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The Missouri Flying Humanoid is Nosferatu for real - a cryptozoological winged "human" reported to hang around Turkey Creek, Missouri. It's big as a human, with broad wings; a survivor who encountered one reported that it was strong enough to lift his truck up off the road. So when monster hunters Rollie, Eve, Taylor, and Ursula go after it, armed for bear, it's no mere snipe hunt in the woods - the game is life and death, and guns or not, the bold foursome are in way over their heads.

From the writer of Ghost Hunter, Little Women with Big Guns, and Krakenstein vs. Koalatron comes an unforgettable excursion into the depths of the unknown. Loaded end to end with chills, this terrifying narrative is loosely based on accounts of encounters with the legendary Pukwudgie, a cryptozoological "myth" originating in Massachusetts' mysterious Bridgewater Triangle.

Picture an Oz straight out of pulp detective fiction, one featuring a trio of hilariously overcompensating heroes: the No Longer Cowardly Lion, the Too Much Heart Tin Man and the Brainy If Still Not Wise Scarecrow. Put them on the trail of a mystery so twisted and deep that they're in way over their heads before they've even set foot outside the Wizard's palace.

Horrifying creatures have been loosed from a secret lab, leaving the handful of survivors of the storm under siege by nightmarish beasts with raking talons and fiendish cleverness. Though small, the monsters are utterly ruthless, and though at first they carefully seek out only one person at a time their resolve and boldness continues to increase such that they are soon hunting down the last of the human prey...an army of vicious predators determined to exterminate the species that created them.

It's the late 1970s and city league softball - and partying - reign supreme. Talented Jo Jo Van Dyne and company struggle to right themselves from a winless first season, in part by renaming themselves the Streakers because their first year team name, the Hard Machine, hadn't exactly brought them any kind of luck. This time around, though, the early twenties team has high hopes. This is a year where, they all truly believe, anything can happen. And who knows...maybe it will.

In the seventh Super SF Double Feature the theme is rocks. Yep. But not "plain old" rocks--one is the mysterious ice-filled planetoid Ceres in the Asteroid Belt, while the other is a palm-sized blue pyramid that's home to a primeval terror that feeds on human fear and death. "Chthonos" details the harrowing journey of a devoted "astrohydrology" expert as she seeks to uncover what's behind the mantle-penetrating water wells of Ceres experiencing repeating series of flow interruptions that almost seemed to be some kind of coded communication.

The wild and weird action continues nonstop in Chalcedony and the Truth, the third installment in the Piper Gods series. This time around we jump back in time to 1967, when revolution–and music–was in the air. April Corrigan and an ever-expanding group of friends become enmeshed in a bizarre mystery surrounding a vanished friend and pieces of chalcedony that seem to appear like breadcrumbs along a mysterious path to...well, they don't even know where they're going, but April and her friends can't resist the ride anyway.