Michael H. Hanson

Sha'Daa: ToysCreated by Michael H. HansonEdited by Edward F. McKeownThe mother of all apocalypses, The Sha'Daa, is back The mysterious Johnny the Salesman is up to his usual eldritch tricks and his latest ally, the immortal toy seller Willy Carroll, just might have the answer to saving planet Earth from destruction if he can sell enough supernatural toys at Whirligigs toy store in Chicago to turn the tide against evil. Twenty-six authors of the macabre offer up twenty-two gruesome tales of supernatural toys in this delightful shared-world adventure. The Doomsday Clock for the End Times is Ticking and reaching out to Dark Magic Portals of Infinity. The call is out for Demon Slayers Fighting Evil. Sha'Daa is the Apocalypse Survival Kit for Earth's Armies of the Night as Portals to Hell and Gateways to Abomination begin to open across forty-eight hours. Monster Hunters stand ready at every Doorway to Danger.Authors: C.J. HendersonMichael H. HansonEdward F. McKeownArthur SanchezRichard GrollerShebat LegionJoe BonadonnaRobby HilliardBeth Waggoner PattersonDiane ArrelleKacey EzellMarisa WolfLarry Atchley Jr.A.E. AtchleyJason CordovaTerry MaggertChristopher L. SmithJoseph Capdepon IIBenjamin Tyler SmithGustavo BondoniR.J. LadonLouis AntonelliBill BarnhillCecelia Star KachinaMagda JonesWilliam Joseph Roberts" Sha'Daa] is an entertaining dark fantasy apocalyptic horror thrill ride "- David J. West, Nephite Blood, Spartan Heart"Hell. Literally, here The Hordes of Hell are about to ride out upon mankind, the Forces of Evil are trembling with eagerness at the doors of our dimension..."- S.M. Stirling, Prometheus Award Winning AuthorThe mother of all apocalypses, The Sha'Daa, is back The mysterious Johnny the Salesman is up to his usual eldritch tricks and his latest ally, the immortal toy seller Willy Carroll, just might have the answer to saving planet Earth from destruction if he can sell enough supernatural toys at Whirligigs toy store in Chicago to turn the tide against evil. Twenty-six authors of the macabre offer up twenty-two gruesome tales of supernatural toys in this delightful shared-world adventure. Sha'Daa: Toys - Michael H. Hanson's Sha'Daa(TM) Series - www.shadaa.com

Jubilant Whispers and Other Melodic LyricsMichael H. Hanson's soulful collection of poetry, Jubilant Whispers, has been out of print for several years. It returns, now, fully re-edited with many poems rewritten, and additional works added to this second addition.In Jubilant Whispers, Michael offers up seventy-one works, a cornucopia of passionate poems that feed the heart and spirit. In his verses and prose, he recounts moments of pleasure, loss, pain, and longing. His childhood remembrances are filled with urgency and hurt, and yet each bleeds with a humanity and rich yearning that all readers, of any age, can relate to.Jubilant Whispers is not only a doorway into one man's journey, but a living, breathing testament to the endurance of the human race. Embrace His and Her Last Holiday, her Intimate Communion with Spring Water, an Intimacy From The Inside Out, filled with Emotional Intelligence and all it offers in Poems For Women. Witness a Childhood Disrupted. Dive into Emotional Intelligence, Self Awareness, and an all too powerful Flirtationship. Find an alluring Contemplation In Action of Unrequited Love. Immerse yourself in Seasons Of The Storm Of Your Life.

