Books by Stephen Donald Huff

Deadfall: A Serpentine Series Novel

by Stephen Donald Huff

(6 reviews)

In the aftermath of a genocidal galactic invasion, a remotely isolated colony cut off from all sources of resupply must devise a desperate plan to save themselves from certain annihilation. With their last reserves of fuel and determination, they salvage and resurrect a centuries-outmoded spacecraft named Titan, providing it with a skeleton crew consisting of three novice young men led by two... See More

Length: 223 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Pablo's People (Of Monsters, Seven: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 4)

by Stephen Donald Huff (Capital Ideations LLC)

(4 reviews)

Bad things happen to the people that Pablo loves. Bad, bloody things. Indeed, his hapless path through life is littered with the human wreckage of lives badly wasted; of men, women and children inexplicably maimed and murdered. Though his presence is ever the common denominator among the many deaths that surround him, evidence never ties him physically to any of the crime scenes. One frustrated... See More

Length: 31 Pages (830 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled/Published: Feb 21, 2015

Skitters (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 10)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(3 reviews)

Insomnia is a special kind of torture. Its short-term effects are something everyone experiences from time to time, but its long-term effects are known only to an unfortunate few. These effects include panic attacks, paranoia, and phobias. Eventually, hallucinations and convulsions become noticeable, followed by symptoms of dementia, coma and then death. Inevitably, the difference between waking... See More

Length: 53 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Alien Abductions (Of Aliens, Eleven: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 1)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(7 reviews)

On a beam of light as in the fog of dreams, a hundred human beings of all ages and walks-of-life find themselves standing on narrow pedestals in a strange auditorium filled with noxious, frigid liquid. With no room to sit or recline, they cannot rest or sleep. They can only shift from foot to foot atop the pedestals, standing for hours then days, their fears unresolved and their fate unknown... See More

Length: 61 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Keepsakes of Grief: Poetry Noir 2004 - 2011

by Stephen Donald Huff

I heard the call, the tone of it teasing, a broadcast chorus of incessant singing amid devilish choirs of insidious patter, the dry rasping of scales and portentous matter to cast shadows of sounds among us that must listen, beyond maddened distraction, inaudible vision. For I heard the call, the lies of it pleasing, then I followed it blindly where it would lead me. Beyond death and disaster... See More

Length: 321 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Long Is the Journey, Short Is the Sojourn (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 9)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(2 reviews)

A marauding legion of starving aliens arrive on Earth for a brief but terrifying raid on the planet. For a few unbelievably deadly days they will hunt humankind to fill their larder before they can continue on their indeterminate journey. Though the invaders are impervious to most human defenses, one man finds safety with a household pet! They are many and they are hungry. Human beings are... See More

Length: 22 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Mister's Monster (Of Monsters, Seven: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 1)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(2 reviews)

A ravaged, remnant human population claims the Earth's dismal daylight hours, while bloodthirsty savages rule the night. One aging warrior struggles to take back the darkness. He fights bloodlust with bloodlust, but his most powerful weapon is a terrible one that might turn on him at any moment. He knows his one-sided war is a fragile thing, because he understands his victory will be decided as a... See More

Length: 37 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Masochistic Mouthwash: Poetry Noir 1998 - 2003

by Stephen Donald Huff

I have never seen so far into anyone's eyes as I saw into yours that day. Ever green, I had expected to find them. stagnant pools long left to lay, still and tepid. Yet, they were filled to astounding depth with colors I had not hoped to see, and movement that shimmered the deep far beyond my measure, far beyond my reach, lucid as noon shallows, clear as summer seas, verdant in the distance like... See More

Length: 259 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

The Road to Hell (Of Rogues, Thirteen: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 5)

by Stephen Donald Huff (Capital Ideations LLC)

(3 reviews)

Wrongfully convicted and long confined in one of the worst prisons in the United States, he is bitter and angry. Despite a million-dollar settlement, his thirst for vengeance cannot be peacefully appeased, and his lust for blood ultimately turns on the sort of crooked prosecutors who ruined his life. From city to city and state to state, he wreaks havoc on the justice system, one civil servant at... See More

Length: 28 Pages (1,036 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled/Published: Feb 21, 2015

Devil's Tower (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 8)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(6 reviews)

In the first days of the zombie apocalypse, a military physician and small team of survivors must gather their wits, their weapons and their available resources to make a last stand. When nowhere seems safe and no-one seems immune to the rapidly spreading disease, they must choose a destination that is both attainable and sufficiently remote to assure their long term safety. It's a sheer stone... See More

