As usual, I’m giving away my much reprinted story ‘Walpurgisnacht‘; click the link on the name if you’ve not read it yet and you can download a PDF of the tale. And watch out for witches flying off to the mountains tonight!
Tag: Unquiet Dreams
Tirgearr’s Big Birthday Bash!
Tirgearr Publishing is turning 5 – but you get the presents! Enter at the special birthday page and you might win all three Chastity Flame novels, a Kindle Fire or lots of other great prizes. You can also get many books for a reduced price including my collection Unquiet Dreams, which Steve Bissette calls, “the…
Story for a Sunday: Fluorescence
Here’s my bit of urban spookiness called “Fluorescence.” This short story appeared in The Harrow back in July 2008 (appearing now thanks to the Way Back Machine). If you like it, you might want to check out the others in Unquiet Dreams.
July Sale!
All my books at Tirgearr are half off at Smashwords: that includes Kit Marlowe’s books too! Get ’em while they’re hot. Summer is for reading, after all!
Walpurgisnacht
Tradition now to repost this story which appears in Unquiet Dreams. It’s been reprinted a few times. One of these days, I should do an audio version… Walpurgisnacht Walther knew. But he could not resist, what ten-year-old could? Every year was the same. Grandmother Dunkelhaus would shake her finger at him and warn, “Walpurgisnacht, the…
Loreena McKennit, The Egg, 16 Oct 2015
The Egg is a lovely performance space: unfortunately it’s smack in the middle of the Empire State Plaza, a structure designed and built in the infernal realms (there’s a plaque that says so, I swear it). Between the normal Byzantine route required to actually enter the plaza and then hope to find parking and the…
Out Now: Hard-Boiled Witch 2 – Toil & Trouble
Hecate Sidlaw is back and magical mayhem is around! The second episode in the Hard-Boiled Witch series is out now: Toil & Trouble. Here’s the blurb: Hecate Sidlaw finds herself caught between a wannabe witch and one of the oldest hereditary powers in the land. When she and her familiar Henry end up as seconds…
Tirgearr Publishing 99¢ SALE!
Tirgearr Publishing is celebrating another anniversary, but you get the gifts! 27 Feb through 2 March All of our Kindle books will be just 99c each! Pick up all the books you want for just 99¢ from all your favourite authors from romance to speculative fiction to thrillers and even non-fiction. But do it quickly!…
Women in Horror Month
Oh, the bonanza of Women in Horror Month! So many riches — Maura McHugh’s Water Helen S. Grant’s reading of Lilith’s Story and her co-production with her son, A Playmobil Warning to the Curious Lynda E. Rucker’s The House on Cobb Street A quartet of ladies from The Dark Magazine Peg Aloi on the remake…
Welcome to October (Free Read!)
To celebrate my favourite month of the year, let’s kick it off with the first story I wrote in Houston, an homage to the king of October Country with an east Texas swampy feel. It’s collected with a few other unsettling stories in Unquiet Dreams. It originally appeared in a lit’ry magazine, but don’t let…