Halloween Stories

Love was in the air. Life was free of care. The future was bright. The 1960's should have been the beginning of 'Pax Americanus'¦ 200 years of 'The American Peace'. It wasn't.

A tale of an ancient compulsion comes again to a man lost to his past.

'Man In Debt' is a novella-length piece in fourteen chapters. Largely in correspondence form, it concerns a battle involving a wily borrower, his lender and their two firms of lawyers. The principals move from hostility to quasi-friendliness. Their legal representatives go the opposite way, with farcical results.

A meeting aboard a star-craft on a luxury curise to New Belgium leads to an affair of the heart that one of them, will never forget.

Sir Bertram Utterside issues a series of pronouncements, not always entirely serious, on a variety of burning social topics.

Everything begins somewhere... A very short story about how things got started.

A series of astounding experiments carried out by the redoubtable 'Sage of Trondheim', with caustic observations from his chief rival, the 'Swedish Savant'.

The coach of a local cricket team feels delighted to have at his disposal a prodigal talent. But, there are other reasons behind this strong attachment. However, in a span of a week, things turn sour