JB Richards

A Collection Of Three Dark Romantic Comedy Short Stories With A Twist! Overview: “For They Shall Wait” features a collection of three separate short stories about individuals who are each waiting for something—In the first story, a college-nerd desperately wants to lose his virginity; in the second story, a young man wants to have sex with a girl who won’t “do it” unless they’re engaged; and in the final story, an elderly woman has spent a lifetime fearing arrest after commit

A Modern Crime Thriller With An Anti-Hero Harkening Back To The Gumshoe Era! Overview: Tom Mayor, a man in his mid-fifties who had never really done anything with his life, somehow convinces his mother that he has “the stuff” it takes to be a private detective. With her help, Tom gets his first case, and solves the murder of the next-door neighbor’s granddaughter, earning himself both fame and fortune. But now, someone is trying to kill Tom, and to find out who has it in for

An Occult Horror With Plenty Of Dark Humor! Overview: Looking to increase their powers thirteen-fold, thirteen teenage vampires kidnap Emily, a thirteen-year-old girl whom they plan to sacrifice to Satan during The Thirteenth Hour, on All Hallows’ Eve. Author Alan Zacher puts his best detective, James Hurts—a familiar protagonist to his fans—on the case when Emily’s friend, Amanda, learns about the teen vampires’ gruesome plan and convinces him to launch a rescue. What ensues

Twists & Turns Await In This Trio Of Ghostly Tales! “A Ghoulish Good Time” by Alan Zacher contains a trio of macabre tales that focus on regret and loneliness, life and the afterlife, and the relationship between human beings and their Creator. Danger awaits Detective James Hurts in Zacher’s fast-paced, primary story, “Hurt’s Revelation“, when a malevolent entity haunts a broken down hotel where a string of seemingly random and inexplicable murders and suicides occur with inc

More Than A Few Terrors & Many More Laughs! This macabre but humorous collection of 3 short horror stories by Alan Zacher—two of which are associated with the Halloween and Christmas holidays—is entertaining and fun to read. All told in the first-person, each story spills the details of how an unusual series of circumstances can change one’s perspective on life and reality forever. “Murder, Vampires and Leprechauns” contains adult language and themes that I would not advise f