Book Genres: Fantasy

Fiction involving magical elements–things that cannot be

All Made of Hinges

All Made of HingesTitle: All Made of Hinges
Short Story Title: The Pipes of Columbia
Series: Mormon Steampunk #1
Published by: Immortal Works
Release Date: November 2018
Authors: D. J. Butler, John M. Olsen, Steven L. Peck, Elizabeth Mueller, Scott E. Tarbet, Jay Barnson, Joe Monson, Amanda Hamblin, Christopher McAfee, Jace Killan, John D. Payne, Lee Allred
Editors: James Wymore
Genre:
ASIN: B07KH9WFSX
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Cheerful in the face of dark opposition. Innovative to improve a backward world. Industrial as a cure for oppressive conditions. Unyielding beneath all who seek to bind and control them. Faithful until they conquer the fear of death and rise to great acts of heroism and service. Mormons and Steampunks are two faces of the same coin.

Twelve authors spin tales of true believers facing impossible odds, risking this life in the hope of gaining something better after. Mormon Battalion soldiers fight an airship, a bounty hunter crosses Porter Rockwell, cultists attempt to reanimate Brigham Young, and missionaries run into Cthulhu. These are just a few of the amazing tales by award winning, bestselling, and premier authors--
D. J. Butler, John M. Olsen, Steven L. Peck, Elizabeth Mueller, Scott E. Tarbet, Jay Barnson, Joe Monson, Amanda Hamblin, Christopher McAfee, Jace Killan, John D. Payne, and Lee Allred.

All Made of Hinges is the first installment in the incredible four-part Mormon Steampunk series by Immortal Works Press. If you love these stories, look for more in Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel, Press Forward, Saints, and A Mighty Fortress.

The Pipes of Columbia: In the 1893 World's Fair, the Columbia Exposition, a strange set of organ pipes have been stolen. A former detective is commissioned by a woman from Salt Lake City to help find the stolen merchandise, only to discover that the pipes are capable of much more than simple music in the hands of a vengeful villain!


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A Mighty Fortress

Blood Creek Beast

Title: Blood Creek Beast
Series: Blood Creek Saga #2
Published by: Immortal Works
Release Date: March 2019
Authors: Jay Barnson
Genre: ,
ASIN: B07NJZQVLD
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Jack needs to stop the darkness from reaching the crossroads. Jessabelle worries the darkness has already arrived.

Jack Parsons dreamed of escaping small town life, but now that he's discovered what's "just 'round the bend", he's trapped in another world entirely. While this mirror-image reality is more wondrous than Jack ever imagined, it's also laced with danger. The crossroads is under attack and it's up to Jack to protect it from the immortal Man in the White Suit.

On the other side of the crossroads, Jessabelle Rose runs for her life. The Coven plans to use her shape-shifting powers for their own dark ends. But Jessabelle can't run forever. Mysterious deaths deep in the Appalachian Mountains mean the darkness is moving closer, and Jessabelle will need to risk everything to protect her family.


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Blood Creek Phantom

Title: Blood Creek Phantom
Series: Blood Creek Saga #3
Published by: Immortal Works
Release Date: April 2020
Authors: Jay Barnson
Genre: ,
ASIN: B086DBJCM7
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Two armies—one living, one dead—march for the Crossroads. The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance.

Ghostly dead are rising in Maple Bend, and Sean Williams is witness to it all. Fighting to save Maple Bend becomes complicated when the vengeful spirit of a serial killer sets his focus on Sean. If he is going to succeed, Sean must put the dead to rest—but doing so may cost him the girl of his haunting dreams.

Living "round the bend" in self-imposed exile, Jenny Morgan still doesn't have the experience she needs to fight against the Man in the White Suit. But his daunting army approaches, ready to crush the protectors of the Crossroads. Will Jenny's powers be the last line of defense against the darkness, or the key to its victory?


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Blood Creek Devil

Title: Blood Creek Devil
Series: Blood Creek Saga #4
Published by: Immortal Works
Release Date: April 2021
Authors: Jay Barnson
Genre: ,
ASIN: B08ZPNVZ6N
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A centuries-old plan. A final battle. The fate of the Crossroads will be decided.

Jenny, Jack, Sean, and Jessabelle have battled for too long on both sides of the Crossroads. Their seemingly invincible enemy, The Man in the White Suit, will stop at nothing until he dominates both Earth and Around the Bend. But when Jenny and her companions delve into ancient mysteries, they discover secrets lost to the Wardens. If they are to defeat the dangerous Coven, they'll have to travel to the brutal void between worlds.

But the void demands unimaginable sacrifices.

The final battle against the Man in the White Suit and his forces is joined in Blood Creek Devil, the fourth and final chapter of the Blood Creek saga.


