' This book is a joy to read unlocking every bit of delicious promise in the premise' B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog Meet Greta Helsing doctor to the undead After inheriting a highly specialised & highly peculiar medical practice Dr Helsing spends her days treating London's undead for a host of ills vocal strain in banshees arthritis in barrow-wights & entropy in mummies Although barely making ends meet this is just the quiet supernatural-adjacent life Greta's dreamed of since childhood But when a sect of murderous monks emerges killing human undead & alike Greta must use all her unusual skills to keep her supernatural clients
- & the rest of London
- safe'A darkly delicious adventure featuring a quirky new heroine Strange Practice breathes new life into the undead'
- James Bennett author of Chasing Embers


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Two complete novels & five novelettes that broke new ground in science fiction & established Philip Jose Farmer as a master of the genre The Lovers One of the most controversial & groundbreaking novels in science fiction Sent by the religious tyr ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All sixteen episodes of the cult 1960s detective drama Anthony Quayle plays Adam Strange a Home Office criminologist drawn into the investigation of bizarre & baffling cases that are beyond the skills of the normal police Ably assisted by American graduate student Hamlyn (Kaz Garas) & his dizzy artist neighbour Evelyn (Anneke Wills) Strange investigates against the backdrop of swinging 1960s London Episodes are & Heart No Choice for the Donor&; & Racist A Most Dangerous Proposal&; & Skeleton Let Sleeping Heroes Lie&; & Cult Murder Shrieks Out&; & Kidnap Whose Pretty Girl Are You?&; & Sniper When is Your Cousin Not?&; & Epidemic A Most Curious Crime&; & Swindle Square Root of Evil&; & Revenge When a Man Hates&; & Cover Girls Last Year&s Model&; &X-Ray Who Weeps for the Doctor?&; & Hand A Matter of Witchcraft&; & Grenade What Price Change?&; & Shrapnel The Wish in the Dream&; & Hostage If You Won&t Learn Die!& & & Lonelyhearts Who Killed Dan Cupid?& ...

Horror Action & Mystery in the shoals of the Earth What&s the hardest part of running a game? It has to be the preparation You can&t just spontaneously say " Let&s play a roleplaying game" unless someone&s already spent hours preparing an adventure for the group But what if running a great game did require any more effort for the game master than it does for the players? Strange Revelations makes prepping for an RPG no more difficult or time consuming than setting up a board game while showcasing the wonder & weirdness of the many recursions lying in the Shoals of Earth This is a must-have for beginning & veteran GMs of The Strange These aren&t adventure seeds
- they&re complete adventures in an innovative format that requires minimal prep Run them as one-shots or drop them into your ongoing campaign when you don&t have time to prep your own adventures You can even run them together as a campaign for months of effortless play!
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Join award-winning storyteller Scott Morse as he hurtles the varied worlds of our popular culture through time & space their collision resulting in a most unique amalgam of STRANGE SCIENCE FANTASY! Untold tales of gods like the Headlight the Shogunaut the Projectionist GIGantic & the Foolish Fling will merge into a fantastic new tome of pop-culture as religion & you dear readers will be the first to take communion! Also this volume collects all six one-page tales by the critically-acclaimed comics juggernaut Paul Pope produced exclusively for SSF! ...

The La Fleur restaurant has a slew of unusual phenomena Bonnet-clad apparitions pass through walls blood leaks from ceilings & rats besiege the dining room Experts from the Great Essex Witch Museum are called in to quell these strange sights But before Rosie Strange & Sam Stone can do their thing events turn darker For La Fleur's chef has been strung up & slaughtered like a pig More oddly the only witness the owner's daughter Mary swears blind a ghost did it Rosie & Sam must find out what's happening before Mary takes the fall But intuitions & tip-offs lead them stumbling into the dark waters of the past exposing secrets of a wider conspiracy as well as secrets all Rosie's own With strange chills Rosie & Sam learn that seeing isn't always believing while thoughts of truth may be just as illusory ...

Comics& top talents including some making their Vertigo debut take on the classic DC Comics anthology title for four issues of strange scary sexy & sensational sports stories Featuring stories & art by Brian Azzarello CM Punk Paul Pope Gilbert Hernandez Lauren Beukes Ben Mc Cool Ivan Brandon Monica Gallagher Lee Loughridge Nick Dragotta Christopher Mitten Darick Robertson Mark Finn John Lucas Gabe Soria Ronald Wimberly Michael Di Motta Tim Fish Rael Lyra & many more! Collects issues 1-4 ...

They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories 'A tale to freeze the blood' was the only rule Switzerland 1816 On a stormy summer night Lord Byron & his guests are gathered round the fire Felix their serving boy can't wait to hear their creepy tales Yet real life is about to take a chilling turn- more chilling than any tale Frantic pounding at the front door reveals a stranger a girl covered in the most unusual scars She claims to be looking for her sister supposedly snatched from England by a woman called Mary Shelley Someone else has followed her here too she says & the girl is terrified This breathtaking new book from Emma Carroll the critically-acclaimed author of Frost Hollow Hall The Girl Who Walked On Air In Darkling Wood & The Snow Sister is a deliciously creepy story inspired by the creation of Frankenstein & is brought to life by a leading talent in children's literature ...

Four short novels from the author of THE FIREMAN & HORNS ranging from creepy horror to powerful explorations of our modern society One autumnal day in Boulder Colorado the clouds open up in a downpour of nails splinters of bright crystal that tear apart anyone who isn't safely under cover ' Rain' explores this escalating apocalyptic event as clouds of nails spread out across the country & the world Amidst the chaos a girl studying law enforcement takes it upon herself to resolve a series of almost trivial mysteries apparently harmless puzzles that turn out to have lethal answers In ' Loaded' a mall security guard heroically stops a mass shooting & becomes a hero to the modern gun movement Under the hot glare of the spotlights though his story begins to unravel taking his sanity with it ' Snapshot 1988' tells the story of an kid in Silicon Valley who finds himself threatened by The Phoenician a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid that can steal memories And in ' Aloft' a young man takes to the skies to experience parachuting for the first time & winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud a Prospero's island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own ...

Tsukiko is in her late 30s & living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers ' Sensei' in a bar He is at least thirty years her senior retired & she presumes a widower After this initial encounter the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food & drink sake & as the seasons pass
- from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms
- Tsukiko & Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly & poignantly into love Perfectly constructed funny & moving Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tale of modern Japan & old-fashioned romance

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