Primordial Soup Kitchen: A Collection of Short Strangeness (Unabridged‪)‬

Thirteen weird and wondrous tales populate this anthology by the author of the AIRSHIP DAEDALUS pulp adventure series. Spanning a 30-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 Downing's 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 and 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.