Michael Panushhide bio
 Author has written 45 stories for Western, Fantasy, Thriller, Horror, Historical, Supernatural, Action, and Sci-Fi. My name is Michael, I live in California, and I read anything with words on it. I've written a great deal of stories of varying qualities, and I have wrangled a publishing deal with a magazine and several websites. Also, I'm have self-published my longest and most popular work -- Clark Reeper Tales. You can buy it now on Amazon. It's fully edited and excellently illustrated. Check out the facebook for sample illustrations and further updates. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1256628728&ref=profile Also go to my website to see interviews, upcoming events and all things Clark Reeper. Happy Trails! Also, several of my works are soon to be published by Curiosity Quills! http:///published-authors/michael-panush/ Stein and Candle Detective Agency, Vol. 1: American Nightmares is available here: http:///Stein-Candle-Detective-Agency-ebook/dp/B007IOH42S?SubscriptiAKIAIBH5FS2SQX4DCCJQ&tag=curioquill-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007IOH42S Stay tuned for more updates! Vol. 2: Cold Wars is here: http:///gp/product/B008E95C6G/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1KWV7Z1FP28Z9FP5H3PX&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846 Dinosaur Jazz, my novel of the Jurassic Club is here: http:///Dinosaur-Jazz-Jurassic-Club-ebook/dp/B008BK2EXW/ref=pd_sim_sbs_kstore_2 |
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Steele City reviews
In the Jazz Age Metropolis of Steele City, humans and robots live side by side in an automated world. Steele City includes the Iron and Glass Detective Agency, made up of Zero Deuce, the world's only robot detective, his boy genius creator and a sharp-tongued, blue-blooded flapper secretary. They solve mechanical mysteries in a world of crime, gangsters, robots, and mad science.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Crime - Chapters: 73 - Words: 730,245 - Reviews: 25 - Favs: 19 - Follows: 11 - Updated: 5/19/2014 - Published: 12/6/2012
Brass Moustache reviews
Bartholomew Brass is the only automaton in the US Marshal Service - a Civil War-era metal man taking up the brass badge, in an Old West changed forever by advanced technology. From frontiers packed with rogue contraptions to big cities teeming with the nightmares of the Industrial Age, Bat Brass faces them all - with twin revolvers and a polished brass moustache.
Fiction: Western - Rated: K+ - English - Western/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 21 - Words: 220,923 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 4/14/2014 - Published: 6/18/2013 - Complete
Cavern Kings
Shadowturn Peak is home to the richest mines in the Iron States - but untold dangers rest under the earth, as well as above it. Industrial greed, underground monsters, and outlaw gangs pack the mountain, as well as Horace Kettle, war veteran and independent delver. Kettle and his friends deal with Shadowturn Peak's dangers as they try to find fortunes amidst subterranean danger.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 2 - Words: 21,755 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 2/7/2014 - Published: 1/24/2014 - Complete
Astro-A-Go-Go reviews
In a retro future, Violet Starr is a jet-setting Space Age superspy in a universal Cold War between the imperialist Terran Alliance and the alien Star Union. Along with her loyal crew of cyborgs and aliens, she'll experience ray gun action, psychedelic spy-fi and espionage on a galactic scale - all while trying to find some trace of humanity in a dark universe.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 2 - Words: 18,525 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Updated: 11/4/2012 - Published: 9/30/2012 - Complete
Dante Domino, Ultrathief
In a spy-fi world where shadowy espionage agencies rule the world, Dante Domino was a stylish criminal. Now, he's finding himself obsolete, with a divorced wife, a young son and a decaying reputation. The world's moved on - but Dante isn't retiring yet.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Crime - Chapters: 8 - Words: 69,905 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 7/27/2012 - Published: 5/23/2012
Lunatic Agent reviews
The wizards, alchemists and natural philosophers fled from and earth and created a new world-a world of magic-on the moon. Fredrick Frost is an agent-for-hire on this violent and strange world, home to monsters, crime and magic - the Lunatic Kingdom.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 8 - Words: 64,810 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 6/25/2012 - Published: 3/29/2012 - Complete
Blackwood Preserve reviews
Welcome to the Blackwood National Wildlife Preserve - the only place in the world where monsters are allowed to run free. Werner Von Glave is a park ranger patrolling this unique place, dealing with dragons, poachers, criminals, tourists and more.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,033 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: 5/9/2012
Horrorwood PI reviews
Dwight Harrow is a patchwork man, made from corpses by the Nazis during WWII. After breaking free in the war, he becomes an occult detective to the stars in the Freewheeling Fifties, in a haunted Hollywood where ghouls and glamour mix with Crime Noir.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Crime - Chapters: 32 - Words: 220,445 - Reviews: 22 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 2/19/2012 - Published: 7/9/2011 - Complete
Voyages of Sebastian Foxfire, Gentleman Pirate reviews
Sebastian Foxfire is a rogue adventurer in the Caribbean, the scion of a family of occultists who turned against his own blood. Now he encounters monsters and magic in his piratical quest for more wealth in these swashbuckling tales of arcane adventure.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 3 - Words: 25,750 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Updated: 2/10/2012 - Published: 11/2/2011 - Complete
Black Bureau reviews
