by Greg "The Undead Rat" on January 2, 2009
Did you know that your local Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library and her branches have an assortment of books on writing? They have books on writing reports and term papers, books on writing articles and biographies and my favorite books on writing fiction and genre fiction. Such as the book below.
On Writing Horror |
On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association
Editor: Castle, Mort
Author: The Members of the Horror Writers Association
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Nonfiction
Page Count: 272pp.
Pub. Date: November 18, 2006
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Website: The Horror Writers Association Website
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The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all!
 In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories.
Edited by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), a worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting dark literature, On Writing Horror includes exclusive information and guidance from 58 of the biggest names in horror writing to give you the inspiration you need to start scaring and exciting readers and editors. You’ll discover comprehensive instruction such as:
- The art of crafting visceral violence, from Jack Ketchum
- Why horror classics like Dracula, The Exorcist, and Hell House are as scary as ever, from Robert Weinberg
- Tips for avoiding one of the biggest death knells in horror writing — predicable cliches — from Ramsey Campbell
- How to use character and setting to stretch the limits of credibility, from Mort Castle
With On Writing Horror, you can unlock the mystery surrounding classic horror traditions, revel in the art and craft of writing horror, and find out exactly where the genre is going next. Learn from the best, and you could be the next best-selling author keeping readers up all night long.
Table of Contents:
- Part One: Horror, Literature and Horror Literature
- The Madness of Art by Joyce Carol Oates
- Acceptance Speech: The 2003 National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by Stephen King
- Why We Write Horror by Michael McCarty
- Part Two: An Education in Horror
- What You Are Meant to Know: Twenty-One Horror Classics by Robert Weinberg
- Avoiding What’s Been Done to Death by Ramsey Campbell
- Workshops of Horror (and Seminars and Conferences) by Tom Monteleone
- Degrees of Dread: Horror in Higher Education by Michael A. Arnzen
- Part Three: Developing Horror Concepts
- A World of Dark and Disturbing Ideas by J. N. Williamson
- Mirror, Mirror by Wayne Allen Sallee
- Going There: Three Strategies for Writing the Things that Scare You by Michael Marano
- Honest Lies and Darker Truths: History and Horror Fiction by Richard Gilliam
- Part Four: Horror Crafting
- Such Horrible People by Tina Jens
- A Hand on the Shoulder by Joe R. Lansdale
- Eerie Events and Horrible Happenings: Plotting Short Horror Fiction by Nicholas Kaufmann
- Reality and the Waking Nightmare by Mort Castle
- “He Said?” She Asked: Some Thoughts About Dialogue by David Morrell
- Keep it Moving Maniacs: Writing Action Scenes in Horror Fiction by Jay R. Bonansinga
- The Dark Enchantment of Style by Bruce Holland Rogers
- Part Five: Horror, Art, Innovation, Excellence
- Innovation in Horror by Jeanne Cavelos
- Depth of Field: Horror and Literary Fiction by Nick Mamatas
- Splat Goes the Hero: Visceral Horror by Jack Ketchum
- Darkness Absolute: The Standards of Excellence in Horror Fiction by Douglas E. Winter
- On Horror: A Conversation With Harlan Ellison by Richard Gilliam
- Part Six: Tradition and Modern Times
- No More Silver Mirrors: The Monster in Our Times by Karen E. Taylor
- Fresh Blood From Old Wounds: The Alchemist Meets the Biochemist by Joseph Curtin
- More Simply Human by Tracy Knight
- The Possibility of the Impossible by Tom Piccirilli
- Take a Scalpel to Those Tropes by W. D. Gagliani
- That Spectred Isle: Tradition, Sensibility, and Delivery or Ghosts? What Ghosts? by Steven Savile
- New Horrors: A Roundtable Discussion of Horror Today and Tomorrow by Joe Nassise (Moderator)
- Part Seven: Genre and Subgenre
- Archetypes and Fearful Allure: Writing Erotic Horror by Nancy Kilpatrick
- Writing for the New Pulps: Horror-Themed Anthologies by John Maclay
- Freaks and Fiddles, Banjos and Beasts: Writing Redneck Horror by Weston Ochse
- Youth Gone Wild by Lee Thomas (aka Thomas Pendleton)
- Writing Horror Comic Books — And Graphic Novels by David Campiti
