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Book Launch – This Darkness Mine

The City is a house of flies, slowly rotting away. Soho Ghetto is a place of riots, sex, abuse and disease but it is no worse than the corporate meat-markets that staff their offices with the corpses of recently-deceased employees. … Continue reading

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BOOK LAUNCH: The Vetala Cycle – A Collected Edition

The critically-acclaimed series in one collected edition! Includes: >> The Eyes of the Dead with chapter-by-chapter commentary >> Shapes in the Mist with chapter-by-chapter commentary >> Hell’s Teeth with chapter-by-chapter commentary >> Two short stories: The Last Post & The … Continue reading

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Sample Sunday: Hell’s Teeth Preview V

They let him pass as he made his way out. Tom could see their eyes shining with a nocturnal opacity, the mean set of their mouths and the grinding of their teeth, hungry flies roaming in their grave-greasy hair. He … Continue reading

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The Dead in June 12: The Graveless Dead

The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I came to 37.5 million and it is currently listed as being the sixth deadliest human conflict in world history. The Entente Powers, otherwise known as the Allies, lost … Continue reading

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The Dead in June 11: I Tracked a Dead Man Down a Trench

I Tracked a Dead Man Down a Trench by Walter Lyon The Eyes of the Dead is available now: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Germany Tweet

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The Dead in June 10: Sample from The Eyes of the Dead

Its eyes were pools of absolute obsidian. Black howling portals of hell. Black as an ocean under a moonless night sky. The eyes froze the two soldiers where they stood. The scrawny naked thing cocked its head on one side, … Continue reading

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The Dead in June 09: Reading of The Mouthless Dead by Charles Sorley

The Mouthless Dead by Charles Sorley The Eyes of the Dead is available now: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Germany Tweet

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The Dead in June 08: Voluntary Aid Detachment

In The Eyes of the Dead, the role women played in the war effort on the Western Front is addressed as it also will be in the next Vetala Cycle novel, The Shapes in the Mist. At home and on … Continue reading

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Dead in June 07: Sample from The Eyes of the Dead

Private Wilson breathed in, choking as he did. He rolled over onto his back. Watery-brown muck ran from his mouth. He sat up and spat the rest of it out. Wiping the back of his hand across his lips, he … Continue reading

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The Dead in June 05: Flammenwerfer

In today’s article, I’m going to be talking about another weapon used in World War One and this one has significance in the narrative of The Eyes of the Dead. I’ll say no more than that though because otherwise that … Continue reading

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