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  The Plague Doctor And Murdered...

  Rachel Lawson

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  The Plague Doctor 
  A short historical Magicians story. Warlock Blake is captured and tortured by witch hunters, and he's not hiding it or escaping when he can easily, but why? 
  Reworked and re-read. 
  Murdered By Death 
  "Who killed her?" asked Reynard. 
  "A grim reaper," said the Necromantor. 
  "Lancelot, why did you kill her?" said Mortimer, turning on his son. 
  "It wasn't me! Why does everyone always blame me when they see a dead person," protested the Necromancer. 
  "Because you are usually the killer, you psycho," said Mortimer. 
  "I am not guilty now," said the Necromancer. 
  "It wasn't him the reaper spoke, he had a deep bass-baritone-sounding voice," said the Necromantor. 
  "I can't go that low," said Lance, the Necromancer who was a light tenor. 
  "Oh, looks like we have work to do on our side, Uncle Rey," Mortimer, who was also the local coroner, said, "We'll deal with it!"

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  Where Their Fire is Not Quenched...

  May Sinclair

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  Mary Amelia St. Clair was born on the 24th August 1863 in Rock Ferry, Cheshire.  
   
  Her father was a Liverpool shipowner who, after being made bankrupt, became an alcoholic and died whilst May was still a child.  The family then moved to Ilford, just outside London and, after a solitary year of education, May was required to stay home and help look after her older brothers, four of whom were suffering from fatal congenital heart disease. 
   
  Despite this difficult start May was determined to pursue a literary career. From 1896 May wrote professionally to support herself and her mother.  By the turn of the century she was producing not only poetry volumes but short stories, novels and some non-fiction.  She was an active feminist and supporter of the Suffrage Movement, her literary talents help to shred ideas that the suffragists were driven by sexual frustration because of the shortage of men.  
   
  Her 1913 novel ‘The Combined Maze’, the story of a London clerk and the two women he loves, was highly praised by many, including George Orwell, while Agatha Christie considered it one of the greatest English novels of its time. 
   
  In 1914, she volunteered to join the Munro Ambulance Corps on the Western Front in Flanders.  Although her time there was short-lived the experience was later reflected in both prose and poetry. 
   
  She published several poetry volumes as well as writing early criticism on Imagism and several poets of the movement.  Her novels were now also influenced by modernist techniques and her supernatural short stories are increasingly seen as valuable additions to the genre.  
   
  From the late 1920s, she suffered from the onset of Parkinson's disease, and her writing career was effectively over. 
   
  May Sinclair died on the 14th November 1946.  She was 83 and buried at St John-at-Hampstead's churchyard, London.

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  Daughter of the Mind

  Patrick McClafferty

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  More than just a dark fantasy, or urban horror story, Daughter of the Mind is a story of a father's love for his daughter. Their love for each other transcends firefights with hordes of demons from the pit, and in the end transcends death itself. Jake Donovan, a former soldier with PTSD struggles against his destitution, alcoholism, and near suicidal depression, as he rises to the occasion to protect his world, and more importantly, his family from the horrors of Hell itself.

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  The Tragical History of Doctor...

  Christopher Marlowe

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  The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as "Doctor Faustus", is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later.One of the most durable myths in Western culture, the story of Faust tells of a learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Early enactments of Faust's damnation were often the raffish fare of clowns and low comedians. But the young Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) recognized in the story of Faust's temptation and fall the elements of tragedy. In his epic treatment of the Faust legend, Marlowe retains much of the rich phantasmagoria of its origins. There are florid visions of an enraged Lucifer, dueling angels, the Seven Deadly Sins, Faustus tormenting the Pope, and his summoning of the spirit of Alexander the Great. But the playwright created equally powerful scenes that invest the work with tragic dignity, among them the doomed man's calling upon Christ to save him and his ultimate rejection of salvation for the embrace of Helen of Troy.With immense poetic skill, and psychological insight that foreshadowed the later work of Shakespeare and the Jacobean playwrights, Marlowe created in Dr. Faustus one of the first true tragedies in English. Vividly dramatic, rich in poetic grandeur, this classic play remains a robust and lively exemplar of the glories of Elizabethan drama.

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  Night of the Living Dead

  John A. Russo

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  The most frightening movie ever made is now a novel! 
  "True Horror Classic" - Newsweek. 
  John A. Russo's novel adaptation of "Night of the Living Dead" closely follows the storyline of the iconic 1968 horror film of the same name, which he co-wrote with George A. Romero. The novel serves as a faithful literary retelling of this classic cinematic masterpiece. 
  Set in rural Pennsylvania, the story begins with a mysterious event that reanimates the dead, causing them to rise from their graves and hunger for the flesh of the living. A disparate group of survivors seeks refuge in an isolated farmhouse, where they face a relentless onslaught of the reanimated corpses. As the night unfolds, tensions rise among the group, which includes the strong-willed Ben, the young and frightened Barbra, the Coopers, and others. They must work together to secure the house and protect themselves from the flesh-eating ghouls outside. 
  Russo's adaptation delves deeper into the thoughts and emotions of the characters, providing additional insights and backgrounds that were not as pronounced in the film. The novel captures the claustrophobic atmosphere, the panic, and the unrelenting terror that made the film a classic of the horror genre. It also explores the underlying social commentary, as the survivors' dynamics mirror the societal issues of the time. 
  "Night of the Living Dead" by John A. Russo is a gripping and faithful adaptation of the original movie, offering fans of the film and horror enthusiasts an opportunity to experience the story in a new and immersive way, with additional details and character development.

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  Red Snow

  Ian R. MacLeod

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  This Locus Award finalist vampire novel is “by turns western adventure, Renaissance horror, political intrigue, dysfunctional family drama, and more” (Locus). 
   
  In the aftermath of the last great battle of the American Civil War, a disillusioned Union medic stumbles across a strange figure picking amid the corpses, and his life is changed forever . . . 
   
  In Strasbourg, years before the French Revolution, a church restorer is commissioned to paint a series of portraits that chart the changing appearance of a beautiful woman over the course of her life, although the woman herself seems ageless . . . 
   
  In Prohibition-era New York, an idealistic young Marxist is catapulted into the realms of elite society, and forced to assume the identity of someone who never existed . . . 
   
  In this critically acclaimed horror saga from award-winning author Ian R. MacLeod, an ancient, mysterious evil survives, thrives, and kills through the ages into modern times. 
   
  “By turns horrifying and hauntingly beautiful, this epic vampire story is the stuff of real nightmares.” —Tim Powers author of Forced Perspectives

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