- Acts of Madness: Writing Horror for the Stage by Lisa Morton
- Fear Spins Off: The Tie-In Novel Comes Into Its Own by Yvonne Navarro
- The Play’s the Thing on the Doorstep: Writing Video and Role Playing Games by Richard E. Dansky
- Now Fear This: Writing Horror for Audio Theater by Scott Hickey and Robert madia
- Good Characters and Cool Kills: Writing the Horror Screenplay by Brendan Deneen
- Part Eight: Horror Business: Selling, Marketing, Promoting
- Dark Fluidity: Online Research and Market Resources by Judi Rohrig
- The Small Press: Filling Shelves With Rare Books by John Everson
- Sharing the Creeps: Marketing Short Horror Fiction, Version 2.0 by Edo van Belkom
- For Love or Money: Six Marketing Myths by Bev Vincent
- One Reader at a Time: Promoting Your Horror Novel by Scott Nicholson
- Afterword
- Afterword: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells by Harlan Ellison
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This is a must have for any writer of horror fiction. I read the first edition (see book cover to the right) when it was published in 1997 and each page was an education — not only in how to write horror but in why I loved the genre so much to begin with. Over ninety percent of the material in this book could be applied to almost any genre fiction writing — even romance.
Paranormal romance anyone?
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on January 1, 2009
Alexandra Sokoloff is a Hollywood screenwriter, novelist and author of two psychological suspense/horror novels — The Harrowing: A Ghost Story and The Price.
All this month you can view the book trailers for The Harrowing: A Ghost Story here on The Lair of the Undead Rat website (over there, to the right, in the multimedia box — just click the arrow to run it) and the trailer for The Price on …With Intent to Commit Horror website.
The Harrowing: A Ghost Story |
The Harrowing: A Ghost Story
Author: Sokoloff, Alexandra
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 256pp.
Pub. Date: August 22, 2006
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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The Harrowing |
The Harrowing
Author: Sokoloff, Alexandra
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 320pp.
Pub. Date: October 30, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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Nominated for the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Nominated for an Anthony Award for Best First Novel
Baird College’s Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of the last home-bound students heading off for Thanksgiving break, and Robin Stone swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. Or perhaps it’s only gathering itself for the coming weekend.
As a massive storm dumps rain on the isolated campus, four other lonely students reveal themselves: Patrick, a handsome jock; Lisa, a manipulative tease; Cain, a brooding musician; and finally Martin, a scholarly eccentric. Each has forsaken a long weekend at home for their own secret reasons.
The five unlikely companions establish a tentative rapport, but they soon become aware of a sixth presence disturbing the ominous silence that pervades the building. Are they the victims of a simple college prank taken way too far, or is the unusual energy evidence of something genuine and intent on using the five students for its own terrifying ends? It’s only Thursday afternoon, and they have three long days and dark nights before the rest of the world returns to find out what’s become of them. But for now it’s just the darkness keeping company with five students nobody wants and no one will miss.
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The Price |
The Price
Author: Sokoloff, Alexandra
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 288pp.
Pub. Date: February 19, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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The Price |
The Price
Author: Sokoloff, Alexandra
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 304pp.
Pub. Date: December 2, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
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Nominated for the 2008 Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Novel
Boston’s Briarwood Medical Center is a bewildering maze of six separate hospitals symbiotically entwined, connected by glass bridges, underground tunnels, indoor and outdoor gardens — its own self-contained city. But Briarwood, like every hospital, is also a threshold . . . to the other side.
