Old Heroes And Villains Return To Do Battle Again!
Award-winning author Mike Sirota published many Horror, Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, and Adventure Fantasy novels through the 1980s and ’90s. These stories have long been out of print. But Mike is now bringing his stories back to life in newly revised, rewritten editions, both eBook and paper, under his own imprint, Atoris Press. Prince Dulok of Shadzea, Tyron the Kalkh, Ro-lan of Boranga, and others confront monsters, magic, and evil in ancient lands and upon distant worlds. Closer to home, bestselling novelist Paul Fleming does battle with demons both real and imagined at a writers’ colony in the High Sierras (Demon Shadows), while Greg Lowell’s return to the California town in which he was born unleashes an unspeakable evil from beneath his ancestral land (The Modoc Well).
New books are also forthcoming. Since his return to writing in 2010, Mike has published two horror/ghost stories, one thriller, and a historical novel. In Fire Dance, set in the bleak Anza-Borrego Desert of Southern California, the malignant spirit of a deranged mass murderer who perished more than a century earlier wreaks havoc upon a quiet retirement community. The Burning Ground, which takes place in the foothills of the Sierras, tells the story of a small village of Maidu Indians, all of whom are murdered during the Gold Rush. When their graves are desecrated over 150 years later, the tormented spirits decide that they’ve had enough. Mike’s thriller, Freedom’s Hand, was honored by the San Diego Book Awards Association as “Best Action/Thriller, 2013”. A white supremacist group, seeking to destroy all minorities, erects a concentration camp on American soil—half a century after the liberation of Auschwitz. Mike’s historical novel, Stone Woman: Winema and the Modocs, was honored by the San Diego Book Awards Association as “Best Historical Novel, 2014.”
Bernie Smith is Back!
In this sequel to the Sword & Planet spoof, The Wizard from Harrmel, Bernie and his “amazing hill beauty,” Thanna Dora, learn that her long-lost father, Skreen Dor, may still be alive somewhere in the dark, dreaded land of Harrmel. Join them for more weird and wild adventures as they trek across this nightmarish land, where they’ll encounter mole-guys, bat creatures, walking dead folks in a suicide forest, spastic specters in a spooky swamp, cannibals, big-ass bugs, dog-things, and more—before it starts getting hairy. To save Thanna Dora’s dad they will ultimately have to face the evil wizards known as—the Uppidi. That’s when they’ll really experience…THE HORRORS FROM HARRMEL!
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Perils of the Bike Path
A Jack Miller Senior Moment
Book 5
Jack Miller’s return to the cosmic tunnel that he calls the Ultimate Bike Path leads him into a world full of vampires; a bogus Bodega Bay, where the birds talk and the humans squawk; the Baseball Hall of Fame Afterward, where he meets his heroes, Mickey Mantle and Tony Gwynn. In other words, the usual. But then, things turn a bit darker as Jack is beset by one anomaly after another. And here he thought the next malfunction, according to the Old Guy, wasn’t due for 473.6 years. Now, his unlimited passage—nay, his very life—will be threatened by the PERILS OF THE BIKE PATH.