Gerard D. Houarner

The Oz Suite

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Hardcover
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 128pp.
Pub. Date: 2008
Publisher: Eibonvale Press

a set of three mind-bogglingly brilliant substantial and very contrasting stories all rooted in the strange phenomenon that is The Wizard of Oz

Road from Hell

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 292pp.
Pub. Date: November 1, 2007
Publisher: Necro Publications

Max the Assassin is back! What started in the pages of Painfreak, continued in the books The Beast That Was Max and Road To Hell now comes to an explosive conclusion. Offered in a VERY limited edition hardcover which contains bonus material including an all new short story with introduction showing us just where Max came from and how he got started on his cursed and tragic journey through a life of murder and sex. Also offfered in an affordable unlimited trade paperback signed by the author.

Max the Assassin is in Hell.

Tormented by vengeful spirits and his secret self, the demonic Beast, Max suffers for the pain he caused when he lived, and for losing his chance at redemption through love.

Angel, Max’s son, is devastated by his father’s death and wanders the desert between the worlds in which he saw his father die, searching for a way home. Then he encounters the Caravan of the Dead, who promise him salvation, and Apocalypse.

Both their fates depend on Eartha, a young woman from Brooklyn, her circle of outsider friends, the soul of her dead father, a sex club called Painfreak, the Palace of the Djinn, and the ancient spirit of an Egyptian sacrificial cat.

Can Hell be broken? Can the dead return to life?

Can love conquer pain, vengeance, and death?

The answers are on The Road From Hell. . . .

Dead Cat: Bigger Than Jesus

Authors: Houarner, Gerard and Gak
Illustrator: Gak
Format: Paperback Chapbook
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 42pp.
Pub. Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Necro Publications/Bedlam Press
Also Pub: 2003 (Hardcover — Bedlam Press)

This new mini-collection of Dead Cat tales features two stories from Gerard Houarner and one piece written by the Dead Cat artist GAK. This will be offered in a 300 copy signed & numbered chapbook and a 100 copy hardcover which will feature color artwork.

The chapbooks are beautiful with their perfect bound spine and dazzling full-color artwork of Dead Cat ascending to heaven before his legion of followers. Get yours NOW!!! Jesus would want you to. Amen.

Table of Contents:

• Bad Denny and Dead Cat by Gak
• Dead Cat’s Secret Eternal Life by Gerard Houarner
• Black Cat Walking on Halloween by Gerard Houarner

Visions Through a Shattered Lens

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 428pp.
Pub. Date: August 27, 2002
Publisher: Delirium Books

Gerard Houarner, author of Painfreak, The Beast That Was Max and I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It, is quickly becoming one of the finest horror authors in print today. This limited edition hardcover showcases him at his best and is sure to be a valuable collector’s item in years to come.

Bastards of Alchemy

Author: Piccirilli, Tom and Houarner, Gerard
Format: Paperback Chapbook
Type: Novel
Page Count: 40pp.
Pub. Date: August 2002
Publisher: Necro Publications

Bastards of Alchemy is a chapbook featuring two extremely dark and disturbing tales from two of the best writers of dark fiction, Tom Piccirilli and Gerard Houarner. Piccirilli’s “Alchemy” is a brutal tale of a nice night at the beach among friends gone horribly wrong when they find a dead body in the rocks. While Houarner’s “The Bastard” tells the story of a man born to clean up the aftermath of atrocities enacted by the powers that hide in the shadows. These two tales are perfect examples of why Tom and Gerard are two kings of brutal and hard horror. This is writing at its best.

This is #4 in the Necro chapbook line.

Table of Contents:

• Alchemy by Tom Piccirilli
• The Bastard by Gerard Houarner

The Beast That Was Max

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 400pp.
Pub. Date: June 2001
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester

The Beast inside Max has made him the ultimate killing machine — an assassin powered by an inner demon. But the Beast is very real and alive. He is all of Max’s dark desires and murderous impulses — and he will never let Max forget he exists. Now Max finds himself as the prey — the target of past victims.

The following stories were reprinted with the novel:

• The Beast That Was Max
• Angel Of Death
• Deamons Of Blood And Passion
• Truth and Consequences in the Heart of Destruction

Dead Cat Bounce: A Fable to Horrify the Inner Child

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Illustrator: Gak
Format: Chapbook
Type: Novella
Page Count: 28pp.
Pub. Date: June 2000
Publisher: Space and Time

Nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

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I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Fiction Collection
Page Count: 202pp.
Pub. Date: November 1, 2002
Publisher: Delirium Books

I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Hardcover
Type: Fiction Collection
Page Count: 170pp.
Pub. Date: January 25, 2000
Publisher: Delirium Books

No summary available.

