A Few Odd Souls: A Weird Fantasy - PREORDER

Jackanapes Press presents A Few Odd Souls, a standalone weird fantasy of epic proportions by John R. Fultz.

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THE POTENTATES OF URBILLE...

Svetlana, rugged survivor of a post-apocalypse Russia, tracks her stolen child across a myriad of broken worlds full of alien beings and supernatural forces. Inspector Crag, a clockwork detective from an inter-dimensional metropolis, pursues the enigmatic
rogue known only as the Highwayman. The New Organics, refugees from a world where humanity is traded for synthetic immortality, fight to survive in an Eden infested by flesh-eating monsters. Meanwhile, The Rude Mechanicals travel the road between the worlds, bringing ancient dramas to life for audiences both living and dead. Fate brings them all together in the shadow of the Potentates of Urbille, mysterious tyrants whose ancient power extends across uncounted realities.

A FEW ODD SOULS is an epic of weird fantasy by John R. Fultz, set in highly imaginative worlds of strangeness and horror. This genre-busting standalone novel sprang from the fertile soil of Fultz's "Urbille" stories, which can be found in his previous Jackanapes Press book, Darker Than Weird: Fourteen Tales of Horror.

Trade paperback - 6 x 9 inches
Approx. 240 pages

“Fultz has rapidly matured into a major fantasist.” —LAIRD BARRON, Author of Not a Speck of Light

“There is an element of the gothic and the folktale in Fultz’s prose that adds to, rather than subtracts from, the atmosphere of his stories in a fashion similar to Clark Ashton Smith and Tanith Lee.” —OLD MOON QUARTERLY

“Fultz is a powerful and creative writer very much in the Weird Tales tradition. He is well worth your attention.” —DARRELL SCHWEITZER, Weird Tales editor from 1987-2007

“...an author with an exceptional talent for characterization and world building.” —THE LIBRARY JOURNAL

“His world-building is in a class by itself.”  —RT BOOK REVIEWS