Books By Charlie Etheridge-Nunn

Description: Is your super-powered child looking like they might become a threat and/or menace? Is your sidekick slacking? Is your deity depressed? Send them to Explosion High where our regimen of strict lessons, dinosaur attacks and [REDACTED] will get them into shape! Explosion High will make learning fun… and deadly!

Featuring three stupendous stories in 24 pulse-pounding pages written by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn drawn by an amazing array of artists! The Exploding Race drops the class into a race through a jungle infested with robots! Dinosaurs! Robot dinosaurs! And more! Art by Norrie Millar and colours by Faye Stacey! Bad Guy shows some of the people lost in the race facing the horrors of the jungle, and each other! Art by Debora Lancianese! The Faulty Stars gets the gang together at a party for everyone who survived finished the race! Art by Mike Armstrong and colours by Debora Lancianese! There’s also a one-page epilogue drawn and coloured by Russell Mark Olson, and the whole thing was lettered by the legend, Rob Jones!

Description: A superpowered soap opera.

Seventeen years ago today, a spaceship from a war-torn planet brought several families of aliens to Earth. They all lost loved ones and gained super powers. They also learnt to hide amongst humankind and blend in. A car crashes into Lena Parker, the sheltered and invulnerable daughter of the dead hero who brought the aliens to Earth. Former teenage runaway Luke Far returns to school for the first time. He crashes into a rival family, the eccentricities of the school and spontaneous bouts of invisibility. Then in the hospital, a man comatose for seventeen years stirs, watched by Kirsty Dwight, the black sheep of Fate Cove. When he wakes, the life these people made for themselves will never be the same.

Lightning is about people with powers and little or no responsibility. The OC with superpowers. An intergenerational Spaced. Teenagers who don’t know the impact their powers may have on the world around them and adults who haven’t grown up yet.

Lightning: Season One is a series of eight novellas with related free fiction at lightningtales.com.

Description: We live in our homes, safe in the knowledge that everything around us is exactly as it appears. Reality is rarely that kind though and sometimes we inherit the ghosts of former occupants, sometimes it’s something far worse. Cuckoo is a series of short stories about the malevolent things hidden in our attics, in the words we read, in the woods just out of town and buried far too shallow in our gardens.

In “Cuckoo” a break up leads to a flat with too many memories hidden in a hatch no one must go in. Paranoid, erratic behaviour from one flatmate leads another into an investigation into what’s in there and why it exists.

In “Do Not Read” people become fixated on the meaning of strange litter flooding the streets, not noticing the disappearances around them.

In “The Old Woods” folk tales and gossip from a small town in the middle of nowhere start to bleed into reality as people are called once more into the woods.

In “White Noise” the tenants of a new luxury apartment building uncover a strange device buried in their garden. All is not what it appears as characters forget about each others’ existence and the white noise in the building gets louder. Will they discover the threat under their noses in time? Will they discover that they even need saving?

Finally, once you are sated with horror, there is a brief respite in “The Cold Open” the opening scene from the upcoming season of novellas, “Lightning”. Discover the artificial beauty of Fate Cove, an eccentric island town hiding a community of super-powered people. Soap operatic hijinks ensue as the young and old alike have power, but no responsibility.