Odd Fantasy

Sophie Feegle needs a break. Rent is due on her crappy apartment and she's halfway through her last loaf of bread. Sophie doesn't have big ambitions. She only wants a job that will keep her landlord off her back, enough extra cash for whiskey at the neighborhood bar and a bit of free time to hang out with the naughty old lady next door.

Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one such literary hero, who has come alive in listeners’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is drawn onward, to a destiny he cannot imagine. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems.

Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he is able to connect to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden's gift isolates him from people and from becoming part of a community - until the day he receives a personal invitation from the Wizard Od.

Just because you’re chosen, doesn’t mean you want to be. Thanks to the dubious gratitude of a Deity, Nicolas Percival Carnegie is now stranded on an island in the middle of the ocean. But before despair can take hold – for his companions at least – rescue appears in the form of the enigmatic Captain Roberto Ramirez. Longing to simply go home and forget about notions like adventuring, Nicolas finds his salvation bittersweet as they end up in pursuit of pirates to rescue a kidnapped princess and stop a war before it begins.

Odd Thomas har en særlig evne. Selv ville han måske kalde det en forbandelse, men politiet finder den yderst brugbar. Odd Thomas kan nemlig kommunikere med de døde. Da politiet i Californien står med en uhyggelig sag om kidnapning og mord, har de ikke andet valg end at bede Odd om hjælp, og de hvileløse døde har meget at fortælle ham.

An experienced senior surgeon falls asleep in the doctor's lounge after a challenging shift. He wakes up in another world and in a different body—with a stab wound in his chest. Before he can do anything else, he has to deal with the stranger, lavishly dressed in nineteenth century clothing...

Odd har altid været plaget af sine overnaturlige evner. Clairvoyance er ikke noget, man sådan kan styre, og det får Odd til at søge tilflugt langt fra civilisationen i et kloster i High Sierras forblæste bjerge i Californien. Han befinder sig atter i kampen mellem det gode og det onde, og hans overnaturlige evner er nødvendige for at sikre, at den gode side vinder.

Lucas Rurik is no stranger to navigating the tricky territory between humans and those touched by the rift. After all, as the last surviving member of the Raven Guild, protecting the peace is his job. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. As much as Lucas would like to be out hunting for Dr. Callie Mitchell—a deranged scientist with a bad habit of experimenting on the rift-fused—his friends at the Rift-Crime Unit require his expertise on a perilous case.

Max, the stranded Earth pilot, and Rick, his tentacled partner in love, are forced to return to a universe that dismisses Rick as an asymmetrical, loud outcast. But Rick hasn't told Max the whole story. Max wants to live in a universe where his children and his lover are respected and given a chance to shine. He doesn't know the odds are stacked against them. Max is going to have to catch up fast if he wants to win a battle that is less about weapons than manipulating the rest of the universe into being fair.

Daniel Chase is alone. Stranded in a new dimension, his only way home—becoming the #1 Fighter in the world—sounds impossible when he’s deemed a Joke class, with his only technique as a counterattack. But when a retired master with a mysterious past sees potential in his limited moveset, Daniel seizes his only chance to learn to fight.

Idealistic navy Lieutenant Jacob Grimm just wanted to honor his mother's sacrifice in the last great war. When he's forced to return fire and destroy a squadron of ships to save his own, he thinks he's the hero.... Until they discover the ships are full of children. Disgraced and denied promotion, Jacob's career is over. That is until the head of ONI needs a disposable officer to command a battered destroyer on the rim.

Based on the results of an examination, the Board of Healers has stripped Alexander of his ability to practice medicine, but he is given a chance at revenge. By practicing every day, Alexander slowly but surely recovers his gift. His mentor gives him a curious tome written many years ago by a...

Odd's luck has been bad so far. He lost his father on a Viking expedition, his foot was crushed beneath a tree and the winter seems to be going on forever. But when Odd flees to the woods and releases a trapped bear, his luck begins to change. The eagle, bear and fox he encounters reveal they're actually Norse gods trapped in animal form by the evil frost giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods....

Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough—readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have...

No one could have imagined Odd Thomas ever leaving the perfect quirky comfort of Pico Mundo, least of all Odd himself. The little desert town that nurtured Odd all his life is the locus of everything he holds dear–his loyal friends, his ghostly confidants, and the place where he loved and lost...

Meet Gosia. She's a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy. Between shifts in a well-lit budget supermarket and nights in a badly lit Zone 3 flatshare, she spends hours inside her own head. That is, until a chance encounter snaps her out of her reverie. Propelled into a series of mediocre jobs, lousy dates and even worse sex, the prickly yet warm-hearted Gosia begins her excavation of the 'perfect' life so many dream of. After all, could there be more to it than she imagined?

Ikke langt fra den californiske kyst ligger Roseland: et gammelt palæ skjult bag tykke, meterhøje mure. Her lever den velhavende Noah Wolflaw et tilbagetrukket liv sammen med sine få ansatte. I følgeskab med den højgravide og mystiske Annamaria søger Odd Thomas tilflugt på Roseland, men huset viser sig hurtigt at gemme på makabre hemmeligheder. Stedet hjemsøges af hvileløse ånder og forfærdelige bæster, der vandrer rundt på ejendommen om natten.

Pico Mundo is een stadje in de Mohave-woestijn. Thomas, een kok in een plaatselijk restaurant, heeft een ongewoon talent: hij voelt het als de dood nabij komt. Daarom woont hij in the middle of nowhere: Pico Mundo zou veilig moeten zijn. Maar al dagenlang heeft hij nachtmerries over een slachtpartij. Als de toekomstige moordenaar het restaurant bezoekt, begrijpt hij dat hij moet ingrijpen, en snel ook.

Draw your blade. Fasten your armor. Prepare for war. Seven new tales of harrowing challenges, epic battles, rousing victories, and crushing defeats.

Odds and Endings: Fiction Short and Otherwise is Joe DeRouen's first short story collection, and contains 13 all-new tales of magic, murder, and mystery. The compilation includes one novella and 11 short stories, one of which takes place in the Small Things universe and involves some of your favorite characters.