This is the proposed cover:
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Showing posts with label Douglas Draa. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
More Things That Go Bump in the Night
Douglas Draa and I are already thinking about doing a follow up volume of classic ghost stories to Things That Go Bump in the Night - More Things That Go Bump in the Night.
This is the proposed cover:
This is the proposed cover:
Monday, 2 February 2015
Saturday, 31 January 2015
Things That Go Bump in the Night edited by Douglas Draa and David A. Riley
The Ghoul Sir Hugh Clifford
The House of the Nightmare Edward Lucas White
The Voice in the Night William Hope Hodgson
The Thing from Outside George Allan England
For the Blood is the Life F. Marion Crawford
The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains Frederick Marryat
The Room in the Tower E. F. Benson
His Unconquered Enemy W. C. Morrow
The Late Mrs. Fowke Amyas Northcote
Xélucha M. P. Shiel
A Narrow Escape Lord Dunsany
Thurnley Abbey Perceval Landon
The Black Stone Robert E, Howard
Werewolf of the Sahara G. G. Pendarves
The Devil of the Marsh Henry Brereton Marriott Watson
Fishhead Irvin S. Cobb
The Black Statue Huan Mee
The Pool of the Stone God Abraham Merritt
The Sea-Witch Nictzin Dyalhis
The Lady’s Maid’s Bell Edith Wharton
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Friday, 30 January 2015
Updated Image of Books from Parallel Universe Publications
Things That Go Bump in the Night is being prepared for publication and should be out next week as a 367 page trade paperback containing nineteen stories.
Monday, 26 January 2015
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Great review for The Return
There is a great review for The Return on Amazon by Douglas Draa:
"The Long Good Friday" meets "the Mythos",
December 23, 2014
"The Long Good Friday" meets "the Mythos",
This review is from: The Return (Kindle Edition)
Folks, if you are only going to buy one book right now then this is it!
You don't even have to be a "Mythos" fan to receive maximum enjoyment!
David A. Riley's "The Return" is an amazing read. Do you like gritty noir? Brit Horror? Masculine (but not macho) protagonists? Eldritch Horror in bleak industrial slums? "The Long Good Friday" meets "the Mythos"? The writing is dense and sleek. Never boring enthralling page turners. Do you like to read just a few more pages even though you need to sleep? Then this is THE BOOK!
I read this in record time. What is amazing is that you get over 270 pages of story. There's no fluff or padding. Every single word is dedicated to moving the plot along. Mr. Riley doesn't waste one single word.
And what a plot it is.
Gary Morgan, a mob enforcer on the run, returns to his hometown of Edgebottom to visit the neighborhood he grew up in. The now abondoned mill quarter of "Grudge End". "Grudge End" was a nest of dispair, pain, deprivity,violence, and eldritch horror.
I won't give anything away, but once Gary returns homes, things go from being bad, but managable, to becoming a waking nightmare as forces from beyond both the law and reality as we know it set their sights on Gary.
THIS IS ONE FINE HORROR NOVEL!
David A. Riley's "The Return" is an amazing read. Do you like gritty noir? Brit Horror? Masculine (but not macho) protagonists? Eldritch Horror in bleak industrial slums? "The Long Good Friday" meets "the Mythos"? The writing is dense and sleek. Never boring enthralling page turners. Do you like to read just a few more pages even though you need to sleep? Then this is THE BOOK!
I read this in record time. What is amazing is that you get over 270 pages of story. There's no fluff or padding. Every single word is dedicated to moving the plot along. Mr. Riley doesn't waste one single word.
And what a plot it is.
Gary Morgan, a mob enforcer on the run, returns to his hometown of Edgebottom to visit the neighborhood he grew up in. The now abondoned mill quarter of "Grudge End". "Grudge End" was a nest of dispair, pain, deprivity,violence, and eldritch horror.
I won't give anything away, but once Gary returns homes, things go from being bad, but managable, to becoming a waking nightmare as forces from beyond both the law and reality as we know it set their sights on Gary.
THIS IS ONE FINE HORROR NOVEL!
Monday, 22 December 2014
Submissions Call for The Fall of Cthulhu
Check out this great call from new Horrified Press editor Douglas Draa.
2015 is indeed going to be a great year!
The Fall of Cthulhu
2015 is indeed going to be a great year!