In the 1950s, the US creates the Black Bureau to handle extraterrestrial threats. The two fields agents? Sober G-Man Rexford Gray and decadent Ex-Nazi Rudolf Von Voltz. Together, they take on aliens, spies, mad scientists, ancient conspiracies and more.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 4 - Words: 21,118 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 2 - Updated: 1/16/2012 - Published: 1/12/2012 - Complete
Ray Gun PI
Gabriel Starr is a hardboiled cyborg turned detective. Along with his secretary, Betty, he runs a detective agency in Tomorrow City, a retro-futuristic world of alien gangsters, beautiful dames, and blazing ray guns in a mix of sci-fi and crime noir.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Crime/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 2 - Words: 20,762 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 11/20/2011 - Published: 11/12/2011 - Complete
Starr and Temple Detective Agency reviews
Gabriel Starr is a hardboiled former Planetary Marine turned cyborg detective. Philo Temple is a child genius who helped build him. Together, they form a detective agency in a retro-futuristic world of alien gangsters, beatiful dames, and blazing ray guns
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Crime - Chapters: 9 - Words: 100,541 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 7/27/2011 - Published: 3/17/2011 - Complete
Adventures in the Oddest Sea: Rising Tides reviews
The Oddest Sea is a world of nautical legend, pirates, intrigue and magic. Retired Pirate Captain Absalom Morrow and his crew are forced into another voyage, to stop an arcane order from unleashing a sleeping god, which threatens the entire Oddest Sea.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 12 - Words: 101,282 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 7/21/2011 - Published: 4/18/2011
Professor Orestes Coyle and his Miraculous Oils reviews
Professor Orestes Coyle is a traveling snake oil salesman, but he's more than just a con artist. Coyle's adventures take him throughout the Wild West. Clever, mysterious and greedy, Coyle has to rely on his potions to suceed in these Western adventures.
Fiction: Western - Rated: K+ - English - Western/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,847 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/30/2011 - Complete
Stein and Muldoon Adventures reviews
Elijah Stein is the youngest son and heir to the greatest wizard of Europe. Fitzgerald Muldoon is a highlander and redcoat hired as the boy's bodyguard. Together, they adventure in a world of magic, pirates, monsters at the Dawn of the Age of Reason.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,714 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: 4/3/2011 - Complete
Scullions and Flagons A Cooking Adventure reviews
Sebastian Slattery is a chef and adventurer at the begining of his career. Starting from nothing, he will travel across the world, gain exotic ingredients and recipes, and finally forge his own culinary empire. His story is one of magic, monsters and food
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,752 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 1/12/2011 - Complete
The Governess reviews
Minerva Underhill is the daughter of England's greatest ghost-breaker and its greatest explorer. She learned well from them. Now, as the governess to the young Runtle children, she'll have to use every skill she has to stay alive and keep her charges safe
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 11 - Words: 96,228 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 11/11/2010 - Published: 3/6/2010 - Complete
Cooper Grey, Ape Adventurer reviews
Cooper Grey II is an intelligent gorilla turned globe-trotting adventurer. Along with his friends, He fights for peace against the Third Reich, explores ancient ruins and exotic locales, and works for the good of humanity in the wild years of the 1930s.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 8 - Words: 93,025 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 3 - Updated: 11/5/2010 - Published: 8/7/2010 - Complete
Lunatic Kingdoms reviews
At the dawn of the Enlightenment Age, the alchemists, wizards and magic creatures of the earth made a new home on the Moon, where they dwell and continue delving into the occult. Quincy Quill is an apprentice for hire, working in these Lunatic Kingdoms.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 2 - Words: 16,699 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 4 - Updated: 11/1/2010 - Published: 10/18/2010 - Complete
Elf Cops reviews
In the floating mechanical city of New Zephyr, Kintinorous Kope is a rookie detective who happens to be a gnome. He's partnered up with Quelvelas, a crazy elf with a penchant for violence. They fight crime in a world of gangs, magic, tech and violence.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Crime - Chapters: 9 - Words: 82,800 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 5 - Updated: 10/26/2010 - Published: 7/12/2010 - Complete
Detechtive Robot reviews
I. Ron Ops is an Artificial Private Investigator, a robot created to be the ultimate hardboiled shamus. I. Ron works in Space Station Omega, a floating world of vice and crime, and he'll need more than metal to suceed in a world of dames, aliens and more.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Crime/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 17 - Words: 155,014 - Reviews: 30 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 10/7/2010 - Published: 2/5/2010 - Complete
Modern Crones reviews
Dorcus Oakshire and her three friends are immortal witches in modern day New York. Unfortunately, witchcraft has turned them into ugly crones. Warts and black magic make romance hard. Their friendship and their magic is all they have in the modern world.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Humor - Chapters: 4 - Words: 36,726 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 5 - Updated: 8/10/2010 - Published: 7/4/2010 - Complete
The Long Ride of the Van Wessel Gang reviews
Nero Van Wessel is an upper class son of privilege turned outlaw, with his kid brother in tow and a gang at his call. Joined by a mad scientist, an Irish sharpshooter and an aging owlhoot, he'll take on any target to rob his way across the Wild West.
