Hunt in the Romanian Hills (part 2)
Returning to the village of Dragovista, Arnold explores the area around the village–seeking the source of the tragedy that has afflicted the remote community.
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Hunt in the Romanian Hills (Part 1)
After arriving in Romania, Arnold Hunt is pressed into service as a surgeon–a task that brings him face to face with a terrifying medical aberration. His efforts to unravel the mystery lead him to a rural village in the Transylvanian hills.
The Royal Archives
Jim Galgadet crosses the Atlantic on the trail of an arcane book linked to the British Royal Society. His search does not go unnoticed and those watching from the shadows have their own agendas.
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The Arabian Campaign
In the exploration of an ancient Arabian city, Frank Zylka stirs up a hornet’s nest, and struggles to contain the damage.
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The Soviet Files
Unsure where to begin a search for occult threats, Jim Galgadet tracks down a former colleague Wassily Petrov, who defected from the Soviet Union. What he finds in the Soviet files evokes first curiosity and then sanity bending horror.
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The Postmortem
Marching orders are handed down to a group of university professors after a near disastrous attack on the university library: go on offense, hunt down and fight back against occult forces that have endangered their community. The Ultimatum is the first in a 12 part series that follows the Chester Fritz professors as they battle across four continents with necromantic cultists, dark gods, and sadistic monsters.
If you enjoy the story, consider reading an excerpt from the novel, The Legacy of Chester Fritz, which describes The Battle of the Chester Fritz Library as told by Norm Rolliins.
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The Diary of Chester Fritz and the Boy God
The kernel for the Chronicles of Chester Fritz was reading Fritz’s travel diary, which he published later in life as China Journey. The book is a fascinating read in its own right. I’ve re-written the events described in Fritz’s diary as one part of a novel. I’ve also introduced a traveling companion, Bellamy, who is the primary vehicle for my own story.
No Work, or Odd Jobs?
So for the past couple weeks I have been completely swamped with work and with home schooling children in the midst of a massive pandemic. Thus, my writing has pretty much ground to a halt. All the same, I’ve been devouring a really fun Lovecraft-adjacent series by Heide Goody and Iain Grant: Oddjobs
Comparative Word Clouds
Most of the stories I write tend to draw on elements from the Lovecraftian Mythos, but occasionally I tackle a specific story and work solely within it. In my current project, I’ve re-worked Lovecraft’s well known The Nameless City and given it a contemporary feel. For my own amusement I ran both stories through several text analysis algorithms.