Idealistic Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan, son of a political family, is the front runner in the Massachusetts Governor’s race — until his five-year old daughter Sydney is diagnosed with a malignant, inoperable tumor. Now Will and his wife Joanna, whom he loves more than life, are living at Briarwood Hospital, waiting for their daughter to die. Joanna is slowly losing her mind with grief and Will himself starts to question his own sanity. He has begun to see bizarre and inexplicable things around him — patients disappearing from elevators, monstrous nuns watching from the shadows. A doctor assures Will that he’s suffering from a not uncommon stress reaction — the ongoing trauma of his circumstances coupled with severe sleep deprivation is bringing on these hallucinations.
But Will knows there’s more going on at Briarwood. The strange occurrences seem to center around a dark, charismatic counselor named Salk who befriends Will and talks mysteriously about the power of faith to heal. Will is intrigued, but too much of a rationalist to believe — until he starts to see patients who have talked to Salk miraculously recover.
One terrifying night, Sydney goes into renal failure and is rushed into emergency surgery. Joanna disappears that night and doesn’t return until morning. Sydney not only survives the surgery, but in fact has gone into remission. And Salk has completely disappeared — the hospital administration has no knowledge of him — he was never on staff at all.
Will begins to suspect that Joanna has made a terrible deal to save their daughter’s life. Now he must uncover the truth in order to save them all.
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You can visit Alexandra’s website Alexandra Sokoloff.com to find out more about this author.
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on December 30, 2008
“. . . ghosts were the only thing on Davie’s mind.”
Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and L.A. Banks team up to give you an anthology about ancestors, ghosts and evil in this brand new book of three novellas.
The Ancestors |
The Ancestors
Author: Massey, Brandon; Due, Tananarive and Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novellas
Page Count: 304pp.
Pub. Date: December 1, 2008
Publisher: Dafina/Kensington
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DEAD.
Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon Massey’s “The Patriarch,” a young writer travels to the hushed backwoods of Mississippi, where dangerous secrets surface as a generations-old feud comes to bone-chilling new life . . .
BURIED.
The souls of the mistreated always find a way to be heard. In L.A. Banks’s “Ev’ry Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep,” violent visions haunt a man — until he’s handed an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past and prevent unspeakable acts from occurring once again . . .
FORGOTTEN.
When horrors are covered up and lost, our ancestors must find a way — even in death — to tell their tales. In Tananarive Due’s “Ghost Summer,” ancestors haunt the nights of two children. And when a grisly discovery is made, these ancestors will make their mark on both the dead and the living . . .
Table of Contents:
- Ev’ry Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep by L.A. Banks
- The Patriarch by Brandon Massey
- Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due
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The past has returned to haunt us . . .
This is a perfect chance to try three top African-American writers, writing the kinds of stories they love. If you find you like one or more of them, you can find an extensiv collection of their books at your library.
You can order this and other novels by these authors through the Heights Library web catalog or order by phone by calling the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library.
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on December 27, 2008
Yesterday I told you about a free online novella by Brian Knight called Heart of the Monster. It’s a horror story about rage and a mysterious monster hidden beneath the Heart of the Monster, waiting for an opportunity to claim more victims.
If you like horror stories, I urge you to go to the website, download the story and read it. You just might like the story as much as I did.
And if you do enjoy the story, you might ask, how can I get my hands on more books by Brian Knight?
Well, the Cleveland Heights University Heights Public Library has a copy of Broken Angel by Brian Knight. Let me tell you about it:
Broken Angel |
Broken Angel
Author: Knight, Brian
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 272pp.
Pub. Date: December 3, 2007
Publisher: Delirium Books
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Life in Clearwater was quiet, even a little dull for Eugene Grim, but it was better than the time he’d spent on the streets of Seattle. Then the strange girl arrived, abandoned at a roadside diner. Drugged, sick, with no memory of her past.
Grim had a bad feeling about her from the beginning but he didn’t say anything when his foster mother, Clara, took her in. If anyone needed a home, it was this strange, sad girl. Clara’s new Angel.
