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A bizarre death perplexes an East Texas sheriff. The investigation takes a personal turn. A string of local monstrosities hold the key, but does the sheriff really want to unlock the truth? It's dark on the other side of that door--monsters dwell there. What if some of them are his forebears? It's not always the devil that lies in the details. Sometimes it's ignorance, prejudice and fear. Sometimes it's your friends and neighbors. Sometime...

In Texas, it's all about the big game. But what happens when the big game fails you? What happens when the big game becomes too real? When is the big game a loss and winning a mistake? The Tarry Tornado is hard-hitting and brutal. Bestselling author E. R. Bills has memorialized the playbook, and we may never look at the big game the same again.

Who are you and where do you come from? What do you really know about those who came before? What do you really know about yourself? These are questions that many ask, but few truly answer. Candor can have consequences. Honesty can be dangerous. In his second novella, The Amulet , author E. R. Bills's protagonist becomes aware of a family secret that he never suspected, and is granted a revelation that eluded him for decades. Now that he knows...

Uncover the suppressed testimony of the Lone Star State's uncomfortable past.Tinseltown almost always gets Texas wrong. The "Searchers" never did that much searching, the "Giants" were hardly ever big in terms of character, and The Last Picture Show was just the beginning of a disturbing reveal. As acclaimed writer Stephen Harrigan suggests, the Lone Star state was not exactly a Big, Wonderful Thing, and, for too many Texans, nothing was ever ...

Deep in the heart of the Texas mess, writer and journalist E. R. Bills rages against perilous asininity and crippling ignorance with fierce aplomb and relentless aim. Frightening and sometimes funny, Bills' Letters from Texas, 2021-2023 is a critical, thought-provoking read for anyone who is interested in the state of Texas.

Just your average boy meets girl, world goes insane, girl saves boy--but boy loses girl . . . and boy becomes a machination of vengeance, love story. "While there has been an indulgence of post-apocalyptic works in recent years, Nia delivers a breath of fresh air to the genre by addressing race-relations in the Lone Star State. Like the best work of Richard Matheson or Ray Bradbury, Nia uses the genre's conventions to address serious issues in...

Something evolves in the West Texas desert. The future devolves into the past. Nature Calls lets it play out for humanity the way it may very well might. Reminiscent of Richard Matheson, Stephen King and Ray Bradbury, Pendulum Grim author E. R. Bills' prose is sparse, direct, and imaginative, but always rooted in the stark implications of our present reality. Includes b-side bonus tale.

Uncover the suppressed testimony of the Lone Star State's uncomfortable past.Tinseltown almost always gets Texas wrong. The "Searchers" never did that much searching, the "Giants" were hardly ever big in terms of character and The Last Picture Show was just the beginning of a disturbing reveal. As acclaimed writer Stephen Harrigan suggests, the Lone Star State was not exactly a Big, Wonderful Thing, and for too many Texans, nothing was ever "A...

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In the bizarro, comic book version of the Lone Star State, Red numbskulls run things, and "Captain Texas"--Greg Abbott--is their current leader. He inspires no one, but, for a smarmy, vacuous climber, he's hell on wheels. And Abbott follows on the heels of Rick Perry and George W. Bush. Together they comprise a successive triumvirate of blind ambition and mindless greed. They loaded the wrong wagons from the beginning, and we'll be paying for ...

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An exotic fortune cookie-maker hangs up her rolling pin to spare customers the horrifying truth. A dying man comes to terms with the Halloween inside to survive. A woman finds Ambrose Bierce's diary and resolves to break its curse by making her death the final entry. A long-dead lynching victim returns to punish the men responsible for his grotesque execution. The stories in E. R. Bills' first turn at horror fiction showcase an unsettling new ...

On November 13, 1969, ten students at Texas State University were suspended for participating in a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. They had kept vigil in front of the Huntington Mustangs, bearing signs that read, "Vietnam Is an Edsel" and "44, 000 U.S. Dead, For What?" while an increasingly hostile anti-protest crowd chanted, "Love it or leave it!" and "Let's string 'em up!" It was a day after news of the My Lai massacre broke. Part ...

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The sheer volume of remarkable Texan exploits creates a dizzying tally for the proudest of its citizens. So it happens that inexplicable marvels slip past an entire state of storytellers and world-famous legends live as anonymous neighbors. Ever hear the story about the escaped ape in the Big Thicket? Or the "Interplanetary Capital of the Universe" that sat on the Gulf Coast? Does the cowboy hat that warmed U.S.-China relations ring a bell? Fr...

A hanging tree takes the law into its own limbs in "The Tree Servant." A mother's love is tested by the walking, crawling and thumb-sucking dead in "Mama's Babies." A famous author lays his process bare in "A Writer's Lot." Not for the faint of heart, this terrifying batch of Texas horror fiction delivers a host of literary demons who will be hard to shake once they get comfortable.The second volume of the critically acclaimed Road Kill Series...

Texas is known as a stronghold of conservative politics and values-in many cases ultraconservative-but those beliefs are taken to task in E.R. Bills' new book, Texas Dissident: Dispatches from a Diminished State, 2006-2016.A growing number of Texans are tired of Lone Star Conservatives, sick of being embarrassed by their political representatives and horrified by the devolution of the state conversation in terms of race, sex, sexual orientatio...