Autumn BlushAutumn Leaves and Cranberry KissesAutumn Blush is poet Michael H. Hanson's first published collection of poetry. Long out of print, it has been re-edited from cover to cover with many pieces receiving Michael's rewrites that range from minor to extensive. A small number of poems have been removed and replaced with new exciting verse.Autumn Blush contains sixty-one of Michael's most rustic and romantic poetry that roams through nature and all of the seasons. These short sonnets explore the depths of ardent passion felt by both fiery lovers and those whose powerful affections are left unrequited. Take a few moments to recline in this Love Seat of Poetry, for some much-needed Flirtation and Folly. Embrace Unrequited Love and Autumn D cor. Let this be His and Her Last Holiday of Unrequited Infatuations. Thrill to the rhymes of Flirty Dresses and all the fun tropes you find in Romance Books for Women. Laugh with her Intimate Communion with Her Summer Dress. Attune your soul to the language of Intimacy and Emotional Intelligence. Let your mind weave a Spiritual Tapestry of these Poems For Women.Settle in a comfy chair beneath a soft blanket this night, beside a roaring fireplace with a glass of your favorite libation in one hand, Autumn Blush in the other, and lose yourself in this delicious verse and prose.

When The Night Owl Screamsby Michael H. HansonVisions of terror, abandonment, and rejection...nightmares populated by archetypes of death, mystery, and the supernatural. Join Michael on an eerie bus ride of the soul and brace yourself for each strange and macabre stop. When The Night Owl Screams offers up 105 hair-raising poems that worm their way through the fever dreams of your subconscious.Remember...you were warned. If you dare, open this tome of Macabre Eerie Tales of the Supernatural, this King of Rhyming Horror Books for Adults, filled with Dark Tales of the Darkest Depth of Your Soul, Nightmare Scenarios Hiding in The Dark, Hidden Fates, Halloween Treats, and Midnight Poetry. This is the Poetry Slam of Chilling Creatures of Passage, and the Ultimate in Frightening Fortunes Spoken Word Poetry. Welcome to Dark Poetry from the Creepypasta Master of Horror."This book is like a magical ticket to visit everything that has been, that touched and surrounded us, from yesterday's vanilla smell to that of chopped alien almonds of lost days, stuck inside us. This is the secret of Michael's book: his intimately varnished poems carry us back and forth in time and space..."-Alessandro Manzetti, Bram Stoker Award Winning Poet

Frightening visions of abandonment, suicide, murder, and depression ...nightmares populated by archetypes of spiritual evil, loneliness, death, mystery, and supernatural terror. These are the life-blood of haunted poet, Michael H. Hanson.Take a step upon a dangerous carnival ride of the soul and brace yourself for jarring drops into shocking darkness. Dark Parchments offers up 85 chilling poems that crawl and slither through the fears staining the human psyche, making us shiver in the night.Scared yet? ...You will be. If you dare, open this Tome of Macabre Eerie Tales of the Supernatural, this King of Rhyming Horror Books for Adults, filled with Dark Tales of the Darkest Depth of Your Soul, Nightmare Scenarios Hiding in The Dark, Hidden Fates, Halloween Treats, and Midnight Poetry. This is the Poetry Slam of Chilling Creatures of Passage, and the ultimate in Frightening Fortunes Spoken Word Poetry. Welcome to Dark Poetry from the Creepypasta Master of Horror. "Where are today's lyric poets? Where is today's Shelley? He] may well be in the pages of DARK PARCHMENTS: Midnight Curses and Verses, a brooding anthology exploring humanity's awful heart, its crippling guilt and madness, its untoward dominion and unbridled power." - Janet Morris, Author and Creator of the Heroes in Hell and Sacred Band series

