These fables, which come out of various Japanese legends and myths, are based on the following categories: bamboo, fox, bells, flower, lantern, fan, jizo, animals, tea, bird, mirror, doll, sea, pottery, kappa, Mt. Fuji, snow, deity, tree, and boys. The illustrations include various famous and traditional Japanese artists. This second edition contains many manga illustrations from Katsuhika Hokusai.

The book is a collection of short stories and poems that were written as I moved through several relationships over a four year period. I wrote blogs that were originally supposed to be a part of this. I charted and chronicled every step of my healing, every growth, every realization. Rehabilitating one's personality is hard. At the beginning, the book was supposed to be a chronicle of my recovery from my divorce, but I made the mistake of going straight from my marriage into a bad relationship with a younger woman. Getting away from that relationship almost killed me. 5 years of marriage...

Just another vampire novel? No, this is the vampire novel that makes all other vampire novels come together. Horror fans know the story of Vlad the Impaler, a real-life Wallachian tyrant who became the basis for one of the most iconic characters in the history of horror fiction. But what if the vampire Vlad became was NOT fictional? What if, to convince people he did not truly exist, Vlad Tepesch told his story to an author, who then published the story as fiction, leading people to believe that the creature Vlad the Impaler became did not actually exist? And what if other vampires picked up...