Overview

A young boy on a grocery errand returns with a bag of soil from the Garden of Eden. A Wanting Seed determines to crawl back into its mother's womb. A bloodletting grandmother. An enchanted rose hole. Demons protecting a church from pranksters. This is Nicholas Grabowsky's (Halloween IV, The Everborn, Red Wet Dirt) first published collection from 2004, comprised of mostly earlier works from as far back as high school and highlights short stories either previously published in genre magazines or pulled from his filing cabinets circa the late 1980s through the early-to-mid 1990s. It also includes the story ""The Falling,"" a frightening tale inspired by the 75 Years of Terror Halloween convention in Pasadena California, as well as a dozen or so twisted poems and odds and ends that are sure to thoroughly amuse. From the chilling Granny Geraldine, which is based on actual events, to the last bit of twisted poetry, Thoughts & Tots, Nicholas Grabowsky's Diverse Tales is sure to thrill fans of horror and strange tales as well as any soul who dares to read...

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""Very entertaining!"" --Dee Wallace (E.T., The Howling). ""Nicholas, I salute you!"" --Clive Barker. ""Grabowsky succeeds in making the whole world creepy!"" Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television

Author Information

Nicholas Grabowsky's novels of horror/fantasy and mainstream pulp fiction, both as himself, as Nicholas Randers, and as Marsena Shane, have generated worldwide acclaim for over two decades and praised by many of today's most popular horror gurus in the literary world. He began his career in traditional publishing houses with brisk sellers in mass market paperback horror and romance, and in the last two decades is seen by many as a mentor to many authors and the smaller presses, which has become to him a passion. His body of work includes the award-winning macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent's Prey, Halloween IV (and its special edition), Diverse Tales, Reads & Reviews, The Wicked Haze, Sweet Dreams Lady Moon, June Park, and Red Wet Dirt, numerous anthologies, magazine articles, and self help books, with projects extending to screenplays, poetry, songs, film, and a wide variety of short fiction and nonfiction since the 1980s. He's a veteran special guest at numerous genre conventions and makes appearances and signings across North America. He has been in the limelight a radical gospel preacher right out of high school and in the following years a rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist, editor, publisher and founder of the Sacramento-based Diverse Media small press, which has recently blossomed into the subdivisions of Black Bed Sheet Books, which publishes ""exemplary literature, fiction & non"" but specializes in horror/fantasy, Black Bed Sheet Productions, which produces independent film and television, and Blue Bed Sheet Books, which publishes children's books, and other subdivisions in progress.Currently, Nicholas is at work with numerous anthologies, graphic novels and comic books, an Everborn sequel and the novels The Downwardens and The Sirens of Knowland. His independent film projects include the upcoming slasher creature feature Cutting Edges.

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