Carl Reader: 44 books

With the Devil on his deathbed, he decides to indulge in a final literary effort to clear his name and put the blame for all the madness and cruelty in the world where it belongs, on humans. He offers up this little book of evil stories that detail the violent, twisted, sick souls of people, noting...

Gwendolyn Gladys Gavin, the hideous and quirky Blue Mountain witch, has a young son she doesn't much like, and she lets him know it in no uncertain terms, such as informing him she might still abort him, even though he's already born. She has that sort of power. Of course, being a witch requires some...

The Stolen Child is a novella of one day in the life of a boy in the 1950s, a day that defines his existence from then on. It begins with a kiss from a girl and ends with a devastating insight into his mother's life, a life that has veered tragically off-course after the death of a soldier in World...

When a boy from Ireland finds a little man dragging a chest of gold across a forest floor, he mistakes him for a leprechaun. He is granted wishes, but all the wishes go terribly wrong, so wrong that the two of them end up on the moon chased by a crocodile. They blast off and return to a crash landing...

For Halloween, a free poem about rebellious pumpkin Aloysius, who hears rumors of what humans do to pumpkins and flees the patch in a panic, only to discover where his heart lies.

A successful Hollywood producer returns home to New Jersey after a couple of divorces and the subsequent burn-out that attends a high-voltage career. Her overly controlling parents think she back to piece her life back together under their tutelage, but they discover an angry, impatient woman who...

After a ghost is refused entrance to heaven he's kicked down to earth by a gigantic blue angel with the flu. He's been dead for ten years and has nowhere to go but home. Once there he discovers he can re-materialize if he wishes hard enough. Seeing his two adopted children does the trick, but they're...

Helen has a face and figure that could launch a thousand ships, but a sexual disposition that could sink them all. An illness reveals to her the bland life she's been leading, and she transforms into a new raucous sexual being, a horny comedian intent on passion. A bland boyfriend, a crazy horse racing...

Omar Urdu, an ass of a terrorist, discovers the bomb in his Infiniti SUV is a dud while on vacation in Yellowstone. He is beside himself with disappointment, thinking his chance at paradise is blown. His crazy wife Reese is no help. His crazy right-wing friends, with whom he plots a second Oklahoma...

So brilliant and quirky is the future's leading genius, Mithrose, that he believes he's become an all-powerful God. As a personality trait, that belief is bad enough, but then he reports to the Impersator, the galaxy's current tyrant and mass murderer, for a second round of torture. There's method...

The three enticing novels of the Vampire Valley series are now available for the price of one in this inclusive anthology. The Hostage of Vampire Valley, Resurrection in Vampire Valley and The Haunting of Vampire Valley follow the supernatural adventures of beautiful and half-mad Maggie Ant as she...

These sketches were written and published on the Internet over twenty years ago after the author traveled to Italy and Greece on a whim of discovery. Instead of being informative in telling where to eat and what to see or where to stay, they detail experiences that are as varied and diverse as the...

From the first day a couple moves to Montana to fulfill their fantasies of going west and becoming nature photographers in that legendary state, a very different reality assaults them. Far from the Elk Dreams they've been living with, they find their pasts and the also legendary hostilities of the...

Dirty Presidents and Me is a comical sexual romp through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s starring Lauralee Bramble, the official White House courtesan and nymphomaniac. After learning her trade at Woodstock, Lauralee applies her talents to servicing one president after another, from Nixon to Ford to Carter...