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.

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.

Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives

Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives
Author: Paul Green
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476678006

The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spiritualists, ghostly apparitions, the occult and psychics have spanned pulp fiction magazines, comic books, novels, film, television, animation and video games. This encyclopedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms and informs and adds to the knowledge of either the new or informed reader. Its A-Z format provides ready reference by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will enjoy the entertaining style.

A Moment of Silence

A Moment of Silence
Author: Sister Souljah
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476765995

"Having returned from a worldwide journey to reclaim his wife, Akemi, Midnight returns to Queens, where he hopes to create a new, less tumultuous life with his love. But things fall apart when violence targets his younger sister Naja. Forsaking his usual control, the ninja warrior kills his sister's attacker in cold blood, forcing him on the run and into the only shelter he can find: a seedy money laundering ring whose members are in league with the police. Though Midnight is promised temporary refuge, he's soon recognized for the murder of Naja's attacker, and lands in jail. Separated from his love, his city, and his family, Midnight must cling to his Muslim beliefs to stay strong. But soon enough, he meets Ricky Santiaga, the man who will become his leader and father figure...and perhaps, his only hope" --