Sean Demory: 5 books

Critically acclaimed, "The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man's Whore" tells a backwoods spook story driven by longing, loss and unescapable doom.“Demory catches the atmosphere of the old murder ballads perfectly here. It’s a world where everyone takes it for granted...

It’s 1958 and the night sky of Mars sings to a hot-jazz tune played by a quartet of slot machine, rocket engine, laser fire and broken bone. The Outfit and the corporations run Mars, keeping the mines running and the Strip humming. Deputy Marshals ride between the waystations and the city, bringing...

Palookaville is a blue-collar supervillain antholology set in the shadows of the superheroic world. Second-string criminals, masked mooks and clued-in henchmen leave the stresses of the criminal world behind and live “normal lives” in the sleepy bedroom town of Powell Heights until the outside...

Philomena Thrice-Bound has had her future mapped out for her from before her birth. As the daughter of one of the rulers of a vast city on the edge of a surreal wilderness, her role was to serve as a handmaiden to her family's infernal benefactor. Philomena will have none of it. Follow Philomena Thrice-Bound...

The witch Sekkura, defender of the Barbary Pirates, sets off on a quest to defend her charges from a mysterious sorcerer. Her journey takes her from the Great Desert to the palaces of the djinn and from the alabaster spires of Algiers to the deepest jungles before her story is complete. "Sycorax...