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ABOUT The Friendly Horror and Other Weird Tales
2nd Edition
by Jessica Burke and Anthony Burdge
Introduction by David Neilsen
Illustrated by Luke Spooner
“This charming book is a …delightful celebration of that delicious state of being called ‘Lovecraftian.’ …this duo can write, with excellent effect….”
—W. H. Pugmire, Author of Monstrous Aftermath
In this revised, 2nd edition of The Friendly Horror and Other Weird Tales, with 4 internal illustrations and color cover, be prepared to explore the everyday with a macabre, decidedly Lovecraftian twist.
The landscape of the authors collective imagination allows the mundane world to transcend into a place where kittens journey in time and space, and sometimes pick up hitchhikers, where humans aren’t the only ones who bring their children to work and storms can become creatures with their own appetite, where a simple ice cream cone takes on a nefarious edge. The titular piece, “The Friendly Horror” is a contemporary post-script to “Shadows over Innsmouth.”
“The Friendly Horror is a collection of Lovecraft inspired tales eloquently written with an unmistakable passion and voice for the genre…Luke Spooner does an amazing job of giving that haunting, sketchy feel to his drawings that only enhance the reading experience. They are a perfect complement to each tale …Burdge and Burke describe the transition and journey to Y’ha-nthlei the way C.S. Lewis describes Narnia…”
—Kris Lugosi, The Horror Society
ABOUT
ELDRITCH TIDES
“Storms, and Nature as a whole, reveal over time what has long been buried and should have never been found.”
– Dr. Gilbert Halsey, Toms River Psychiatric Unit.
Original Story Concept by Jason McKittrick
Written by Jessica Burke and Anthony Burdge
Cover and insert art by Brandon Zimmerman
Trade Paperback 152 pgs.
The unrelenting, destructive force that was Superstorm Sandy moved ashore near Seaside Heights, New Jersey early on October 29th, 2012. The winds, rain and rising sea levels laid waste to homes and infrastructure, forever changing the topography of affected areas.
A long forgotten artifact, churned up by the storm, washed ashore to be discovered by a fledgling cultist Jeremiah Allen. The knowledge revealed to him by the Elder Tablet Jeremiah followed in the footsteps of his ancestors as he pursued the dark magicks contained therein. After his evaluation of Jeremiah seven years later, the attending psychiatrist at Toms River Psychiatric Unit, Dr. Gilbert Halsey contacted an old friend at Miskatonic University. When Dr. Nora Danforth heard, and saw the news, she agreed to travel to Tom’s River to investigate The Elder Tablet.
With little knowledge of what he was doing, Jeremiah uses the tablet to wake what can only be described as “…a hideous, luminous giant of viscous jet black protoplasmic mass, and iridescent eyes…”
ABOUT
DARK TALES FROM ELDER REGIONS: NEW YORK
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DARK TALES FROM ELDER REGIONS:
NEW YORK
Trade Paperback
398 pgs
19 Stories, 20 B/W Internal Illustrations
Color Cover
Published by
Myth Ink Books
http://www.mythinkbooks.com
Illustrated by Luke Spooner
http://www.carrionhouse.com/
Introduction by
Peter Rawlik
Afterword by
Brian J. Cano
There is a reason New York City is called “The City that Never Sleeps,” and it is not for reasons we have all become accustomed to.
This anthology of 19 urban horror stories explores the dark corners, shadowy alleys and mysterious underworld of all five boroughs of New York City providing the true reason why The City Never Sleeps.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) “Roebling’s Monster”
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2) “The Hand of Bone” by W.H. Pugmire
3) “Beautiful Dreams” by DJ Tyrer
4) “The Professor’s NY Adventure”
by Gordon Linzer
5) “Now Departing” by John Peel
6) “Leaking” by David Neilsen
7) “The Sixth Borough” by Gregory Norris
8) “Retro Viral” by Andrea Janes
9) “Broken Glass” by J. Mapes
10) “Wallflowers” by Lilah Wild
11) “The None Percent” by Warren Frey
12) “The Vintner of Little Neck”
by Chris Tuthill
13) “The Last Train to New Haven”
by Kevin Wetmore
14) “E-Ville” by Frank Collia
15) “Rosebank NNL” by Daniel Russo
16) “The Mad Monk” of St Augustines
by Colleen Wanglund
17)“Remembering Peter”
by Christopher Mancuso
18) “Ghosting” by Jessica Burke
19) “The Lonely Boat” by Anthony Burdge
A few highlighted authors:
The late Gregory Norris was a full time writer with some 4,000 stories, articles, books. with work regularly published in fiction anthologies and national magazines. Mr. Norris worked as a screenwriter on two episodes of Paramount’s STAR TREK: VOYAGER, and was a columnist and staff writer at Sci Fi, the official magazine of the Sci Fi Channel. Norris is the author to the guide of all-things-Sunnydale, THE Q GUIDE TO BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, his latest book, SHRUNKEN HEADS: Twenty Tiny Tales of Mystery and Terror, was released last September. Mr. Norris has contributed a tale called, “The Sixth Borough,” which illustrates a characters search for a mysterious borough of NYC.
http://gregorylnorris.blogspot.com/
The late W.H. Pugmire was a full-time underground author of Cthulhu Mythos fiction. Pugmire has written a macabre story based in the same Dutch Reformed Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY that inspired Lovecraft himself to write “The Hound,” which is entitled “The Hand of Bone.”
http://lovecraftianhorror.blogspot.com/
Legendary author John Peel has written for numerous genres, Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy and many others. Peel is the author of Doctor Who books and comic strips. Notably, he wrote the first original Doctor Who novel, Timewyrm: Genesys, to launch the Virgin New Adventures line. In the early 1990s he was commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations of several key Terry Nation Dalek stories of the 1960s after the rights were finally worked out. For our volume Mr. Peel has written a tale set in Manhattan entitled: “Now Departing.”
http://www.john-peel.com/
Actress, playwright and author, Leanna Renee Hieber is the award-winning, bestselling author of Gothic Victorian Fantasy novels for adults and teens. Her Strangely Beautiful saga, beginning with The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, hit Barnes & Noble and Borders Bestseller lists and garnered numerous regional genre awards. Ms. Hieber has written “Roebling’s Monster,” a tale set in Brooklyn, for the collection.
http://www.leannareneehieber.com/
David Neilsen is a slightly unhinged individual who has written a number of mildly disturbing short stories as well as an upcoming YA supernatural adventure. Before lurking in the darker recesses of the New York metropolitan area, he spent ten years begging in Hollywood, culminating in a television pilot optioned to 20th Century FOX and the straight-to-DVD feature film, The Eliminator (go on and rent it, he dares you). A classically-trained actor, David can often be found roaming Westchester County and nearby environs working as a storyteller, specializing in the twisted and macabre. His one-man show, H.P. Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu, has sent audience members into madness throughout greater New England and he would dearly love to bring it to your neck of the woods and drive you utterly insane as well.
David has contributed his story “Leaking,” for this anthology
For more information, visit David online at http://neilsenparty.wordpress.com/
