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The Lazarus Condition
Paul Kane
Matthew Daley is an enigma. He’s appeared after
seven years – eager to pick up the threads of his life, make contact
once more with his loved ones. Something that’s not so easy to do
when your family’s last memory is of attending your funeral, and
watching as your coffin is lowered into the ground…
The Lazarus
Condition is an emotional, moving tale of loss, grief, redemption,
and why you should be careful what you wish for. It might not be
what you expected.
And you will get what’s coming to you.
Bonus short story!
Dead
Time
Helen Kirby is having one hell of a day. As she
struggles, through the fog of a chronic hangover, to understand why
the world around her seems to have gone to ruin between the time she
passed out the night before and the time she woke up this morning,
we find out why this New Year does indeed herald a New Dawn.
Dead Time is a new take on the zombie tale – one that shows us
without question that any differences between us and the undead are
purely a matter of…taste. |
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In the Midnight
Museum
Gary A. Braunbeck
Martin Tyler wants to end it
all.
Alone and in despair over the death of his parents as well
as the death of his youthful dreams and ambitions, he makes the
decision to overdose on prescription drugs. Not wanting to bow out
in his dingy apartment, and with the first ingestion of drugs
beginning to take effect, he drives to downtown Cedar Hill in the
hopes of finding a hotel room. Along West Church Street there is a
building he used to know as Devito’s Bookstore. Standing out front
reminds him of times past; of the fond memories spent there and of a
painting of that same building he still keeps
bought from an old
street artist.
Striking up a conversation with his six-year
old self and watching a strange creature pace along the building’s
roof, Martin can feel the drugs taking the shine off reality – only
now this IS his reality. From a room in the Psychiatric facility
near Cedar Hill Memorial Hospital, Martin becomes aware of these
creatures, of the limits of even the most unbound imagination, and
of events that may lead to the extinction of the world.
This is
the land of Gash.
Stone Cold Calling
Simon Clark
It beats
but has no heart
Calls without voice
Desires yet is void of
emotion
And waits to destroy anyone unlucky enough to grant it
freedom
Stone Cold Calling
It may well be the end of us
all
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THE CALLING & OTHER WRAITHS
THE CALLING
Three men
guard ‘Brass Ear’ – once a military base but now run by civilians. A
storm is coming, one that will change lives and destinies. Unheeded
by warnings from one that knows the land and its secrets, they set
themselves to wait…only to realize their decision is one of stubborn
ignorance and deadly consequence.
MAKE ME
FRIGHTFUL
A non-fiction piece where Simon offers
tips for writers interested in approaching the horror genre.
THE HAUNTED
PAGE
A short
video shot by Simon.
The
Nobody
Tom Piccirilli
Cryer once had another name,
but he can't remember it.
The man he used to be was stabbed
in the head by an assailant. After months of catatonia Cryer awakens
in a mental facility to find that his former life is almost
completely forgotten. He knows his wife and daughter have been
murdered - he saw them die moments before his own assault - but his
shattered mind is incapable of retaining their names. Or even his
own.
Now Cryer is free again and trying to track down an
elusive killer through his own unknown past. But how do you
investigate the murders of your loved ones when you can't remember
them? When you have no idea who your friends or enemies were? Where
you lived and worked? And what secrets you might have once had and
failed to keep?
And how is he supposed to deal with the
little man who keeps crawling in and out of his skull?
Cryer
is a nobody now, but that won't stop him from finding a vicious
murderer and making him
pay.
Clipper Girls
Gary A. Braunbeck
Evan
Tanner, a single father, receives a call from the nursing home where
his mother (who everyone assumes suffers from dementia) lives,
informing him that his mother has become too distruptive in the past
few weeks and they're kicking her out: she keeps screaming in the
night about the smell of cigars and crates by the door and someone
who 'warned' her not to go to work '...that day.'
Evan takes
his mother in, much to his daughter's dismay. As the days infold,
both Evan and his daughter awake in the middle of the night to hear
the voices of children coming from downstairs. When each
investigates, they find the front room filled with the ghosts of
dirty, undernourished children doing piecework sewing - buttons on
coats, repairing socks, hemming dresses, etc. Evan and his daughter
soon realize that Evan's mother only seems to sleep peacefully when
these apparitions appear.
Evan's mother was a child laborer
back in the early 1900's, who was one of the few children to survive
a massive fire at a Cedar Hill sweatshop mill where she was employed
as a 'clipper girl' - the children whose job it was to snip the
stray bits of thread from the dresses and blouses made in the
sweatshops. Evan's mother isn't suffering from dementia but rather
survivor's guilt, and that guilt has at last manifested itself in
the apparitions of the ghosts of the poverty-striken children with
whom she used to work - and who didn't make it out of the
fire.
The fire was deemed an accident, but Evan's mother and
the 'Clipper Girls' know better, and the man responsible for the
fire - who smoked cigars as he stomped up and down the sweatshop
line - is not only alive and well, but flourishing in his successful
family business. And Evan, his daughter, his mother, and the
restless spirits of the girls killed in the factory fire, cannot
rest until there's
justice.
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