Literary short stories ranging from the horror of the holocaust to the secret life of an Aztec vampire.

I'm a little bit Country, and I'm a little bit Urban, too. This is an account of the first eighteen years of my life; the first nine of which were spent in the metropolis of Chicago, Illinois. When our family moved to Pierson Township in Central Michigan during the summer of 1971, my life was turned upside down and inside out. This is my story. This is my song.

In his premiere novel, THE CHAIN, Timothy Patrick Kirby combines science fiction with psychological horror as we follow cataclysmic events as they unfold in the life of Kelly Furlong, a young rural mother and wife, who is about to embark on the most significant adventure in the history of the world. And ultimately, she will discover that the chain of life in the universe MUST remain unbroken...or else.

Two elderly sisters who like to sit around their kitchen table and wait for their friend from town to call on them... An afternoon swim turns into two children's worst nightmare... Chester used to be fat and unpopular and everybody made fun of him when he was in high school. But not anymore. He plans on attending his 20th reunion, with a vengeance...Jackie has won a trip to Seagull Island, smack dab in the middle of Lake Michigan, but what is going on with all of the strange people who live there?...Gayle keeps her pets in the woodshed behind their house, but something else lurks there, in...

A collection of twenty short stories compiled from two of Kirby's previous books, Rotten Bananas (2003) and The Lake Michigan Chronicles (2005) which feature unusual themes that range from whimsey to the macabre. The moods of Lake Michigan are diverse and unpredictible. So are the denizens who populate its shoreline. Each of the remarkable, unsuspecting characters from these stories has a date with Destiny. Enter their complicated worlds; join them in their search for truth and, oftentimes, brutal reality. You may be surprised what you will discover here among the dunes, the forests, the...

Fifteen stories that focus on the denizens who live on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. These are no ordinary people. Each of them has a dilemma, a most unusual situation that demands immediate resolution. In some cases, their lives even depend on it. As usual, Timothy Patrick Kirby has taken regular folks and placed them in peril. Why does he do this? There is no easy answer for this, nor are there any easy solutions to the problems the characters face in these stories. It is telling here in this collection of stories how much Kirby has been influenced by the works of his favorite authors,...

HABITUATION is defined by Squatchopedia (a website for all things Bigfoot and Sasquatch) as: "The gradual decline of a response to a stimulus resulting from repeated exposure to the stimulus." This term is commonly applied to the often long and laborious process of gradually "training" wild animals, particularly primates, to tolerate the presence of human visitors in order to allowe long-term observations. Habituation is connected to Sasquatch research in that some people have claimed that some Sasquatch(es) have become habituated to the presence of humans, thereby allowing repeated...

Monstro City is not your typical collection of poems. Rather, these lyrical verses are an ode to the monsters of yesterday, today and tomorrow. You already know some of them, such as Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man and The Mummy. And there are dozens of others. If ever there was a perfect book of poems to celebrate the macabre and mysterious month of October and the ancient Druidic festival of Samhain (Halloween), this is it. So why don't you take a trip to Monstro City?

This modern day ghost story features Margie Seething, a loving wife and mother who is forced to make a deadly choice: either submit to, or combat a malevolent spirit which resides within her rural Michigan home. HE doesn't want her family. He wants her... Welcome to THE SEETHING PLACE, where rage resides...