Fiction: Western - Rated: K+ - English - Western/Crime - Chapters: 3 - Words: 28,349 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 5/17/2010 - Published: 5/1/2010 - Complete
Arkham Academy reviews
In the Great Depression, 12-year-old Hubert Huxley's family has moved to the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. But it soon becomes apparent that Arkham is a haven for flesh-hungry monsters, eldritch horrors, and the deranged cults intent of releasing them.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Horror - Chapters: 21 - Words: 166,871 - Reviews: 89 - Favs: 18 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 3/30/2010 - Published: 9/9/2009 - Complete
Icarus Swift, Natural Philosopher reviews
It is the Age of Reason and young Felix Hawthorne is the apprentice to Icarus Swift, the last of the wizards known as Natural Philosophers. Along with Icarus's pet bear and homunculus manservant, they'll travel across the world and magic will follow them.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 7 - Words: 68,784 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 1/15/2010 - Published: 12/5/2009 - Complete
Slick McCool's Grindhouse Theatre reviews
Slick McCool is a warrior mystic walking the earth during the height of the 70s. He's got the weapons, he's got the threads, and he's got an attitude to match! The mob, zombies, otherworldly terrors, bikers, and worse - none stand a chance against McCool!
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 13 - Words: 129,133 - Reviews: 19 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 1/12/2010 - Published: 2/6/2009 - Complete
Culpug the Cavelord's Primal Tales reviews
In the brutal prehistory of man, ferocious dinosaurs and cannibal tribes filled harsh deserts, deep jungles, and great mountains with blood and chaos, and only the warrior's red spear ruled! Read on and discover violent tales from beyond the dawn of time!
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 5 - Words: 22,997 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 12/13/2009 - Published: 10/5/2009 - Complete
Astronoir reviews
Gabriel Starr is marshine runner, running booze to powerful galactic crime lords in a future that mixes the ray guns and rocket ships of Buck Rogers with the hardboiled edge of noir, with green-skinned dames, Bug-Eyed Aliens, atomic tommy guns and more.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 3 - Words: 14,245 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 10/26/2009 - Published: 10/17/2009 - Complete
Clark Reeper Tales reviews
Clark Reeper is a bounty hunter specializing in the occult, the odd, and the just plain weird. A series of standalone stories, one per chapter, in roughly chronological order, with the fourth one being the shortest. Now a published book, get it online!
Fiction: Western - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 60 - Words: 597,211 - Reviews: 122 - Favs: 63 - Follows: 14 - Updated: 9/17/2009 - Published: 4/17/2007 - Complete
The Strange Voyages of the Rogue's Pleasure reviews
Being the True Account of the Fortunes and Adventures of the Rogue's Pleasure, a Pyrate Vessel captained by Sullivan Dice, during the Golden Age of Pyracy, and the Oddities, Villains and Treasures encountered by the wild the Sea-Rovers that crewed Her.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 30 - Words: 325,641 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 9/6/2009 - Published: 9/23/2008 - Complete
Friends of Clark Reeper reviews
On his countless adventures, Clark Reeper has met a variety of wild, villainous and heroic people. Characters like reformed Satanic gunslinger Brimstone Brown, midget outlaw Little Napoelon and scout and wild woman Jennifer Chaos. These are their stories.
