So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes. Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl.
You don't know nothing.
Join Steve Vernon, Nova Scotia's hardest working horror writer, as he takes you into the world of Captain Nothing. It's a world without hope, a world that is as cold and dark as a landlord's heart, three days after the rent is due. It's a world that could give the Batman a case of the squirming night fears. NOTHING DOWN is a collection of stories that will show you the darker side of courage. It will show you the shadows in a hero's heart.
Go on. I dare you to take a closer look.
You've got nothing to lose.
"If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon." – Bookgasm
Sales are steady.
The Indelible Skivvy Stains of Unbleached Regret
There are very few things in this life as irreplaceably essential as a pair of clean bleached skivvies. They hide the funk and the sorry residue that is generally considered somewhat socially unacceptable. Back through the ages even the most primitive of savages would quite often find themselves an excuse to wrap their ugly in a tatter of freshly skinned breechcloth.
Oh sure.
You can always rinse the old pair of underwear out, but sooner or later there are some stains that never really fade. They begin to develop their own personality. They cling to your under-fuzzies and whisper dark puckered secrets to the coral reefs of hemorrhoids that barnacle and cling to the evacuation of your rectum.
Worse yet, you begin to smell funny.
Some braver souls might talk of going commando, but for me – tough superhero or not, I tend to chafe. So sooner or later I find myself in the thick of a milling herd of Target shoppers, smack dab in the heart of the pre-apocalyptic bull’s-eye, mulling casually through the underwear section.
Which is where I first saw her – shoplifting skivvies.
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German
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Already translated.
Translated by Angelika Rust
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Author review: A true artist. I always enjoy working with her. |
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Italian
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Already translated.
Translated by Giuseppe Raccosta
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Portuguese
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Already translated.
Translated by Rodrigo Piccini Knorr
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Author review: My Captain Nothing adventures require a tough, hard-hitting, no-nonsense kind of translator. Like a trained MMA fighter, Rodrigo took the manuscript down to the mat and beat it into submission. He is great to work with. |
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Spanish
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Already translated.
Translated by Gabriela Miranda
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Author review: Fast and accurate translation skills. Gabriela's personal motto is "Let's get to work!" A true pleasure to work with. |
