Cal McDonald Mystery Series by Steve Niles, Ashley Wood

A hardboiled horror novel featuring two-fisted occult detective, Cal McDonald -- a gumshoe with no love for ghosts and ghouls alike... moreA hardboiled horror novel featuring two-fisted occult detective, Cal McDonald -- a gumshoe with no love for ghosts and ghouls alike. Featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Ashley Wood, this high-caliber conjuring of classic detective fiction, horror, and comedy finds McDonald (a tough-as-nails private dick in the same vein as Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe) stumbling on a mystery in the nation's capital, where people are dropping dead all over the place -- with all the brain matter missing from their skulls! What follows makes this novel a monster read. less

Cal McDonald and Mo'Lock are back in the sequel to Savage Membrane, and this time they're in Los Angeles and up to their nostrils in monsters and trouble! It will take more than a bottle of hooch and a loaded .45 to get Cal out of this mess.

A collection of Cal McDonald short stories, written by Cal's creator, Steve Niles. When monsters, freaks and ghouls stalk L.A., it's up to hard-boiled private eye Cal McDonald to send them back where they belong.Featuring illustrations by a variety of comics luminaries.

The world has two faces. The natural and the supernatural. Cal McDonald is a detective with one foot in the real world, and one in the world of magic. For Cal, the horrors we all dream about in the fevered darkness of the night are all too real, kept at bay through an almost constant influx of drugs to numb the pain, but never erase it.