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BLOOD AND BRAINS features two of Judith Sonnet's most extreme novellas, packed together for a double feature that will melt the flesh right off your skull!

Michael Fox is a homeless man living in a garbage dumpster beneath the Carver Street Bridge in Buffalo, NY. He’s bitterly depressed and ready to commit suicide; anything to put an end to his miserable existence.

Charter fishing boat captain, Miguel Santora, is an honest man who’s in serious trouble. He’s in over his head, owing money and allegiance to a slimeball mafia boss named Alberto Tonelli, who runs the shadier sections of Brooklyn with an iron fist. As payback, he’s forced to let Tonelli and his goons have access to his boat, the Amada Maria, to drop some of their enemies’ dead bodies into the Atlantic Ocean, chained to concrete cinder blocks.

Maverick Hall has spent years trying to forget the chilling events of his thirteenth birthday in the summer of 1999. That fateful night, he and his best friends ventured through a seemingly innocuous tunnel on their bikes — a journey from which not all of them returned. Now, as an adult, Maverick is haunted by a sinister force that compels him to return to his old neighborhood, a place shadowed by secrets, deceit, and an unsettling sense of death. Drawn back against his better judgment, he must face the dark forces that have lurked in waiting, eager for his return.

Throughout history and infinite dimensions, there exists a secret group of supernatural investigators operating on the fringes of society, lurking in the shadows, working strange cases with little reward. They are hardboiled zombies and ghosts, mythological creatures, ass-kicking vampires, tortured humans, and uncanny sleuths whose normal is the bizarre and weird.

Veronica Walsh’s meticulously created ‘normal’ life was torn apart by the public revelations about her past. She is trying to put the pieces back together when a desperate Mikaela Alonso comes to her asking for help. She claims her husband Tony did not commit suicide–that maybe he isn’t even dead. Dealing with domestic strife caused by her resurfaced childhood and happy with a distraction, Veronica jumps right in. When they uncover a connection between Tony and a recently murdered senator, Veronica realizes there is much more at play than she originally believed.

Billy Lockett: He was the king of rock ‘n roll - until a shocking accident cut short his spectacular career. Iris Ames: A nubile beauty who was the latest to be promoted by Billy from groupie to bedmate. Al Fenstra: Billy’s manager who guided his career like a father. His reaction to Billy’s accident: “Jesus Christ, I’m wiped out!”

You can't move away from your nightmares. After decades of living in a haunted house, Steve and Mara Spain have had enough. Steve’s anxiety-fueled nightmares have increased with each passing year. To find peace, he takes a leave of absence from his law firm to build a home on ten acres of forest near the quaint town of Maquoketa, Iowa. A place to retire—their last house.

When Congressional staffer Ben Walsh receives this cryptic text from his wife he initially doesn’t think much of it. But while waiting to hear from her again, Ben discovers that the text came an hour before a shooting that occurred along her daily running route. Veronica won’t pick up her phone, and when she doesn’t return home, he knows she is somehow involved. If she isn’t one of the victims, then where is she, and what did she know? While Ben searches for his wife, he stumbles upon another violent death, with clear connections to the shooting.

Stumbling upon a gate to a magical new world is a dream come true. At least, it should be. Marshal is a student who often retreats into manga to escape reality. What could he ask for but to be transported to a new fantasy world. But Marshal has fallen into a crafting world. He doesn’t play crafting games, and he doesn’t have much time to learn because he is immediately tasked with solving the mystery of the Llama Glama Gang, a failed pop group who has begun stealing historical artifacts from the town of Llamaldea.

Former soldier Karl Thorson enjoys the independence of choosing his own clients, but the jobs he accepts always take a turn for the weird and the dangerous. From fighting an ancient sorcerer beneath a lost Mayan city to a deadly cat-and-mouse chase with a voodoo priest through an off-shore oil rig, Karl Thorson can’t seem to escape shoot-outs with the supernatural. Can he fulfill his contracts, survive brushes with witches and magically juiced outlaw bikers, and maybe, just maybe, enjoy a cold beer?