Christopher Fahy

Alan Swan devises an insane plan to kidnap Bliss Marshall, a teenage superstar, and keep her prisoner on a remote island

Eternal Bliss

When his parents move to a house in Maine where many people had died years before, David begins to have horrible nightmares about the house and its past

Dream House

Twenty-eight-year-old Alan Swan knows he’s fine, it’s the rest of the world that is warped—deceitful and false. As soon as he’s released from the mental hospital, he starts to partially set things right by abducting the woman of his feverish dreams, twenty-year-old movie star Bliss Marshall (born Barbara Majeski), and sailing with her to his private island off the coast of Maine. There he locks her in a room and attempts to transform her into a “real” person by changing her diet, assailing her with his “advanced” ideas, and making a movie with her from a script based on his bizarre philosophy. He makes it clear that whether or not he is successful, he will never set Bliss free, and she sinks deeper and deeper into despair while those who are searching for her gradually give up hope that she is still alive.

Once she was gone I went back to Shrimp’s room to clean up. I was leaving, arms full, when a glint caught my eye. It was under the radiator. A bottle, a long thin vial. The vial my father had used, that had held the McGrow! And there on the lip of the bottle, sucking—a fly! A copy of Bouffant Times lay next to the chair. I set my burdens down, grabbed the magazine, rolled it up and went after the fly—so slowly, cautiously. Yet somehow I tipped it off, and it stiffened. Before I could swing, it had flown to the window shade. I stalked it again, scarcely daring to breathe. It flew, I missed, tore a hole in the shade. Twice more I swung and missed. Impossible! A creature with a brain so small—without even a brain at all, perhaps?—could foil me? Absurd! Then it suddenly made for the door. I panicked. A fly that had drunk McGrow! If it flew outside … The poet/grantsperson Fred Fudpucker tries to save his best friend, Sigmund Fish, who has Down Syndrome, from the clutches of the nefarious Mick McDiddle, head of the gigantic McDiddle hamburger chain.

The Fly Must Die

Fahy offers a compilation of 21 horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories--half of which have never been published previously. Each is illustrated by full-page artwork.

Matinee at the Flame

Henry Island is in big trouble. After slaving away for a dozen years to earn his Ph.D. in urban legendry, he can’t find work in his field. Pursued by goons from The Company, N.A., who are trying to get him to pay off his student loans, the practically penniless Henry flees Back East for Out West, where a single job is rumored to exist. On his long and difficult journey, he gets caught up in many of the legends he has studied, such as THE EXPLODING TOILET, CRUEL GRUEL, THE SLOVENIAN SOOTHSAYER and GAY INSIDE STRAIGHT. He finds himself in the army, a concentration camp, a mental hospital and a sweatshop that mass produces schlock art, and hooks up with three eccentric comrades who are also engaged in a quest for fulfilling work, the answers to life’s big questions, and the secrets of championship baseball.

Red Tape

JONATHAN IS IN HIS ROOM. BUT HE’S NOT IN HIS BODY. Jonathan Petrie can leave his body and fly. Best of all. nobody knows it—yet. Not his alcoholic, ailing mother, nor his uncaring father. Not the teacher who senses that he's changing, nor the girl who befriends him. And surely not the school kids who torment him mercilessly. None of them knows the force he commands—that he can see without being seen, hear without being heard, and that even now, as the night winds howl, he's plotting his revenge on them all!

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