Flying Raven Press: 39 books

Even the dead can die . . . the second in the riveting series about the private investigator who bridges both sides of the great divide. Charles Manson. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Known for their cunning and savagery. In the late eighties, another infamous serial killer sent seventeen...

What makes a hero? In these ten riveting tales of crime and suspense, take a thrilling journey from the backstreets of Chicago to the windy bluffs of the Oregon coast exploring that very question. Discover good guys, bad guys, and everything in between. Some stories are dark and brooding,...

They find his body at the bottom of Heceta Head Lighthouse -- Ed Boone, a longtime volunteer who commits suicide rather than see his grim diagnosis to its bitter end. The strangeness of the old man's death makes the local news, but Garrison Gage thinks little of it until the famous Nora West sneaks...

There'd been others, of course. Dozens of others. At least once a week, some dark-haired dodo with a name that was either John or Robert or Eric or some variant of the three, like John Robert or Eric John, and even once a John Robert Eric, would overhear Rapunzel during one of her recording sessions...A modern tale of Rapunzel, hair fetishes, and finding true love in a crazy world.

This wasn't a time for visitors, not when Nick's wife has been dead a week and his son has an inoperable brain tumor. How can one family suffer such agony? Then a strange man shows up claiming Nick's wife wasn't who she claimed - and that there might be a magical place in the shadows of the trees that can save his son. A unique and haunting tale of wood sprites in the California Redwoods.

One tragic day in a shopping mall, Kevin Husby turns his back on his infant daughter for just an instant - and the unthinkable happens. Someone abducts her. Twenty years later, divorced and alone, Kevin is living a hollow existence in New York when he meets a mysterious homeless man in a top hat. SCOTT...

They meet on a rainy night, penniless and alone, both of them without a friend in the world. He's a disgraced, down-on-his luck giant, short for his kind, banished forever from his tribe. He just wants to be left alone – and pity the poor person who annoys him. She's a stubborn human girl...

If someone were to write a novel about the world of big box retailing, it could very well be a grab bag of horrors and tragedies, detailing the dismal pay and long hours that employees suffer in the name of low prices and just-good-enough merchandise all so the bigwigs and the bean counters can stuff...

Dragons, glass boys, and multiplying cats . . . From award-winning writer Scott William Carter comes a collection of four spellbinding fantasy tales geared toward younger readers -- and the young at heart. THE DRAGON OF THE DOLOMITES Everyone knows dragons are the vainest of all creatures....

***** "Carter's writing is on target." – Publishers Weekly Scott William Carter's first young adult novel was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "touching and impressive debut," and called "compelling" and "a good choice for reluctant readers"...

In these four riveting tales, Carter takes a classic of science fiction – the time travel story – into surprising new territory. A man finds a room where time doesn't pass in the spellbinding "The Time Of His Life." When a scientist becomes the first person to time travel, "The...

"There's one rule in the interstellar liberation force: you never take off your helmet. Even if the atmosphere of whatever planet you are liberating from the vicious aliens does happen to breathable, there could be any number of lethal viruses or microbes. The body armor and comm equipment is...

A touching Christmas tale about a Minnesota widower who has a magical encounter with an enchanted snow man -- and gets a last glimpse of the love of his life. Originally appeared in Cicada Magazine.

Whether it's the soldiers on the front line or the bartenders who serve them, war leaves no one unscathed. These four tales set in Carter's war-ravaged Unity Worlds universe -- three originally published in the leading science fiction magazines of the day, plus one story original to this collection...