Steve Vernon

So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes? Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl? You don't know nothing....

Welcome to the hard streets....

In 1691, the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her--but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. The first man died as a gust of wind harrowed the meat from his bones. A root,flung like a dirty javelin, cut a second man down. Many more deaths followed....

There are superheroes, and then there is Captain Nothing - ready to crack knuckles and break heads - no matter what the cost....

"Leave Luther's body right where we flung him," Bates said....

His name was Adam Kyler. He had eyes as black as licorice jujubes and a spit curl hooked across his forehead that reminded me of a young Superman. He was nine years old....

Olan Walker was first out of the slat truck and he could have slid through one of the slats. That man was nothing but lank. He was as lean as a dog in Lent....

It started out as a simple drive down a country road. Oh sure, Hillman was thinking about suicide. Oh sure, the dead woman is in his back seat was goading him on. What was the point? Why bother living? Who am I? It turns out Coyote has something to say about that. Coyote...and a troll....

So what happens when Bigfoot, the Trickster Coyote, the ghost of Sam Steele and the long-lost spirit of The Prophet, brother to the mighty Tecumseh and reincarnated in the form of a giant pink flying Winnebago go toe-to-toe with dark supernatural forces in a cross-Canada battle ranging from Cape Breton to Labrador to Thunder Bay? I'm not saying that it is going to be pretty....

Just imagine you walk into a cheesy old greasy-spoon diner, the kind that ought to hand out antacid along with a napkin, knife, and fork. You ask the waitress for eggs and bacon, and she brings you a plate with live chicken on it. I mean, feathers and beak and the whole bonanza....

The story of a young farmer, a wishing ring, and a fairy named Queen Maab. This is old school fairytale telling at its very finest....

This is a collection for the seriously messed up minds of all you listeners who have grown tired of the trite detritus of day-to-day storytelling....

This is the final book of the trilogy - a fat monstrous volume of pure undiluted scarecrow terror....

It happened in early September, the time of year when the city does its damndest to remember what heat was, just one more time before winter rocks on in....

The roots of evil run deeper than you can ever imagine....

Love is one of those four-letter words that people like to throw around, but sometimes love can be one of the meanest and nastiest games in town. Here are three of the strangest love stories you have ever read....

In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them....

Meet Lady Macbeth - a high school librarian, ex-assassin, and part-time kelpie. Now she has to take on a Sea Hag - eight legs of Godzilla-ugly poured into a bucket full of meanness....

Maritimers will tell you that there is a story for every wave that has ever washed upon the shoreline. Here are seven of them....

Ghost stories. Everyone knows one. Everyone can tell you one. Ghost stories haunt and linger and tantalize....