Obverse Books: 10 books

The Obverse Book of Ghosts follows in the phantasmagorical footsteps of those classic supernatural anthologies of the past, but drags the unquiet dead screaming into the 21st Century. After all, isn’t it about time we were once again afraid of things that go bump in the night?

Senor 105 has just returned from a taxing adventure and all he really wants to do is relax in his den, put his feet up and read a little.  But first he needs to go Christmas shopping with his family…and then Santa disappears!

Masked Mexican wrestler and scientist Señor 105 comes out of retirement for a charity wrestling mask and the next thing he knows he’s facing a rogue grim reaper. His young sidekick Rodrigo goes missing along with a precious artefact, and then another mysterious figure just complicates the situation further. Roll up for some pulp fiction fun featuring skeletons.

All is not as it would seem when Señor 105 and his friends visit the sleepy village of Acatitlan in the beautiful state of Puebla to learn that the village is only briefly sleepy during the intervals between daily horrifying visitations from dinosaurs, ghosts, robots, space monsters, and other...

1970: Señor 105 is unhappy to encounter an old classmate of sorts, Theo Possible, who brings news that one of 105′s deadliest foes, Desolador, is on the loose in Mexico City; a brutal enemy that nearly stopped his illustrious career before it even began. 105 learns of a chain of...

A queen reminisces before execution, an elderly woman and her friend have an unusual outing by the sea, a fashion executive finds empowerment through the most unlikely of sexual means, GOD attends the Devil’s tea party to discuss morals, and two young boys discover the most pleasurable place in...

Mum wouldn’t believe me when I told her Dad had been taken away by the Ninnies. She thought he’d left us of his own accord. She thought he’d taken his bucket, ladder and chamois leather on his window round that Monday and simply never came back because he’d gone off us. Or that he’d...

We, the disenfranchised of Earth… Following the death of his Mother, he goes to London to attempt a new life. Lost and at odds with humanity, he muses on leaving the planet on the first alien ship to come to Earth. A new relationship encourages him to seek out like minded people and he builds a website to find others who similarly wish to leave…

Horizon, Nevada is suffering a mass haunting. Ghosts and UFOs harass the townsfolk while mysterious graffiti in no known alphabet are found inscribed across their walls. Señor 105 and his friends Sheila and Lori suspect extraterrestrial intervention, but the truth – as the enigmatic Ms Wood...

"You will make war with the beast of the city, and the people will be grateful, and in this way will your fame be fortified." Every fifty-two years, the God Xiuhtecuhtli – incarnate for the purpose as a young Mexica male – would give himself in sacrifice in order that the universe...