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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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Hell’s Teeth Launch – 19th March 2012

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

Critically-acclaimed author, G.R. Yeates, releases Hell’s Teeth – the final book in the Vetala Cycle! Out at sea, off the coast of Gallipoli, the black teeth of Cape Helles await! Gallipoli, 1916. The campaign is lost. The Turks are driving … 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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Hell’s Teeth: Preview IV

Posted on March 11, 2012 by G.R. Yeates

He was so far from the sweeter things now, drifting on the burning wet glass of the sea, so weak and without strength. Tom dreamed about being with a woman, not out here; the scent of her sweat, the taste … 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: Hell’s Teeth Preview II

Posted on February 26, 2012 by G.R. Yeates

The world was tearing itself apart; the sky was burning, the earth beneath was shaking, the big guns spoke deafening thunder, pouring down a scorching shrapnel rain. Tom Potter ran through it all, a darting shadow, one amongst many that … 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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We be the Echo

Posted on August 25, 2011 by G.R. Yeates

Why write about Jack the Ripper? He’s been done so many times over now that, surely, there is nothing more to be gained from this myth? And his myth is the reason why I decided Jack the Ripper would be … Continue reading →

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The End of War

Posted on July 11, 2011 by G.R. Yeates

When Claude Stanley Choules passed away this year, we lost our last living connection to the First World War, making it now and forever a part of history, no longer a thing of living memory. I can remember thinking about … Continue reading →

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The Dead in June 12: The Graveless Dead

Posted on June 26, 2011 by G.R. Yeates

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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