The farm is going deeper and deeper into debt. Joan Oakly tells us how, amid all this, she met a strange old man deep in her swamp, who offered her a loan. She does not use the loan wisely, buying ever newer machines, and the debt mounts to such a pitch that King steps in and declares the debt absolved....if title is transferred to him. Then she kills him. The old man, Jonas King, has a son, Josue King. He has given over to him everything he has, and yet King does not seem to be dead. Or is this only Joan's guilty imagination?

The village of Old Street, deep in the New England countryside, has been haunted for 400 years by the ingrown family of perverts and sorcerers dwelling in the huge gabled house on the hill above them: the Mathers. Opposite to this hill is the Cemetary on its' own hill, sacred ground and a refuge and fortress against the Mathers. No Mather can enter it, or walk down Old Street. Once they were nobles, rich and powerful; now they are reduced to one man, who ate the others and gained in power: Jason Mather, known as Jayhaya. The Catholic farmers of Old Street wield weapons into which centuries of...

The Guardians are stymied. A rogue story has erupted into reality out of fiction, and they cannot Watch it. The characters there are fictional, but have become real. And worst of all, not only can no Guardians Watch this story, an evil Guardian has entered it. In despair, the Head Guardian calls upon Clondo, the wisest of the immortal watchers of the stories, who challenged the Twelve themselves and was permitted to marry one of his characters. With the Hand of the Bean, eight fay-creatures of immense power, Clondo and his wife enter the rogue story. There the Guardian finds he can only call...

The Prophet burst onto the scene an already potent force, all his struggles over, his plans in place, his supers gathered. But how did he begin, and what set him on the path from being chaplain of the Superhero Agency to waging war on the federal government? In this volume, Southford Historian James Farrell relates the Prophet's rise: his receiving of new powers, his gathering of old superheros and new appearances such as Bladegaze and Rockrunner, and finally, his crippling at the hands of the most feared of all the supers, the grim Argon Podenda.

When a Guardian of the story intervenes, he is breaking the Rules: the stories must be Watched, and kept from going Wrong. But when Clondo the Guardian falls in love with a character the story intends to die, he has no choice but to Intervene, to save her.

THE PROPHET IS UPON US Matters have come to a head. The Prophet has issued a formal declaration of war upon the United States government, and the ex-terrorist Doomriders are now in his ranks. In the climatic battle of Washington DC, the Prophet totals the Armed Forces and shuts down the government, forcing them to hire superheros, the very ones they persecute, to fight for them.

The Ancient Evil conquered the Three Realms, encasing Fairyland in eternal winter. That was 500 years ago. The denizens of Fairyland survive, packed into the huge sprawling towers of the Cidatel, the great fairy-fortress that thrusts eight thousand-foot towers up from the middle of Fairyland, so well defended by its' two Guardians that even a Greater Evil cannot breach it. Varn, a human refugeee from the rabbit-like remnants of people lurking in the winter land, knows no other life than the enchanted yet routine existence of the Cidatel. But when the magic-beanstalk elevators sprout magic...

When the Drawers of Vond, the magical life of the world, become corrupted, there is no recourse save to the Cardinal; and when he too is corrupt, the only recourse is to the Pope. And he, he is in another world, accessible only by an enchanted Window, and that Window is held shut by the Cardinal. Then the Cardinal and the Drawers committed a great sin, and to increase their power to magic, they diverted the Lost River.

LIVE, THE HOLLOWBOLDA King Nicholas, the child-king of Nordomba who wields his country's Heart and so has power over his land, has many peculiar problems. Green knights in sky-armour have to have judgement passed on them, and visits of state must be paid to the neighboring kingdom when its' King dies....even though the new King is his old enemy Prince Fred. Fred has not forgotten their emnity. He ambushes Nicholas on the way home, and both foes find themselves in Fairyland. Captive, King Nicholas is dragged through the enchanted country, until the Hollowbolda free him: but as he wanders in...

In this First Volume of the Complete Prophet series are presented the first two books: The Prophet and The Men of the Prophet. The first book chronicles the arising of the Catholic priest with telepathic and prophetic powers, and his clash with the ex-superhero/terrorist Doomsman, using an army of superpowered students he shelters. The second book takes place two years later, when the Prophet's underground opposition of the federal government's persecutory measures toward supers escalates with the return of Doomsman, who occupies Meriden and terrorizes it, running circles around the police...