As Angel’s health improves and her memory returns, the hot Clearwater summer becomes increasingly strange. Insanity creeps through the small town like a plague, spawning violence, and no one is immune. And death has arrived in the form of a shadowy figure lurking in the woods at night.
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Interested? Click on the book cover to place a hold on it through the computer or you can order this over the phone by calling the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library.
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on December 26, 2008
“Where does your rage come from?”
One of the nice things about reading horror is that many of the authors are willing to experiement and take risks both in their fiction and in the real world.
One such horror writer, Brian Knight, is making his out-of-print novella called Heart of the Monster available for free from his website Brian-Knight.com.
This story was published as a chapbook in 2004 with a limited run. It’s out of print and not easily found — until now.
I read it and was blown away by the power of the story, the use of metaphore and by the really cool monster waiting within the pages.
Click on this link to go to the page where you can download Heart of the Monster. You can read it right there or save it to your hard drive. The novella is in a PDF format so you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it — if you don’t have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, you can get it for free here.
While you’re there, check out Brian’s website and see what else he’s written.
Where does your rage come from?
Karl knows; he stares at it every night from his back patio.
The Heart Of The Monster.
It calls to him, and for fifteen years Karl has resisted it’s pull. But to confront the monster he is becoming he must go back and confront the ghosts of his past, and those who he left behind.
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on December 24, 2008
Hello my readers and subscribers. I’m sorry to be posting this so late but this Christmas Eve turned out to be far more chaotic than I anticipated and 9:30PM EST was the first time I’ve been able to duck family obligations and get to a computer.
So, where is the summary?
I’ve decided not to write any more summaries until Monday January 5, 2009.
This was not an easy decision but a necessary one. Like so many of you, I have family obligations over the holiday season and that has prevented me from focusing on my writing as much as I should.
This little hiatus also gives me a chance to prepare a couple of new websites that I’m launching (or re-launching as the case may be). It also gives me a chance to tweak the look and style of The Lair so that it is easier to use and visually more appealing.
Just because I’m not posting summaries doesn’t mean I’ll be completely silent. I’ll post little bits over the next 11 days maybe even multiple posts.
Maybe I’ll even drop some hints about what I’ve got in store for next year.
It’ll be the best year yet!
Happy Holidays from my family to you and yours,
–Greg “The Undead Rat” Fisher
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on December 22, 2008
“So perhaps, in the future, you will hold your tongue until you have discovered where the surplus population is, and who it is. It may well be that, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.”
George C. Scott takes a turn playing Ebenezer Scrooge in this made for Television adaptation which remains one of the most faithful to the original novel.
TITLE:
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Director:
Clive Donner
Writer:
Roger O. Hirson
based upon a story by Charles Dickens
GENRE:
Christmas Story, Ghost Story,
DESCRIPTORS:
Christmas, Classic, Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, the Ghost of Christmas Future, Poverty, Ghosts, Spirits,
RATING:
Not Rated — Made for Television in 1984.
SUMMARY:
Scrooge loves money and has no time for compassion, joy or even tact. He also despises everything about Christmas. On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his long dead partner Jacob Marley who informs him that he will suffer a horrible fate in the afterlife lest he reforms his old ways — and to help with that, he will be visited by three spirits.
Tact is a quality I despise.
The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge snapshots of his life on various Christmas Days — how he started out alone and, despite the prospect of love, turned his heart cold and miserly. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the way everybody is celebrating the holiday that year including his nephew Fred and the clerk who works for him Bob Cratchit.
The final ghost — the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, is silent and robed. It shows Scrooge a future Christmas where one man’s death is callously dismissed, is made profit of by thieves and otherwise forgotten. Only the death of Tiny Tim, elicits any compassion.
Can Ebenezer Scrooge turn his life around before its too late?
APPEAL:
I first saw this on television in 1984 and was surprised that I sat through it. Before then I’d had no patience for the story.
Not only did I watch it in its entirety (and the IBM commercials starring the actors from M.A.S.H.) but it raised my spirits and helped me have a happy Christmas. I was lucky to capture the movie on video so I could watch it every time the holiday rolled around. It was guaranteed to put me in the “Christmas spirit”.
