Bøker av Peter M Ball

The omnibus edition of Peter M. Ball's Miriam Aster urban fantasy novellas.

Hitman Keith Murphy is on the run after a botched job. He’s bodypacking a magic bullet, fleeing an apocalyptic cult of necromancers, and wishing like hell his partner Danny Roark hadn’t chosen to go AWOL. Flying solo, Keith’s left with a single plan that might keep him alive: return to the Gold Coast and do his best to lie low.Keith’s not been home for sixteen years, but nobody’s pleased to see him. His ex-boss Sabbath wants to torture Keith for leaving, his ex-girlfriend is running the club where local demons and fey trade in dark desires, and his best friend is threatening to break Keith’s kneecaps just for crossing the city limits.When a cult sorcerer tracks him down, Keith’s forced to cut a desperate deal that buys him a little time—he’ll trade his skills as a killer for six months of sanctuary. Problem is, Keith doesn’t work alone, and he’s always let Danny Roark handle the magic.That means going up against dangerous sorcerers and demons with nothing but guns, gumption, and any reluctant allies Keith can scrape together to back him up. 

Sixteen blunt and unconventional essays about writing and the writing business from the former manager of the Australian Writer's Marketplace.

Twelve short stories those who love strange, heartbreaking, and unforgettable fantasy.What if kaiju decimated your hometown, but only half the population could see them? What if mermaids unleashed their wrath against Copenhagen using mechanoid war-machines? What if the man you loved wanted nothing more than running away to live with the faeries, but you were the one they wanted to take with them?The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales gathers together twelve wild and genre-bending fantasy tales from the pen of Peter M Ball, the Ditmar and Aurealis Award-winning author of the cult hit Horn and the Keith Murphy urban fantasy thrillers.These scintillating tales draw inspiration from myth, pop-culture, magic realism and Lovecraftian horrors, showcasing Peter M. Ball’s talent for blurring the line between genres and finding the sublime in both the everyday and the extraordinary.  Come meet a man with a birdcage where his heart should be, the resident of Isla Tortuga’s most dangerous bordello, clockwork goats and smokestack magi, dragonkeepers, vengeful musicians, and frustrated public servants. Walk paths through briar-choked cities, deceptively ordinary towns, and an endless stairwell populated by tourists. Prepare yourself for the wickedly inventive magic and startlingly human moments.Whether you’re already a fan of Peter M. Ball, or you’re just about to become one, The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales is a debut collection that shouldn’t be missed.

A Brain Jar Press Short Fiction Lab chapbook, Peter M. Ball's Shedding Skin is a dark fantasy about snakes, old wounds, and isolation in the heat of the Queensland outback. Things haven't been right with Mariah ever since the car accident, but Harley knows their problems were seeded long before they drove off the road. Things come to a head when they retreat to an old house in the outback to spend time together, far away from the bustle and watching eyes of worried friends and family.But things watch from the shadows beneath the house too, and Harley's own reservations come to a head when they discover a snake in their midst…Sheddings Skins is the fifth release in the Short Fiction Lab series from Brain Jar Press-home to stand-alone short story experiments in fantasy, science fiction, horror, and fabulist literature. This experiment has been filed under: weird ghost stories; snakes and barbed wire; dark outback fantasy and horror; slipstream and magic realism.

Sixteen executions have failed. The seventeenth is about to begin.Beal devoted his life to the study of eliminating convicted felons, but the notorious Don Vashta is the greatest challenge any executioner can face: an immortal criminal who always rises from the dead to sin again. A short story chapbook about a job that turns into a friendship, and a friendship that becomes an obsession.