Tim Kelly

This is the first book in a series of historical fantasy/shadow history about 19th century Covington/Newport, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio. You think you know the history of this region and the events that shaped it? You really don't. You think you know the notable people who were born or lived here and who went on to influence the country and the world? You might be surprised. This is the area that was once considered for the nation's capital, the "Paris of the West," and was the home to many famous Americans who influenced U.S. and world history. But it also, for a time, became the focal point for the forces of dark magic, mythological creatures, and international conspiracy. Now over a century removed from that time, the truth can finally be told. Are you ready for it?

A Vampire in Covington

Tim Kelly is a Master Photographer whose portrait work has inspired people in the portrait photography industry since the 1980s. His work has a classic, polished quality that beautifully depicts the personality of each subject, with no gimmicks. His style is reliant on careful camera technique, flawless lighting, and an uncanny ability to coax the most flattering-possible pose from every man, woman, and child who steps in front of his camera. In this book, Tim Kelly presents 60 of his most impressive and diverse black & white portrait images of men, women, children, and groups. For each of the sixty images, readers will get a deconstructive look at every aspect of building the image, from the ground up. Kelly will discuss the creative concept behind his images and share the gear, exposure, lighting, and posing strategies he learned to create gorgeous black & white portraiture with an exquisite tonal range, beautiful, form-flattering highlights and shadows, and both refined and comfortable poses that invite the viewer to study the image frame. This book contains all of the information you need to create standout black & white portraiture–from conceptualization, to posing and lighting, to postproduction and printing options.

Learn the Signature Style of a Legendary Photographer

Portrait Mastery in Black & White

Matt Mahoney is stuck in the in-between place: No longer a boy but not yet a man. His life had become a maze of haunting memories and heartbreaking regrets over the loss of a girlfriend, his first true love, and the death of his father. Paralyzed by the fear that his self-destructive tendencies would lead him to commit that one irreversible and permanent act, he took to the road to escape the misery thoughts that had made his existence harrowing and frightful .With only his thumb and backpack, he says goodbye to New Holland, a dying factory town in upstate New York, and embarks on a journey through "the great everywhere" that forces him to question everything he thought he knew about himself and brings him face-to-face with the demons that had driven him away from his home.After a series of epiphanies and encounters with the "perfect strangers" he meets along his journey, Matt is able to examine the mistakes of his past and discover the grace and insight to lead him forward into his uncertain future. His is a journey through sorrow and joy, despair and transcendence, fear and love in his quest to shed the adolescent skin of his troubled past and discover the key to that other inner self, the "New Matt" he aspires to become.

The Spider Room

Murder Takes a Holiday

Imagine what would happen if the tragedy of Hamlet were played like a story in a trashy, pulp fiction magazine. The bard would never be the same. Shy on poetry but loaded with poetic license, The omelet murder case introduces Chicago's number one private investigator and hack writer, "Shake" Speare, who is noted for his juicy yarns. All the familiar characters are present (more or less) but the twists and turns of plot are not quite what the immortal bard had in mind.

A Murderous Spoof in One Act

The Omelet Murder Case

The Trouble with Summer People

A Ghoulish Spoof in Two Acts

Varney the Vampire, Or, "The Feast of Blood"

The final book in the series filled with wonderfully scary poems for reading by candlelight on a long, dark night.

Thirteen Even More Ghoulish Poems for Halloween

From the Pit of Hell

The third book in the series of dark and whimsical poetry for the Halloween season, or for whenever one is in the mood for reading something scary by candlelight.

Yet Thirteen More Ghoulish Poems for Halloween

From Deeper in Hell

Yet another book of dark and whimsical poetry for the Halloween season, or for whenever one is in the mood for reading something scary by candlelight.

Thirteen More Ghoulish Poems for Halloween

From Hell,Too

Principal Scientist Tim Kelly

This is a book of dark and whimsical poetry for the Halloween season, or for whenever one is in the mood for reading something scary by candlelight.

Thirteen Ghoulish Poems for Halloween

From Hell

FROM THE CLASSIC THRILLER OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.

A Play in Two Acts

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Ruth Perry

"Two cleaning women come to scrub down a forgotten room and are visited by the spirits of the ladies who met death inside the dark walls. Each is doomed by her own bitterness to walk the Tower. Much of the dialogue is taken directly from historical record. In a brief overlapping of the present and the past, there is a touching scene of communication and understanding that sets the embittered women free of their bondage to the past."--Publisher website.

Ladies of the Tower

Followup on a Case Study from Minnesota

Changing People's Perceptions and Behavior Through Partnerships and Education

Jack Sharkey

Money, Power, Murder, Lust, Revenge and Marvelous Clothes

The play is set during a storm in Massachusetts. Guests continue to happen upon the infamously isolated Ye Olde Wayside Inn, bringing them upon the acquaintances of Hepzibah, Arabella, and Ebenezer Saltmarsh, their Uncle Silas, and the hired girl, Olive. The guests of the Inn continue to follow the mystery of Olive, the peculiar nurse, Ebenezer and his obsession with "Effie", the crazy Saltmarsh sisters, and their late ancestor, "The General".

It Was A Dark and Stormy Night

An average American family acquires historic old Canterville Chase - complete with ghost! Sir Simon, the sporting spirit, succeeds in making life miserable. Then the Americans strike back.

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