William Pauley, III

POLICE BAFFLED AFTER FINDING REMAINS OF "TELEVISION MAN" On October 28th, 2015, two Chicago police officers responded to a 911 call concerning a strange smell emanating from an abandoned church. Inside they found human remains, mutilated and wired with electricity, along with evidence supporting the killer was one they'd been hunting for years: Dr Perry Gordon. Two days later, a letter from Gordon arrived at the police station. He claimed the victim, Airman Bricker Cablejuice, consented to his own mutilation, and that the two were in the midst of a great experiment at the time the police barged in. He also said the victim was still alive, even in his butchered state, and he could prove it. By connecting Bricker's brain into a computer via a surgically installed USB port, the police would be able to download his consciousness and read his thoughts in real time. The contents of the feed, however, would play out in a somewhat distorted and exaggerated manner, due to the brain being in a lucid dreamlike state. In the letter, this process was called 'automated daydreaming.' Following Gordon's instructions, the officers discovered he was telling the truth. The mangled remains were indeed alive. However while reviewing the evidence, it was made painfully clear that Gordon's experiment went much further than just physical desecration. If the acts depicted in the feed turn out to be true, it would make Gordon the most heinous criminal the world has ever seen. But did these monstrous acts of violence even take place? Or was it all just part of the bizarre hallucinatory daydream?

The Five Lives of Bricker Cablejuice

Automated Daydreaming

Bill Krang has a special gift: he can hear insects speaking. Although they incessantly hum the same nonsensical phrase ad nauseum, he can't help but think there must be some reason he alone can hear it. Now in his thirties, Krang's body is beginning to literally collapse in places, just as he discovers there may be other hearers of the constant hum. Convinced this is no coincidence, he sets out for answers, and manages to dismantle all he ever thought he knew about everything.

Hearers of the Constant Hum

CHORIZO, NEVADA is full of dusty streets, gritty men, and filthy women - the perfect place for a man chockful of secrets to hide. But one fateful day, his past catches up to him... A Japanese assassin with a cue-ball eye invades the town with an army of two-foot eyeless minions who have an uncanny taste for human blood. He has two things on his mind - Where is his purple television? And who is the dead man that stole it from him? The DOOM MAGNETIC! Trilogy is a fast-paced sci-fi western, packed plum-full of sex, violence, cosmic voids, big bitchy headless women, Coliseum-style combat, genetically-engineered mutant giants, breathy brain whispers, cigar smoke torture chambers, and a sea of electric television zombies. This version is the complete novel and contains part two and three of Maundin's adventure, previously unpublished.

The Doom Magnetic! Trilogy

William Pauley, 3rd

"White Fuzz is a weird sort of love story between two deeply disturbed indivuduals, each a product of their isolated environment. It's not an easy read. It's shocking, gross, and horrifying. Manages to check off every trigger! You've been warned." Franklin feels alone in life. One fateful night, he gets a curious text from a stranger, Lynda, another resident of his apartment building. She convinces him to come over, against his better judgment, and surprisingly the night seems to be going great, despite a little awkwardness. However, it's clear that Lynda is living with demons that are in desperate need of exercising, as everything inside her apartment seems to trigger some dark memory buried deep within her psyche. In hopes of helping her escape the prison that is her home, he invites her over to his place, but the problems only get worse, to the point he fears she won't make it through the night. Just when he feels the night has reached peak insanity, he discovers her madness is rubbing off on him...

The Bedlam Bible #2

White Fuzz

Franklin feels alone in life. One fateful night, he gets a curious text from a stranger, Lynda, another resident of his apartment building. She convinces him to come over, against his better judgment, and surprisingly the night seems to be going great, despite a little awkwardness. However, it's clear that Lynda is living with demons that are in desperate need of exercising, as everything inside her apartment seems to trigger some dark memory buried deep within her psyche. In hopes of helping her escape the prison that is her home, he invites her over to his place, but the problems only get worse, to the point he fears she won't make it through the night. Just when he feels the night has reached peak insanity, he discovers her madness is rubbing off on him...

Joseph Bouthiette, Jr

Brushing away dust and dirt and sand and grit, the towering penumbra men stagger, drift, and wonder of the dark earth that surrounds them. These gods of an ancient world are simple men staring at a nothing moon struggling to invent a word to describe such darkness. The penumbra once had a word for the sun, VVLNA, but in this strange world, this black earth, there seems no use for it. And Father Jackal... every trace has vanished. The penumbra wonder if indeed they are alone here. In the distance stands The House of Wolves. There they will find answers. Some wish for food. Some wish for God. Only one will see the light.

