Older than the written word and more popular than ever today, the hero story crosses cultures as an eternal constant. The New Hero gathers an unexpected team of writers, celebrated and emerging, to deliver fourteen thrilling and distinctive variations on this classic theme. Their new heroes span the spectrum from post-apocalyptic seer to post-traumatic arm-twister, from outcast vampire to steam-age... [click here for more]
Schemers
Betrayal Knows No Boundaries
A cruel lover who refashions her prey. A bioengineered warrior on the run. An internet mapping service with a stalker’s eye. A carjacker with a conscience. A Victorian thespian turned super-criminal. A murderer of video game characters. All these and more meet in the poison-soaked pages of Schemers, a genre-spanning short fiction exploration of grand schemes, Machiavellian... [click here for more]
A one-shot adventure for the GUMSHOE system!
Greece, 1948. The civil war is raging, with Communist partisans waging a guerrilla war against the US-backed government and National Army. In the south of the Peloponnese, a British archaeologist is missing, presumed dead. In truth, he has fallen prey to one of the most terrifying creatures of Greek folklore.
The investigators are tasked with finding... [click here for more]