Rick: 2549 books

The year is 1921 and two students from Providence, R.I. are exploring the tunnel system that honeycombs College Hill under Brown University. They are seeking a site for Professor Vasil Kozoff to conduct his experiments in relativity. In the course of their explorations they discover a huge cache of...

A tale of horror all started with the fall of spores on a summer morning on an Inuit village in the far north and the struggle of a survivor's attempt to save his youngest daughter from the spore infestation.

Outlaw. Savage. Bounty Hunter. To the orphans of Las Cruces, he is Father Stone, the man that brings them treats when he rides into town. To Jessie, he is her ticket out of a life she never wanted. Following him into the wasteland, she must learn to survive in the ruins of a shattered world,...

William Shakespeare didn't quite complete the tale of Romeo and Juliet who come back from the almost-dead and find themselves in a most serene setting. An official of the Church frantically travels to a place where the sleeping Romeo and Juliet repose. He must get there before they wake up...

The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and The Three Keatons, and...

In the deep reaches of space, the starship White Flower II arrives at the dead planet C18-3 in hopes of finding it fit for terraforming. Events turn quickly when Captain Ateri learns pirates had been trailing him for years, but they need him to pull off the greatest heist of all time: stealing a terraformer...

Join the author of "The Cynic's Dictionary" on a morbidly amusing tour of life's bleak underside. Gathered from the original "tirades" on Bayan's vintage Cynic's Sanctuary website, these eloquently witty essays will have you chuckling sympathetically at the ghastly fates that the...

Code Three by Rick Raphael.

How do our emotions enable us to know? When Pascal noted that the heart has its own reasons, he implied that our rational faculty alone cannot grasp what is revealed in affective experience. Knowing Emotions seeks to explain comprehensively why human emotions are more than physiological disturbances,...

After making an unexpected connection with God via his cell phone, one man embarks on an unlikely spiritual quest in this smart, savvy, rambunctious debut from Grammy Award-winning musician and New York Times bestselling author Rick Springfield. "Why are we here? What is love? Is there a Loch...

3 Tales of Horror features: The Solution by Rick McQuiston, The story of a vampire invasion, an evil book, and a strange little girl; ...The Colour of Time by K.R. Gentile, The unauthorized biography of the notorious super-villain, Dr. Peppermint; and Eden Succeeding by Christopher L. DelGuercio, the...

Deep in the woods, mankind is the endangered species. Derek Jenner, the Crypto-Hunter, is back! Something is terrorizing the inhabitants of the Garden State, leaving a trail of missing persons and mutilated bodies in its wake. All signs point to the Jersey Devil, a creature long considered...

Three dogs, Chubs, Roscoe, and Spike have become good friends, but the problem is they are in the kennel, and the kennel is overcrowded. The Bulldog, Chihuahua, and Boxer must figure out a way to escape from the kennel or they will be the first ones on the list to be put asleep. Is there anyone that...

Jake Morgan loves Las Vegas. He's a 33-year-old ex-cop from Boston who will wager on anything - as long as his money holds out. Having run into trouble in Beantown, for the past year he's been eking out a living as a blackjack dealer at the posh Oasis Hotel & Casino. Christian Valentine, the star...