Bureau 13: Full Moonster

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Bureau 13 is the ultra-covert branch of the FBI assigned to handle supernatural criminals.

When America is hit by the magical-equivalent of an H-bomb, every telepath in the nation drops dead and suddenly the Bureau is embroiled in a fierce war for survival. Ed Alvarez and his team of Green Berets and wizards hold nothing back as they struggle to save humanity from The Scion, an evil organization of powerful magic-users dedicated to nothing less than the complete destruction of the world. Hoo boy. Outgunned and outnumbered, the Bureau is forced to summon help from every other supernatural agency in the world and risk open warfare to stop America from becoming the other white meat...

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Damned Nation

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Amid the fury and chaos of the Civil War, something monstrous is feeding upon the wounded soldiers, leaving behind withered corpses broken and twisted in unimaginable agony. Definitely not the work of a vampire. U.S. Marshall John Sanders is ordered by President Lincoln to stop the hideous deaths. Has the South unleashed a demon from Hell? But the marshall soon discovers that the mysterious enemy has been attacking every fallen soldier in the war, both Union and Confederate. President Jefferson Davis wants the unknown fiend stopped just as much as President Lincoln. Ruthlessly hunting a dark thing unafraid of guns, fire, silver, or Holy Water, the grim marshall starts to believe that the killer is not a werewolf, vampire, demon, or anything else known in the lexicon of the supernatural. This is something new, something horribly different. And the battlefield deaths are only the beginning...

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Invasion from Uranus

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THEY WANTED TO TERRAFORM...THE EARTH?

Once more, Nick Pollotta has unleashed a bakers dozen of his comedy short stories, this collection ranging from Science Fiction to Mystery, and each tale crowned with his hallmark twist endings.

* After an exhausted wizard grants a young king a special favor, the history of the world is changed forever because of a snappy Broadway musical.

* Battling the ultimate evil, the only hope for a desperate British lawman is a new, and innovative, use of condiments.

* Ever wonder what would happen if Sherlock Holmes discovered that his best friend was a murderer? So did Watson, but not anymore.

* When nuclear war turns Earth into a savage paradise, a boy and his pet robot learn the ultimate rule for survival: keep your damn mouth shut.

* There is an excellent reason that rap stars always wear a crucifix and carry so many guns. The answer is simple...fangbangers.

So turn down the lights, lock the doors, butter the cat, and prepare for the unexpected!


BONUS: Also included is the complete script for Nick's comedy radio play, "Doc Bronze, Hero With a Tan", available for the first time to the general public.

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Bureau 13 : #1 Judgment Night

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'Bureau 13' is the ultra-covert branch of the FBI assigned to handle supernatural criminals.  The public doesn't know they exist, the President denies any knowledge of their actions, and not every Bureau 13 operative is a human being.  Yet these wise-cracking, heavily-armed, federal agents are America's first, last and only line of defense against the growing tide of monstrous evil.

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THAT DARN SQUID GOD

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In the year 1881, the moon suddenly begins to turn around and reveal its long-hidden darker side to the startled world. While most of Humanity finds the event fascinating, two British explorers know the horrible truth. The rotating moon is the legendary sign that foreshadows the return of a prehistoric demon, the monstrous destroyer of Atlantis, an unkillable colossus known only as the deadly, dreaded Squid God. Racing around the world, and against the clock, Prof. Einstein and Lord Carstairs battle the fanatical legions of Squid God worshippers in a valiant effort to stop the ghastly rebirthing ceremony and keep the demonic mollusk locked in the stygian depths of its unearthly lair. Authors Nick Pollotta & James Clay have lovingly crafted a splendid Fantasy/Adventure, heavily laced with their classic off-the-wall humor, and sprinkled with a light dusting of parody toward the legendary works of H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and just about everything else from the golden glory days of Victorian England.

"'That Darn Squid God" rewrites literary history, remodels London worse than the Blitz, and convinces that it is wise never to deny the supremacy of British womanhood! What more can you ask?" ANALOG SF MAGAZINE

"Nick Pollotta is the funniest man in SF!" GENE WOLFE, two-time Nebula Award winner

"Funny, compelling and an absolute pleasure to read. The finest comedy/fantasy I have read this year!" ETERNAL NIGHT SF MAGAZINE

"Delightfully entertaining!" Robin Wood

"It's not often a book of this nature comes along and you do not want to miss it. Pollotta and Clay are trying to corner humorous fantasy and this tale gives them a firm foundation." BARYON SF MAGAZINE

"Set in Victorian England in the year 1881, That Darn Squid God is an hilarious parody of the otherworldly mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, strewn with delightful trappings of mystery and magic. Tongue-and-cheek humor with a fresh, and fast-paced, narrative style set apart That Darn Squid God as a fantastically funny end-of-the-world ride." MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

".and those who hunt the night alone,
With sword and gun, with cross and bone,
Will sneer at Death, and refuse to kneel,
When graveyard chimes being to peal."
from 'Heroes, or Idiots?'
author unknown

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Belle, Book And Candle: A Fantasy Novel By Nick Pollotta

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WITCHES, WARLOCKS, AND DEMONS, OH MY!
Accidentally discovering that she's a witch, Rissa Harmond travels to the distant city of Savannah to try and find the source of her new powers.

Unfortunately, a millenium-old vampire does not want that to happen under any circumstances, and suddenly Rissa is fired from her job, no longer able to contact her family, and running for her life!

EVERYTHING BUT FLYING MONKEYS
Besieged by supernatural monsters, and unable to control her powers, Rissa desperately struggles to find someway to defeat the vampire-even while falling in love with a devilishly handsome billionaire who claims not to believe in magic...

Witchcraft, jewelry, voodoo, debutantes, time travel, gypsies, crystal balls, cotillions, curses, cowboys, air boats, alligators, hexes and haunted oil paintings, all combine into a wild mixture of comedy, romance and supernatural danger from the award-winning author of BUREAU 13, DAMNED NATION, and THAT DARN SQUID GOD!

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