THE DEMONS OF FEAR and three other tales

The Demons of FearA con man posing as a psychologist who specializes in treating trauma-induced phobias hires a sadistic bodybuilder to terrorize vulnerable urbanites, and then mails them his brochure offering his clinical services Victims respond. Business booms. But when an octogenarian suffers a fatal heart attack following his frightful encounter with the God-hating muscleman, his gargantuan grandsons confront the waspish "doctor" on the deserted terrace of his fifteen-story high-rise The Last SermonIt is 2018. America is a police state controlled by left-wing radicals, extreme environmentalists, and Islamo-Nazis. The last radio sermon is being preached by Pastor Lori Patrick as ten Abrams tanks, under orders from President Pinton-an erratic, Christian-loathing megalomaniac-move in to obliterate her while the world watches. Will the diabolical woman who occupies the White House succeed in her murderous plans, or will the Lord intervene at the last minute and stop her?The Killer NovelA Christian novelist receives increasingly outlandish and ominous e-mails from a literary agent he innocently queried. But when the writer does not duly apologize for his scathing rejoinders, the agent phones him and declaims, "All contumelious authors shall fall at my feet " and arrives unannounced at the novelist's front door The Odyssey of Neil StaffordWhen an affable family man receives dire news from his neurosurgeon-he has an inoperable brain aneurysm that could kill him at any moment-he sets out on his motorcycle for an answer to the age-old question: Does life exist beyond the grave?