Harvey Stanbrough: 216 books

A wreck is a wreck, right? Whether it's a '72 Lincoln or a life. Come along on this exciting ride through a sleepy small town.  

This is a collection of five intense short stories. In "Desecration," only a god could walk forever without leaving anything behind or approaching anything else. But how? And why? In "Barbecue," two buddies on a camping trip in a remote desert location. A town full of women nearby....

Sometimes being who you are is no excuse. Charles Claymore "Charlie" Task is a self-described professional psychopath. Because of what Charlie believes of himself, he has a special skillset that TJ Blackwell of Blackwell Ops finds of use. ▪ From taking a peculiar kind...

These five stories run the gamut from one foolish man to another through an incredible future to a morgue to a pastoral home. In "The Unfortunate Life of Thomas Mercer," led astray by a woman, a young preacher wrests his mind from the silly to the serious to give his death the dignity it...

It's the end of a hot, tired, sweaty day. Along with the other dock hands, you're waiting for your pay. Then a guy has to pop off.

This is not your typical Christmas story. The unnamed speaker is unnamed for a reason that becomes clear later in the story. But what he has to say is more interesting than who he is anyway. Why won't he get in the Christmas spirit and just go along? And what's he doing with that shovel?

There's a lot to be said for being who you are... storm chaser or just storm. Watch as a storm chaser in Oklahoma remembers who he really is and becomes an integral part of a unique electrical storm... being steered by aliens... then helps his ancient friends feed.

Dexter Murfee Nettleson is an odd chap, always happy, always sunny and bright. He's the sort to shop for smiles, grins, giggles and belly laughs, all so he can give them away.

What happens to the earth when we're attacked by aliens from outer space? Independence Day? But what if they don't come in space ships, ray guns blazing? What if they are much smaller than the millions of mibrobial creatures we breath in every day? And what if they're deadly on contact?  

Angela is very very good at her job. Still, there are some places in which a woman just shouldn't play. Aren't there? Some of the men in the story think so. Will she change their minds? Will they be alive to know it? Come along.

In this intense horror short story, a pretentious, abusive director is shooting a horror film outside a small town. To save money, he buys the talents of a Patrick Campbell lookalike. In the lead role, he really is just being himself but takes great offense at the director's presumption that he has cornered the market on what's real and what isn't. You decide.

CAUTION: Ice Scream is a tale of sheer terror and horror. It's the first chapter of my current WIP, a novel about a serial killer. It contains necessarily harsh mental images. That being said, here's the professional skinny: A young woman wakes confused and alone from a nightmare. Or is she waking INTO a nightmare?

Independently wealthy Gonzalez "Gonzo" Phipps believes someone is out to kill him. And he wants to hire Stern Talbot to put a stop to it. Of course, Stern is always hungry for a new client. But at what cost? Something about the diminutive Mr. Phipps seems a little off-kilter,...

These tales range from the almost normal to the fantastic, from the tragic to the comedic, from dark to light and from dark tale to fairytale. You'll encounter a mind cleaner who enters the mind of an angel, a rodeo cowboy who's beleagured repeatedly by a black angus bull in the arena and a raven-haired...