Down A Dark Alley

"Down A Dark Alley" is a torrid tale exploding with raw romance, savage sex, voluptuous violence, mirthful mayhem and delirious decadence as a sorry sap takes a breathless cross-country walk on the wild side with a ferocious femme fatale, desperately trying to escape a chaotic past and facing an uncertain future. This is hard-boiled but heartfelt neo-pulp fiction for fearless dreamers.

“Brink melds hard-boiled mystery, robot sex slaves, and a twist on Greek myth, all of which evokes Blade Runner, and leaves you wanting more.”-- Tales of the Talisman Magazine A trio of dark tales told with a sharp noir edge. They feature wise guys and private eyes, black magic, bleak futures, and the feminine wiles of inhuman beauties. This is Valentine's Day with Halloween style. It's sex and violence from that dark corner of your imagination you dare not share with anyone else. *This new edition includes a bonus story of hit men and horror.

Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.

When the case of an unidentified body is transferred to Madhavgadh Crime Branch, ACP Hrishikesh Bharadwaj is confronted with the ultimate nightmare: a blind case with no clues. Who is the murderer? Is it the victims wife or his business partner or his mistressor is there more to the case? Who is the big bearded man who seems to turn up everywhere? ACP Bharadwaj and his team have to battle overwhelming odds and surprises at each turn, armed with nothing but a photograph of the victim.

"Addiction: Recover Like a Warrior" is a philosophical approach which is designed to empower the addict to be the "master" of his or her own recovery. It is not a "program" to replace research-based treatment or spiritual based programs. Through the "Warrior's" eyes, addiction will no longer be perceived as just a disease that requires continual medical monitoring. Nor will addiction be viewed as an anti-social behavior that is in need of punishment or repentance. Addiction is encouraged to be perceived as an enemy which will take all that is life preserving, for indeed, that what addiction does.

Down A Darkened Path is a book collecting Patrick Szabo's first five published shorts. They range from outright horror to everyday horror. Included in this collection: NIGHTMARES AND CONTRABAND - A man goes on the worst drug trip of all time, but not of his own accord. COLD CALL - A salesman suffering from emetophobia will do anything to take his mind off his fear. Even calling a stranger who happens to have the same name. RUN: A THOMAS KING STORY - Thomas has a talent he never asked for and the government wants to talk to him about it. He has other plans. HUNGER - A dangerous man stalks his ex-girlfriend, but there is something out there also stalking. Something far worse. IT ALL STARTED: A DARK NOVELLA - Matt meets the girl of his dreams but she has a boyfriend. His crush turns to love and then to a dangerous obsession. horror anthology, horror, emetophobia, stalking, monsters, zombies

A catalog nearly fifty years in the making, Bruce Springsteen's music remains popular and a frequent subject of study yet little critical attention has been given to its inclusion in film and television. This book examines a selection of films and TV shows from the 1980s to the present--including Mask, High Fidelity, The Sopranos and The Wrestler--that feature Springsteen's music on the soundtrack. Relating his thematic preoccupations with religion, the Vietnam War, the promise of the open road, economic disparity and blue-collar malaise, his songs color narrative and articulate the inner lives of characters. This book explores the many on-screen contexts of Springsteen's work from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to Springsteen on Broadway.