Length: 35 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Tuggle Imp: Hellacious Serial Novel #1 (A Hellacious Serial Novel)

by Stephen Donald Huff (Capital Ideations LLC)

(1 review)

The lumps on Tuggle Imp's head will soon converge atop his dented skull. After eons of review, he suspects this merger will correspond to a portentous lunar alignment. Such coincidence has happened from time to time throughout his centuries-long interment in hell, but Tuggle believes this particular conjunction will mark the location of a redeeming auspice hidden somewhere among purgatory's... See More

Length: 262 Pages (1,363 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled/Published: Oct 28, 2020

The Conquering Sands (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 7)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(6 reviews)

In the limitless expanse of the cosmos, intelligence need not be confined to water-filled flesh. For every form of imagination, there is an embodiment of it out there in the void. On this world in this system, everything may be uniquely alive, from the rocks to the sandstorms. How does one conquer the wind? It is an alien intellect in the shifting sands of a waterless planet. Journey here to... See More

Length: 31 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Watami: A Novel of 'The Serpentine'

by Stephen Donald Huff

(1 review)

Denizens of Watami are more human than human. Though 'normal' citizens hysterically fear them as obscene chimeras, the pastoral Nascosi way of life embraces principles of passivity and altruism to selfless - some would say 'suicidal' - extremes. When a deviant dictator determines to exploit these deep-seated genocidal animosities for political gain, he finds the peace-loving Nascosi 'morphs' to... See More

Length: 315 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Nightland: Collected Short Stories 2016

by Stephen Donald Huff (Capital Ideations LLC)

(1 review)

Nightland resides within an extraordinary region of time and space bound only by limits of sheer imagination. Its ephemeral pinnacles soar near the apex of human aspiration while its abysmal valleys plunge deeply into the darkest landscapes of global apocalypse. It is alternately violently wild and oppressively regimented. Nightland is older than all of recorded human history and it is many... See More

Length: 838 Pages (1,878 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled/Published: Jan 22, 2017

Walk a Day with a Devil (Of Pranksters, Eight: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 4)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(1 review)

He is a devil, not THE devil. Regardless, his productivity is a measure of human misery. His undertakings are of human vice. His indulgence is bound in human suffering. Today, he will pass the reins of management to a successor, and you are selected for the job. Follow him on a day-tour of the township and hear his plans for its inhabitants. These are the things and the human beings you need to... See More

Length: 30 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Violence Redeeming: Collected Short Stories 2009 - 2011

by Stephen Donald Huff

(1 review)

Though doting parents often teach their children the futility of violence, every rational human being also understands the hypocrisy inherent in such lessons, since life surrounds us with countless examples of practical solutions wrought in savagery. While each act of brutality inevitably debases all humankind, a maladjusted minority also recognize in it a tempting potential to make quick return... See More

Length: 386 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

A Dreamtime Dominion: Poetry Noir 1996 - 1997

by Stephen Donald Huff

Mad pathos fetish broods while the black brow is creased to contemplate all manner of undoing, lays a thumb to the blade beneath a leering, sanguine eye and yearns unspeakably for a final message from God. Gross pathos fetish seethes to feed upon frustrations and terrors until the mind of a single lunatic is filled with dreams of dark endeavors that become a horror of blood, until pale the gaping... See More

Length: 240 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Devilfish (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 6)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(2 reviews)

Tarn is a water world, covered from pole to pole by an incredibly deep ocean. Humankind built only one city there. Situated directly on its equator, terraformers strategically emplaced this massive port to continuously exploit the planet's boundless fisheries. Because Tarn orbits its binary system on an extreme axial tilt, each day also measures a year, and because its suns are lethal, Tarn fish... See More

Length: 40 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Defile (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 5)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(5 reviews)

Upon hearing of a lost fortune in pure, refined opium, western adventurers stationed in Afghanistan decide to retrieve it despite repeated warnings about the dangers that confront them. When a local guide leads them through the desert into the mountains to a dark and foreboding crack in a towering precipice, they again shrug off the man's dire insistence that they return home. Their decision to... See More

Length: 28 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Recom! (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 4)

by Stephen Donald Huff (Capital Ideations LLC)

(2 reviews)

In this vision of the future, the most prestigious vacation money can buy is a trip to a corporate planet overgrown with a jungle wilderness. There, wealthy tourists gird armor and fantastically powerful weapons to hunt strange chimeras through an endless forest. These beasts are all genetically engineered to be fierce, bloodthirsty, and difficult to kill. Despite the benefits of their high... See More

Length: 33 Pages (1,533 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled/Published: Feb 21, 2015