A Black Earth Tale of the Magnum Carcass

Vvlna

OUR PROTAGONIST is pretty sure he's just committed a murder. The body is newly dead, he's the only one around, and a quick look at the evidence suggests he's guilty as sin. Also, he's totally insane. A rare brain condition causes his memories to reset every day, and because of this, he often wakes up in strange places with no memory of how he got there. He can't even remember his own name. When he's not racking his brain over his shoddy memory, he's arguing incessantly with a disembodied voice that doesn't seem to belong to him, one he can only hear inside his head. He may not know much about the troubling situation he just woke up to, but he knows, without a doubt, that he's completely f*cked. While the odds are certainly stacked against him, there may be hope for our protagonist yet, for clutched in the corpse's cold, clammy hands is a handwritten tome that suggests not only his innocence, but also reveals some bizarre and dangerous secrets, leading him to believe his own apartment building may be to blame... or is, at the very least, an accomplice. That sounded better inside his head. Luckily he's not the only one trying to solve the case. The book also leads him to a group of outcasts who are in the midst of their own investigation. The only problem? They all suspect one another! One thing's for certain, someone inside the tower is a cold-blooded killer. Can our protagonist solve the murder before he falls asleep and his memories reset? Or worse, before the killer strikes again? Find out in HOLUS BOLUS. You'll be pushed to the very edge of sanity!

The Bedlam Bible #6

Holus Bolus

The story of a man who became his bathroom.

The Bedlam Bible #4

Fight Tub

An elderly man with certain gifts falls prey to a brilliant madman, who surgically-enhances his victims, turning them into mechanical, blood-thirsty angels.

If You Don't Sleep, You Don't Dream.

Genocide. Jellyfish smack. Unrequited love. This is a tale of thirteen mermaid sisters, the last of their kind. (Includes the bonus story: Sins of the Father)

The Mermaid's Gallows

Finn McKenna is melting and he doesn't know why. He wakes up in the desert with nothing but a phone number written on his arm. He calls the number and the person who answers is immediately killed. Just before taking their dying breath, the voice informs him that he is a competitor in some ultraviolent game show, but for the life of him he can't remember what it is he is supposed to be doing. Even worse, everyone around him seems to know who he is and what has happened to him, but the only ones who offer help have ulterior motives. Surely there's someone he can trust, but can he find them before his body completely drips away?

Demolition Ya Ya

Some monsters are impossible to see. This is The Ballad of Old Joe Booth. An epic poem in four parts. A song for Eighth Block.

The Bedlam Bible #5

The Ballad of Old Joe Booth (A Song For Eighth Block)

The Bedlam Bible #3

The Astronaut Dream Book

Sebby & Nick were once inseparable. They were the kind of friends who couldn't seem to do anything without the other. However, now that they're in high school, they've got other things on their minds. Girls. And wouldn't you know it, they're both in love with the same one, not that she even knows either of them exist... Tensions come to a head in a bowling alley arcade, when Nick challenges Seb to a pinball duel-winner takes all! Over-the-top, outrageous, and at times flat out disgusting-Slime Night will have you in tears from fits of laughter! (Also contains the BONUS STORY: How to Destroy the World - A Step-By-Step Guide for Evil Geniuses)

Slime Night

This is a cycle. Unalleviated, its components are connected by electricity and fed through the rage of lightning. Insect and road monsters scour the desert. Bodies morph into new constructions, only partially human and searching for conclusion. Tongues entwine in an embrace of benthos, while mermaids and jellyfish glow in tandem. The moon is waiting. Dream. (back cover description by Jane Camp)

Edgar J. Head can't win. After a series of unfortunate events lead to his girlfriend's cat getting eaten, Eddie finds himself heartbroken and alone. He ventures out into the wild night, meeting some of the strangest people he's ever come across. Eventually he has the epiphany that anything that makes him happy in this dreary life is well worth fighting for... and that the Spin Doctors are the perfect band to convey this message. He quickly gets to work on what very well may be the most important creative project of his life: the Spin Doctors Mixtape. Pauley takes us back to the heart of the 90s in this strange love letter from a weirdo. A lot of fun, a lot of heart, a lot of Batman.

William Pauley, III

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