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Supernatural horror short story from James J. Caterino, the author of Starfighter Year 1, Pop Star, The Promise, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, Watch the Skies, The Last Neanderthal, and much more.

Angela is seeing things. Strange things. Dangerous things. She relocates to Pittsburgh and is haunted by intense visions of a menacing attacker clad in a welding mask who abducts her and takes her to an abandoned steel mill. The visions escalate, crossing the line into reality, and she soon learns the secret to stopping this Steel Phantom, may be buried in the dark mysteries of the forbidden past of her new hometown. Steel Phantom is a lurid, thrilling, supernatural horror story from James J. Caterino, the author of The Séance, Murder Psychic Incorporated, The Ice Mummy, Time Travel ...

Carlos is the film critic for the Miami Herald. His life is all about the movies. But now, he is about to experience a cinematic plot twist that will change everything. “The Dream Factory” is a spell-binding science fiction short story by James J. Caterino, the author of “Fireflies”, “Watch the Skies”, and “Super 8 Images”.

How I Became a Stockbroker is a funny, nostalgic, and entertaining true tale from James J. Caterino, the author of Why I Don't Drink, Method Acting, To Meghan, and How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter.

Alex becomes Alondra and Alondra becomes Alex in The Anti-Matter Girl, a rousing new body-switching, alternate universe, dramatic, science-fiction comedy adventure from James J. Caterino, the author of Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, and The Last Neanderthal.

Sharon is an archaeologist who discovers an ancient Native American burial site. But one of the remains does not belong there, a skeleton from the recent past. Sharon is mesmerized by the skeleton and drawn toward a ring on the decayed corpse. She takes the ring, puts it on her own finger, and it changes her. She begins to have visions of a past event, a violent, traumatic attack. The visions and the power of the skeleton ring take over her life. Her only way to stop it is to solve the dark mystery behind it all, no matter how dangerous and deadly it may become. “The Skeleton Ring” is a...

When college student Jim takes an acting class, he learns the true meaning of getting into character and receives an unforgettable lesson in acting, life, and most of all, love. Based on a true story, Method Acting is a short story about lost love by James J. Caterino, the author of To Meghan, I Want to Believe, and The Geek Girl and the Quarterback.

Feeling isolated and lonely during a pandemic quarantine, writer Jimmy Barton throws himself into a new project, a graphic novel called 1987. It is the story of Jennifer, a lost love from his past that never was. As he writes and draws, the focus of his work intensifies and becomes obsessive, until one day, he draws Jennifer into his life for real, straight out of the pages of 1987. Jennifer the Sketchbook Girl is a delightful, addictive, funny, suspenseful, and romantic tale of imagination from James J. Caterino, the author of Super Hornet 1942, The Green Girl, The Mesomorph, and The Girl ...

James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Culture Musings and other Stuff, and over forty novels and short stories, returns with his second non-fiction book, this one focused on movies.Among the films covered in this entertaining, insightful book of essays, are classics such as E.T. (1982), and Enchanted (2007), vintage blockbusters like Total Recall (1990) and T2 (1991), cult movies such as Billy Jack (1971), Videodrome (1983), Dirty Dancing (1987), Wall Street (1987), True Romance (1993), and Exotica (1994), underrated gems such as The Fury (1978), Explorers (1985), The Age of Adeline (2015), ...

What If is an essay about the power of daydreaming, and why you should never, ever, ever, become a writer. James J. Caterino is the author of Jordan Rose and the Tomb of Resurrection, The Anti-Matter Girl, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, Ghost Stories, Pop Star, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, and much more.

Action Stories is an exciting collection of six sensational stories from James J. Caterino, the author of Fantastic Stories 3, Ghost Stories, and Time Travel Stories. A drive home from the airport turns into a harrowing, dystopian nightmare in the action-adventure horror episode Wrong Turn. When sixteen-year-old Gina is on a babysitting job, she and the kids witness something they were not supposed to see, hurtling them into a deadly day of harrowing danger in Rollercoaster. Barry Baton dies in a car accident and is cryogenically frozen in suspended animation. When the technology to bring ...

Jack Trainer is a sales executive working for the fossil fuel industry and as ruthless as they come. Then one day he meets environmentalist Kara Jones and Jack experiences something he can’t explain. Something fantastic and wondrous. Something that will change him forever. In the tradition of “The Twilight Zone”, “The Outer Limits”, and “Amazing Stories”, “The Green Girl” is an epic, page turning tale of fantasy, romance, and suspense, from the imagination of acclaimed writer James J. Caterino, author of “Watch the Skies”, “The Girl from the Stars”, and “Super ...

The crayon blue sky. The calm, clear, glassy water. And a destination that included lunch on the water and a famous bikini contest. It was the ultimate South Florida day for five guys to be out on a boat. But soon alcohol and unforeseen events turned this perfect day into an absurd nightmare and a dark, comic adventure. Why I Don’t Drink is a harrowing and hilarious true story from the pen of James J. Caterino, the author of To Meghan, Method Acting, and The Geek Girl and the Quarterback.

James Caterino is a man searching, and like so many of us, he knows not why. Most people on such a quest end up finding solace and escape in religious extremism or fringe political movements. But for James, all the answers to his restlessness are revealed in a cultish activity of a different sort, the surreal sport of bodybuilding. Unfinished Business: My Journey Back into Competitive Bodybuilding at Sixty-One, is a compelling memoir, a heartfelt and humorous story, and an insightful and revealing look inside the strange and often misunderstood world of bodybuilding. James J. Caterino is ...

One night while cleaning out the garage, John finds an old address book and discovers it possesses a powerful link to the past, beyond anything he could have imagined. The Address Book is a short story by James J. Caterino, the author of Ghost Stories. The Girl From the Stars, Reviews and Essays, Pop Star, The Promise, The Anti-Matter Girl, To Meghan, True Stories, Time Travel Stories, and much more.

An illustrator at an ad agency creates a drawing of a woman taking a selfie for a smart phone ad campaign. Then he comes across a real-life, living version of the exact same woman in “The Selfie”, a romantic science fiction thriller. Sixteen-year-old babysitter Gina Zeneski takes the kids for a day at the amusement park and gets more than she bargained for in “Rollercoaster”, a pulse-pounding story of harrowing action. A cult space opera TV series becomes real life for super fan Alex Bell in “Starfighter”. A greedy oil executive gets a lesson about life and love in “The Green ...

Pulpy supernatural horror short story from James J. Caterino the author of The Séance, Psychic Murder Incorporated, Time Travel Stories, The Promise, Pop Star, Watch the Skies, The Last Neanderthal, The Girl from the Stars, 50 Films, and much more.

Supernatural horror short story from James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, The Promise, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, Watch the Skies, The Last Neanderthal, and much more.

A writer at a comic book convention buys an illustration of a beautiful woman he has seen in real life. He becomes obsessed with finding out who this mysterious femme fatale is. The closer he gets to finding her, the more dangerous his search becomes. Jade is a page-turning, thrilling short story from James J. Caterino, the author of The Andromeda Girl, The Man in the Window, Riverboat Steam, The Girl Out of Time, Ghost Stories, and much more.

The year is 1983 and something strange is going on in Cross Creek, Pennsylvania.After a devastating family tragedy, Emma moves across the country at the start of her freshman year of high school. Grief-stricken, isolated, and harassed by local bullies, she is feeling lost and lonely. One day, she takes a shortcut home from school through the woods and encounters a group of strange, otherworldly, flying orbs of light that she dubs “the fireflies”. She feels a deep connection to them as her interaction with the fireflies continues, bringing her new hope, wonder, startling insights, and ...