Book 4 in the continuing adventures of Simon Canderous

“Simon navigates the supernatural underbelly of New York City with a style and panache worthy of a thousand sequels.”—Amber Benson, author of Death’s Daughter

With Manhattan's Department of Extraordinary Affairs in disarray (forget vampires and zombies- it's the budget cuts that can kill you), Simon Canderous is still expected to stamp out any crime that adds the "para" to "normal."  And his newest case is no exception...

A university professor has been found murdered in his apartment.  His lungs show signs of death by drowning.  But his skin and clothes?  Bone dry.  Now Simon has to rely on his own powers- plus a little help from his ghost-whispering partner and technomancer girlfriend- to solve a mystery that has the NYPD stumped and the D.E.A. shaken and stirred.

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Dead Matter

“Simon navigates the supernatural underbelly of New York City with a style and panache worthy of a thousand sequels.”—Amber Benson, author of Death’s Daughter

 When the paranormal raises its otherworldy head in New York City, the Department of Extraordinary Affairs executes a flawless, stick-the-landing smackdown. That’s the idea anyway, and Agent Simon Canderous can usually count on help from his mentor, Connor Christos. But Connor’s left Simon to handle a double case load as he cashes in on five years worth of saved vacation time. Simon suspects that Connor isn’t Club Medding so much as Club Deading it up—investigating the disappearance of his long lost brother.

Simon especially needs Connor when the spirit populace of Manhattan is shaken and stirred by someone intruding on their well-deserved R.I.P. But Connor’s relentless ghost whispering has sent him off the deep end; he’s haunted every night by visions of his brother’s ghost at his window. Simon’s partner may be going crazy—or worse, maybe he’s not...

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Deader Still
Anton Strout     
9780441016917      $7.99         
On Sale: 2/24/2009

It's hard to catch a break when you're the woefully underfunded Department of Extraordinary Affairs's lone psychometrist.  In the aftermath of a nefarious plot by some lowdown, dirty cultists, Simon's hoping New York City's paranormal scene will stay quiet for awhile...but the uncanny has an uncanny knack for ruining Simon's day.  When a Hudson River booze cruise sails into port full of bodies--drained of blood, no less--Simon thinks he may soon be hearing a lot of the dreaded V word (vampires), as well as the dreaded P word (paperwork).  And if things weren't hectic enough at the DEA, his girlfriend is studying technomancy a little too closely with her boss, his mentor seems to be hiding something from him, and a dangerous flame from his criminal past has blown into town and threatens to make his life a living hell unless he helps her out with one last art heist.  Oubliettes, living statues, Illinois gypsies, more zombies that you can shake a retractable steel bat at... it's all just another day at the office for Simon Canderous.

Dead To Me
Anton Strout     
9780441015788      $7.99         
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Welcome to the Department of Extraordinary Affairs Other  Division- New York's answer to the underfunded world of paranormal investigation.  It’s a job caught up in red tape, memos, and office politics, but its becoming par for the course for recent recruit Simon Canderous.  After a life of petty crime and twenty four years of watching his power of psychometry—the ability to divine information solely by touching an object—destroy any chance of a real relationship, he’s joined the forces of Good hoping to gain some control.  But when the mysterious ghost of a recently dead woman shows up at the Lovecraft Café, he and his mentor must figure out how she fits into a nefarious plot involving the cultists rights movement, a large wooden fish, and the forces of Darkness crushing on him.

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features the story Marfa, about a late night encounter on the deserted roads of far West Texas, which Jennifer Belle called the least frightening story she had ever read.

features the story Lupercalia, a tale of bitter love set in New York City... oh, and drowning demonic cherubs in the frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity.

Spells of the City
Martin H. Greenberg & Jean Rabe
9780756405670     $7.99

Eighteen tales about the special magic that lurks in the heart of big cities

Venture into Spells of the City, where a troll may be your toll collector on the George Washington Bridge...Harry the Book will be happy to place your best in a spellbinding alternative New York...a gargoyle finds himself left to a lonely rooftop existence when he's forced to live by his creator's rules...and leprechauns must become bank robbers to keep up with the demand for their gold

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From a farmer at war with Nature’s creatures, to dangerous doings when the henhouse goes on-line, to the hazards of keeping company with a book wyrm, here are ingenious tales that will make readers laugh or cry—or double-check to make sure that their windows & doors are firmly locked against the things that prowl the night.

From Benjamin Franklin's best kept secret...  to  a young woman who has inadvertently become a counselor for ghosts... to a virtual reality anti-terrorist expert... to a Keeper of Unreadable Books- these are stories that will give you a whole new slant on the might have been, might yet be, and all the things we can't quite see in our own world...

Pandora's Closet
Martin H. Greenberg & Jean Rabe
9780756404376     $7.99

Nineteen original tales of the Pandora legend-as no one has ever imagined it before

When Pandora's Box was opened, so the ancient tale goes, all the evils that would beset humanity were released into the world.  When the box was all but empty, the only thing that remained was hope.  Now some of fantasy's finest writers have taken on the task of opening Pandora's closet.   It is naturally chock full of an assortment of items , including a ring that can bring its wearer infinite health, a special helmet found in the most unlikely of places, a mysterious box that holds a legendary piece of cloth, and a red hoodie that transforms a woman's world.  These stories are of items claimed by people, but only at their own peril.  After indulging in these stories, readers will certainly look at their own closets in a whole new light.

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