Carl Reader: 44 books

The three novellas of the Bloody Potomac series are available in this one volume at the cost of two. In these novellas, Tasha O'Burke, the President's vampire daughter, battles hostile vampires, werewolves and Ghouls for power, influence and survival in Washington. She always has girlfriend Cari Anne...

When his son is caught in the Delaware River, Sam, a shad, deals with Al, a human, to allow himself to be caught every year for the town's annual prize for the biggest fish. In other tales, Sam recounts his adventures in the seven seas - Al learns of Sam's love affairs and his fight with a great white...

For years many wished to see a former president in Hell. With Dubya and the Devil, they have the chance. Dubya crashes into Hell with his own agenda. So powerful is he that he literally pulls Lucifer up to Heaven by the horns. There, Dubya leads the devil on a series of adventures with some of the...

Resurrection In Vampire Valley is the long-awaited second volume in the popular Vampire Valley series. It begins where The Hostage of Vampire Valley left off, with Maggie's lover Mabin still dead but about to be exhumed by her little brother Tommy after a year of healing resurrection in the grave....

Tasha O'Burke, the President's vampire daughter, is happily hunting young congressmen on her birthday with her girlfriend, Cari Anne Pomegranate, when the Speaker of the House, John Burner, pulls off a bloody coup against the her father. Cari Anne is murdered and Tasha is hunted and hides among her...

A Wanderer at the Dawn is a play about the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and takes place on the day of his death. His mind destroyed by tertiary syphilis, Nietzsche is partially paralyzed and under the care of his sister. As he lays dying, the play takes place in his mind as the various...

In A Circle of Stars, a novel about the aftermath of The Battle of the Little Bighorn, is told from the point of view of the Lakota Sioux who killed Custer. Sitting Bull is fearful about the revenge the army is about to take, and one day Fallen Hawk, the fictional hero who killed Custer, finds his...

Bloody Potomac 2, My Mother Bites is the second in the Bloody Potomac series, in which just about everybody in Washington is a vampire, werewolf or zombie - including the President. The main character, Tasha O'Burke, who is the President's daughter, returns in My Mother Bites from her role in The...

Tasha O'Burke, the President's vampire daughter, gives birth to a baby boy who shows great promise to grow into a powerful member of the clan. From the moment he's born, he shows a lusty desire for blood, but the Washington Ghouls see him as a bargaining chip to get what they want - more and more...

You're All Idiots, Pineville continues the saga of the oddest town on earth that was begun in Come After Me to Pineville. To the shock and delight of the entire town, Mayor Letz Holdemtite, who has ruled for over 100 years, dies in a shootout of rat poisoning. At his funeral, the participants mock...

Nothing but odd news comes out of Pineville, as these short, satirical pieces of fake journalism prove. If you visit these pages, you'll read of a place where birds abduct obese children and put them on enforced diets, where the President of the United States comes to visit and lunches on a dog he...

After the final, monumental battle with the vampires and the resurrections of her husband and brother, Maggie awakens one morning with her back propped up against a tree on the side of the mountain with Mabin and Tommy nowhere to be found. She searches for them, and they seem to appear magically,...

During the Iraq War, a squad of soldiers comes upon some collateral damage, a little girl dressed in a white burqa at the bottom of a blast crater. When they discover she speaks English and Arabic, they decide to take her with them on a rogue combat mission, despite the danger that presents to her...

Auntie Claus, Santa Claus' aunt, is an evil, magical elf who has always failed to ruin Christmas in the past, but now has the help of Malicious, who as the opposite of an elf is a self, and the Madison Avenue public relations firm of Steelman, Kreepo and Konmen. Together, they plan on destroying Christmas...