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The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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In this wacky homage to low-budget B-movies of the fifties, Sally Holmes, violated by a mad scientist, kills and de-tongues her attacker while both are bathed in the rays of the dread new element gargantuum. When she begins to grow beyond all bounds, bursting free of one set of clothing after another, her husband John suddenly finds himself with an over-abundance of womanflesh on his hands and precious little time to coax his wife back into some semblance of sanity and modest attire. Meanwhile, ... more info>> 1996 Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Words: 5887 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Horror
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Deadweight [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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Karin Tanner, having killed her husband Danny in self-defense, now visits his grave every day, leaving flowers from her garden. She has inherited from her grandmother the ability to prolong the lives of plants, indeed to restore dead plants to life. As she caresses the flowers above Danny's grave, she unknowingly brings him gradually back to life as well. When he at last claws his way to freedom, it's payback time with a vengeance. Karin's only hope is to abandon her role as a victim and use her... more info>> 1994 Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Words: 74583 - Reading Time: 213-298 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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A Slow Red Whisper of Sand [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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There are many sorts of vampire in this world. While Esme succumbs to the allure of the blood-sucking variety, her brother Brad falls victim to the soul-sapping wiles of a woman he meets through the personals. Meanwhile, their movie-producing dad, auditioning poolside a bevy of scantily clad hopefuls, could scarcely care less what horrors have begun to claim the lives of his children. 1994 World Fantasy Award Finalist
Words: 12540 - Reading Time: 35-50 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Ridi Bobo [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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I Pagliacci meets Sam Spade in this wild mix of noir fiction and the colorful world of the big top. Fearing that his wife Kiki has allowed her bicycle honker to admit entry of some other clown's rubber chicken, Bobo seeks out a mopey, sad-eyed gumshoe to spy upon her and bring back photographic evidence. When he notes common markings on her paramour's face and those of JoJo and JuJu, their two young children, Bobo starts to deviate from a cuckolded clown's expected reactions. Will the poor fello... more info>> 1993
Words: 3678 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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What the Eye Sees, What the Heart Feels [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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The unicorn tasked with taking on the pain of dying for all humankind draws close to death herself. Unless she can convince a fresh young replacement to assume that burden, the human race is in for very hard times indeed. 1995
Words: 4494 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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On the Dangers of Simultaneity, Or, Mmmm, Oh-Baby-Yeah, Oooh ... UH-OH! [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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The Beatles' first chord on the Ed Sullivan Show catapults the world into a major crisis, as the first truly simultaneous pair of orgasms unleashes the Orgasm Fairy upon humankind. Can the archangel Michael, whose ineptitude allowed this forbidden simultaneity to occur, re-bottle the malevolent fairy, or is the world doomed to spin off its axis into ecstatic madness? 2000
Words: 2380 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Erotica
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One Flesh: A Cautionary Tale [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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A son and his father, killed in a car accident, jointly reincarnate into the son's baby boy. As they grow to manhood, they find themselves tangled in a doubly Oedipal quandary, simultaneously lusting after both mother and grandmother. Can they stitch together, piece by piece, an ideal mate from the bound and gagged objects of their desire, or is their gruesome little experiment in patchwork bodybuilding doomed to failure? A classic splatterpunk tale, by no means for the faint of heart! 1991
Words: 4451 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Horror
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Clap If You Believe [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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Meeting the parents carries no greater challenge than when your intended is a pixie named Tinkerbell and you must explain to her human mother and father how a marriage to their diminutive daughter could possibly benefit her. Is her would-be fiance a deviant? Or is he merely, what with his interest in doll houses and his calling as a micro-surgeon, a peculiar but nearly perfect match? Giving him the third degree in the study over cigars will, her father hopes, reveal all--as indeed it does! 1993
Words: 3385 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Li'l Miss Ultrasound [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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An annual beauty contest for third-trimester fetuses is steeped in intrigue, dutifully noted in contestant Wendy's letters to her mother. Will her fiance Kip's ravishing digital effects, kept under wraps, be sufficient to dethrone the reigning two-time champion, a ruthless seductress who seeks by feminine guile to pry Kip's secrets from him and feed them to her own techological mastermind? This tale is a savage take on trends in entertainment, the sexualizing of the very young, and beauty contes... more info>> 2003
Words: 6266 - Reading Time: 17-25 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Bucky Goes to Church [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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Vernon Stevens, a pimpled adolescent carrying an automatic weapon and a lifelong grudge, decides he has suffered quite enough abuse from a community of nasty adults and kids who shame him every chance they get. So one Sunday morning, he bikes his way over to the First Methodist Church to mete out justice at last, only to discover a most unexpected intimacy between mass murderers and God the Father. 1992
Words: 5583 - Reading Time: 15-22 min.
Category: Horror
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Apologia [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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This multi-threaded, metafictional romp packs in every shred of folk legend, fact, speculation, and myth that has accreted around the greatest betrayer of them all, as Judas at last recounts his version of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Did Jesus conspire with him to plan his own betrayal? Has Judas received the unfairest bum rap of all time? Did these characters even exist? And how does Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting of The Last Supper fit in? You'll find more answers than you imagined ther... more info>> 2003
Words: 9121 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Walking Wounded [MultiFormat]
by Robert Devereaux
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Katt has the ability to heal with her hands. But when she discovers that her husband is having an affair, she finds that she can also cause harm by reversing her intent, that she can activate the Huntington's Disease latent in his brain. Much to her dismay, she discovers that she has disturbingly little compunction in doing so. To add to her problems, she meets and falls in love with her husband's mistress. Once her husband is dead, Katt is horrified to find that her mind sees all sorts of paral... more info>> 1996
Words: 68610 - Reading Time: 196-274 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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