Bennie Grezlik: 9 books

Mix one rich retired general and his crippled daughter with a low-life drifter posing as a savior; add a beautiful, Gypsy-like woman and her partner, a seasoned con-man. Mix them with strip-land coal leases, séances, Ouiga boards, and what do you get? A recipe for mystery, danger, romance, and death. The Grifters lays bare the grit of hard times and the enduring spirit of the human heart.

This collection of SF, horror, and urban fantasy stories will keep you up at night long past the time you finished reading them. They cover everything from alien abductions and space age cruelty to human resurrection that sort-of works, with a dollop of humor to lighten the load. Don't wait for Halloween to read these stories!

In this character-driven short science fiction story, a family in a dying space ship is responsible for delivering a vaccine to a colony on Jupiter's moon Europa. Without the vaccine, 5,000 souls could be wiped out. But the ship is hit by a meteor before it gets there. The resulting dilemma creates heroes out of ordinary people.

What do you do if your queendom is being overrun by an evil tyrant and his master wizard? You team up with a band of misfits and fight back! This classic story of revenge, bravery, and redemption proves that heroes are made, not born. In the end, it's not about saving the queen, but about saving your nation and your own soul.

For decades the Thousand Worlds traded goods, sentients, and ideas to the benefit of all. The lone worm in the intergalactic apple was the dreaded Taranok Empire that used the gate system to enslave hundreds of worlds. The only threat to the Empire's absolute dominance was Jan Youngblood, who...

Gate World is connected to Earth through a star gate in geosynchronous orbit. The Gate World colony produces amboria, an invaluable mineral for Earth, so Earth treats the dictatorship in the colony as a resource, ignoring brutal suppression of human rights. Anything is tolerated to get the amboria....

In the future, everyone can hear you scream - if your case is being investigated by Skip Thruster, the funniest detective since Inspector Clouseau. Skip roams the solar system solving murders and murdering funny bones. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll gag, but you won't stop reading...

This collection of SF, horror, and urban fantasy stories will keep you up at night long past the time you finished reading them. They cover everything from bubba zombies to evil tooth fairies, with a dollop of humor to lighten the load. Don't wait for Halloween to read these stories!

The Roman soldier Daxel pierced the heart of Christ with this sword, which gave the blade and its bearer evil power. Now it is possessed by a man who would enslave the world, if he can only get past good queen Perlandra and her faithful warriors.