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Joe and Moe are two guys sitting in a bar talking about women, cons, cops, capers and Lady Luck. Among their stories: "A Fine Lot of Lollipops": two punks make the mistake of hijacking a truck belonging to Big Louis; plus "The Lollipop King"; "Miracles and Wonder Bread", "Nina the Nudist", "Night Train to El Paso", "Don't Shoot Live Poets", "Life Dangling Lessons", "All Good Hoofers Go to Heaven"; and 13 more!

Jack Flanders has inherited the Inverness mansion from his late aunt, Lady Jowls. A strange energy is emanating from the ruins of a temple that Madame Trunknose believes is the awakening of an old pagan god. Jack calls Mojo to help save Inverness. When Jack hears the voice of Little Frieda calling for help, he enters the Fourth Tower and finds not only Little Frieda, but also the seductive, shapeshifting daughter of the King of the Rakshasas!

Jack is led by a crystal skull to the ruins of a lost city in the Amazon. One night, an ethereal city appears hovering above the ruins. Jack climbs to the top of a pyramid temple, and is drawn up into the city.

In the small Caribbean town of San Miguel, Jack and Mojo begin to hear stories of islands that appear and disappear. They soon discover there are strange ghost-like beings that visit the town when the islands appear. They are called, Luc-an-oona (those who bless us). But when one of Jack's crew visits the ghost island, strange things begin to happen.

While Jack Flanders is being chased by a zombie, his phone rings. It's Mojo waking Jack from his nightmare and inviting him to New Orleans. Later, strolling through the French Quarter, Jack is amazed to see Claudine, from Montreal. Or had he just met a voodoo priestess who can shapeshift into the woman of his dreams? And who is that zombie that keeps following him?

Wherever Rodant Kapoor attempts to hide in this vast universe of ours, his Mother always find him. So when the Techno-Witches, Onoffon and Offonoff ask Kapoor to try out "The Rapturizer", a device they're invented that's based on "The Rapture" (where one ascends into Heaven), Kapoor gladly accepts. He steps into, "The Rapturizer", and Poof, Rodant is Rapturized! But Mother Kapoor, claiming she's about to kick the bucket, convinces Ruby, along with Teru & And/Or, to go after her wayward son.

Gypsy Markoff, local psychic, advises New Age Nancy; Ducks Quakenbush woos the wealthy heiress, Penny Nickelson-Dimes; bookie Blue Jaw Magoon leans on ex-con Pipes Malone; mechanic Born Again Bily prays over Willie's carburetor; Donna Dollardaze, check-out clerk, meets the Mysterious Stranger; gallery owner Waspy Charmichael runs wild in the woods, and on it goes.... Life in small town America as seen through the eyes fo Meatball Fulton.

In a little theatre, off off off Broadway, Simon Gray is attempting to direct a production of Macbeth, but every actress who plays Witch #3 disappears. Simon calls in his old friend, Mojo Sam. When Mojo sees an actress vanish before his eyes, he brings in Little Frieda. When Little Frieda plays Witch #3, she also disappears. When she reappears in the Realm of the Muse, Little Frieda meets the real Witch #3, the one Shakespeare based his character on, and she is sizzling mad and out for revenge.

Jack Flanders and his crew sail to a mysterious island known as Key Diablo. When a fog moves in, all color seems to vanish, and everything turns into black and white. The islanders, dressed in clothes from the 1940s and '50s, appear to have stepped out of an old Hollywood film noir. And soon our heroes, Jack, Claudine, Mojo, Dominique, and Rose, find themselves playing characters that are dressed to kill.

Ruby, Teru, and Kapoor arrive on the planet of Mobius-Morpheus, a planet of Dreamers. Someone is tampering with their dreams. While Ruby is attempting to discover who is behind this, she stumbles upon her old friend, the Tookah, a shrewd observer of the Dream Weavers.

When Jack Flanders came to Inverness and got into all kinds of jams, Little Frieda became his help-mate, keeping Jack alive as he hopefully learned one lesson or another. But here, guided by the wisdom of her ancestors, she finally lays it all out, tells it like it is. With music by Time Clark.

Fifty humorous little stories, inspired by Hollywood horror flicks, featurning werewolves, vampies, mummies, zombies, ghouls, and ghosts. But the writer, Meatball Fulton, has bent these in quite a different direction. Some of the titles speak for themselves: "Zombie Al's Big Night Out", "When the Wolf Woman Wets Her Whistle", "Loathsome Sally Under the Texas Moon", "Detective Barney Big Butt Meets Little Marvin the Midget", and 46 more.

While Jack Flanders is scuba diving in the great barrier reef off Belize, he discovers a sunken pirate ship. On board are two skeletons poised as though playing chess, and every time he returns, the pieces have been moved. One of the pieces looks a lot like Jack.

Ruby, Teru, And/Or and Rodant Kapoor return to the planet of Illuboo Roi. T. J. Teru has been invited by Prince Haw-Hee-Bop to open the Forbidden Tombs of the ancient Phar-Oops. Of course, the wily Prince forgot to mention the Black Curse of the Phar-Oops. Once inside the tombs, they discover the gigantic sarcophagi of all 14 Phar-Oops. They also unleash the dreaded Curse!

Little Louie Lafitte discovers an old rusty streetcar in a New Orleans graveyard. The seats are occupied by skeletons wearing eye patches and bandannas. Suddenly, they emit a hair-raising, "Harr Harr!"

Little Louie, who is a direct descendent of the famous Pirates Lafitte, realizes the skeletons are itching for a good pirate adventure. And so, the ghostly streetcar creaks and groans out of the mist, picking up unsuspecting tourists. Good devilish fun for all ages.

Somewhere in the tropics, yet another beach resort is being built. As they bulldoze a road through a valley the locals consider sacred (the dwelling of a Nature Spirit), the jungle begins to spring up everywhere else. At Maria's Cafe', chairs are sprouting leaves, vines are creeping over the counter, and orchids are growing from the walls. Meanwhile, Jack, Mojo and Claudine are attempting to prove the Nature Spirit not only exists, she may have just begun to "even the score".

One autumn evening in New York, Jack Flanders walks into an all night coffee shop, and finds himself stepping out into the tropics. He encounters his long lost uncle, Sir Henry Jowls, who convinces Jack to steal a green stone. But Sir Henry is replaced by another Sir Henry, who insists Jack return the stone to the mythical city of Mer-Kahbah. To reach that city, Jack must cross the Twilight Realms of the Hungry Ghosts and they are quite hungry.

Jack and his crew accept an invitation from an eccentric billionaire who has built a castle on a Carribbean island. What first appears to be a replica of a medieval fortress turns out to be a very high tech castle, with robot valets, and rooms with floor-to-ceiling plasma screens. In the middle of the night, Jack's crew begins to encounter their own "personal demons", first in their dreams and then right before their eyes.

When a beautiful Indian woman hands Jack his own business card, which she claims he gave her Aunt over 40 years ago, there is no doubt in Jack's mind that another quest is about to unfold. Before the riddle is solved, Jack is off to India.

Here is the complete radio sci fi/fantasy series (except "Green Menace" and "Ah-Ha! Phenomena"), including such strange tales as: "The Thing That Ate Aunt Sophie", "The Tongue that Licked Tucson", "Boogie Woogie to the Stars", "Bobby Bonecutter and the Pink Pearl Erasers", "The Cheesemen of Mars", "Rocket Pierre and The Peanut People of Pluto", and about a dozen more.