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These are stories about gangsters, bimbos, cons, cops, detectives, lovers, losers, platinum blondes, high heels, mink coats, and neon signs reflecting on rain-slicked streets.

Like a modern day Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders is five hours of humorous fantasy adventure. Metaphysical adventurer Jack Flanders discovers a green velvet overstuffed chair. Each night at the stroke of midnight, Jack sits in the soft, comfortable chair which comes alive, luring him onto its velvety realm. Everyday reality fades away, and Jack finds himself in a strange, other-world of magic, pirates, and sorcery where huge puffballs cling to ceilings and walls, masted sailing ships with wings fly the skies and islands float in the air…

Somewhere in the tropics, yet another beach resort is being built. As they bulldoze a road through a valley the locals consider sacred (the dwelling of a Nature Spirit), the jungle begins to spring up everywhere else. At Maria's Cafe', chairs are sprouting leaves, vines are creeping over the counter, and orchids are growing from the walls. Meanwhile, Jack, Mojo and Claudine are attempting to prove the Nature Spirit not only exists, she may have just begun to "even the score".

Fifty humorous little stories, inspired by Hollywood horror flicks, featurning werewolves, vampies, mummies, zombies, ghouls, and ghosts. But the writer, Meatball Fulton, has bent these in quite a different direction. Some of the titles speak for themselves: "Zombie Al's Big Night Out", "When the Wolf Woman Wets Her Whistle", "Loathsome Sally Under the Texas Moon", "Detective Barney Big Butt Meets Little Marvin the Midget", and 46 more.

When Jack Flanders came to Inverness and got into all kinds of jams, Little Frieda became his help-mate, keeping Jack alive as he hopefully learned one lesson or another. But here, guided by the wisdom of her ancestors, she finally lays it all out, tells it like it is. With music by Time Clark.

In a little theatre, off off off Broadway, Simon Gray is attempting to direct a production of Macbeth, but every actress who plays Witch #3 disappears. Simon calls in his old friend, Mojo Sam. When Mojo sees an actress vanish before his eyes, he brings in Little Frieda. When Little Frieda plays Witch #3, she also disappears. When she reappears in the Realm of the Muse, Little Frieda meets the real Witch #3, the one Shakespeare based his character on, and she is sizzling mad and out for revenge.

A strange velvet overstuffed chair is delivered to Jack's apartment. When he sits in the chair, sinking down through the soft cushions, he finds himself in a realm of pirates, sorcerers and three masted ships that fly the skies.

Joe and Moe are two guys sitting in a bar talking about women, cons, cops, capers and Lady Luck. Among their stories: "A Fine Lot of Lollipops": two punks make the mistake of hijacking a truck belonging to Big Louis; plus "The Lollipop King"; "Miracles and Wonder Bread", "Nina the Nudist", "Night Train to El Paso", "Don't Shoot Live Poets", "Life Dangling Lessons", "All Good Hoofers Go to Heaven"; and 13 more!

While Jack Flanders is scuba diving in the great barrier reef off Belize, he discovers a sunken pirate ship. On board are two skeletons poised as though playing chess, and every time he returns, the pieces have been moved. One of the pieces looks a lot like Jack.

Wherever Rodant Kapoor attempts to hide in this vast universe of ours, his Mother always find him. So when the Techno-Witches, Onoffon and Offonoff ask Kapoor to try out "The Rapturizer", a device they're invented that's based on "The Rapture" (where one ascends into Heaven), Kapoor gladly accepts. He steps into, "The Rapturizer", and Poof, Rodant is Rapturized! But Mother Kapoor, claiming she's about to kick the bucket, convinces Ruby, along with Teru & And/Or, to go after her wayward son.

Jack Flanders encounters trolls, wizards, and all sorts of odd mythical creatures when he explores the "Invisible Realms" in search of our future Ah-Ha's - those spontaneous flashes of insight that have caused great thinkers to leap to their feet and shout, "Ah-Ha!".

Gypsy Markoff, local psychic, advises New Age Nancy; Ducks Quakenbush woos the wealthy heiress, Penny Nickelson-Dimes; bookie Blue Jaw Magoon leans on ex-con Pipes Malone; mechanic Born Again Bily prays over Willie's carburetor; Donna Dollardaze, check-out clerk, meets the Mysterious Stranger; gallery owner Waspy Charmichael runs wild in the woods, and on it goes.... Life in small town America as seen through the eyes fo Meatball Fulton.

Jack Flanders and his crew sail to a mysterious island known as Key Diablo. When a fog moves in, all color seems to vanish, and everything turns into black and white. The islanders, dressed in clothes from the 1940s and '50s, appear to have stepped out of an old Hollywood film noir. And soon our heroes, Jack, Claudine, Mojo, Dominique, and Rose, find themselves playing characters that are dressed to kill.

People feel there's something "witchy" about Amy. She is tormented by an oval "light" that appears at random. Amy fled to Costa Rica, where she was born, but the light has reappeared. Jack and Mojo try to help, but something very powerful is happening, and it may be traced back to an old African god.

Invisible balls of energy are causing hallucinations within the walled city of Old Quebec. Jack and Mojo try to locate the source of these "eyes". When a little girl with pigtails, smoking a cigar, is seen about town, Jack suspects Litte Frieda is involved. When Jack speaks to Claudine on his cell, she appears before him; when he hangs up, she vanishes.

Jack and his crew accept an invitation from an eccentric billionaire who has built a castle on a Carribbean island. What first appears to be a replica of a medieval fortress turns out to be a very high tech castle, with robot valets, and rooms with floor-to-ceiling plasma screens. In the middle of the night, Jack's crew begins to encounter their own "personal demons", first in their dreams and then right before their eyes.

Here is the complete radio sci fi/fantasy series (except "Green Menace" and "Ah-Ha! Phenomena"), including such strange tales as: "The Thing That Ate Aunt Sophie", "The Tongue that Licked Tucson", "Boogie Woogie to the Stars", "Bobby Bonecutter and the Pink Pearl Erasers", "The Cheesemen of Mars", "Rocket Pierre and The Peanut People of Pluto", and about a dozen more.

Little Louie Lafitte discovers an old rusty streetcar in a New Orleans graveyard. The seats are occupied by skeletons wearing eye patches and bandannas. Suddenly, they emit a hair-raising, "Harr Harr!"

Little Louie, who is a direct descendent of the famous Pirates Lafitte, realizes the skeletons are itching for a good pirate adventure. And so, the ghostly streetcar creaks and groans out of the mist, picking up unsuspecting tourists. Good devilish fun for all ages.

From Rio de Janeiro, into the vast Amazon, Jack pursues a mysterious crystal skull. The author and composer recorded the music and sounds of Rio, and then flew into the dark heart of the Amazon to record the jungle sounds. Also featuring Mojo Sam.

Here are 50 short stories about investors in musicals, angels taking walks on the wild side, a man risking his life for a jelly donut, and much more.