Publisher's Synopsis
MATURE READERSTHIRTEEN WEIRD AND WONDROUS TALES populate this anthology by the author of the AIRSHIP DAEDALUS pulp adventure series. Spanning a thirty-year catalog and often satirizing the 20th century ideal of the nuclear family and social mores, THIRTEEN WEIRD AND WONDROUS TALES populate this anthology by the author of the Airship Daedalus pulp adventure series. Spanning a thirty-year catalog and often satirizing the 20th century ideal of the nuclear family and social mores, PRIMORDIAL SOUP KITCHEN is a collection of the stranger side of Todd Downing's short fiction.- Automatons remember an idyllic past that never was.- Ghost hunters track a psychic vampire in 1920s San Francisco.- A family must come to grips with a terrible truth.- Rockabilly zombies cruise the American Southwest in a classic Cadillac.- A Harlem Hellfighter killed at the Western Front is reborn with strange powers.- Four kids investigate a strange disappearance in a small Oregon town in 1982.With elements of horror, science fiction, adventure, humor and retro-futurism-each with an underlying dark streak-this collection is sure to entertain fans of the offbeat and macabre.FOR MATURE READERS"At the end of each story I was left wanting more! More of these worlds, more of these characters, just more! Haunting, sad, scary and so rich with so few words, you'll read these short stories over and over again."- Trish Heinrichauthor of The Vigilantes Superhero Universe"Stories of ghouls, ghosts and ghastly neighbors glittering with taut prose, sprinkled with humor and pathos. The perfect bite-sized collection for creepy crepuscular reading!'."- R.L. Paceauthor of Rising Son
