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Something Happened to Grandma

Liz’s new true-crime book is now available for the Kindle, the Nook, and all other electronic formats.

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York’s Moon

When a dead guy falls off the train just yards from Yorktown, a hobo camp near West Wheaton, California, all manner of forces begin to collide.

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Hardcoverand Kindle editions available

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Candyland

Two damaged people cling together for safety only to discover that safety does not mean security. A short novel charting the dark psychological landscape of love twisted by solitude.

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This short novel is available in the collection The Alchemy of Love or as a stand-alone book on Kindle.

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When Darkness Loves Us

Two chilling tales.

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Now available on the Kindle,
in Paperback,
and in audio

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The Northwoods Chronicles

Available everywhere!

Read an excerpt.

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Lizzie Borden

At long last,
Lizzie Borden is now available for the Kindle, the Nook and in all electronic formats.


Must have been one hell of a pressure cooker those Bordens lived in, wouldn't you say? Uncommunicative, irritable, jealous, claustrophobic, lusty, intriguing. Something had to give, someone had to crack, something had to... spurt... on that hot August day.

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Available on Kindleor in Paperback

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Black Leather

A dark, erotic thriller

It all starts with two blonde sisters, one black husband, and one murdered Navajo.

ISBN 0-9716638-5-8 - $16.95

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Suspicions

Twenty-five stories of the dark, the disturbing, the haunting, the sexy.

Her favorites, hand picked from her archives.

"This is where she's at her best."—Locus

$16.95 - ISBN 0-9666272-9-6
Published in French by Editions du Masque

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Lizard Wine

Three down-on-their-luck buddies spend their last money on gin and head into the mountains on an ill-equipped, spur of the moment camping trip. Confined to the car by the October weather, they begin to reveal themselves to each other, discovering that perhaps they're not such tight friends after all.

ISBN 0-9666272-1-0

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Unfortunately, Lizard Wine is out of print. Please check with your local and online used book stores for a copy.

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Word by Word

by John Tullius & Elizabeth Engstrom and the Presenters of the Maui Writers Conference

The World’s Finest Writers Share The Secrets of Their Success

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A Writers House Book
ISBN 0-9666272-6-1
$19.95

Available in Paperback

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Black Ambrosia

Young Angelina Watson packs a backpack and heads out on her own, knowing that there is something a little bit different about her. Through her extraordinary travels and the strange things teenage girls can talk themselves into, Angelina believes herself to be a vampire. more . . .

Unfortunately, Black Ambrosia is currently out of print. Search online and local used bookstores (Paperback 1986, Tor; Available in Spanish as El Elixir Negro by Ediciones Martinez Roca, Barcelona).

Available in Paperback

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The Alchemy of Love

A collaborative endeavor between artist ALAN M. CLARK and author ELIZABETH ENGSTROM, this volume fictionalizes the idealization of romantic love and how it translates to the reality of human experience. A volume of eight pieces of fiction and eight paintings, Engstrom "literates" four of Clark's disturbing and surreal works of art, while Clark illustrates four of Engstrom's dark and haunting stories. Introduction by Jack Ketchum.

"Crosley," a short story contained in this volume was included in The Thirteenth Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow.

ISBN 0966627229 - $49.95

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Nightmare Flower

(Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. Hardcover 1992, Tor; Audio 1995, Books in Motion)

An eclectic collection of short fiction, some original, most previously published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Horror Show, American Fantasy Magazine, etc. Eighteen short stories, a novella and a short novel. Some horror, some science fiction, most psychologically twisted, all strange.

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Unfortunately, Nightmare Flower is currently out of print. Search online or local used bookstores.

Available in Hardcover

IMAGINATION FULLY DILATED

The Literated Works of Alan M. Clark.

Edited by Elizabeth Engstrom and Alan M. Clark.

Available in Hardcover

IMAGINATION FULLY DILATED, VOL. 2

Ditto the above times two - Edited by Elizabeth Engstrom.

DEAD on DEMAND

The Best of Ghost Story Weekend

An anthology of ghost stories from the participants in Liz's renown annual ghost story workshop. Edited by Elizabeth Engstrom.

Available in Paperback

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MOTA 9: Addiction

An anthology of fine fiction. Coming in 2009. Edited by Elizabeth Engstrom.

Available on Kindle