C B Calsing: 5 books

When you think of Mrs. Claus, do you imagine a quiet North Pole homebody who finds complete fulfillment in baking cookies, petting reindeer and crafting toys alongside elves? How about a magic-wielding ice goddess, or a tough-as-nails Valkyrie? Or maybe an ancient fae of dubious intentions, or a well-meaning...

C.B. Calsing has compiled a collection of her supernatural short stories. They run the gambit from vengeful ghosts to Lovecraftian space creatures. Curl up in your favorite chair, pour yourself a glass of whiskey, and give yourself a good scare.

Langston Pierpont -- junky, Great War Veteran, gumshoe -- has been hired to solve the death of a young woman. Most involved think it's an overdose, but evidence shows something more insidious, more unexplainable is going on.

In this short story, Langston Pierpont finds himself on another...odd...case. This time, a seductress needs him to bring her sister home, and Langston has no power to refuse her. What the sister is up to, though, proves to be as big a shock as who the sisters are.

Eileen Babineaux wants nothing more than to attend pool parties and dances during the summer of 1942. Instead, she has to spend it on her grandfather's oyster boat while her mother works and her father is shipped out to war in the Pacific. What's worse? A hurricane threatening the small...