Art Wiederhold

In the year 269 of the Second Age, the ancient port city of New Orleans is still steeped in voodoo rituals and overrun with vampires, vengeful spirits, werewolves and other things that haunt the darkness. Unable to cope with this worsening situation, Voodoo Queen Minerva DuPree sends an urgent plea for help to the secretive organization known as The Vatican. Enter the enigmatic Hunter, their top Slayer, and his beautiful vampire partner, Lorena. They must not only destroy the creatures of the night but also uncover who or what is responsible for New Orleans' nightmare...

As if things weren't dangerous enough in New Orleans! While Hunter and his friends contend with the usual vampires, werewolves, angry spirits and terrifying demons, Hunter's worst enemy, the Baron, has decided to make the Crescent City his new home. To announce his arrival, the Baron leaves a trail of near-mummified bodies throughout the city and Hunter and his allies find themselves being propelled toward what could be the final confrontation with their hated enemy--and the revelation of dark things from Hunter's past that are best left forgotten.

A powerful vampire lord is stalking the streets of the legendary Crescent City and Hunter and his friends are determined to kill him. As they search the city for his lair, they must contend with a creature that hunts and kills rougarou, mysterious vanishing buildings, a vengeful witch and other nasty things that go bump in the night. With this third installment of his popular Hunter series, master story teller Art Wiederhold takes the reader on another wild ride of fantasy, horror, mayhem and irreverant humor in New Orleans of the Second Age.

Romi is a cute, sexy, and exotic woman who loves to hang out at casinos with her best friend and cheat on her husband. She even gets her friend to cover things up for her so that her husband won't know about her infidelities. Romi thinks she's being so clever about it and that her husband doesn't suspect a thing. The trouble is, he can read her like an open book and even has a network of friends who keep him informed of Romi's activities-including her own best friend Instead of cracking down on Romi, he decides to fight fire with fire by having affairs with Romi's best friend and another woman, who is half Romi's age. Stray Cats is another satirical, erotic masterpiece from Art Wiederhold, who once again takes aim at false modern morality and skewers modern relationships like only he can.

Central Highlands, Vietnam, July 1971. When American pilots detect something big and heavy moving through the jungle some 75 miles northwest of Fort Nowhere, Lt. John Barrows and his squad are sent to check it out. At the same time, NVA Captain Ho Huong is tasked with a two-fold mission by his commanding officer. His main objective is to locate and exterminate bands of rogue VC who have been terrorizing villagers south of the DMZ. He is also to check out reports of something very large that is moving through the jungle. As the two squads of opposing soldiers carry out their missions, both Barrows and Ho realize that something large and dangerous is cutting a swath of death and destruction through the region and that the only way to deal with it is to join forces. The Killer Things is an off-beat, exciting blend of horror, science fiction and men in war caught up in a situation that's enough to try their sanity as they form an alliance to deal with a horror that simply shouldn't exist

In "THE BLACK SHIPS," Art Wiederhold takes the sword and sorcery genre in an entirely new direction and comes up with a real gem. "THE BLACK SHIPS" are mysterious galleons that appear out of nowhere to roam the shipping lanes of the Great Southern Sea. Although Arka-Dal, the emperor of Thule, is intrigued by the strange ships, they seem to pose no real threat to anyone. Besides, he has other problems to consider, like finding out who is behind the brutal raids on innocent, unarmed people in the northwestern part of the Empire. But soon, the Black Ships prove to be real and terrifying threats to ships and harbor cities. This forces Arka-Dal and his loyal companions to set out after them and become embroiled in the wildest and deadliest adventure of their lives! "THE BLACK SHIPS" is a masterfully crafted addition to the "Thulian Chronicles" and proves why Art Wiederhold is considered by many to be the best fantasy writer of all time.

"THE GOD BOX is a provocative, racy sequel to "CIRCLE IN A SPIRAL. This time, famed archeologist Art Wilder and his team of experts travel to Egypt to uncover the secrets of the Sphinx and to find the long-lost tomb of the legendary Imhotep. While their search is purely scientific, there are others who also seek the famous lost tomb and the secrets that lie buried with Imhotep. And they will do anything to get them! "The God Box is the latest chapter in the Wilder sagas. It's a wild blend of history, science fiction and steamy sex and wry humor that also challenges the "accepted" theories of the origins of human civilization. "THE GOD BOX is a must-read for fans of Art Wiederhold and proves once again that he is the master storyteller of our time.