Neil Baker: 23 books

The dust roamed, and in its midst, the code Thus begins the revelations of Occultus Liber, an epic tale of the journey of civilization through time and space. With its collective cast of extraordinary characters both mythological and real, the quest to discover the fate of planet Earth leads to a...

The poems in this collection comprise a unity of poetic imagination. The connective tissue between them is a union of both time and space. Poetrys aim is to cast light on human experience, and even though several of these poems consist of inanimateness, each poem is still endowed with a familiar spirit, a whispering demon, a meditated plan of action.

Absurdity, social realism, and the indepth examination of the human condition are but a few of the themes that comprise the contents of the seventythree short stories breathing menacingly between the covers of this book. Humor attacks surrealism on a landscape sun-saturated with saintly thought and intense clarity creations first simple act of pure effervescence getting drowned.

These two novellas are strange companions indeed. Wimble Lord depicts one mans fight for survival while the world around him is on the brink of extinction. What sets Wimble Lord apart from other end-of-the-world sagas are his mad recollections of a futuristic civilization long since past. Emerging...

Frank and Earth Goddess RoseEmerald, are headed for the Oregon Coast in their automobile named Hardy, when they pick up a hitchhiker who claims to be Jesus, and crash their car in front of a Strange Lonely Church. Taken in by the mysterious Keeper, Frank and RoseEmerald become entangled in a historical...

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Phil Campbell and Alicia Foster are in love, but won’t act on it until her dying elderly husband, Phil’s employer, passes. Franklin Foster saved Alicia from addiction and Phil from poverty or worse, but when he is mysteriously assaulted he responds strangely. His oddball relatives appear to be...

On the run from mob boss Tony Sartorelli, Tom Hawk takes refuge in a remote Michigan college town and falls for his young B&B landlady, Beth. Beth Kessler is fighting legal demons of her own and wants nothing to do with the hunky potential boarder. But when he rescues her from under a fallen china...

Arne Niemi, auto company security man, must watch Pete Brower who has invented a microcircuit to solve the 1974 energy crisis. When Pete leaves on a suspicious trip to a remote Michigan town, Arne follows Pete and discovers dismaying news: his friend Margaret’s husband is enmeshed in a shady ski...

Brown has become tramatized by the random violence of the city and the intense alienation of human existence. In an effort to escape, he disappears into the rural landscape of America, where he encounters an eccentric family and much more than he had ever bargained for. Becoming Brown is an existential...

After a nuclear holocaust, the survivors of a mental hospital struggle to find some sense of order among the chaos. Imprisoned within the hospital itself, a particular group of crazy inmates attempt to locate the legendary Z Room which offers the only way out of the intricately mazed institution....

Clifton and Tricia Long are on Holiday in the Black Forrest of Germany when they become victims of a terrorist attack. The novel, within a novel, follows Cliftons attempt to survive after witnessing a horrific incident, in which he discovers that existence probes deeper than physical reality, and...

In the transition between childhood and adulthood, there is a journey that all human beings must undertake in order to discover the essence of change. The novelette Redemption explores the very shadowy region wherein one’s identity is replaced by elements unfamiliar, mysterious, and alluring to...

It is 2009; the auto industry is imploding. Charlotte Kirby and car manufacturer customer Bill Arnold's romance gets hopelessly caught up in the intrigue and in-fighting over her new urethane foam. Can it save her company and his career? Who is bent on ruining the project, violently if necessary?...