But this is the third time Chris has died. To add insult to injury, someone cut the gas line of his SUV and then ran over him with a semi-truck while he tried to get a tow. And lost his family to another temporal realm. He’s saved New Orleans from total destruction in the past.
Since that time, he’s gone mano y monster with zombies, werewolves, master vampires, and creatures from the Cthulhu Lagoon-not to mention an immortal Nazi, an ancient Babylonian demon, a six-thousand-year-old necromancer, voodoo queen Marie Laveau, the mad monk Rasputin, and a couple of the Great Old Ones.Īs founder of After Dark Investigations, he’s seen his fair share of the seedy side of the supernatural world. Years back, a blood transfusion with a member of the undead left Christopher Cséjthe a half-vampire. And-the icing on the cake-Mike Stearns sends the Hangman Regiment of his Third Division under the command of Jeff Higgins to reinforce Jeff’s wife Gretchen in Silesia. Now, the Bohemians send an army led by Morris Roth into Poland, ostensibly to aid the revolutionaries but also with the goal of expanding King Albrecht Wallenstein’s growing empire in eastern Europe. Her small army is now approached to form an alliance with the Polish revolutionaries who have seized power in the Ruthenian province of Galicia-which, in the universe the time-displaced Americans of Grantville came from, would have constituted the western Ukraine. Gretchen Richter, the newly elected chancellor of Saxony, has seized control of Lower Silesia. The USE’s emperor Gustavus Adolphus gives his approval to the plan, and Mike sets it in motion, with the very capable assistance of his wife Rebecca Abrabanel, now the USE’s Secretary of State. In order to relieve the pressure on the Austrians, General Mike Stearns proposes to open a second front in the Levant. Both the United States of Europe and the Kingdom of Bohemia have come to Austria’s assistance, but everyone knows this is going to be a long and brutal struggle. The Ottoman Empire has captured Vienna and is now laying siege to the Austrian government-in-exile established in the city of Linz. Sirens, fey, Sasquatch, Jinn, demons, ghosts, zombies, even tooth fairies in training, and lake monsters have truths to tell us about who we are as people. Each explores a modern human-supernatural being exchange. This is the premise of Section 130, a collection of original short stories averaging 2,000 words in length. What if interactions with mythical beings were mundane, or funny, or when special, extraordinary in the most unanticipated of ways? Like many children, I devoured these books, working my way through countless titles, studying magical creatures and imagining what encounters with them might be like.Īs an adult she is still enamored with the inhabitants of section 130, but life has given her a more cynical view. In the library of Katrinka Mannelly's childhood, Dewey Decimal section 130 contained the supernatural-everything from witches to mermaids, gnomes to poltergeists. Based on the Dewey decimal system designation for the supernatural - section 130 is a collection of short stories from new author Katrinka Mannelly
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