Marc Colten: 5 books

Belying its title, "Summer of Love" is one man's story of how his entire world was turned upside down on a beautiful summer day so many years ago. Every assumption he has made about life is destroyed, leaving him with only questions.

In the near future, Louis Turner goes out into the night to find the mysteries hidden in the depths of the city. The world has been made grey and flavorless and he craves excitement. What he will find in that hidden world might be more than even he is prepared for.

What do you do when you find yourself trapped in a mausoleum? How would you explain yourself to the judge of the damned? Think you'd be lucky to be rescued by a beautiful woman in the desert? Eleven short stories about the horrors lurking just out of sight.

Can children make deals with the devil? Would Thanksgiving be as much fun if the dead came back to life? Is your dog looking at you ... funny? Eleven stories of the weird and the horrifying.

This memoir is about my family's long history with tobacco and the effect it had on my parents and myself. It is not fiction, but a real history of one thread running through my life.