SERIES
It's not easy to come up with new characters for every short story. Often, I want to revisit some of the old ones. Below is a list of my recurring series.
Frankenstein, Detective - the monster of Frankenstein has survived his final encounter with Victor Frankenstein in the Arctic. After wandering the world for a year, he returns to Geneva and reinvents himself as a consulting detective. In these stories and novelette, Frankenstein (the name the monster goes by) is intelligent and well-read, as he is portrayed in the Shelley novel. Though the setting is the 1820s, his adversaries resemble the Universal Studios monsters from the 1930s, such as the Wolf-Man, the Invisible Man, Dracula, etc. All seven of the short stories below are included in the upcoming collection, "The Sum of Its Parts."
Monsters All
Before the Beginning
The Monster Is the Father to the Child
Wherefore Art Thou, Werewolf
Voodoo as I Say
None So Blind as Those Unseen
What Lies Beneath the Bandages
Sum of Its Parts
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Phokus - Phokus is an ancient Athenian detective. Along with his partner Alastair, they try to find justice in a world that includes amoral gods and goddesses.Â
Daedalus and Icarus and Phokus
Trial by Fire
Four Mares of the Apocalypse
A Bolt for Semele
Dead Stop
Dance of the Maenads
Point Taken
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Christian Towne - Eccentric inventor Christian Towne travels to other dimensions in search of a better one. He's still looking.
Days Retrograde (originally: Back to Forth)
The Sideways Machine
Days of Past Futured
Don’t Dimension It
Sandstorm in the Hourglass
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Hal Boland - Hal Boland is secretly a hologram or holo. He has a transmitter that allows him to illegally walk among humans and help other holos.Â
Holo, Goodbye
Too Much to Dream
The Light and the Dark
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Formsby and Palance - Much to their chagrin, these two cops, set in the near future, specialize in confrontations with outer space aliens. It's serious... but never too serious.
No-Brainer
Repeat as Necessary
Terry Marselle - A cop who has to deal with strange inventions being used for nefarious reasons.
The Time Phone
All My Todays
T-Vision
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