SHEEP (2010); BLIND ITEM (2015); NATASHA HATES A VACUUM (2011); THE TELLTALE PARTY (2019, original to this collection); AND THE ANGELS SING (2013); WE WILL REBUILD (2009); BLOOM WHERE YOU'RE PLANTED (2011); THE FREE SCHOOL (2016); DUST MADE OF WORDS (2014); MISERICORDIA (2019 original to this collection); OF A THOUSAND CUTS (2014); NIGREDO (2015); THE MAN WHO ESCAPED THIS STORY (2013).From Author's Introduction: "I hope these stories of bad things happening to worse people will give you thrills and chills, but if they are worth reading and remembering, if they were worth writing, I hope they will give you some sense of empathy for the condemned -some understanding of how people who feel trapped or driven by circumstance are too often the authors of their own undoing, or how even the most venal villains are the heroes of their own stories- and (perhaps it's not too much to hope for) help you figure out how to be the hero of yours ... and maybe even how to escape it."Cover art by Wendy Saber Cor

Inigo Hull is a bounty hunter in these five grimly powerful tales that meld weird fiction with the western into a distinctive amalgam. The Old West was a place where Americans, Spaniards, and native cultures all mingled, while they battled cosmic forces beyond their comprehension. The longest of these tales, the novella "The Invisible Empire," provides background on Hull, who served in the Union army during the Civil War but then ventured west to seek his fortune. This story, taking place in Oklahoma, draws upon H. P. Lovecraft's imperishable account of the underground civilization of Tsath, as depicted in "The Mound." In all these narratives, Inigo Hull uses both his implacable courage and his knowledge of the occult to do battle with the nameless entities that seek to overthrow human civilization in the New World. Cody Goodfellow is the author of nine novels, including Radiant Dawn (2000) and Scum of the Earth (2019), as well as five short story collections, one of which, Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales (2016), was published by Hippocampus Press.