THE S-SQUAD SERIES The S-Squad series is a tribute to several things - 50s B- movies, Alistair MacLean books and movies, Aliens, and Dog Soldiers are all rattling around in there. But mostly it's for the love of monsters.Mostly. So far the team's various members have come up against giant insects, zombies in a UFO base, a variety of Ice-Age monsters in Siberia, huge snakes in the Amazon, a legend in the waters of Loch Ness, giant spiders in an ancient desert city in Syria. sea serpents, giant beetles, Lost City dinosaurs, Patagonian giants, big blobs in the London sewers and sea-folk on Orkney...among other things. There are now over 15 books in the series from Severed Press, with more to come. |
SIGILS & TOTEMS There are houses like this all over the world. Most people only know of them from whispered stories over campfires; tall tales told to scare the unwary. But some, those who suffer, some know better. They are drawn to the places where what ails them can be eased. If you have the will, the fortitude, you can peer into another life, where the dead are not gone, where you can see that they thrive and go on, in the dreams that stuff is made of. There it is in a nutshell. There are houses where you can go to get in touch with your dead loved ones. If you can get inside. |
THE MIDNIGHT EYE FILES Derek Adams, THE MIDNIGHT EYE has been with me since the early 90s. He's an occult Detective and works the streets of Glasgow. He fights darkness wherever he finds it, when he's not drinking. Old Glasgow still lies, slumbering, a dreaming god waiting for the stars to be right again. It can be found in the places where Derek walks, in bars untouched by time, in the closes of tenement buildings that carry the memories of past glories, and in the voices of older men and women who travel through the modernity unseen, impervious to its charms. Derek Adams, The Midnight Eye, knows the ways of the old city. And, if truth be told, he prefers them to the new. |
CARNACKI: GHOSTFINDER Carnacki resonated with me immediately on my first reading many years ago. Several of the stories have a Lovecraftian viewpoint, with cosmic entities that have no regard for the doings of mankind. The background Hodgson proposes fits with some of my own viewpoint on the ways the Universe might function, and the slightly formal Edwardian language seems to be a "voice" I fall into naturally. I write them because of love, pure and simple. The stories appear in four collections: HEAVEN AND HELL from Dark Regions Press, THE WATCHER AT THE GATE from Dark Renaissance, THE EDINBURGH TOWNHOUSE from the Lovecraft Ezine's fiction imprint and STARRY WISDOM from Dark Regions Press. There are also 8 chapbooks on Kindle featuring sample stories from these collections. |