Gerard Houarner: 10 books

This is a book that takes us deep, deep into the bowels of Painfreak, the traveling club that arises out of the dark and calls to those seeking the ultimate in pleasure and pain. If you wear the invisible mark of the bone on your hand then enter through the door. Many come to experience the ultimate...

"Houarner, always a maestro of the “smart” horror tale, further hones his art in this scary provocative nod to The Thousand and One Nights and other ancient traditions of phantasmal story-telling. Chock full the macabre and populated by the arabesque horrors of a culture far older than ours, this...

Prolific horror author Houarner (The Oz Suite ) assembles a disturbing collection of 13 reprints and 12 originals. Most of the tales highlighting his twisted supernatural assassin, Max (featured in 2001’s The Beast That Was Max ), are brief, but “Like Smoke Rising from the Burning Ghats” offers...

When living by yourself, it's easy to let little things spook you. Sometimes your mind even plays tricks on you. Roger Cassidy lives alone. He thought he got a great deal on his apartment, but then the knocking began. Knocking on his door that comes and goes, but with no one there. Roger is determined...

Forty-two floors of premium Manhattan real estate, The Krammer Building is exclusive, luxurious…and surprisingly empty. Wendy’s brother offers her an island of escape in the building to get her back on her feet and bury her abusive past.But while she’s ready to bury that past, a missing woman’s...

What visions may come, when peering into the darkness through the shattered lens of a broken world: —the sins of the father being vested on the son in "The Chain-Lynched Man." —the nature of angels, the price of their existence in “The Unborn.” —the horrors of drug addiction, in...

Max walks in two worlds. He resides in the borderland between the world of shadowy government conspiracy and the world of vengeful ghosts and evil gods, between living flesh and supernatural spirits between life and death. For Max is the ultimate killer, an assassin powered by the Beast, an inner...

Max, an assassin driven by terrible appetites and a demonic inner Beast, finds himself mistaken for another, far more ordinary killer hired to fight for one of two rival groups vying for control of a remote, abandoned government base with its own secrets and supernatural power. Caught between two even greater evils, Max is drawn into a war that will feed terrible human and supernatural appetites

Max the Assassin is in Hell. Tormented by vengeful spirits and his secret self, the demonic Beast, Max suffers for the pain he caused when he lived, and for losing his chance at redemption through love. Angel, Max's son, is devastated by his father's death and wanders the desert between the worlds in...

Max is a man. An assassin, to be exact. But within him lurks the Beast, an unholy demon that drives Max to kill and to commit acts even more hideous. Throughout the years, the Beast has taught Max well, and Max has become quite proficient in his chosen field. He is an assassin unlike any other. To put...