Books by Ken Hoover

Set sail on the high seas with this collection of 21 unforgettable short stories featuring dashing rogues, daring rebels, and wily pirates searching for treasures of all kinds, including a forgotten journal, a heavenly sword, a young girl's lucky sock, and even the Fountain of Youth. Some pirates are familiar-complete with parrots, peg legs, and eye patches-but most are unique: a twelve-year-old computer hacker, a heroic rabbit on an unusual quest, a clump of cancer cells, and an alien setting sail among the stars.X Marks the Spot: An Anthology of Treasure and Theft is about those men and women who live on the fringes of society, who are beholden to no man, no law, and who always have one eye on the horizon.So grab your map and set your headings. There are adventures to be had, mateys, and treasures to be found.This anthology is the fifth volume produced by the alumni of the Superstars Writing Seminars, and all royalties benefit the Don Hodge Memorial Scholarship Fund.

In a time of blood and myth, humanity used its nuclear weapons to crack the world. In the year of blinding white light which followed, gods of death and cruelty poured through the gap and staked their claims, fueled by the relentless smothering of human lives. Two hundred years later, humanity has risen from the ashes. It is a terrifying new frontier teeming with outlaws, gunslingers, monsters, and demons.But not all is lost. The Midnight Agency takes the jobs no one else dares. To fight monsters, you need a few devils. A crew has been hired to deliver cargo to the last surviving museum of the old world-a captain with an ancient past, a gunslinger who can speak to ghosts, a crippled sheriff with a knack for engineering, and a mysterious witch. But when they are pursued by a sinister killer with terrible power, their only hope might just be Kory "Diablo" Shaw, a teenager with a cursed pistol and a devilish secret, who has faced a Death God before...and lived.In episodic form, The Midnight Agency takes you on a rip-roaring adventure that is one shot of post-apocalyptic horror, two shots of dark fantasy, and all weird western. Fans of Deadlands and The Dark Tower saga will love the haunted landscapes, dark magic, and tortured souls. Welcome to the New West. Welcome to the world you deserve.