I’m always kind to the ladies! That’s the way I ruined me self.
When I finally found it available on video — and then later on DVD. I purchased a copy of one and then the other because the holiday just didn’t seem right without it.
The show, if closely looked at, has a few flaws — such as Scrooge’s lack of a British accent or added scenes depicting the evils of poverty and homelessness which, while powerful, didn’t feel like something Dickens would have written.
Still, Scott turned in a powerful performance and the scenes between Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present were deliciously fun — you could tell the actors enjoyed playing together. Woodward’s vision of the Ghost of Christmas Present remains in my mind as definitive. And lest I forget, the silent Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, give voice by a muted trumpet that sounds like a strangled instrument in its death throes — it always sends shivers up my spine.
By and large, this movie held close to the book and remains my favorite production of A Christmas Carol.
You can order this and other movies through the Heights Library web catalog or order by phone by calling the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library.
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on December 19, 2008
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
One of the most popular stories around that no one ever really reads is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
TITLE:
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
WRITER:
Charles Dickens
GENRE:
Christmas Story, Ghost Story
DESCRIPTORS:
Christmas, Classic, Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, the Ghost of Christmas Future, Poverty, Ghosts, Spirits,
SUMMARY:
Ebenezer Scrooge is a man of business and only business. He hates charity and he hate Christmas even more. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of his long dead business partner Jacob Marley.
Marley, doomed to walk the Earth for all eternity appears before Ebenezer to announce the arrival of three spirits which is his only chance to escaping a worse fate than Marley’s.
Over the next three night — or is it one night? — three spirits visit Scrooge. One at a time, they show him what the true meaning of Christmas is. But is it too late for him to learn?
APPEAL:
There are an uncountable number of versions of a Christmas Carol on film. Many movies have been made and many television series have incorporated at least some modified version of a Christmas Carol in their series. I even remember seeing variations of the story in comic books — such as when the Teen Titans used their super powers to play the roles of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
However, not until this week did I bother reading the original story. What an eye opener.
The basic plot of the story is well known in our culture but the actual story has so much more in it. It is a short novel and quickly read if you’re comfortable with Dickens’s style of writing. It’s written as if you were sitting down in front of a fire being told this story by a congenial storyteller who breaks the story every so often to talk to you or tell you a little bit about himself. In technical terms it’s told 3rd person limited omniscient, past tense with the narrator breaking the fourth wall periodically.
and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
There are a number of times when Dickens is diverted by an engaging character or two — usually during the visits Scrooge and the Spirits make. Dickens is also found of completely describing a Christmas scene — be it a party or the market, the description is exhaustive. However, having said that, there is an economy of prose in this story that is not characteristic of Dickens’s longer novels such as Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Modern day readers who are used to more sparse description wouldn’t be too put out by this story.
Most of all, I found that the story wasn’t exactly what I’d expected it to be. In my head I had some unreal amalgam of Christmas Carol stories from movies and television. When I read the original story I was surprised by what I found in it and what I didn’t find.
I came away enjoying the original story so much more than I’d ever enjoyed the “re-makes” and “adaptations”. If you love A Christmas Carol then you should read the story at least once in your life. If you hate the story, you might find that you would enjoy the original — more than you ever thought possible.
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on December 19, 2008
Due to family illnesses — strep throat, an allergic reaction to amoxicillin and pneumonia — I was unable to post for the last couple of days. I’m sorry for the interruption.
by Greg "The Undead Rat" on December 15, 2008
Kealan Patrick Burke wants to give you a gift this year. Actually three gifts.
In 2004, Kealan Patrick Burke published a novella title The Turtle Boy to great acclaim and won a Bram Stoker Award with it. However, the story of Timmy Quinn did not end there. Next came The Hides and Tim still sees the dead. The Hides was nominated for another Stoker Award. Finally Vessels was published and the mysteries surrounding the dead began to be revealed.