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Haunted Yuletide

Title: Haunted Yuletide
Published by: Immortal Works
Release Date: December 2020
Authors: Misha Burnett, David J. West, Lauren Stokeld, Amy Beatty, Sarah E. Seeley, L'ren Beck, Robin Cranney, Staci Olsen, Scott William Taylor, Donea Lee Weaver, John M. Olsen, James T. Lambert, Jodi Lynne Chase, Mark Minson, Allan Evans
Editors: Jay Barnson, Julie Barnson
Genre: ,
ASIN: B08MQNH3Z5
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The “Holiday Spirit” just got terrifying.

As the year comes to its end and the frigid night hours reach their peak, the old tradition of winter ghost tales makes its return. Christmas ghosts, Solstice spirits, New Year’s phantoms, and even armies of killer snowmen haunt the pages of these stories of the supernatural.

A Cup of Kindness by Misha Burnett
Stranger Come Knocking by David J. West
Don’t Disturb the Carollers by Lauren Stokeld
Echoes at Midnight by Amy Beatty
Te Amo, Mamita by Sarah E. Seeley
A Solstice Scare by Robin Cranney
Silent Night by Allan Evans
Love Me, I Pray by Staci Olsen
Angel in the Attic by Donea Lee Weaver
Ghost Train by John M. Olsen
‘Twas The Fight Before Christmas by James T. Lambert
The Ghost of Christmas Lost by L’ren Beck
Solstice Fire by Jodi Lynne Chase
All Through the House by Scott William Taylor
A Bloody Merry Christmas by Mark Minson

Of Fae and Fate

Title: Of Fae and Fate: Lesser-Known Fairy Tales, Retold
Short Story Title: Sop Paw
Published by: Immortal Works
Release Date: October 2019
Authors: Jay Barnson, John M Olsen, Amy Beatty, Rachel Huffmire, Sierra Wilson, W J Hayes
Editors: Beth Buck
Genre:
ASIN: B07YR9SJQM
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“Consider, amigo mío, that all stories begin with some grain of truth.”
“They’re no ordinary horses. They’re kelpies.”
“A strong arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her over the rail of the deck.”
“Cleanse the house on Blaubart Street.”

Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty aren’t the only fairy tales in the world, but they tend to steal most of the glory. It’s time to let others shine for a change. Sixteen talented authors each put their own spin on different fairy tales that you won’t find in animated films.

Trade your pining fair-haired princesses for fire fairies, conquistadors, plucky young men named Jack, and a fisherman’s daughter. You won’t see too many castles, but you’ll visit a haunted house, a mill, and a Russian bathhouse. This book also features not-so-wicked stepmothers, a hungry jackal, a black cat with a mysterious secret, and a ship full of pirates.
Move over, Cinderella. Make room for Mercedes.

Sop Paw: Jack goes to work for a miller, and finds himself besieged by mysterious, evil cats.

Cirsova Summer 2020

Title: Cirsova Summer 2020
Short Story Title: Bad Luck Charm
Series: Cirsova #3
Release Date: August 2020
Authors: Jay Barnson, Liviu Surugiu, Caroline Furlong, Brian M Milton, Dan Wolfgang, William Huggins, Darren Goossens
Genre:
ASIN: B08BNGZN86
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Novelettes

Battle Beyond the Continuum
By DARREN GOOSSENS
Rex Funnel and Paul Aglet have travelled across time and space, testing their new continuon flux drive—and found themselves in the midst of a planetary conflict!

The Meeting
By LIVIU SURUGIU
[translation by RALUCA BALASA]
Two star-crossed lovers, doomed by their strange malady to never meet, must share their thoughts and feelings by the letters they hide within their asylum chambers!

Short Stories

Ascension Star
By JOHN GRADOVILLE
Free trader Remi Gavilan’s world is turned upside down when he crosses paths with a pleasure girl…the same day the Jinlintan royal family is systematically murdered!

Why Did You Leave Your Last Employer?
By BRIAN M. MILTON
George may have found his dream job—keeping bees for the eccentric Dr. Rotstein! But what is the aim of the doctor’s experiments? Why does the honey taste strange?!

A Judgment of Lestrel
By WILLIAM HUGGINS
Penne has spent his Re-Gen-enhanced lives going on one bender after another—his last chance to break the cycle may be the incomparable world of Lestrel!

Henry and the Prince of Cats
By DAN WOLFGANG
A strange incident has left his master dead! With his newfound intelligence, Henry, a Scottish Terrier, sets out to solve the mystery of what happened to all the humans!

Bad Luck Charm
By JAY BARNSON
Larry Colton has had quite the run of luck! He’s got a good job and a new girlfriend he thinks is out of his league…Things are great, aside from a few strange nightmares!

Death’s Shadow
By CAROLINE FURLONG
Iraq War vet Matt Barnaby has been blessed—and cursed—by the ability to see the shadow of death, hanging about the auras of those around him!