The Fall of Cthulhu
Deadline: February 28th, 2015
Payment: Exposure and Royalties
Short Stories - 3,000 - 5,000 words
H. P. Lovecraft never stuck to any serious continuity with his Mythos. It has always been simply accepted that the return of Cthulhu and the other Elder Gods was an inevitability.
So a while back I was rereading Lovecraft’s “The Shadow out of Time” and came across the following passage….
“I shivered at the mysteries the past may conceal, and trembled at the menaces the future may bring forth. What was hinted in the speech of post-human entities of the fate of mankind produced such an effect on me that I will not set it down here. After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth’s span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space—to another stopping-place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.”
Now this can easily be interpreted as stating that Cthulhu and the Others do not return during Humanity's time on Earth!
Why don’t they return? What happens that stops them?
This is a focused idea that leaves lots of room to the imagination.
Did we stop them?
Did some one else stop them?
Were the stars never right?
They decided not come?
Did Cthulhu over sleep?
It's all up to you!
So get your writing caps on and let those eldritch juices flow!
We're open to all styles of writing. Be it Pulp, Noir, Literary, SF, Gothic or what ever you feel appropriate.
Just make it entertaining!
Submission guidelines:
Please submit your manuscript as a *.rtf, *.doc or *.docx file (all other formats will automatically be rejected. Contact me prior to submitting if this presents an issue for you.)
Font and formatting: Please submit in Times New Roman, 12 point font; single line spacing. Please format the document to 1st line indentation of 1″. The page margin should be set to .1″ on all sides.
No headers, footers or page numbers.
Please check grammar.
Upon acceptance into the anthology, we ask that Horrified Press holds exclusive publishing rights for six months from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Horrified Press retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted anthology.
This title will be available as an e-book and trade quality paperback.
Douglas Draa will be presiding over this anthology.
Email your submission as an attachment to: weirdaether@t-online.de
The email subject line must read “SUBMISSION – The Fall of Cthulhu – ‘your story title’” or your submission will not be considered for this anthology.
Successful applicants will be notified before the deadline has expired.
Payment: Exposure and Royalties
Short Stories - 3,000 - 5,000 words
H. P. Lovecraft never stuck to any serious continuity with his Mythos. It has always been simply accepted that the return of Cthulhu and the other Elder Gods was an inevitability.
So a while back I was rereading Lovecraft’s “The Shadow out of Time” and came across the following passage….
“I shivered at the mysteries the past may conceal, and trembled at the menaces the future may bring forth. What was hinted in the speech of post-human entities of the fate of mankind produced such an effect on me that I will not set it down here. After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth’s span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space—to another stopping-place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.”
Now this can easily be interpreted as stating that Cthulhu and the Others do not return during Humanity's time on Earth!
Why don’t they return? What happens that stops them?
This is a focused idea that leaves lots of room to the imagination.
Did we stop them?
Did some one else stop them?
Were the stars never right?
They decided not come?
Did Cthulhu over sleep?
It's all up to you!
So get your writing caps on and let those eldritch juices flow!
We're open to all styles of writing. Be it Pulp, Noir, Literary, SF, Gothic or what ever you feel appropriate.
Just make it entertaining!
Submission guidelines:
Please submit your manuscript as a *.rtf, *.doc or *.docx file (all other formats will automatically be rejected. Contact me prior to submitting if this presents an issue for you.)
Font and formatting: Please submit in Times New Roman, 12 point font; single line spacing. Please format the document to 1st line indentation of 1″. The page margin should be set to .1″ on all sides.
No headers, footers or page numbers.
Please check grammar.
Upon acceptance into the anthology, we ask that Horrified Press holds exclusive publishing rights for six months from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Horrified Press retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted anthology.
This title will be available as an e-book and trade quality paperback.
Douglas Draa will be presiding over this anthology.
Email your submission as an attachment to: weirdaether@t-online.de
The email subject line must read “SUBMISSION – The Fall of Cthulhu – ‘your story title’” or your submission will not be considered for this anthology.
Successful applicants will be notified before the deadline has expired.
Saturday, 15 November 2014
Indian Summer by Douglas Draa
I was pleased to get a copy of Wishful Thinking, edited by Sheila Hall,
published by Fireside Press in the post this morning. Even more pleased
at the dedication by Doug Draa for his story Indian Summer. Thanks, Doug!http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1503036146…
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