Kealan is not finished with the series. At least one story remains to be told. However, two out of three of these books are no longer in print or available for anything resembling a reasonable price on eBay. Vessels can be found at Horror Mall.
For a a limited time, Kealan is making copies of all three books available on his website for reading and even downloading. If you bought these books when they were available (as I did) you’d pay about $150.00 (each book averages $50.00 with postage and shipping). You’ll pay much more to get them on eBay.
Think about it: $150.00 of high quality, award winning horror by the only Irish born, Ohio resident horror writer in existence — FOR FREE! — No strings attached. I know, I already downloaded my copies. (Yes, I own the hardcover books but I couldn’t resist)
Download them today — and you’ll be all set for the next Timmy Quinn novel.
How do you get the books?
Take a look at the books you’ll be getting below. Then click on any of the book covers to reach Kealan’s free fiction page of his website. When you’re there, click again on the cover of the book you want to download and soon you’ll be seeing vengeful ghosts with Timmy.
The Timmy Quinn Series
The Turtle Boy |
The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series #1)
Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick
Format: Adobe Acrobat Document (.pdf)
Type: Novella
Page Count: 97pp.
Pub. Date: February 2004
Publisher: Necessary Evil Press
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The 2004 Bram Stoker Award winner for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction.
School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond — a pond playground rumor says may hide turtles the size of Buicks — everything changes. For it soon becomes apparent that dark secrets abound in the little community, secrets which come cupped in the hands of the dead, and in a heartbeat, Timmy and Pete’s summer of wonder becomes a season of terror, betrayal and murder.
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The Hides |
The Hides (The Timmy Quinn Series #2)
Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick
Format: Word Document (.doc)
Type: Novel
Page Count: 156pp.
Pub. Date: May 2005
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
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Nominated for the 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.
It’s been almost seven years since the events of Myers Pond. Seven years since a dead child rose from the dead, seeking Timmy Quinn’s help in finding a murderer, a search that left more questions than answers in its terrifying wake. But for Timmy, the dead never leave. They’re everywhere, reaching out to him, and there is nowhere to hide from their quiet desperation.
Following a nightmarish encounter at home, Timmy’s search for peace takes him to his grieving grandmother, and a small harbor town on the South coast of Ireland.
But no peace can exist in a place whose past is colored by hate, betrayal and murder, and it is not long before Timmy realizes his haven has become a cage.
And in the very foundations of an old crumbling factory, the dead are gathering.
Uniting.
To save his life and the lives of those he loves, Timmy Quinn must step behind the Curtain, into the realm of the dead and face something far more terrifying than he has ever encountered before — a monstrous entity known only as The Hides. . .
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Vessels |
Vessels (The Timmy Quinn Series #3)
Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick
Format: Adobe Acrobat Document (.pdf)
Type: Novella
Page Count: 137pp.
Pub. Date: December 2006
Publisher: Bloodletting Press
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On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, an unpiloted boat drifts ashore, watched by a man to whom the dead are something to be feared. . .
In a small stone chapel that stands hunkered against the vicious island winds, a woman whispers a frantic prayer to the gathering dark as something pale and dreadful scratches at the window.
A young girl in love races to the shore to meet her lover and finds something monstrous instead. . .
And in a confessional, a dead man waits to tell his sins. . .
A gunshot in a church in Los Angeles leads Tim Quinn halfway around the world and into a nightmare, for on Blackrock Island, he will find love, murder and madness, and discover an earth-shattering truth about the Curtain, and those who hide behind it.
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Weblinks List:
Kealan Patrick Burke.com
Weblinks List:
Kealan Patrick Burke’s MySpace
Author Page for:
Kealan Patrick Burke
Series Page for:
The Timmy Quinn Series
Ohio Connection:
Kealan Patrick Burke was born in Ireland but has since moved to Ohio.
The protagonist, Timmy Quinn hails from Delaware Ohio where some of his story, including The Turtle Boy takes place.
(Originally posted in …With Intent to Commit Horror)
