Leg Iron Books: 15 books

This started out as a blog post on Underdogs Bite Upwards, currently a Wordpress blog. It seems to have aged quite well. It’s now over seven years old but still gets a link on Twitter and on other blogs from time to time.I thought it might be worth making it into a free eBook rather than have people...

This, the third Underdog Anthology, contains ten stories for Halloween 2017. Tales from Mark Ellott, Lee Bidgood, Stephen W. Duffy, Justin Sunshine, Roo B. Doo and H. K. Hillman, and edited by the latter two authors. Genres range from horror to western to modern life, but all with a Halloween theme.

The Good, the Bad, and Santa is the fourth Underdog Anthology in just over a year. This time we have two more new authors and the spread of styles and genres gets ever wider Seventeen stories from eight authors, all with a Christmas theme but not many of them suitable for children. Split into three...

This, the Eighth Underdog Anthology, contains pretty much any genre you can think of. Stories to make you laugh, some to make you shiver. Tales of humans and of aliens, in space and on Earth. Light romances and some very dark tales too. Absurdity and logic, merriment and gloom, anything you want is...

Who is Ayu, and why does she insist Johan's home lies on an island he'snever visited? A criminal lawyer who mixes with and defends the darker residents ofAntwerp's red light district, Johan becomes entangled with a woman whosefetish for ear-based role play sex leads him into a world where the...

“I was loadin’ the buggy up when she rode into town on that big bay of hers. I stopped my work and, briefly lifting my hat, wiping the sweat from my brow and shielding my eyes from the sun, watched her as she rode down the town’s dusty street. Lounging in the saddle after days on the trail,...

It’s been several weeks since Stephanie Ross’ partner went missing and she is worried. Was he just on another of his drunken benders or was there something more sinister going on?Then people start turning up dead on the local railway line.As she worries about the whereabouts of Roddy Schaeffer,...

It is May 1745 and the British army is licking its wounds following defeat at the hands of the French at Fontenay. Meanwhile, there is a stirring in the north as the restless clans are gathering to the standard of the House of Stuart where Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, is forming...

Twenty-one tales across a wide range of genres, by the author of ‘Ransom’.Prepare to switch between the Morning Cloud American Wild West stories and modern ecological disaster in Fifteen Years. Onwards to corruption in local politics in Greenbelt and then a visit to Saxon-era British elves riding...

Two loners, an internet connection, a forbidden friendship. No good can come of this.Two troubled and lonely people meet online and start an email friendship. She's a schoolgirl and street-wise, so she thinks. He's an older man, a social misfit, already known to the police, a marked...

April 1647, on the eve of Beltane... The English civil war is paused for a short time, but another battle is brewing. An inexperienced young witch calls on demonic help to capture an ancient creature. An evil as old as Time itself and which now inhabits the one calling himself 'Witchfinder-General'. Inexperience...

A girl to die for (and she'll make sure you do)They say a book can bring out the beast in you, but what if you brought out the beast in the book? Samuel, a middle aged librarian and regular churchgoer, did just that.An ancient book, a demon, and magic Samuel doesn't believe exists beguiles him into...

A New Year's Eve crash leaves Norman and his friends trapped in a mysterious ring of greenhouses attached to a long-unoccupied house, deep in an industrial estate. When they reach safety, Norman finds he is obsessed with the house, and that something is helping him find the money to buy it. When...

The Seventh Underdog Anthology, Christmas 2018 Christmas rolls around once more and this, the seventh Underdog Anthology, is loaded with Christmas-themed tales to brighten and darken those festive evenings. Tales from Mark Ellott, Cade F.O.N Apollyon, Daniel Royer, Marsha Webb and our...