THIRTEEN WEIRD AND WONDROUS TALES populate this anthology by the author of the Airship Daedalus pulp adventure series. Spanning a thirty-year catalog and often satirizing the 20th century ideal of the nuclear family and social mores, Primordial Soup Kitchen is a collection of the stranger side of Todd Downingʹs short fiction.

Automatons remember an idyllic past that never was.
Ghost hunters track a psychic vampire in 1920s San Francisco.
A family must come to grips with a terrible truth.
Rockabilly zombies cruise the American Southwest in a classic Cadillac.
A Harlem Hellfighter killed at the Western Front is reborn with strange powers.
Four kids investigate a strange disappearance in a small Oregon town in 1982.

With elements of horror, science fiction, adventure, humor and retro-futurism--each with an underlying dark streak--this collection is sure to entertain fans of the offbeat and macabre.

FOR MATURE READERS