Daniel Eness: 16 books

When a small-town sports reporter decides to do a feature on a local pro football bad boy, he finds himself running in all the wrong circles. Of Hell. The Midway Monster is a short story of monstrous magic. From the story: "Marcus “Mack” Henry is a back-up inside linebacker...

"Greaves. Grief. Aromatic Polyamide. As I hung by my shins on two hooks over a wide, shallow glowing pool littered with ancient stones and the slow-dying bodies of my predecessors, my thoughts centered on these. The polymer greaves, glorified soccer equipment, had been a gift of fortune....

Three short tales of monstrous magic explore the recesses of scientific godhood. The Devil You Don't - A hoodlum pushes the limits of reality. Verdure Inferno - Agricultural development carries the seeds of its own backlash. Deuce X - A pleasure cruise to Jupiter stretches the definition of pleasure.

Young Theo sets out on a long dead highway in search of deer, plastic artifacts and the secret of his past. While he'll settle for a friend, what he finds instead are three enemies, one of whom may very well be himself. After Oil is a short story set in a past future.

In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a giant of the deep rouses from a ghostly slumber, taking a chance to make history at history's end. From the text: "Since then, tens of thousands of ships have sunk in the World Ocean or the rivers that trickle into it, or the seas that once...

"Just after Halloween 1964, H. Beam Piper, the now-famed science fiction author and the writer of a "locked room" mystery titled Murder in the Gunroom was discovered dead in his own well-stocked gunroom, an apparent suicide. The manuscript to his as-yet unpublished manuscript, Only...

From the Text: "An undulating blanket of ruin spread to the horizon off the port side of the Mackay-Bennett. Wedged between gray sky and blue-black sea lay the thin brown netting of shattered wood and the dead. The Embalmer saw a bright flash of color: the circle of an unstained red and...

A rover captain with job security receives an unusual message from his drone on a remote asteroid: "So good to see you." Suddenly, his job seems somewhat less secure. So does his life. From the story: "Although the distinct, familiar whirring noise...

"The ice was strange. He felt warmth along his arms as he approached it. At first, he wondered if it was not ice, but a new food chemical he did not know. Science had taken off at such a remarkable clip in the new century, he learned something new every day. The men handling the ice, however,...

Arclight's in trouble. Out of work and out of time, he's losing his own mind in search of someone else's.That's the good news.It seems that dementia isn't the only thing in North Tree that is in the business of swallowing hearts. When Arc goes down, he goes down...

A memorial. A relic. The greatest ocean liner to sail the Atlantic. The true treasures of the RMS Titanic: her passengers and crew, victims and survivors, trapped in that brief moment when the world's tallest building, its most luxurious hotel, and its grandest expression of wealth...

When a monster stands in Death's kitchen, exactly what - or who - is on the menu?A criminal no longer able to fight death with his worn out fists turns to the only thing he has left: fading memories of good food.Juice in a Cluster of Grapes is an extremely strange short tale of Monstrous Magic.

In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, one survivor is unaccounted for: a song which outlives its performers. The band famously played until the bitter end of the maiden and final voyage of the RMS Titanic. The ship sank to a depth of four thousand metres, but what the music unleashed was impossible...

In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a mystery surrounds the funeral of one of the survivors, and the only clue is provided by one of the victims. A ghostly tale of time, memory and the razor's edge. From the text: "The icy shock struck him like a hammer, from the inside...