Erin Louis

Lacey, a goth introvert with sketchy people skills, befriends Colleen, a dazzlingly beautiful ghost, during a solo Ouija board session. At last, her loneliness comes to an end. An eclectic pairing indeed, but they form an odd-but-satisfying and far-from-platonic friendship. When Lacey begins work as a stripper, she and Colleen find themselves with a conspiratorial mystery to solve in the strip club. Unfortunately, Lacey's newfound supernatural lover has a secret... or two and isn't what she seems to be at all. Colleen is not a ghost at all, but a succubus with an unfortunate habit of killing people. Accidentally. It's not long before the mounting number of deaths occurring around Lacey draws the attention of a tenacious homicide detective... Can Colleen uncover the shady happenings at the club and keep her beloved Lacey out of jail?

Kat's journey into the afterlife she never expected, continues as she is made an intriguing job offer. Having escaped from Heaven, God and his awful angels, Kat is enjoying Hell. Satan is nothing like the evil being she was taught in church, but is instead a lovable, if not easy to look at, fallen angel. But he has asked her to return to the pious prison that is Heaven to rescue the other souls like herself who are miserable there. She accepts, albeit a little reluctantly at first...But with Satan's help, she sneaks back into Heaven where she finds a few friends but also the wrath of God himself.

They're coming to get you... "Prepare Because Death is Coming" by Jay Wilburn: "Take this and bear the warning." When a messenger arrives at Dry Stretch, warning that a horde of zombies is heading their way forty years after the fall, Bay scoffs at the news. But a 'full body' meeting is called. Ethic is sent north to scout, but in Dry Stretch, no one is preparing. No one is repairing the walls. A William Faulkneresque story of the dead set in a dystopic dust-bowl town."Zombie Diner" by Armand Rosamilia: A family finds themselves on the wrong side of the zombie apocalypse while on vacation in Florida... "Dance with the Dead" by Erin Louis: Tiffney is expecting just another night at the strip club. But when a customer goes berserk in the VIP room, things take an unexpectedly bloody turn. Stuck with a cocaine raddled manager and a shady club owner. Tiffney faces the unimaginable and is forced to turn her coworkers into allies to fight the evil that has taken over the club. Together they have to fight to stay alive. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

They're coming to get you... "Prepare Because Death is Coming" by Jay Wilburn: "Take this and bear the warning." When a messenger arrives at Dry Stretch, warning that a horde of zombies is heading their way forty years after the fall, Bay scoffs at the news. But a 'full body' meeting is called. Ethic is sent north to scout, but in Dry Stretch, no one is preparing. No one is repairing the walls. A William Faulkneresque story of the dead set in a dystopic dust-bowl town."Zombie Diner" by Armand Rosamilia: A family finds themselves on the wrong side of the zombie apocalypse while on vacation in Florida... "Dance with the Dead" by Erin Louis: Tiffney is expecting just another night at the strip club. But when a customer goes berserk in the VIP room, things take an unexpectedly bloody turn. Stuck with a cocaine raddled manager and a shady club owner. Tiffney faces the unimaginable and is forced to turn her coworkers into allies to fight the evil that has taken over the club. Together they have to fight to stay alive. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Kat, a lapsed Catholic and promiscuous stripper, never thought she would get into Heaven.Even as she stands there at the Pearly Gates, she naturally expects to be sent directly to Hell. She picks a fight with St. Peter just for fun, but rules are rules, and Kat makes it into Heaven on a minor technicality. Once there, Kat discovers, much to her dismay, the angels are jerks, the only music is God-awful Christian rock, and her brand-new halo comes with some most troubling conditions. As if things weren't dismaying enough, Kay reunites with her father, who found eternal peace in a bottomless bottle of scotch, and her pot-smoking aunt, whose demon dealer resides in Hell. When she tracks down the demon, he tells Kat about his home in the desolate, fiery pit - where it rains blood but possesses all the earthly pleasures she misses so much in her disappointing afterlife. Heaven isn't the paradise Kat was promised in Sunday school, and she wants out. But will they let her go?