Books by Marlene Pardo Pellicer

Her name is Ema, The Walker Between the Worlds. In the Supernatural Underworld she is known as The Lady in Red, or if you were a vampire being hunted by her The Lady of Blood. For hundreds of years she's fought every hellish creature that's crawled out of the The Pit, especially those that hide among humans using them as avatars. Her allies are few, like the sometimes treacherous members of the Sempiterno Apostasy. Still in mourning over the death of her last sentient avatar Mort, she is approached by one who is running from a childhood encounter with the darkest Evil as he tries to unravel the mystery of his brother's murder. When the danger to your body and soul hangs in the balance, who better than a fierce warrior who is the bane of Hell to be your bodyguard?

This novella fills in a pocket of time for our heroine Ema, when she arrives in New Orleans in 1798, after battling dark beings in France during the last decade of the century as the streets ran red with blood from Madame Guillotine. However, otherworldly creatures are found in both the Old World and the New World, as well as treacherous humans. Who is an ally and who is an enemy, not everyone or everything is what they appear.

California 1870, a tall stranger named Mort Peccatum meets a mendicant friar escorting a companion in holy orders that carries an ancient relic recovered from the jungles of British Honduras. He is tasked as a sentinel to guard the man and what he carries in a stained satchel to the burgeoning, vice-ridden city of San Francisco. There are many who await the arrival of the reliquary recognizing the power it contains. Among them are wealthy entrepreneurs, necromancers who practice the darkest arts, and Ema The Walker Between the Worlds. She is the only one that is able to send it to a place where it cannot be placated with blood sacrifices. The forces of Good and Evil square off in the fog dense nights of San Francisco, where unknown creatures for both factions war against each other to claim victory. The prize: the lives of innumerable human beings.

Her name is Ema, The Walker Between the Worlds. In the Supernatural Underworld she is known as The Lady in Red, or if you were a vampire being hunted by her The Lady of Blood. For hundreds of years she's fought every hellish creature that's crawled out of the The Pit, especially those that hide among humans using them as avatars. Her allies are few, like the sometimes treacherous members of the Sempiterno Apostasy. Still in mourning over the death of her last sentient avatar Mort, she is approached by one who is running from a childhood encounter with the darkest Evil as he tries to unravel the mystery of his brother's murder. When the danger to your body and soul hangs in the balance, who better than a fierce warrior who is the bane of Hell to be your bodyguard?

The Old West was known for its gunslingers, lawmen and of course, the soiled doves that made a living in the many brothels that were found in all the frontier and mining towns, which were established to entertain all the tough men that flocked to these lawless places. It's not surprising that many of these ladies do not lie quietly in their graves. Many of them died suddenly and violently at the hands of lovers and customers, others faded into obscurity and old age seeking solace at the bottom of a bottle, and others ultimately found a way to live their lives on their own terms.

You have a ghost, now what? A noise in the dead of night, the sound of rustling from the closet, a cold chill in the air followed by a feeling of being watched. Are you being haunted? You scroll through the Rolodex of your memory for the name of a real estate agent, or wonder what reason you will give your landlord for breaking the lease. Before you decide anything drastic, remember that when it comes to the supernatural, knowledge is your most powerful ally and the solution might be simpler than you think. Supernatural Safety is a guide to understanding ghosts. What they are and what they are not, and how to handle phenomena that you suspect has an otherworldly origin. This includes tips of what to do before you move into a new home, and what to do when you are moving out and you want to make sure nothing follows you to your new house.

The observation that art imitates life is never more accurate than events that seemed ripped from the pages of the most lurid pulp fiction novel. Unlike the movies where the siren and the gumshoe share a passionate kiss and the scene fades out, these twelve, true stories expose the darkness of the human heart, whether motivated by hate, love or expediency; there is no happy ending to be found.

In 1929, Mrs. Joseph Hunt along with her husband were enjoying the soon ending summer days. They lived in Detroit but were motoring along a road in Illinois. Their car bumped on the road, and they pulled over on Highway 7. As her husband labored to change a flat tire, Mrs. Hunt saw something inside a new burlap bag; a wire tied it shut. She stifled a scream when they discovered a woman's nude body in a sitting position inside it. A 40-pound rock had been placed on top of her. Like a car wreck that repels but attracts you at the same time, these stories detail the descent into madness, revenge and obsession the human psyche is capable of. Sometimes justice is served, or in other instances, anonymity of the victim and the killer are the only answers provided. Disturbing but true, these slices of life in America during the early to mid to 20th century go beyond the idyllic setting of the white picket fence where everyone lives happily ever after.

In 1997, a security guard making his rounds in the empty New Amsterdam Theater felt a prickle up his neck and turned around. He didn't expect to see a woman wearing a green shimmery dress in a 1920s style, sporting a flashy necklace. She held a flask in her hand. In the ultimate exit, she blew him a kiss and disappeared into a wall onto 41st Street. Some believe the flirtatious phantom is the beautiful Olive Thomas, the Follies beauty who died in agony at the height of her fame. Many of the lovelies who came to work for Flo Ziegfeld, found that fame was fleeting, and ended their days in poverty or premature death; so many of them came to this end that there were whispers of a curse. It could be said they were haunted. These are some of their stories played out in the tumultuous and heady days of the Jazz Era and Prohibition.