A. J. Payler

A mysterious figure stalks the murky backwoods of the Midwest on an unrelenting mission for revenge, with nothing but a Bowie knife to protect him against the monsters that haunt the forest. And even if he’s able to find what he needs… it’s already too late.

Kenji Sanada has always been more comfortable with classic fictional monsters than with other people, even his family—Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the mummy—all safely immortalized on his wall of fame....

Shane and Jewel have been hanging onto the edges of life for so long they can’t remember any other way of living. When enough money to solve all their problems drops out of the sky, it seems like a windfall from heaven—but it might be the worst thing that could ever have happened....

Everyone—everyone said that getting the Artery Boys back together was impossible…and for once, high-powered music manager Alec Rodenbaugh might even have agreed.

1996, the American Midwest: Zach Coleman is beginning to suspect the nineties aren't all they're cracked up to be. His fledgling private investigation career is sinking fast, his band just broke up, and even his boring day job isn't paying off.

From A. J. Payler, comes Stop All Interference—seven stories of struggle against overwhelming odds and unstoppable fear, people pushed beyond betrayal and forgiveness, of the world we live in and what people will let themselves do just to survive in it.

Labor Day Weekend, an empty office building down in sleepy Point Loma: basically a sitting-duck target for any second-story man worth a nickel. Especially one with a lifetime of skills to draw upon—not to mention all the magic passcodes tucked comfortably away in his back pocket.

Carson Adkins had no doubt he was born unlucky, especially after his college folded one semester before graduation but he never expected to find himself caught deep in the heart of an uncharted land sheltered against the passage of time for decades!

From A. J. Payler, master of modern fiction behind Bank Error in Your Favor, The Killing Song, and Terror Next Door comes Should the World Fail to Fall Apart—6 stories of people pushed beyond forgiveness in a world without pity....

The only thing that made those seemingly unending days in prison bearable was knowing what was waiting for him on the outside, buried deep in the frozen ground where she’d sworn to leave his share of the loot.

From A. J. Payler, author of The Killing Song, Bank Error in Your Favor, and Terror Next Door comes An Abyss Below Every Floor, a tale of the terrifying world outside your door and the darkness that awaits us all.

Mick MacFinn makes bad choices and blames bad luck when his life goes wrong. A failure as a mob enforcer and petty criminal, Finn’s ended up on the run, burdened with cold-manipulation powers that might give him an edge—or it would, if he really knew how to use them.

Midland City's resident superhero Quickness can fight off his nemesis Doctor Oto all day and night... but his ultimate vulnerability might finally prove to be his all too human human heart.

Unemployment can make a person desperate… so desperate in their quest for the perfect position they might blow past all the red flags in the world.