Welcome to the world of shadows, cloaked in perpetual starlight; its denizens are a mysterious and frightening breed. And sometimes, just sometimes, their eldritch whispers and murmurs can cross the boundaries of reality and enter our darkest dreams.Richard Groller and his troupe of dead and living poets pull back the veil in The Book of Night, revealing the terrifying denizens of the shadows. Eerie and hypnotic artwork by some of today's most chilling artists illuminates the vivid imaginings of the poets. If you dare, open this tome of Macabre Eerie Tales of the Supernatural, this King of Rhyming Horror Books for Adults, filled with Dark Tales of the Darkest Depth of Your Soul, Nightmare Scenarios Hiding in The Dark, Hidden Fates, Halloween Treats, and Midnight Poetry. This is the Poetry Slam of Chilling Creatures of Passage, and the Ultimate in Frightening Fortunes Spoken Word Poetry. Welcome to Dark Poetry from the Creepypasta Masters of Horror.Apparitions-things seen and unseen at the edge of our vision, or embedded in the corners of our nightmares.Sweet Sorrow-the pain and poignancy of loss, love unrequited, visions from afar, the pangs of memory, or the last breaths of mortals.The Autumn People-denizens of the night welcome the Fall and its All Hallows promises.Through A Glass Darkly-peer through the gloom seeking the moment of revelation, and all becomes clear-or not.Come, the Night awaits...Authors-Living: Louis AgrestaLarry Atchley, Jr.Jeff BarnesDean M. DrinkelRichard D. EvansJack William FinleyAllan GilbreathRichard GrollerMichael HansonLori MartinChris MorrisJanet MorrisKurt NewtonJillian PerkinsKimberly RichardsonBill SniderAngel WeaverAuthors-Deceased: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913)Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824)Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)Robert Frost (1874-1963)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, (Lord Dunsany) (1878-1957)Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Artists: Michael BielaczycPaul BielaczycBob GiadrosichLiz HollandChris Mars

Over a century ago evil crossed the barriers of reality and entered our world. Dispersing itself across the Earth among an eclectic array of jewelry and microcircuits, this darkness has interacted with much of the most heinous and atrocious acts committed on our planet to date. But now, after decades of secrecy, the truth of this covert and eldritch intrusion has now been exposed to the light of day. In an epic spanning oceans, continents, and dimensions, the personal accounts of those who have come face to face with the unimaginable are now released for your reading pleasure. The Doomsday Clock for the End Times is Ticking and reaching out to Dark Magic Portals of Infinity. The call is out for Demon Slayers Fighting Evil. Sha'Daa is the Apocalypse Survival Kit for Earth's Armies of the Night as Portals to Hell and Gateways to Abomination begin to open across forty-eight hours. Monster Hunters stand ready at every Doorway to Danger. SHA'DAA FACETS offers up 24 frightening and macabre tales of the past and present, penned by some of today's most imaginative authors. Authors: C.J. Henderson - Michael H. Hanson - Edward F. McKeown - Arthur Sanchez - Deborah Koren - Wayne Joseph Borean - Jason Cordova - Gustavo Bondoni - Jamie K. Schmidt - Richard Groller - Rob Adams - John Vise - Sarah Wagner - Shebat Legion - Robby Hilliard - Larry Atchley, Jr. - Beth W. Patterson - Jeff Barnes - Mallory Makepeace - Hildy Silverman - Terrence Ulysses CorkJohn Manning - Dina Leacock - Allison Chrysler Smith

Sha'Daa: Last CallThe Hell Realms endure and humanity's extinction appears to be a forgone conclusion... unless Johnny The Salesman has something to say about it. Stop by the Triple-Six Tavern for a drink on the house, blow a life's savings or just your soul in the Gaming Pit, groove to some of history's greatest bands, spend an amorous hour in the Brothel Tents, settle a life or death challenge in the Grudge Pit, hit the crowded Dance Floor, and revel in the greatest party of all time held in the most famous bar in all of the multiverse The Doomsday Clock for the End Times is Ticking and calling out to Dark Magic Portals of Infinity. The call is out for Demon Slayers Fighting Evil. Sha'Daa is the Apocalypse Survival Kit for Earth's Armies of the Night as Portals to Hell and Gateways to Abomination begin to open across forty-eight hours. Monster Hunters stand ready at every Doorway to Danger.Authors featured in Sha'Daa Last Call: C.J. Henderson, Michael H. Hanson, Edward F. McKeown, Arthur Sanchez, Deborah Koren, Paul Barrett, Anthony Truax, Sarah Wagner, Mallory Makepeace, Bruce Durham, Jordan Ellinger, and James I. Wasserman

