Inept Concepts: 42 books

The Hellfire Club: a groundless legend, a brotherhood of harmless cranks, or a den of homicidal fiends? College students Blake and Sandy are about to find out, for when a mysterious innkeeper lays runes on the pair they find themselves compelled to seek out the sinister organization's current meeting...

Zombie horror stalks the darkened 'burbs. Forever. Kim and her friends thought they were in trouble when they had a run-in with some kids from the wrong side of the tracks, but nothing could have prepared any of them for the horror that was to follow in this tale of undead madness that begins with...

All that junk science you see in old movies? It's real. But it's only taught in one place - the Madiport Island University of Science and Technology, an ultra top-secret learning facility located in the heart of the infamous Bermuda Triangle. Enrollment is by invitation only, and only the most brilliant...

Heist makes waste. It was the easiest gig imaginable – break into a forgotten Cold War era laboratory and steal a discredited experimental device. Quick. Safe. No one gets hurt. But no one told Dac Wheeler that the device in question was a super bomb, and that after all these years it was still...

Jeremiah Riddle was at the end of his rope when he stumbled out of the desert into the negligible town of Outskirts, Arizona, although it certainly beat being at the end of a rope. But he might feel differently if he knew what was waiting for him in that town. For Outskirts was under siege, by otherworldly...

Back in the early 2000s I was approached to write a screenplay for a juvenile, 1980s style sex comedy. The only instructions I were given were that it feature sexy alien ladies on the prowl for male victims, and that it contain ample female nudity. Being who I am, the first thing I decided was that...

A short story about two men who discover everything they ever thought they wanted, at a price neither can afford.

A truck driver delivers the most unusual cargo he's ever hauled, deep into the bowels of the earth. A young couple picks up a mysterious, ethereal hitchhiker and may not live to regret it. The light never changes, the traffic never lets up, stranding five pedestrians with no food, no water, no shelter......

It came out of the water without warning, its speed belying its clumsy, cartoonish build. Perhaps twelve feet long, it looked like an alligator, but plumper, rounder. Its front legs were almost comically short and stubby, but its long jaws were not and these clamped down on his arm and held it tight...

A short story about a new kind of ghost, one haunted by people.

The difference between love and obsession is that one is selfish, while the other is selfless. But which is which?

Professor Abner Oblique has finally perfected his time machine. Now if he can just rein in his ego, things might turn out okay. A short story set in the world of Mad Science U, and a precursor to the second full-length Mad Science U adventure.

They call themselves involuntary celibates. Beta males. Perfect gentlemen. Self-proclaimed victims of a society obsessed with wealth and superficiality. A loosely-knit group of misfits fueled by entitlement and rage, they have never had a proper leader. Until now. He is a genius. A visionary....

The Black Game. The most infamous tabletop game of them all. At the height of the fantasy roleplaying boom, it was banned, nationwide, after the mysterious deaths of several players. Now it's back - but what is the time-lost secret of the mysterious Black Game? Was it all just an urban legend, another...