The Spiral Stair (Of Mysteries, Twelve: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 3)

by Stephen Donald Huff (Capital Ideations LLC)

(6 reviews)

While waiting for his wife to finish shopping, he stumbles across a strangely ornate spiral stairway hidden away at the back of the local mall. Bored, he decides to descend a flight or two to examine the strange window displays arranged along its outer wall. With each downward step, he realizes the displays progressively reflect history long since passed. Intrigued, he delves deeper and deeper... See More

Length: 29 Pages (991 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled/Published: Feb 21, 2015

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 3)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(12 reviews)

Human beings are abundant. Yet for every person on Earth, countless insects thrive, chewing through the roots and underpinnings of nature. This year, it will be a very good year for bugs! An ocean of insecticide cannot suppress their demonic hordes. They could easily dominate the planet. Why not? See More

Length: 28 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Mr. Accident (Of Pranksters, Eight: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 5)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(1 review)

His nickname at work, where his colleagues avoid him like a plague, is "Mr. Accident". Alongside a lonely stretch of road on his way home one evening, he earns his reputation once again. While he sits with a dying youth trapped inside an overturned and crumpled automobile, Mr. Accident tells the boy how he earned his reputation. His is a sordid tale of endless cacophony and disaster, and death... See More

Length: 27 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

The Poppy Express (Of Heroes, None: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 4)

by Stephen Donald Huff (Capital Ideations LLC)

(3 reviews)

To earn extra money, he decided to volunteer for service in Afghanistan as a civilian technologist. During training provided by the government, he vowed he would never allow terrorists to easily cut off his head for their propaganda machine. Instead, he determined to make them chase him through the desert first. After his capture by bloodthirsty jihadists in Afghanistan, a young American... See More

Length: 35 Pages (747 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled/Published: Feb 21, 2015

Rats! (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 1)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(2 reviews)

Every stellar rise deserves a cosmic fall. Inhumanly callous and ruthlessly selfish, he made a fortune in predatory mortgage loans prior to the economic collapse of 2008. In its calamitous aftermath, executive handlers staged him for a corporate patsy and left him to answer alone for their collective crimes. Facing financial ruin and certain incarceration, his reduced prospects force him to move... See More

Length: 125 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

In The Devil's Hands (Of Pranksters, Eight: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 6)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(2 reviews)

Jermy Borden's seven short years on Planet Earth had already been filled with hardship, deprivation and heartache when, on the way to school one morning, his drunken mother drove their car into a neighbor's home, killing herself and a hamster named "Ted". Jermy somehow managed to claw his way out of the shattered rear window, leaving his hands badly burned and his fate in the hands of his only... See More

Length: 28 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Dinosaur! (Of Plagues, Ten: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio Book 2)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(12 reviews)

The universe is a strange, all but impenetrable mystery. Every scientific advance sponsors countless new questions, and every new explanation spawns immeasurable unknowns. How can dinosaurs of all kinds and from all epochs of evolution suddenly and randomly appear all over the world? What would you do with a tyrannosaurus peering through your bedroom window? How would you deal with pterosaurs... See More

Length: 32 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

Havoc (Fiction Novels and Novellas)

by Stephen Donald Huff

On Friday of Easter weekend in Juglan, Texas, many strange events distract from the festivities. Telephone service is sporadic and failing. Fires burn out of control. Police services are nonexistent. The dead and the dying accumulate on the streets. Before the village's clocktower chimes midnight, many of its citizens will perish and the city itself will lie in flaming ruins. This is the... See More

Length: 171 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

The McCormick Network: A Novel (Fiction Novels and Novellas)

by Stephen Donald Huff

(3 reviews)

Matriculating across that stage, nothing betrayed the Texas sand behind his ears, though his stiff, high collar hid a neck roasted red by long hours spent laboring beneath August sunshine. Indeed, years of careful study and patient attention had polished away the roughest facets of his country-born demeanor with a doctoral degree, but he would always be Charles Ray McCormick, white trash... See More

Length: 369 Pages /Lending: Not Enabled

A Cult of Fat Stanley: A Novella of Adolescent Torment (Fiction Novels and Novellas)

by Stephen Donald Huff (Capital Ideations LLC)

(1 review)

If the trials of childhood form the adult, then Stanley Newberry is growing into a grotesquely misshapen lump of a thing. All the popular people tell him so. Since he first met his classmates in grade school, Fat Stanley has singly borne the brunt of their endless insults, taunts and abuses. Passing from eighth grade to their first year in high school, purple-nurples and Indian-burns have long... See More

Length: 155 Pages (970 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled/Published: May 31, 2017