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BOOK LAUNCH: The Vetala Cycle – A Collected Edition

Posted on April 3, 2012 by G.R. Yeates

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

Posted on March 18, 2012 by G.R. Yeates

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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Sample Sunday: Hell’s Teeth Preview III

Posted on March 4, 2012 by G.R. Yeates

Tom’s eyes snapped open. There was a crash, it came again and again, a repeating thunderous report every few seconds. Sombre light was filtering through the torn cloth curtain, outside, booted feet tramped to and fro, dehydrated soldier shouts filled … Continue reading →

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Sample Sunday: Preview of Hell’s Teeth

Posted on February 19, 2012 by G.R. Yeates

He could remember nothing more than bits and pieces; fragments, shards, shattered glass slivers and distortion, nothing whole, a prison of broken mirrors. Nothing was the way it should be. It came out of the black rain. Its chassis, loose … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 19, 2011 by G.R. Yeates

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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They Live Forever: Guest Blog by Laura Yirak

Posted on June 18, 2011 by G.R. Yeates

The vampire! It’s a creature that has always held me in curiosity, but not fear. My first encounter with it was in the 1987 movie “The Lost Boys”, I was eight. Why did my parents let me watch such a … Continue reading →

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The Dead in June 08: Voluntary Aid Detachment

Posted on June 13, 2011 by G.R. Yeates

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

Posted on June 12, 2011 by G.R. Yeates

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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