Strange Tales of the Ironic and Eclectic
A new and unique collection of original fictional short stories by a Pittsburgh area author was published on February 25, 2016 by Black Rose Writing of Castroville, Texas. Strange Tales of the Ironic and Eclectic includes a short story The Manuscript of Adrian Hobart that was dramatized on British Broadcasting World Service Radio’s Short Story Program and also published in the Troy University publication Copper Blade Review (Volume 9, 2004). It also contains sixteen other short stories that transport the reader to old England, beyond the casket, into an abandoned cemetery, an old raunchy tenement, and into bad mugger’s neighborhoods. The reader will be thrilled, chilled, and maybe even scared while reading the collection of well-written short stories in the tradition of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and similar. This is the second of three book by Len Steiner. His first novel titled Climb Up the Steel Mountain is a fictional medical novel about a young man who struggles to become a prominent cardiac surgeon and encounters many obstacles while climbing the steel mountain to attain his goal. Len has also completed a third novel (“Days of Sand and Royals”) about his experiences working 14 years in Saudi Arabia for US companies and the Saudi Royal Family. Len is a former resident of Leetsdale, PA in the Pittsburgh area and graduated from Leetsdale High School (now Quaker Valley HS). He is also a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is a 21-year veteran of the United States Air Force who served during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He worked in technical management positions in Saudi Arabia for thirteen years. He has written articles for newspapers and magazines and also worked as a Technical Writer.
About Len Steiner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Author)
Leonard (Len) Steiner Sr. was born in Cleveland, OH where he attended Catholic and Public schools; He moved to Leetsdale, PA near Pittsburgh and graduated from Leetsdale High School that is now Quaker Valley High School. He served in the US Air Force in technical positions for 21 years and retired in Niceville, Florida. He graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a degree in Business Management and Economics and the University of West Florida for the Masters of Business Administration. He worked as a Radar Marketing Representative and Department Head of the Technical Writing Department of Vitro Services Corporation in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Later, he worked for Lockheed Corporation in Saudi Arabia for eight years as a Communications-Electronics Engineer, Site Manager, and General Manager for the Royal Saudi Air Force Air Defense Program. He returned to Saudi Arabia and the same program as General Manager for Grumman Technical Services and remained as the Program Director during the First Gulf War. He worked for the US Army as a Senior Technical Writer at Anniston Army Depot, AL and wrote official army maintenance and overhaul manuals for the M1A1 Abrams Tank, and Laboratory Facilities. He worked at Maxwell AFB, AL as a Researcher in the Global War on Terrorism Information Office at the US Air Force Historical Research Agency. He was a volunteer Managing Editor in Dothan, AL. of The Senior Informer, a quarterly newsletter for senior citizens. He is the author of short stories and one of them, The Manuscript of Adrian Hobart, was broadcast on the British Broadcasting Company’s Short Story Program. And it was also published in the Troy University (AL) literary publication, Copper Plate Review.
