Fantasies and Fears

Fourteen tales to take you places you've never been.

by Carl Zwick


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Book Details

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Publication Date : 9/20/2000

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 5.5x8.5
Page Count : 108
ISBN : 9780738826455
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5.5x8.5
Page Count : 108
ISBN : 9780738826462

About the Book

"Fantasies and Fears" - - - In this book you will meet:

PUMPKIN FACE, who wanted nothing more than to grow among his companions in the garden. But someone cut him off from the vine, gave him a hideous appearance, and on Halloween eve he became an unwitting hero.

In THE MAN WHO CAME BACK Jim Bedford takes a very unusual trip that goes horribly wrong, and involves his best friend in murder.

MYSTERY IN STONE is another case of unsolved murder in a closed room.

He is Dracula and his story goes on and on in legends and books, but when he meets the woman of his wildest dreams, SO LET IT END.

Jake Spangler built his house with loving care, brick by brick, and he lived in it happily for forty years. But now someone else is living there and he wants them out. How could he do that when he was dead and living ANOTHER LIFE.

What was ANGELA, a deviate, masochist, spawn of hell? But what can you do when you meet her and she makes you want her? It can sink you into the lowest depravity and make your life a living hell.

Two young lovers want to be TOGETHER always, but a fatal car accident sends them into a hellish nightmare that tears them apart.

IT COMES AT MIDNIGHT, and Jenny is young, full of imagination and desire, and she prepares to meet it.

He is a giant among giants and the people of Camfield are afraid of him. When a huge storm arises they seek his help. BOGGLES AND THE TORNADO engage in a mighty struggle that leaves him hurt and unappreciated and has him bent on revenge.

Commander Vig and two of his companions of the US Space Fleet never expected to meet THE GODDESS OF ALDOR on a distant planet, nor were they prepared to discover who she was.

Four teenagers are eager for adventure on Halloween eve and find themselves trapped in HENDERSON HOUSE HORROR.

ALICE had been merely a fellow student long, long ago, but now Roy Smelser was a tired, lonely old man and he goes looking for her.

Auralia Denton is an irascible old woman who constantly provokes husband John. He would like nothing better than to shut her up once and for all time. One wintry evening she hears NIGHT SOUNDS in their basement and demands he investigate. What he discovers arouses long suppressed yearnings. When he returns to the bedroom his thoughts are far from sleeping.

She lives in an enchanted world, but the many LOVES OF FLORABELLA tell us something about ourselves.

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C. C. Zwick is a writer and artist contributing to small press journals. His horror novel, THE CULT OF AAI, published in 1999 by Pentland Press Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina. ISBN: 1-57197-146-7.

Author Web Site Bio, etc.

Born at Quincy, Illinois, of immigrant German father and Polish-American mother. Two brothers. Educated at boy's academy by Franciscan friars. Courses in art and writing. Tried free-lancing, unsuccessful at both. Spent three years in Chicago in litho industry. Transferred to St. Louis, married twelve years, divorced, took custody of four teen boys. Retired after forty years in printing, returned to early loves of art and writing. Cartoons, illustrations, cover designs in many small press journals. Watercolor paintings in private collections. Group of children's clay fantasy sculptures in collection of St. Louis County, Missouri, Library. Fiction, non-fiction and verse also in print. Author of THE CULT OF AAI, a horror novel, published by Pentland Press Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, ISBN: 1-57197-146-7. Available in book store and from the internet, amazon.com. Fantasy novel currently in progress. Hobbies include travel, gardening and golf.


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