Bøger af Christofer Nigro

THREE MASKED MEN...THREE PULP HEROES FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE...THREE WITH A BULLET! The Purple Scar. The Masked Rider. The Man in Purple. Names that struck terror into the hearts of fictional criminals and excited readers of the early 20th Century in Pulp Magazines. Now these three appear in a book together for the first time, each in a brand new tale! Authors Christofer Nigro, David White, and Chuck Miller bring these Pulp Legends to life once more in THREE WITH A BULLET! From Pro Se Productions.

As a product of Buffalo, New York's dangerous East Side, Alan Perez was always extremely tough. He didn't become the top student of the enigmatic martial arts instructor known only as Master Kai for no good reason. Unlike many others, Alan embraced the gritty ghettos that he called home for all his young life, as they were the only environment he had ever known. Most of his high school peers gave him respect. The girls felt even more for him than that. Life seemed as good as a young man living in such an urban jungle could ever hope for.But when the deadly street gang known as the New York Boys began taking over the city's East Side, not even Alan could live with that. After his father and several other residents in his neighborhood became victims of the gang, Alan decided that enough was enough. He also decided something else: he could control Buffalo's East Side more efficiently than the fearsome leader of the New York Boys. Donning a specialized costume, Alan pooled his amazing martial arts skills to become the darkly dressed vigilante called Moonstalker. He would take on the seemingly insane task of waging a one-man war on the New York Boys and the other criminals plaguing the city's East Side. He would fight his way towards a final, incredibly bloody confrontation with the gang's extremely deadly leader, the one person in the city who may be Moonstalker's equal... or his superior. Along the way, he would learn the cost of taking on the mission of a costumed vigilante acting outside the law. His urban exploits would inspire many other citizens to take the law into their own hands. The mission would exact a heavy toll on his psyche, further swelling his already immense ego. It would pit him against the local police, including a young officer who made it his obsession to take the young vigilante down along with the New York Boys. Ultimately, it would culminate in his high school becoming the target of a massive assault by the deadly street gang -- with Moonstalker and the leader of the New York Boys engaging in a final brutal battle to determine once and for all who would be the undisputed alpha of the East Side streets. No matter who wins, neither will emerge unscathed, and Buffalo will never be the same again.Moonstalker's saga will take many dark and twisted turns, and it all begins here.

Benny Lonero always lacked power in his young life. His fellow high school students constantly reminded him of this every time they tormented and bullied him. His family reminded him of the same thing every time it became clear they didn't understand him.This all changed when a cosmic force known as a Warp Event occurred above his home city of Buffalo, New York... and Benny found himself imbued with its otherworldly energies. Suddenly, he had power beyond reason. He would attempt to use it to become a costumed hero, much like the characters he read about in the comic books.However, the road to becoming a hero would not be quite that easy. Benny would find that his inner demons were as formidable an adversary as the various threats to his home city that also emerged from the Warp Event. And considering how dangerous these other threats would be, that is truly saying something.Would Benny, as the mighty Centurion, become the protector that he wanted to be? Or was he fated to be a threat as dangerous as any other spawned by the Warp Event?As Benny will find out, being a hero takes far more than great power and good intentions. It takes a lot of responsibility... and immense sacrifices. Centurion's tragic saga beings here.

Dorian Gray, that most intriguing creation of Victorian author Oscar Wilde, has served as a figure of horror, dark ambiguity, and personified cautionary tale for over 120 years now. Since the original serialized publication of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, we've seen a multitude of literary and cinematic interpretations and re-interpretations of the story of a young man who obtained immortality at a tremendously dark cost, with the merciless effects of aging and the consequences of his actions now borne by a portrait rather than suffered by the young man himself... most of the time. We've seen him appear in horror-oriented TV shows, as part of an ensemble in major motion pictures, headline periodic comic book mini-series, and featured as the star of a terrific audio drama series by Big Finish. What we haven't seen, however, is a prose horror anthology devoted entirely to his tales, each of which display the variety of roles he can play: From debauched villain and corruptor of the innocent, to anti-hero, to an unlikely savior -- including taking a pendulum swing from one to another within a single story - which amply demonstrate how metaphorically apropos his surname actually is. That all changed the moment this volume was published, however.In this anthology, several authors bring Gray to life, showing the variety of effects he has on various individuals, both innocent and otherwise, who cross his path. The time periods range from the Edwardian era right up to the present, yet throughout each the man with the infamous portrait remains true to the variety of shades he embodies. Moreover, the paths of those he crosses will themselves be quite familiar to genre readers (e.g., Dracula, a mad scientist named Pretorius, artist Richard Pickman of Lovecraft's nightmarish tale "Pickman's Model," a lady-loving she-vampire called Carmilla, Becky Sharp of VANITY FAIR). This volume brings you two novellas, a short play, two short stories, a timeline, and even a short personal bonus memoir, all of which give readers a glimpse into the many shades that Dorian Gray can paint on those whose lives he touches... and how their lives affect his own continuing saga.

