Nobody likes David, and this makes David sad. He tries to make it better. Find something that will fix him. And he finds it: doors. But in the Gallery of Oddities, solutions--as in doors--often turn out...

Meet Charlie. He made a mistake. He died and forgot to tell his wife. Instead, he went about his day as usual, pretending nothing had happened.Shame? Fear? Guilt? The reason no longer matters. He paid...

Acclaimed author Dean Shearer draws on his library of fantasy stories to produce the first-ever Gallery of Oddities collection, one of the strangest series in all of fiction. Five Strange Doors collects...

Acclaimed author Dean Shearer draws on his library of general and fantasy stories to produce this magical collection, This Side of Wind. This Side of Wind collects twenty of Dean's bestselling short stories,...

Sometimes letters end up in the wrong mailbox. It happens almost every day. Imagine a letter so creepy, so strange, so dark that you're no longer comfortable in your own skin. The letter, missadressed,...

Selah. A simple world, a great world, an easy world--a world where your life is predetermined. Selah, oh Selah, where you're shunned for even thinking about living someway else.But the plan has gone wrong....

Dick is content with his life. He takes walks occasionally and everything is fine. But his brother, Clark, he's another story. He's crazy, possibly schizophrenic. He hears things no one else can hear,...

Meet Noah, a bored boy on summer break who's grounded because he got curious and dug up his mom's garden. Meet Kitty, a mysterious cat who sits in the yard across the street all day and all night . ....

Fresh from the graveyard, Lucy and Ray scuttled up the face of the College Inn. If you were there, you would not have seen them. Not through the mist and the dark. And you most definitely would not have...

A bony-white figure crosses the road . . . You meet your wife and unborn children in the void . . . It's not them that's crazy, it's you . . . You know the Secret . . . Nothing is what it seems . . .Nothing. The...

A grumpy wizard's putting curses on everybody . . .Rain and Thunder and Lightning happen to be actual living beings, and they're not very nice . . . One writer has a really bad addiction to writing: watch...

In Of the Undead, a vampire haunts a high school kid, threatening to take everything he loves from him; a vampire explains what it is like to be a vampire, and gives various tips and warnings; Jaspar...

Sir Peter of the Fallen Temple wakes up, knowing that the name he knows is not who he really is. In fact, he doesn't know who he is at all. He finds himself slaughtering a bull, cutting off its horns,...

After assaulting a grocery store clerk, Nick is arrested--and plunged into a world so strange it can't be real. This yarn will grip you so hard you won't be able to let go until the end.  

I have to admit, I always spy on her from the alleyway, watching her undress and redress for tennis practice. I have never met her, but I can tell you now that I love her with all my heart.I love her...

Jev keeps waking up in the middle of the night with the strange suspicion that his cat Thursday, was, just moments before Jev woke, burping his ABCs. And the cat seems to understand his words.Further...

Francis, sitting on the balcony smoking a cigarette after work, is completely unaware that a corpse will come climbing up the fire escape in just five minutes. And it has news for him. Bad news.A perfect...

Nick's parents have just died and been buried in the family cemetery half a mile away from the cabin. Nick seems to be doing fine--until he stomps into the house one day with news that his parents are...

There is one and only one good thing about living on the mountain: Luke has a place to run to whenever his parents begin to argue.  But no matter how fast or how far he runs, he can't escape their screams...

A story about a maiden-stealing dragon--and its fateful slayer.  The storm begun, and I had to get out of it, so I found the closest tavern: a two-story building in the boring, gray village of Mountain's...

In the Gallery of Oddities hangs a particularly strange portrait. An ordinary summer day, no school, nothing to do, Mom's yapping and she just won't stop. Time to go find the cat.And time to get your...

Joshua Vincent loves his wife.With all his heart.So when he finds her murdered right outside their apartment door, he is not happy.Too bad for the murderer.They can run, but they can't hide. Better run...

Lewis Culbridge is sick and tired of unpacking boxes and moving furniture around. So when he hears of the new football league in town, claiming the title of WORLD'S FINEST FOOTBALL, he can't help but...

It took my sister, and my father, and my brother. We should have known. It had been growing in the middle of winter, which is more than impossible. But, I mean, it was so wonderful, so beautiful.We should...

Melody, one of the chief angels of Music, has somehow forgotten entirely what his purpose is, and the world's starting to miss him.  Bad. Like, so bad everyone's ears will explode if he doesn't hurry...

Tom hasn't turned into a werewolf and killed anyone for a whole year, so things are looking up. But then he goes back to his hometown to spend Christmas with his family, where he quickly learns it's a...

Watch an old career writer write himself to death in the most disturbing, unexpected way. Another hilarious addition to the Selah the Universe world.Note: This story can also be found in The Moon Wizard:...

Four hilarious Selah the Universe short stories about wizards with pointy hats. These stories will make you laugh and think deeply at the same exact time.  Includes:"The Truth""Socrates!""In the Park...

Jasper Bloodstar: he's a vampire, a bloodsucker, a cold killer, and, most of all, a guy who's a little in over his head. On a walk one foggy October day, in need of a good meal, Jasper finds his perfect...

Its Christmas Eve, all the family's here, and everything is merry and cheery and bright. While taking out the trash, Lewis spots a vampire on the roof, thirsty for blood. His family's blood. Will Lewis...