Victor Standish: Urban legend, abandoned child, mocker of monsters:

“I learned to walk on cat-feet by living on the streets of too many hard cities for six years...since I was seven. I know why dogs howl at the dark and why cats prick up their ears after midnight.

All too often I hear the beating of black wings and the scratching of half-seen shapes on the pavement hidden by shadow. I have always known I am an outsider, a stranger no matter where I roam among those who are still men.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that most don’t suspect, and once in a while a wandering stray calls them just within range. And yes, all too often I am that stray".

Follow Victor as he scurries down the garbage-strewn streets of a lifeless Detroit, hiding from and fighting against the hungry dead reanimated by his strange mother.

Watch him fight for his life in a ramshackle New York country estate against the alien spawn who fell from the stars a century ago.

See Victor contend against nightmares in a carnival of the damned - meet with him:

• Princess Shert Nebti, the living mummy child
• Shiver Phoenix, the enticing girl who hides a terrible secret under the black glove she never removes
• Azizza, the Snake Woman out of Time
• Simba, the caged panther whose dying brings freedom
• And Madera, the mysterious Fortune Teller whose trailer holds death and life.

Start the road to Legend in Carnival of the Damned, book zero in The Legend of Victor Standish.