Stories from Celtic Lands

Here are stories new and old, traditional and modern, tall tales and real history, poems and stories as told by storyteller Gary Blaine Randolph in his performances. In these stories you will travel with Gary around Ireland and Scotland, experience the myths and legends, and jump back into history to meet Robert the Bruce, Grace O'Malley, the Black Douglas, Alice Kyteler, and more. You'll find fun stories for young children and gory tales to startle even grownups.

"Gary Randolph is a delightful storyteller whose love of all things Irish and Scottish shines through in this collection of stories and poems."

"Gary Randolph does an excellent job of transporting the reader to another time, another land."

"Good Author and Storyteller"

A Town Called Potato

It's Sam Spade meets Men in Black...
It's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Agatha Christie…
It's a mash-up of comedy sci-fi and murder mystery, a Space Noir Murder Comedy.

A hard-boiled computer professional is plucked from the mean streets of Indianapolis. Well okay, Indianapolis streets aren’t really that mean. They can be rough, though. Especially during pothole season, which lasts about six months from mid-winter to whenever the city’s new budget year kicks in.
Anyway, this guy is plucked and swept up into a web of interstellar crime when he is recruited into the Galactic Detective Agency. Can a mere Earthling track a killer across the stars before more lives are lost? Can he negotiate his way around other worlds and understand the ways of extra-terrestrial cultures? Can he even figure out how to use a bathroom designed for aliens? And can he uncover the mystery of A Town Called Potato?

"Read this and laugh."

Alien World

Marooned on an alien planet -- Earth!

It was an amazing scientific discovery. There could be no mistaking the radio signals. Intelligent life existed on another planet. And though the journey to this planet called Earth would take decades, there was so much they could learn from going there. But then things went terribly wrong when their ship crash landed on Earth. Now the lone survivor is stranded there, forced to live out decades on an alien world. Can he navigate Earth culture and pass himself off as an Earthling without making mistakes that would give away his secret? Can he evade the American Air Force that is hunting him? And can he ever get back home again?

"Bold narrative from an alien point of view."

The Ghost in the Wormhole

Nick Doyle has seen it all as a paranormal investigator. At least he thought he had. But he was not prepared for what would happen when a wormhole opened showing the specter of a ghost. Can Nick, his clients, and two physics grad students change the past to keep a death from occurring? Or will malevolent spirits and the laws of physics conspire to do them all in? Call it a sci-fi ghost story or call it a tale of paranormal physics. But when these worlds collide, anything can happen.

"Where science meets the supernatural."