F. Paul Wilson

In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, bestselling authors Heather Graham and F. Paul Wilsonalong with their popular series characters Michael Quinn and Repairman Jackteam up for the first time ever.Jules Chastain, the last surviving member of a wealthy New Orleans family, has a problem. And hes hired Repairman Jack to fix it.It seems that Chastain appropriated an artifact from a fellow collector, Madame de Medici, and she wants it back. But the iteman ancient ringis located somewhere in the family mausoleum and Chastain is too terrified of the wrath of his enemies to even leave his house to look for it. Meanwhile, Michael Quinn, himself a bit of an independent contractor, is waiting in the mausoleum when Jack arrives. And its Quinnwhose day job at The Cheshire Cat curiosity shop in New Orleans has made him familiar with mystical objectswho tells Jack that they are dealing with more than just a ring. Theyre dealing with one of the Seven Infernals. Which means a simple retrieval job just got much more dangerous.For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven short stories in FaceOff!

Best selling author F. Paul Wilson and award-winning illustrator Alan M. Clark offer up this fun childrens Christmas story about little Jessica, who wishes for a monster of her own for Christmas, and then gets more (and less) than she could have hoped for.

Pastichesounds like something you might eatbut the official definition is "an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period." A pastiche can be respectful or can descend to parody.Over the course of his long career F. Paul Wilson often has been invited to work with the characters and realms created by iconic writers in varied genres. Usually he would decline, but sometimes the temptation to play in a favorite authors sandbox was too great and he gave in.As a fan of all the chosen authors, he approached the characters and worlds they created with the greatest respect. So in that sense, his pastiches are also homages.H. P. Lovecraft, Mary W. Shelley, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sax Rohmer, Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doylewho could say no to working with their creations?Youll find them all and more in Other Sandboxes: Stories with Characters and Places Shared with Writers Living and Dead by F. Paul Wilson.

The survivors of what has come to be known as The Catskill Cataclysm are not out the woods yet. As the last known members of The Hidden, they are marked for extermination. Their alliesChan and Danni, and the Troikaare hunting them as well, but the Hidden do what they do best: hide.Something new surfaces in the South Atlantic: a Manhattan-size iceberg. And embedded within it is a long lost Nazi U-boat. Back in the day, the Third Reich claimed part of Antarctica for its own. Was the sub on an exploratory mission? It carried a strange artifact that it was ferrying home when it was trapped in the ice. The bodies of the crew are perfectly preserved from the subzero temperatures but they all were murdered.Could the appearance of the sub have any relationship to the Catskill Cataclysm? Unlikely. But then, there are no coincidences.

"Oh, Mrs. Sirman, theres a problem with your husbands cremation.""What sort of problem?""Its his body.""What about it?""It wont burn."And so it begins for Pam Sirmanthe first step toward learning that everything she thought she knew about her husband is wrong, perhaps even his humanity. But if hes not human, what is he?Pam is one of three lives that will be drawn together by the apocalypse of the Upwelling.The other two are Chan and Danni, but their worlds are already in chaos. A few weeks ago a fierce storm accompanied by an upwelling from the Atlantic abyssal plain tore into Atlantic City. When it receded, the city and its 25,000 inhabitants were gone without a trace. Chan and Danni remember being in the city that day, but the ten hours during which the Upwelling occurred have been wiped from their memories.They want those memories back. Or do they? Did they witness something so unspeakably ghastly that their minds cant face it? Or worse: Was that ghastly thing something they did? And worst yet: Were they responsible for the Upwelling?

This first volume collects all the stories F. Paul Wilson published in the Seventies and Eighties. Presented in chronological order with introductory notes by the author, this is a monumental and historical document as well as well as a wonderful celebration a staggeringly impressive career by one of our best.Included in this collection:The Cleansing MachineRatmanHigher CentersThe Man with the AnteaterHe Shall Be JohnLipidlegginTo Fill the Sea and AirDemonstrongBe Fruitful and MultiplySoftThe Last One Mo Once Golden Oldies RevivalDat-Tay-VaoTrapsThe Years the Music DiedMenage a TroisDoc JohnsonCutsMusclesFeelingsTenantsFacesThe Tenth Toe (or: The Beginning of My End)Buckets

Jack is back.Wilson never said he was through with Repairman Jack. He said he was through turning in a new novel every year. He also said when a story came along that was right for Jack, hed write it.The Last Christmas is that story.Its late December between Ground Zero and Fatal Error, a winter of discontent for Jack whos perhaps spending too much time hanging at Julios. An old contact, Edward Burkes, convinces him to take on a missing-person fix. As usual, nothing is as it seems and the missing person isnt exactly a person. In fact, its like nothing anyone has ever seen.And in the middle of all this, the mysterious Madame de Medici hires him to safeguard a valuable object. Simple, right?Not even close.Yep, Jack is back and, as usual, weird trouble is on his heels.

