Fake Believe

Seven all-new stories from the streets of Hazeland. Stories that resist easy categories, falling between fantastic horror and weird fantasy and strange crimes.

A weary and ragged veteran returns to his childhood neighborhood finding it gone but for one house and the ghosts within it need his help.

A private detective digs at the secret behind gentrification in downtown and the fabricated and inhuman residents who'ved moved in.

A girl at a mysterious block party confronts her past and future and a finds herself in a place that might not ever exist.

A ragtag crew of filmmakers chases down the Bigfoot of the Southland and instead finds something terrible that wants to be set free.

An industrial/goth singer flees to LA and finds that someone just like her already blazed the career she's seeking, haunting her assumed identity.

Two luckless strongarm men try to rob the wrong bar on the wrong night, finding not easy money but a witch who is painfully bored.

A book forger attends an auction where her former career is one of the featured lots, yet that is not the strangest thing for sale that night.

231 pages, trade format, $16.99