"In Powell's twisted stories, the bizarre thrives right alongside everyday ordinariness. Girls turn into crayons, zombies lure the living with irresistible Ponzi schemes, hotel suites turn macabre band managers. All the while, menace lurks in the most mundane things -- in the smile of a genial salesman, in the unassuming hitch hiker on a lonely road, even in babies. In 'Buy it Now', an innocent online purchase changes a man's life forever. A wall in 'Brinn's Mural' gives new meaning to the word 'self defense' when it is threatened by neighborhood vandals. A man discovers a changeling in place of his baby, in the deftly plotted shocker, 'Usurper'. '9 Curzon Place' tells the tale of an apartment inducting musicians into a ghostly rock band of its own making, while an old campus building in 'The Light in Greenbriar Hall' houses an unpleasant surprise for anyone foolish enough to intrude on its solitude. 'The Graduate Student', the story of a college professor with a unique approach to balancing his work and his writing , offers a darkly humorous take on the theme of the undead. And after reading 'Dinner at Shorty's' , you might never step into a diner on a lonely road again." - Lavanya Karthik, BOOKPLEASURES.COM

Supernatural narratives represent an important component of our storytelling heritage.

These stories -- including fairy tales, urban legends, penny dreadfuls and modern pulps, among many others -- leave a resonant echo throughout popular culture. In These Strange Worlds, Daniel Powell's first collection of dark short fiction, these influences collide in fourteen startling and entertaining stories.

The lone survivor of a worldwide flu epidemic grows strangely attached to her parasitic partner...

A malevolent London rental has a voracious appetite for rock stars, and it's building one hell of a band...

A wealthy oil trader is offered a glimpse into another dimension, but is the cost more than he can possibly bear?

From Satanic salesmen to zombie Ponzi schemes; from murdering murals to alien invasions, and other curious encounters along the way, These Strange Worlds takes readers on fourteen excursions into the realm of the uncanny. A mixture of new and previously published short stories, Powell's first collection embodies the spectrum of imaginative possibility that is the hallmark of compelling speculative fiction.

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