Lucky Bat Books: 49 books

Sarei waits in a cold cell for her inquisitors to return with the torture that she no longer believes has any bearing on guilt or innocence. Is she a witch? Will she burn just as her mother and so many before her? Will she end her suffering and damn her soul by embracing the Mother and doing as she...

Left stranded in a snowbound house, Lanny faces her darkest fears of death and more. Does she save the man she loves or her own soul. With an ax and a rope, everything she knows hangs in the balance. (One night, not too long ago, photographer Ted Nemitz dared his friend CC Geddes to write a...

“Control” contains thirteen short, eerie tales of the darker side of humanity from an author Kristine Kathryn Rusch calls “an amazing writer.” Though her settings are often familiar, Geddes looks at the world through her own warped lens. Be it a fortune cookie or a staple remover, witches...

Neala waits, hungry, for Victor to go into the streets and kill. He unknowingly shows her the way to the remains of the dead and dying he butchers and leaves behind. She despises him for taking her eyes and for killing without purpose. She longs to rip his flesh with her sharp teeth but knows his...

If beauty is truly skin deep, how easily might teeth find it? A boy feasts through life, forever young, charmed by the beauty of destruction, pain and despair, waiting for more. No drug sates him; no excess thrills him. More. Accolyes follow him; death trails him. More. Through country and...

Wasting away in a nursing home, 97-year-old Mona knows there’s something wrong. She feels the nerve under her skin, breeding, birthing, crawling. When it becomes clear that no one believes her, she takes matters into her own hands. (WARNING: This short story is not for the squeamish!) CC...

In a quest for liberation, a woman moves to a remote cabin in the woods, where she finds freedom amid blood and snow. "Emancipation" was previously published Northern Frights 2 (Mosaic Press, Canada, 1994) CC Geddes is the dark alter ego of a Reno-based writer whose credits...

Used people blow into Vegas to get caught amid the casinos like trash on a fence. Used old men who clean up graveyards at night with a bottle always in reach, used little girls who lose their clothes in dim yellow spotlights, used Elvises with more stories in their pasts than in their futures. The...

Blowing sand, a full moon, foot-pounding rodents and a biologist with something to prove -- when blood is spilled, who will gain? CC Geddes is the dark alter ego of a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction...

Diane Benscoter grew up in the heartland of America in a small Nebraska town with a loving family. At 17, motivated by her idealism and inspired by the lyrics of her favorite songs, she left home in search of a way to end war. She found easy answers to Life’s hard questions in the form of a religious...

How sick are you of US politics? How doomed is the world because of who has claimed the Oval Office throne—er, chair? Refresh your spirit by laughing along with what Mark Twain might have written about today’s political falderal. “Solidly entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly WINNER...

Who Really Cares, Childhood Poems by Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Janis Ian, includes all poetry from earlier, print editions of this early proof of what was to come from one of America’s most talented songwriters. Though Ian is a prolific composer and world-famous for her music and...

Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian AUTHORS PREFERRED EDITION Janis Ian and 30 top science fiction writers team up to create an astonishing book of original short fiction. STARS  is a huge anthology in both volume and talent. Each story, available only here, is based...

Don’t Take Your Partner’s Snoring Lying Down! Are you one of the millions forced to endure sleepless nights because of your bedmate’s thunderous snoring? Here is the practical relief guide: the first book by a medical specialist to describe every available modern weapon in the...