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Cirsova Spring 2017

Title: Cirsova Spring 2017
Short Story Title: The Queen of Shadows
Series: Cirsova #2
Release Date: March 2017
Authors: Jay Barnson, Adrian Cole, Lynn Rushlau, S H Mansouri, Briak K Lowe, Misha Burnett, Michael Tierney, Louise Sorensen, James Hutchings, Schuyler Hernstrom
Genre:
ASIN: B06XHJMSS3
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Spring 2017 special Eldritch Earth issue.
Burroughsian adventure on a prehistoric Lovecraftian Earth.

Novella

  • The First American, by Schuyler Hernstrom

Short Stories

  • War of the Ruby/Shapes In the Fog, by Brian K. Lowe
  • Darla of Deodanth, by Louise Sorensen
  • In the Gloaming O My Darling, by Misha Burnett
  • The Queen of Shadows, by Jay Barnson
  • Beyond the Great Divide, by S.H. Mansouri
  • Through the Star-Thorn Maze, by Lynn Rushlau
  • The Bears of 1812, by Michael Tierney
  • A Killing in Karkesh, by Adrian Cole

Poetry

  • My Name is John Carter (Pt. 4), by James Hutchings


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Cirsova Winter 2016

Title: Cirsova Winter 2016
Short Story Title: The Priests of Shalaz
Series: Cirsova #1
Release Date: November 2016
Authors: Jay Barnson, Rob Lang, Joyce Frohn, Liana Kerzner, S H Mansouri, Christine Lucas, James Hutchings, Jeffrey Scott Sims, Edward M Erdelac, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Lynn Rushlau, Jennifer Povey, Sean Monaghan, Preston Dennett, Howie K Bentley, Edward McDermott, Eugene L Morgulis, Harold R Thompson, Liana Kerzner
Genre:
ISBN13: 978-1535406086
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The Double-Stuffed Winter Issue of Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, featuring:


Novelettes

  • The Vault of Phalos, by Jeffery Scott Sims
  • Shadow Visions, by Preston Dennett


Short Stories

  • The Lady of the Amorous City, by Edward M. Erdelac
  • A Suit of Haidrah Skin, by Rob Lang
  • ...Where There Is No Sanctuary, by Howie K. Bentley
  • The Last Dues Owed, by Christine Lucas
  • The Witch of Elrica, by Jennifer Povey
  • The Bubbcat, by Sean Monaghan
  • Wall Wardens, by Lynn Rushlau
  • Lost Men, by Eugene Morgulis
  • The Unfolding of the World, by Harold R. Thompson
  • The Sands of Rubal-Khali, by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
  • The Priests of Shalaz, by Jay Barnson
  • Dust of Truth, by Joyce Frohn
  • The Ride, by Edward McDermott
  • My Name is John Carter (Pt.3), by James Hutchings
  • The Phantom Sands of Calavass, by S.H. Mansouri


Essay

  • The Feminine Force Awakens, by Liana Kerzner

The Priests of Shalaz: The Royal Navy discovers an island with a portal to seemingly primitive world, underestimating the forces that watch over the portal.


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Storyhack Issue 3

Title: Storyhack Issue 3
Short Story Title: Shoot First
Series:
Published by: Baby Katie Media
Release Date: October 2018
Authors: Jay Barnson, Paul R. McNamee, Luke Foster, JD Cowan, Joanna Maciejewska, Jason J. McCuiston, Aaron Zimmerman, Jon Mollison
Genre:
ASIN: B07J5RV36W
Buy the Book: Amazon
  • Claws of the Puma by Paul R. McNamee - In the rainforests of Brazil, poaching loggers and traditional rubber tree tappers are at war. Journalist Sarah Stoughton gets more than she bargained for when she is caught up in the violence, and comes face to face with the legendary man of the jungle, the Puma.
  • Shoot First by Jay Barnson - Flint and another agent are assigned to confiscate a dangerous cursed magical artifact from a street gang, only to find that the entire operation was a set-up by a local crime boss and an analyst from within the Order.
  • Inside the Demon's Eye by JD Cowan - A young adventurer searches the Black Lands for a lifesaving treasure. He may not get the chance to find it, as he is being stalked by a malevolent force.
  • Get to the River by Luke Foster - A park ranger plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with a gang of killers on the scorching hot floor of the Grand Canyon in July.
  • Scourges, Spells, and Serenades by Joanna Maciejewska - An archanist must work alongside a high mage to find her missing cousin. The trail leads them to the arena of a secret demon cult, where their skill will be put to a deadly test.
  • Showdown at Stone Ridge by Jason J. McCuiston -
  • by - A military deserter is spared the noose if he will travel to the mining town of Stone Ridge and stop the desperados. What he finds in Stone Ridge is not bandits, but a land baron with an army, led by a Djinn. How can he possibly stand against such paramilitary might and magic?
  • Master of Thieves by Aaron Zimmerman - For years Alex has admiringly followed the exploits of the two greatest thieves of her generation. Tonight, she wants to settle the question once and for all: who is the greatest thief of all?
  • The Dealer's Tale by Jon Mollison - A pregnant blackjack dealer walks a deadly line as she prepares to betray her mafia-owned boss to the feds.