Suite 13

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Tom Canty.

Take the lift to the thirteenth floor, wait thirteen seconds…the key in your hand fits the lock. We’ve been waiting for you.

Inside Suite 13, the floorplan changes when you’re not looking, and the mirrors show you things you’d rather not see. Award-winning author David J. Schow loves the view in this joint…and the room service. You’re invited inside to experience:

Private dicks so hardboiled they’re dead…things lurking in deep, dark cave networks…those who visit your grave when the night winds wail…the easiest way in the world to change your entire identity in a snap…a heister with too many enemies to kill…a deeply-committed cadre of midnight racers…a serial killer fond of observing national holidays…a world where killing children is not only easy, but necessary…

Among these you’ll also see familiar faces such as the denizens of Clive Barker’s Midian (from Night Breed), Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead universe, and Joe R. Lansdale’s world of The Drive-In.

Nonfiction visitors await your pleasure as well: John Wyndham’s Triffids, the “Poe-Poe Platters,” the exploits of the one-and-only Jack the Ripper (all of them) and James Bond, fantastic fictioneers named Bloch, Stefano, Trevanian, and two named Brown, and DJS’s own commentary on everything from the horrors of the 1950s to the horrors of the total end of the entire freakin’ world as we know it!

This volume includes four brand-new stories, never before published.

The darkest party ever is going on in Suite 13…and you’re on the guest list.

Table of Contents:

Fiction

• Red Meat Flag
• Draggers
• Williamson’s Folly
• I Am Become Death
• Hard-boiled Dick Tea
• Collector
• Fame Whore
• Long Black Veil
• Twenty Dead Men
• Matheson’s Paradox
• Odeed
• Caving
• Hide/Invert
• Normal

Non-Fiction

• “Blame Hermes”
• “The Fearsome Fifties”
• “The Battle for Bond”
• “Joseph Stefano”
• “Day of the Wyndham(s)”
• “Beginning with the End”
• “a.k.a. Trevanian”
• “The Best Celebrity Toupee in Hollywood”
• “Matheson, Senior”
• “Ripping the Jacks”
• “Preface to ‘Old Frank and Jesus’ by Larry Brown”
• “Poe-Poe Platters”
• Review of The Lights in the Sky are Stars by Fredric Brown.
• Aft13word

Limited to 1000 copies