This second volume collects all the stories F. Paul Wilson published in the Nineties. Presented in chronological order with introductory notes by the author, this is a monumental and historical document as well as well as a wonderful celebration a staggeringly impressive career by one of our best.Included in this collection:A Day in the LifePeltsThe BarrensRumorsTopsyPlease Dont Hurt MeFoetBob Dylan, Troy Jonson, and the Speed QueenThe Long Way HomeWhen He Was FabItsy Bitsy Spider(the answer)OffshoreAryans and AbsintheLysing Toward BethlehemNight DiveAftershock

Double Dose picks up right where Double Threat leaves off with a snarl of threads to tie up, a host of mysteries to explain, all complicated by some embarrassing intrusions from the past.So many secrets in Nespodee Springsthe biggest is revealed when Rhys and Daley track down the second half of the Pendry film and learn the secrets of the clans Tesla tower and the catastrophic details of the plan to bring the Visitors back to Earth.But the insidious malady known as "the horrors" remains a mystery, claiming more and more victims every day. Daley and Pard learn they can cure it if only the powers that be will allow them.Daley finds herself in an ironic situation: For the first time in her life shes trying to play it straight help people instead of scam them and no one will let her. In the past, when shes spun a web of lies, the marks lapped it up like honey. Now, when shes telling the truth a life-saving truth no one believes her.And meanwhile, over the Salton Sea, an ominous darkness is growing

This third volume collects all the stories F. Paul Wilson published from 2000 to 2020. Presented in chronological order with introductory notes by the author, this is a monumental and historical document as well as well as a wonderful celebration a staggeringly impressive career by one of our best.Included in this collection:AnnaPerformanceSole CustodyThe Tapework LettersHuntersInterlude at DuanesDo-GooderThe Sound of BlunderPiney PowerPranktersRenascenceThe Compendium of SremSecret IngredientThe Long and the Short of ItTo the Lonely Sea and the SkyEllieThe Last Bonneville

La India, 1857. El capitán de fusileros sir Albert Westphalen, destinado a una pequeña guarnición en Bengala, cree haber encontrado la respuesta a sus acuciantes problemas financieros: asaltar el templo de Kali bajo el pretexto de perseguir a rebeldes amotinados, y hacerse con sus increibles riquezas. Pero el templo y sus tesoros tienen guardianes, y no todos son humanos...Nueva York, hoy en dia. Jack el Reparador se encarga de arreglar cosas, pero no es la persona a la que acudir con una tostadora rota: bajo la fachada de un negocio de reparacion de electrodomesticos, Jack repara injusticias, llegando a menudo alli donde la ley no puede. Vive al margen de la sociedad por conviccion y es un hombre violento por temperamento, pero su inteligencia y su capacidad de entrar en accion estan al servicio de los casos que considera honorables.Ahora Jack es requerido por un diplomatico indio para investigar el robo de un extraño collar, y al mismo tiempo su ex novia, Gia, pide su ayuda para encontrar a un pariente desaparecido. Su apellido es Westphalen, y puede haber sido victima de una maldicion ancestral... que no se detendra alli. Ambos casos estan entrelazados, y segun se interna en ellos, Jack el Reparador comenzara a preguntarse si puede haber fuerzas que estan mas alla de sus habilidades de reparacion.

1 aventure inédite pour les fans du genre et pour tous les autres ! Un projet unique dans le monde du noir et un concept simple : 2 auteurs, parmi les plus grandes voix actuelles du genre, font se rencontrer leurs heros respectifs en dehors de leurs romans et de leur cadre habituel.Cette nouvelle est issue du recueil Face a face auquel participent les auteurs suivants :Dennis Lehane vs Michael ConnellyIan Rankin vs Peter JamesR.L. Stine vs Douglas Preston et Lincoln ChildM.J. Rose vs Lisa GardnerSteve Martini vs Linda FairsteinJeffery Deaver vs John StandfordHeather Graham vs F. Paul WilsonRaymond Khoury vs Linwood BarclayJohn Lescroart vs T. Jefferson ParkerSteve Berry vs James RollinsLee Child vs Joseph Finder

Twilight has come. Night will follow.It will begin in the heavens and end in the EarthBut before thatthe rules will be brokenThe Change is coming and the world as we know it is ending. Sixteen-year-old Ellie has changed. She looks the same but her mother detects someone else looking out through her blue eyes. Ellie builds a "shelter" in her room with an entrance that leadselsewhere.And what of the convoy of tractor trailers Hari Tate watches drive up a mountain road and return without the trailersleaving nothing on the mountain. What are they shipping?And the writer who finds a hole in the floor of his NYC apartment and tumbles through into elsewhere.They will all find each other and find their answers in the electromagnetic pulses piercing the Earth from Out There, pulses that no one should hear, but some do. But they are not simply pulses. They are SIGNALZ.

"Solicito traslado inmediato.Algo está asesinando a mis hombres."Éste es el mensaje que el capitán Woermann, al frente de una pequeña guarnición de la Wehrmacht, transmite al alto mando alemán desde el paso de Dinu, en Rumania, donde ha sido enviado para ocupar una antigua fortaleza. Una oscuridad viva ha tomado el control del lugar, y los triunfantes soldados del Tercer Reich estan cayendo uno a uno.Como atraidas por los malignos efluvios de la remota fortaleza, tres personas encaminan sus pasos hacia ella: el mayor Kaempffer de las SS, al frente de un destacamento de Einsatzkommandos y decidido a derribar a toda costa cualquier obstaculo para su prometedora carrera en los campos de exterminio; el erudito judio Theodor Cuza, que ironicamente quiza sea el unico con los conocimientos necesarios para salvar a lo que queda de los ocupantes nazis de la destruccion; y un misterioso hombre pelirrojo, anonimo y sin amigos, que tras percibir la alteracion producida en la fortaleza acude a su llamada para continuar un enfrentamiento mas viejo que la propia humanidad."Una novela que hiela la sangre... Con seguridad le producira escalofrios."Robert Bloch, autor de Psicosis