A spell gone wrong in a Queensland burial cave accidentally bonds a Quinkan, a shadow demon from the Australian Dreamtime, to a wicked mixed-blood shaman named Cadjer Harrow. Glued to the shaman's bloodline, the bloodthirsty Quinkan haunts its generations in maliciously inventive ways while seeking release from its black magic bondage.

Literary suspense from Anne Petty and P. V. LeForge. Shrimpboat captain Carla Conway thought her life was enough of a mess before she found the body of her old nanny tossed like a rag doll into the belfry of a long-abandoned church. With the help of her crusty first mate Comer-and little from the sheriff-she investigates the old woman's death. What she finds takes her deep into the myths and legends of the Florida swamps-and into the mystery of her own origin.

Are you laid off, downsized, undersized? Call us. We employ. 1-800-555-0606 How lucky do you feel? So reads the business card from LIMBUS, INC., a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. LIMBUS's employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a company in the ordinary sense of the word. In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and scifi pool their warped takes on the shadow organization that offers employment of the most unusual kind to those on the...