The Immigrant And Other Tales
In “The Immigrant,” a 1920s ghost hunter seeks the dark spirit terrorizing recent emigres in a Progressive-Era settlement house.* In “Mort,” an obscure goddess of virtue finds herself on the wrong end of a fateful decree in the City of A Thousand Gods.* In “Unseen,” a man takes advantage of a groundbreaking technology to teach a corrupt politician a lesson.* In “Daughter of Dread,” the super-powered Blowout risks his life for the daughter of his team’s worst enemy.* In “Movers,” a woman finds herself in the middle of a power struggle between entities she doesn’t understand.* In “Mistaken Identity,” the lives of a suburban family are placed in jeopardy by a super-hero’s error in judgment.* In “Kyniska,” a mysterious woman shows up in a gym and changes the life of an over-the-hill basketball player.* In “The Right Hand of God,” the man once known as NightSmith comes out of retirement to track down a killer.In these eight, never-before-published stories, New York Times-bestselling sci fi and fantasy author Michael Jan Friedman takes you on a tour of his favorite places, where the impossible is all too possible and nothing is quite what it seems.
