Guns, Drugs and Monsters

Guns, Drugs and Monsters
Author: Steve Niles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Horror comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781596871342

When the living, decapitated head of Cal McDonald's old buddy shows up on his doorstep, it launches the monster hunting private eye out of his familiar surroundings and into the nightmarish underworld of Los Angeles. There, Cal must face a savage pair of bestial killers and a bloodthirsty vampire as he strives to help his unfortunate friend. Little does he know that he's stepping into the grips of a demonic deal. Hard-boiled detective tales in the tradition of Chandler and Hammett take a wicked spin in the hands of Steve Niles who in Guns, Drugs, and Monsters adds ghosts, ghouls, and a nasty hangover to the classic genre.

Guns, Drugs, and Monsters

Guns, Drugs, and Monsters
Author: Steve Niles
Publisher: iBooks
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781416508304

When the living, decapitated head of Cal McDonald's old buddy shows up on his doorstep, it launches the private eye/monster hunter out of his familiar surroundings and into the nightmarish world of Los Angeles. There, he must face a savage pair of bestial killers and a bloodthirsty vampire as he strives to help his unfortunate friend. Little does he know that a demonic deal has been strucko?= In the tradition of the hardboiled fiction of Hammett and Chandler, author Steve Niles takes readers on a bizarre trip through an America populated by monsters, freaks, and ghouls.

The Vampire Book

The Vampire Book
Author: J Gordon Melton
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Total Pages: 945
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1578593506

The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

The Night of the Gun

The Night of the Gun
Author: David Carr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1471108422

David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best friend pulled a gun on him. 'No,' said the friend (to David's horror, as a lifelong pacifist), 'It was you that had the gun.' Using all his skills as an investigative reporter, he set out to research his own life, interviewing everyone from his parents and his ex-partners to the policemen who arrested him, the doctors who treated him and the lawyers who fought to prove he was fit to have custody of his kids. Unflinchingly honest and beautifully written, the result is both a shocking account of the depths of addiction and a fascinating examination of how -- and why -- our memories deceive us. As David says, we remember the stories we can live with, not the ones that happened.

Criminal Macabre

Criminal Macabre
Author: Steve Niles
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004
Genre: Graphic novels
ISBN: 9781840238730

Werewolves stealing. Vampires mugging. Ghouls beaten in their own sewers. A man murdered by monsters - with a letter opener. The connection? Private investigator Cal McDonald is damned (literally) if he knows.

Criminal Macabre: The Complete Cal McDonald Stories (Second Edition)

Criminal Macabre: The Complete Cal McDonald Stories (Second Edition)
Author: Steve Niles
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1506727476

The complete collection of Criminal Macabre prose stories by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) featuring two brand new tales and an introduction by horror legend John Carpenter! The world has two faces. The natural and the supernatural. The face we see every day, people filing past us in an almost zombie-like stupor, numb to the horrors of everyday life or driven to madness by the pain and agony of modern-day existence. And those are the people who aren't zombies or monsters! Cal McDonald is a detective with one foot in the real world, and one in the world of magic. For Cal, the horrors we all dream about in the fevered darkness of the night are all-too real, kept at bay through an almost constant influx of drugs to numb the pain, but never erase it. Cut from the same mold as Sam Spade, Jake Gittes, and the famous detectives of Chandler, Hammett and Spillane, Cal McDonald, whether he likes it or not, is all that stands between us and the nightmare world just outside our vision. Collects the complete Criminal Macabre prose stories Savage Membrane; Guns, Drugs, and Monsters; Dial M for Monster, All My Bloody Things, and two new prose stories: The Dead Son and Out of Water.

Gun, With Occasional Music

Gun, With Occasional Music
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1995-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312858780

Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in a first novel with a sharp-edged, funny vision of the future.

Savage Membrane

Savage Membrane
Author: Steve Niles
Publisher: iBooks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Monsters
ISBN: 9781416504092

Cal McDonald has made a career helping and hunting the dark creatures that haunt the world, and has made as many friends as he has enemies.

On Monsters

On Monsters
Author: Stephen T. Asma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0199798095

"A comprehensive modern-day bestiary."--The New Yorker