Hollywood, a land of imagination and dreams, where anyone's star can rise and fall...and where the best actors and actresses ever portrayed characters of all kinds, including private eyes, cops, and other mystery solvers...But what if the stars from the Golden Age of Celluloid actually ended up investigating real crimes, finding themselves in the crosshairs of danger while pursuing murderers and criminals through the studios and back alleys of America's Dream Factory?HOLLYWOOD MYSTERY is a collection of stories turning beloved Hollywood icons into detectives, turning over every rock and following every blood trail, hunting for the truth and hoping not to end up on the cutting room floor!HOLLYWOOD MYSTERY. From Pro Se Productions.

A death rattle echoes down a shadowy alley.... Guns blaze like exploding suns in the dead of night... And make no mistake about who's responsible.... THE DAME DID IT! Pro Se Productions presents a collection of new stories wrapped in the shadows of Noir and definitely Hard Boiled with a feminine touch. Authors Joel Jenkins, Christofer Nigro, Shannon Muir, and Percival Constantine deliver two fisted, gun shooting hard core action in these blood soaked pages, and each tale revolves around a woman. A heroine desperate to save the day, a villainess hungry to destroy, or someone trapped in the middle. All and more will be found in The Dame Did It!

H.P. Lovecraft's Dr. Herbert West... also infamously known as the Reanimator. A man of science, obsessed with defeating death. He will make any and every sacrifice required to perfect his reagent. Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray... a living, breathing work of art. A man gifted, and cursed, with immortality thanks to arcane magickal forces. He has all eternity to understand what he is. But he might not even care. Heroes to some, monsters to others. Or are they perhaps something in between? One immortal, the other in search of immortality. Will West and Gray help each other, or drive each other to new levels of depravity? Or will both ultimately seek the other's destruction? Find out in seven new tales where science interacts with art... and spawns madness in the mix. Brought to you by Pete Rawlik (Reanimators; The Weird Company; Reanimatrix) and Christofer Nigro (Nero series; Megadrak: Beast of the Apocalypse series; Yuletide Horrors series), with a bonus contribution from Kevin Heim (a regular contributor to Wild Hunt Press and huge Lovecraft expert/aficionado), you will bear witness to the nightmares wrought when West and Gray join forces and knock heads in rapid succession, all leading to a chilling climax of horrific proportions. Rated Ex (Explicit) for graphic violence, sexuality, disturbing imagery/body horror, and intense themes. Sensitive readers are strongly cautioned.

Christmas, the year's most revered holiday, has long been associated with joy, peace, and gift-giving. But for just as long, though largely forgotten or overlooked to maintain a positive festive mood and to keep the holiday "kid-friendly," were depictions of the season's darker side that could also encompass tales of horror. This volume includes legendary Christmas nightmares from folklore and classic literature descending upon unwitting victims and giving them the worst, most bloody holiday experience imaginable in four original short stories that you should most certainly not read during the family gathering beside the hearth. Not only has the Krampus returned for more seasonal mayhem, but you will also run afoul of two other horrors from Germanic folklore to haunt the Christmas season: the human-eating winter ogress Gryla and the man-slaughtering feline known as the Yule Cat. And what volume of Christmas terror would be complete without a certain famous trio of Ghosts to teach harsh lessons to those who need it most for the holidays? As in Volume 1, these short tales of holiday horror are brought to you courtesy of Christofer Nigro, the author of the teen werewolf novel series Nero (beginning with Nero: The Beast Emerges), also published by Wild Hunt Press. As a bonus, this volume reprints the short story "Nero: A Holiday Haunting," featuring the young lycanthrope Mike Nero dealing with a holiday-based horror of his own; and a new flash fiction from the pen of Dustin Dreyling, author of Wild Hunt Press's Primordial Soup kaiju horror series. Rated Ex (Explicit) for Graphic Violence, Strong Language, Intense Themes, and Disturbing Imagery. Some of the material in this book may not be suitable for sensitive readers, so reader discretion is strongly advised.