Earl Geier art from Weird Horror Tales
Here's what's inside my new book:
"Weird Horror Tales" is an anthology of psychological horror, SF, fantasy and mainstream short stories set in a fictional town on the coast of Maine.
The book’s over-riding theme is the condition of the human heart. Its assumption is there is something Other, larger than man and greater than our narrow view of reality. Each story, written to stand on its own, is related by setting, history, several prominent families, and a macro plot that is not the principal focus of the individual stories. It encompasses the Azrealites who work tirelessly to reinstate that something Other back on Earth through the manipulation of science and the occult, but the series will not include that incarnation.
Light's End is full of broken hearts and lies, of self-deception and greed, of power and weakness, loneliness and pride. It is a town that has commercialized its eldrich ruins, doors in cellar floors, flying saucers, nasty secrets and the cult of the Azrealites. This series of suspenseful, macabre tales begins when the town was founded in 1630, and ends in the 22nd century. Several poems are companion pieces.
Legendary, Emmy-Award winning actor William Windom has recorded twenty of these stories, and these will soon be released by Cornerstone Book Publishers.
I have graciously been called “Tulsa’s Master of Suspense” (Infinity Press). These stories have been characterized as “[a] meshing of myth and reality, [of] stack details of place, and...unromantic vision of horror...”.
What’s inside “Weird Horror Tales”?
Cover by Keith Birdsong; interior art by Earl Geier.
1653 Picked Clean (horror)
Caleb Elliott flees England for Maine only to sire an abomination on a horror in Dead Bay. Caleb, and Ezekiel and Hiram Azreal, all inadvertently found Light’s End and leave a monstrosity that writhes under the cliffs of Dead Bay. Or do they?
1838 The Well Sunk In The Sky (horror)
Does a lighthouse warn ships of a deadly reef or welcome ships from the stars? Under the watchful eye of Jake Horne, is it the site of an Azrealite prenuptial ritual for Charlotte Elliott and Obediah Azreal, or a human womb for The Other?
1928 Billie Hell
Raised in the notorious red-light district of Light’s End, Billie is a cut below the rest.
1949 Off the Hook
Senator (and Azrealite) David Block goes fishing on a lake over the town and dirty secret he buried there.
1957 Wishful Thinking
Sara Lagle sets a fire under her lascivious Azrealite husband and his lover and decorates her home with childish memories.
1934 Unhinged
A young boy named Schlomo Nantier discovers an old lie about relativism when his best friend reaps what he doesn’t sow.
1959 Blind Faith
An old vaudevillian and a psychologist encourage Faith Williams to develop her imagination by attending the State Theater. They had no idea that what would attend Faith there would wear hooves.
2012 Knock Off
An insurance fraud between twins to resurrect the lighthouse as a restaurant buries a brother.
1984 The Lighter Side
The First Emanation of the Blind God and Master of the Material Universe, Pat Azreal, saves Light’s End from the Girlie Gang, but almost loses her soul.
2012 Random Pairings
Herbert Wells must perform a final ritual to enter the High Priesthood of the Azrealites and trigger the reincarnation of The Other, the murder of Schlomo Nantier.
2040 Face Off
Doctor Carla Ashe invents a substitute for human flesh but not for the human heart out of love for her lonely, ‘odd child’.
2231 Fall Guy
The man who “jumps from buildings and gets up” comes to Light’s End. Jake Horne is his manager.
3180 The Zoo
A monster lurks behind the genetically sculpted, mythological animals at the Doolittle Zoo in Light’s End.
The World Roars On/poem
Backword/A Day in the Life of Light’s End
Creator’s Credits
Earl Geier art from Weird Horror Tales
Here's what's inside my new book:
"Weird Horror Tales" is an anthology of psychological horror, SF, fantasy and mainstream short stories set in a fictional town on the coast of Maine.
The book’s over-riding theme is the condition of the human heart. Its assumption is there is something Other, larger than man and greater than our narrow view of reality. Each story, written to stand on its own, is related by setting, history, several prominent families, and a macro plot that is not the principal focus of the individual stories. It encompasses the Azrealites who work tirelessly to reinstate that something Other back on Earth through the manipulation of science and the occult, but the series will not include that incarnation.
Light's End is full of broken hearts and lies, of self-deception and greed, of power and weakness, loneliness and pride. It is a town that has commercialized its eldrich ruins, doors in cellar floors, flying saucers, nasty secrets and the cult of the Azrealites. This series of suspenseful, macabre tales begins when the town was founded in 1630, and ends in the 22nd century. Several poems are companion pieces.
Legendary, Emmy-Award winning actor William Windom has recorded twenty of these stories, and these will soon be released by Cornerstone Book Publishers.
I have graciously been called “Tulsa’s Master of Suspense” (Infinity Press). These stories have been characterized as “[a] meshing of myth and reality, [of] stack details of place, and...unromantic vision of horror...”.
What’s inside “Weird Horror Tales”?
Cover by Keith Birdsong; interior art by Earl Geier.
1653 Picked Clean (horror)
Caleb Elliott flees England for Maine only to sire an abomination on a horror in Dead Bay. Caleb, and Ezekiel and Hiram Azreal, all inadvertently found Light’s End and leave a monstrosity that writhes under the cliffs of Dead Bay. Or do they?
1838 The Well Sunk In The Sky (horror)
Does a lighthouse warn ships of a deadly reef or welcome ships from the stars? Under the watchful eye of Jake Horne, is it the site of an Azrealite prenuptial ritual for Charlotte Elliott and Obediah Azreal, or a human womb for The Other?
1928 Billie Hell
Raised in the notorious red-light district of Light’s End, Billie is a cut below the rest.
1949 Off the Hook
Senator (and Azrealite) David Block goes fishing on a lake over the town and dirty secret he buried there.
1957 Wishful Thinking
Sara Lagle sets a fire under her lascivious Azrealite husband and his lover and decorates her home with childish memories.
1934 Unhinged
A young boy named Schlomo Nantier discovers an old lie about relativism when his best friend reaps what he doesn’t sow.
1959 Blind Faith
An old vaudevillian and a psychologist encourage Faith Williams to develop her imagination by attending the State Theater. They had no idea that what would attend Faith there would wear hooves.
2012 Knock Off
An insurance fraud between twins to resurrect the lighthouse as a restaurant buries a brother.
1984 The Lighter Side
The First Emanation of the Blind God and Master of the Material Universe, Pat Azreal, saves Light’s End from the Girlie Gang, but almost loses her soul.
2012 Random Pairings
Herbert Wells must perform a final ritual to enter the High Priesthood of the Azrealites and trigger the reincarnation of The Other, the murder of Schlomo Nantier.
2040 Face Off
Doctor Carla Ashe invents a substitute for human flesh but not for the human heart out of love for her lonely, ‘odd child’.
2231 Fall Guy
The man who “jumps from buildings and gets up” comes to Light’s End. Jake Horne is his manager.
3180 The Zoo
A monster lurks behind the genetically sculpted, mythological animals at the Doolittle Zoo in Light’s End.
The World Roars On/poem
Backword/A Day in the Life of Light’s End
Creator’s Credits