From the author of THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER and TORSOS comes a novel of a gay private eye working the mean streets of New York City's Chelsea circa 1998.... Greg Quaintance sports a Desert Storm tattoo, packs a Glock, and drives a Plymouth Barracuda, but only those who know him best see the wounds etched in his heart. As a P.I. in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, he is hired to thwart an extortion attempt aimed at Jimmy Gilbert, a billion-dollar man-child musical superstar accused of having sexual relations with a teenage boy. But when Gilbert's accuser turns up dead and the boy goes on the run,...

Greg Quaintance, the gay and brooding private eye hero of John Peyton Cooke's THE RAPE OF GANYMEDE, returns to investigate a dark new mystery set in New York City, circa 1998.... When a distraught father hires Greg to find his missing son, Greg finds himself up to his neck in the world of the 1990s Goth club scene. But that's the least of his troubles. It's a case so bizarre, it might lead Greg to start believing in vampires.... Greg Quaintance, a Gulf War veteran with a Desert Storm tattoo, is no stranger to blood ... but only those who know him best see the wounds etched in his heart.

The weird. The strange. The outre. AFTER YOU'VE GONE AND OTHER OUTRE TALES presents 10 stories of men and monsters, goths and ghouls, violence and vengeance ... and a touching tale of a boy and his dentist. These are all part of the world of John Peyton Cooke, best known for his dark thrillers TORSOS and THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER. Selections include: "After You've Gone," the original tale of the bad Samaritan, which was reprinted in BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2003; "A Doll's Tale," which reveals everything we ever wanted to know about demon dolls but were afraid to ask; "The Penitent," which...