Writing fiction can be like pulling teeth: difficult, painful and bloody. In Pulling Teeth, Alan Ryker presents six stories yanked from his mind like rotten molars.

*The end of civilization is brought about when written words stop transmitting their original meanings, and begin to transmit a new one.

*A man's own soul punishes him for his horrible crimes in a re-imagining of the tale of Eros and Psyche.

*A documentary filmmaker is drawn into the world of the homeless living in the Amtrak tunnels under New York City, and discovers something even stranger than his original subject.

Pulling Teeth is an entertaining and disturbing introduction to the work of fiction author Alan Ryker. It contains both new and previously published stories that will challenge your conceptions of horror, literary fiction and the dark spaces in between.

Approximately 90 pages.

Vampires are not sexy or sensitive.

Hungry, bloody and stinking of the grave, they hunt the dry Kansas plains, taking what they want until they cross rancher Keith Harris. Keith is a damaged man who's always made the hard decisions others couldn't. As the two forces battle for survival, the lines between man and monster begin to blur. How much of a community's burden of sin can one man take on before becoming a monster himself?

With Burden Kansas, Alan Ryker provides a contemporary novella of vampire horror written in the minimal voice of the western. Burden Kansas is more entertaining, disturbing and thought-provoking than you thought a vampire western could be.

Approximately 125 pages.