Road to Hell

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 342pp.
Pub. Date: January 2003
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester

Road to Hell

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 208pp.
Pub. Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: Necro Publications

The first horror novel from Gerard Daniel Houarner continues the story of Max the Assassin which began in Gerard’s collection Painfreak, and continued further in the anthology, Inside the Works.

Road to Hell follows Max’s son, Angel, as he grows from infant to man in only a few days. As Angel is led through fantastic worlds of both the living and the dead, he encounters obstacles at every turn as he tries to find his way back to his father and beautiful but deadly aunts. The ghosts of Max’s victims work to forever trap Angel in their world and attempt to show him the atrocities of his father. While Angel battles his father’s demons, Max and the twins frantically try to escape from various governments and agents intent on capturing Max . . . dead or alive. The action is explosive when Angel finally reunites with his family and the lives of all will never be the same.

Inside the Works

Author: Piccirilli, Tom; Lee, Edward and Houarner, Gerard D.
Format: Hardcover
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 212pp.
Pub. Date: November 1997
Publisher: Necro Publications
Original Pub: November 1997 (Trade Paperback — Necro Publications)

A collection of short stories and novella which span the gamut of the types of stories you can find in the horror genre.

Gerard D. Houarner’s Contribution: “Truth and Consequences in the Heart of Destruction”

As shamans chant, Max, the master assassin now stricken by a mysterious illness, wonders if he will live or die. Healers from around the world cannot touch the disease that has crippled him. The twins, his lovers, cannot help him. Shadow men, wrapped in cloaks of technology, pause in their games to see if their most formidable piece will be removed from the board.

But before his fate is decided, Max will discover his capacity for pain, life, guilt. Death will blossom in pleasure, lives will be sacrificed for debts of honor and friendship. And Max will struggle in the absence of God’s grace and punishment to find truth and its consequences in the heart of destruction.

Painfreak

Author: Houarner, Gerard D.
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 116pp.
Pub. Date: May 1996
Publisher: Necro Publications

Painfreak by Gerard Daniel Houarner contains 10 stories of pure erotic horror from one the genre’s most respected authors.

On the darkest streets, deep within the bowels of cities around the world, it appears suddenly . . .

For as long as anyone remembers, Painfreak has come, offering everything you have ever desired — the Flesh, the Pain, the Ecstasy . . .

Experience your ultimate fantasies, your ultimate fears, the Ultimate Evil . . .

But don’t stay too long, for as suddenly as Painfreak appears, it vanishes . . .

And you will be trapped, haunting its corridors, lost forever . . .

Table of Contents:

• Painfreak
• Safe Word
• Painted Faces
• The Night Pain
• Hot Thing
• Trail Of Pain And Letters
• Tongue
• The Beast That Was Max
• Angel Of Death
• Deamons Of Blood And Passion

Black Orchids from Aum

Author: Houarner, Gerard
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 183pp.
Pub. Date: January 2001
Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing

Aum.

City of Gates.

The Lost City.

The Cursed City.

Come to Aum, where anything can be bought. Come ready to bargain for love, for power, for dreams. Just remember, the price must always be paid.

Table of Contents:

• Cure for the Plague
• A Piper in the Necropolis
• While Waiting for Evening
• Shing of the Bridgefolk
• Black Orchids from Aum
• The Face of the Messenger
• The Reed From Hell
• The Yellow Play
• The Incomplete Reliquary
• Forgotten Woman
• Collector of Delinquent Accounts
• A King Comes to Aum

The Bard of Sorcery

Author: Houarner, Gerard Daniel
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 116pp.
Pub. Date: April 1986
Publisher: Ballantine/Del Rey

The Bard of Sorcery is Gerard Daniel Houarner’s first novel.

Dead Cat Traveling Circus of Wonders and Miracle Medicine Show

Editors: Houarner, Gerard D. and Gak
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 340pp.
Pub. Date: June 1, 2006
Publisher: Necro Publications/Bedlam Press

You threw away the kitty litter, didn’t you. But that’s okay, he doesn’t need it. Don’t bother running out for a bag of cat chow, the stuff falls right out of him. Afraid of fleas in his fur? They’re afraid of him! He’s dead, but he’s back, and he’s looking for you! Don’t think spending a few thousand years buried in sand can keep Dead Cat down. He’s gone through Hell to come back because he knows you can’t live without him!

Break out the surgical tape for those mummy wrap malfunctions. Fluff up the old comfy pillow, find a nice, sunny spot by the window and settle down with Dead Cat, GAK, and sixteen twisted horror writers who enjoy playing with dead things for the finest Circus of Wonders and Miracle Medicine Show you’ll ever experience. Dead Cat guarantees your satisfaction!