Fiction: Western - Rated: K - English - Western/Adventure - Chapters: 7 - Words: 97,890 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 5 - Updated: 7/10/2009 - Published: 7/29/2008 - Complete
Green Family Adventures reviews
Charles Green is a reporter in the 1920s and 30s, joined by his wife Catherine, young son Oswald and their new bodyguard Mulligan, in their travels around the globe. Thrill to the exploits of the intrepid Green Family in the ultimate pulp adventure!
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 9 - Words: 110,815 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 3 - Updated: 6/19/2009 - Published: 1/27/2009 - Complete
Hell on Rails reviews
The Van Wessel Brothers and Doc Torrent from Clark Reeper Tales are pitted against Judas the Chew Chew Train from the story 'A Train to Nowhere' in a deadly battle! A Clark Reeper Cross-Over Special featuring the twisted creations of Jave Harron!
Fiction: Western - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Western - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,121 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 5 - Published: 3/27/2009 - Complete
The Voyages of Captain Sullivan Dice reviews
Sullivan Dice is a bucanneer captain without a ship or a crew, who hires himself, his cutlass, and his knowledge of the wierd and occult to the highest bidder-all to win glory, rum and wenches while battling against unearthly forces of the deep.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 5 - Words: 30,566 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 7/28/2008 - Published: 6/18/2008 - Complete
The Fastest Blade in the West reviews
Clark Reeper, steely gunman of the Clark Reeper Tales, and Max Rossiter, Blue-Eyed Samurai of the epic Angelwing, team up in an amazing adventure of blasting lead and ringing steel, that will pit them against pirates, Japanese demons and more.
Fiction: Western - Rated: K+ - English - Western/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12,723 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 6 - Published: 3/25/2008 - Complete
The Dinoboys reviews
In a west that never was, dinosaurs rule the frontier. A drive of triceratops along the Chisolm trail is disturbed by storm, forcing several Dinoboys deep into the desert. They'll encounter ferocious dinosaurs and worse men on the way back home.
Fiction: Western - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,820 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 11/28/2007 - Complete
Stinky Smits Tells It Like It Is reviews
The Infamous Soap Swindle is pulled off by Stinky Smits. Wittness the All American Frontier Capitalism. Please Read and Review.
Fiction: Western - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 541 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 8/19/2007 - Complete
Indian Ants reviews
A deadly Scythian warrior is hired to wipe out an insect infestation of massive proportions by a greedy Greek merchant. Based on actual history, as recorded by Herodtodus! Please R and R.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,903 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: 8/6/2007 - Complete
Rough Rider reviews
In the 1850s, the Hollow Earth was discovered, and the conquest of this inner world was halted by the second discovery of a hostile race of giant insects called Undergoers. In the 1890s, Colonel Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Rough Riders battle the bugs.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,561 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/10/2007 - Complete
Sasquatch Flats reviews
When a small town discovers a troop of Bigfoot living in the nearby woods, they soon discover that sucess isn't what it seems and that the real beasts are the ones in the expensive suits. A dark tale of greed and cruelty.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,375 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5/16/2007 - Complete
Black Flag and the Bloody Baron reviews
Basil Flensky is the most feared of Nestor Makhno's anarchist followers. Betrayed by the Red Army, captured and beaten down in the gulags, he is forced to battle the insane Baron Roman Von Sternberg, selfstyled ruler of Mongolia and heir to Ghengis Khan.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,405 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 5/3/2007
Umberto Grisario’s Cannibal Apocalypse reviews
Umberto Grisaria is one Italy's premier film directors of seedy exploitation films in the late 1970s, but he gets more than he bargained for when he goes on location to South America to film his latest.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,443 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/2/2007 - Complete
Sanchez's Tigers reviews
Two hitmen in Colombia have an odd way of disposing of victims, using the abandoned mansion of a Latin American drug Lord. But in this assignment, things do not go as planned.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,410 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/29/2007 - Complete
That Damn Indian and the Ace of Blades reviews
A Tale of Mayhem and Murder in a Wild West that never was, an alternate reality where the Norse colonly of Vinland was successful and the frontier is still lawless as it ever was. Praise Odin and Pass the Ammunition!
Fiction: Western - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,464 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 4/18/2007 - Complete
The Big Squid
Manny Black, private detective in Pandemonium, the capital city of Hell, finds himself embroiled in a dangerous new assignment, with a beatiful dame, vicous bad guys, and a plot that could lead to war between hell and heaven.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,182 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/17/2007 - Complete