Once every 10,000 years comes the Sha'Daa, two days when evil crosses the dimensional barriers and attacks the Earth. Sha'Daa: Tales of the Apocalypse is a collection of frightening tales that run the gamut from soul-shaking horror, to wry and ironic takes on the end of reality. Unlikely heroes in unusual locations battle not only for their own survival, but for all of humanity. For ten millennium demons and monsters have been mere folktales, relegated to obscure campfire orations to which we no longer pay heed. Make no mistake, the realms of hell endure, their denizens slaver with hatred, and now their time has come. Are you ready for the Sha.Daa? The Doomsday Clock for the End Times is Ticking and reaching out to Dark Magic Portals of Infinity. The call is out for Demon Slayers Fighting Evil. Sha'Daa is the Apocalypse Survival Kit for Earth's Armies of the Night as Portals to Hell and Gateways to Abomination begin to open across forty-eight hours. Monster Hunters stand ready at every Doorway to Danger. Writers: C. J. Henderson, Deborah Koren, Arthur Sanchez, Edward F. McKeown, Jamie Schmidt, D. R. MacMaster, Jason Cordova, Nancy Jackson, Lee Ann Kuruganti, Sarah Wagner, and Michael H. Hanson.Horror fiction fans will enjoy these riveting tales about the coming of the Sha'Daa Tales of The Apocalypse is the first book in the Sha 'Daa Series, currently including Sha 'Daa: Last Call, Sha 'Daa: Pawns, Sha 'Daa Facets, Sha'Daa: Inked, Sha 'Daa: Toys, and Sha'Daa: Zombie Park.EDWARD MCKEOWN is a native son of NYC from which he draws much of the color and attitude of his stories. He moved to Charlotte, North Carolina where he developed an interest in the martial arts, achieving a black sash (belt) in Kung Fu and now studies Taekwando.DEBORAH KOREN writes fiction from California's Sierra Nevada mountains. When she's not writing or reading (or working at her pesky day job), she is out hiking, playing with her dogs and cats, fencing, watching Combat reruns, shoveling snow, and frequenting the local library.C.J. HENDERSON'S best-known work in the hardboiled genre is Jack Hagee is detective series and his supernatural detective Teddy London series, as well as many other short stories and novels featuring many characters from Lovecraftian fiction and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.ARTHUR SANCHEZ was born and raised in Manhattan. He has a degree in Theater and another in Political Science from Fordham University at Lincoln Center. He currently resides in Florida.JAMIE SCHMIDT has written many tales of the fantastic. A master of the short form, her sci-fi, horror, and fantasy stories are always delightful.D.R. MACMASTER is a writer/filmmaker/cartoonist and occasional pop-culture columnist. Currently he's keeping with his tradition of doing way too much at one time, by rewriting two novels while writing a first draft of an original screenplay.JASON CORDOVA has had multiple short stories published and more novels in the pipeline. He currently lives in Kentucky, very near to the heart of thoroughbred country.NANCY JACKSON, from her home in Ontario edits, writes, reviews, and reads all manner of fiction.LEE ANN KURUGANTI a former mountaineer and kayak guide, is a talented Digital Artist and graduate of the University of Colorado. Lee Ann has written a host of wonderful short stories and two unpublished novels. She works and lives in ColoradoSARAH WAGNER lives in West Virginia with her husband and two sons. Most of her work tends towards science fiction and her stories have appeared in numerous magazines, ezines, anthologies, and her own collection of science fiction.MICHAEL H. HANSON is the author of numerous screenplays, poems, and short stories. His brain-child, the shared-world anthology series THE SHA'DAA, reflects the inner demons that he daily keeps at bay. He lives and works in Colorado.