Remember, Dead Cat came back from the dead for you! It’s not wise to ignore the dead . . .

Table of Contents:

• Dr. Booty’s Come On by Linda D. Addison
• Dead Cat’s Carnival Bark by Gerard Houarner
• Here’s a Thing by Trey R. Barker
• Dead Cat Meets Rinn and Stumpy by Brian Hodge
• Puss in Boots by Gerard Houarner
• Sweet Oblivion by Jeffrey Thomas
• Dead Cat Ricochet by Jack Haringa
• Reginald Denies Everything by Gerard Houarner
• A Sword in Every Ploughshare by Michael T. Huyck, Jr.
• Dead Cat’s Lick by Gerard Houarner
• Dead Cat Food by Tim Lebbon
• Dead Cat Food by Garrett Peck
• Dead Cat Woking by P.D.Cacek
• Lunch at the Kibbey Crematorium by Michelle Scalise
• Bouncing Dead Baby by Robert Rhine
• Dead Cat at the House of Peanut Butter Discipline by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Dead Cat Matches Wits with Ratnarokh, The Ultimate Sentient Super-Computer, on the Blood-Red Planet of the Porn-Bots by Mark McLaughlin
• Bouncing Back by Wrath James White
• Hellbound Kid by Gerard Houarner
• Topsy the Elephant by Gerard Houarner
• Dead Cat’s Sideshow Bark by Gerard Houarner
• Dead Cat’s Miracle Cure by Gerard Houarner
• Dead Cat’s Game of Chance by Gerard Houarner
• Dead Cat’s Goes to Hollywood by Gerard Houarner
• Flea Circus by Gerard Houarner
• Mr. Wiggley by Gerard Houarner
• Beastiary by Gerard Houarner
• Mushroom Man by Aaron Worley
• Freak Show by Gerard Houarner
• Mystery Spot by Gerard Houarner
• Makeover by Gerard Houarner
• The Fortune Teller by Gerard Houarner
• Dr. Booty’s Farwell by Linda D. Addison

Dead Cats Bouncing

Editors: Houarner, Gerard D. and Gak
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 220pp.
Pub. Date: March 2002
Publisher: Necro Publications/Bedlam Press
Also Pub: April 2002 (Hardcover — Necro Publications)

An anthology of short stories based on the 2000 Bram Stoker Finalist chapbook “Dead Cat Bounce” by Gerard Houarner and illustrated by GAK. This collection has stories from: Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Charlee Jacob, Tom Piccirilli, Yvonne Navarro, Mick Farren, Gerard Houarner, Linda Addison, John Skipp, Paul Di Filippo, David Niall Wilson, Terry McGarry, Gene O’Neill and Brian Keene. All the stories are fully illustrated by the artist GAK. Published in an edition of 400 trade paperbacks and 100 hardcovers all signed and numbered.

Table of Contents:

• Dead Cat Pimping by Gerard Houarner and Gak
• Dead Cat Bounce (reprint of the original chapbook) by Gerard Houarner
• Snarl, Hiss, Spit, Stalk by Jack Ketchum
• Dead Cat Does Chicago by Yvonne Navarro
• Dead Cat Meets Slide by Mick Farren
• Other Cat by Edward Lee
• Gratefully Dead by Brian Keene
• Dead Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Charlee Jacob
• Dead Cat Meets Frankenpup by Gene O’Neill
• Dead Catnip by David Niall Wilson
• Dr. Booty Is Making House Calls by Linda Addison
• Too Many Hells by Terry McGarry
• Mehitabel in Hell by Paul Di Filippo
• A Whisper of Dead Whiskers by Tom Piccirilli
• Soul Maggot Jamboree by John Skipp
• Dead Cat and Mouse: A Fable by Gerard Houarner

Going Postal

Author: Houarner, Gerard D.
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 127pp.
Pub. Date: June 1998
Publisher: Space and Time

No summary available.

Table of Contents:

• Spellchecked by Daniel Pearlman
• Life with Father by Bentley Little
• The Van by Gordon Linzner
• Legion by Charlee Jacob
• Nietzsche Sooths Fishboy Lenny by Tom Piccirilli
• Incident at Mile 51 by Roy L. Post
• The Butler by Robin Lochlann Spriggs
• Talent Scout by Milton Wheeler
• Neighbors by John B. Rosenman
• Empty Spaces by Andrew Tokash
• Sweet by Melanie Tem
• The Last Beep by Don Webb
• The Jungle by James Dorr
• Jinn by J. A. Polland
• One Last E-Ticket Ride by Dominick Cancilla
• Boo! by Linda D. Addison
• Toon-Boy by Michael D. Winkle
• Conejo Por Lunchay by Eliot Fintushel
• Email Lament by K. L. Hasell