A three-book series written by Oscar De Los Santos and David G. Mead for an overseas publisher, INFINITE WONDERLANDS is now available in the United States in one volume! 

Infinite Wonderlands – UFO invasions, clone islands and radical physical makeovers!  Infinite Wonderlands – Top Secret mind experiments, phantom WWII armies and vintage fighter planes!  Infinite Wonderlands – Ruthless bike races and off-world competitors, space arks and onboard assassins, ocean worlds and bulbous thinking clouds!  Infinite Wonderlands – Time travel treks, Lost Vegas casinos, pornolympics, the resurrection of the King of Rock, and giant Jack Russell terriers!  Infinite Wonderlands – A cornucopia of the surreal and sober, the cosmic and comic!  Join Oscar De Los Santos and David G. Mead on a wild starship ride through Infinite Wonderlands – stories that deconstruct the past, scrutinize the present and project a multiplicity of extraordinary tomorrows.

Now Available: Order your copy from Amazon.com today!   Or get a signed copy here!

In 2002, Oscar and co-author JJ Sargent wrote a book that addresses a number of essential topics in the sciences for an international audience.  Questions of Science, Answers to Life explores a variety of science issues and offers a number of intriguing questions and solutions that are both intuitive and thought provoking.  Oscar's chapters include examinations of AIDS, cloning, nature vs. nurture, the human brain and memory, the birth of the universe and life on earth, dinosaur extinction theories, the ozone layer and air pollution, tornados and storm chasing, and black holes and worm holes.

Here’s a book with few boundaries – like the filmmakers it explores.  Reel Rebels features directors who have seldom walked the mainstream line – and when they do, it’s usually to make eating money and fund more of their own unique and often bizarre visions.  Included in this text are studies of David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.), Orson Welles (Touch of Evil), Jean Cocteau (Beauty and the Beast), Roger Corman (The Intruder), Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut), Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow), Jean Rollin (Shiver of the Vampires), Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects), Jane Campion (The Piano), and Jerry Lewis (The Day the Clown Cried).

Contributors joining me for this project include Thomas J. Morrissey, Kelly L. Goodridge, JJ Sargent, Kathy S. Davis, Tracie Church Guzzio, Lisa N. Edmonds D'Amico, and Lou Orfanella.

I believe Hemingway was right:  an author will never write the stories he talks about.

At the same time, I will say that I’m having a lot of fun writing this book with David G. Mead, my co-writer on Infinite Wonderlands 3.

If you’re into gritty horror with a strong dose of regionalism, this book is for you.  It’s set in South Texas and Mexico and it deals with, among other things, cannibalism, folk healers, Native American rituals, forensic pathologists, and modern day ghost busters – to say nothing of the crazy teenage kids tackling the mystery of eviscerated wildlife, cattle and humanity that descends upon their usually quiet border town. 

From time to time, I write a story that’s so disturbing I throw it into my Black Bouquet folder.  One of these days I’m going to roll these out for publication.  Stand by. 

Gulf View is a sprawling Victorian mansion that looks like it belongs in New England, not nestled in an isolated stretch of Texas beach near South Padre Island.  When a handsome Hollywood film director invites Mindy Sterling to move into Gulf View and tutor his two teenaged children, she readily accepts his offer.  After all, it seems like the perfect way to spend the summer as she awaits a permanent American literature teaching position.  Between lessons, Mindy spends her time exploring a possible connection between her dead mother’s murky past and Gulf View.  The great mansion has a long and troubled history.  Most recently it was used as a “home for wayward girls” by a disturbed preacher and his sadistic wife.  Mindy soon discovers that a dark presence still resides at Gulf View – a force which entices with avarice and lust before consuming its prey.  Before long, she is convinced that someone – or something – wants her dead.  No one believes her.  Not her boss and his children.  Not her ex-boyfriend.  Not even the attractive law enforcement officer who befriends her.  Instead, everyone questions her sanity, leaving Mindy to wonder if her ideal summer job has turned into a deathtrap.