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.
Tag: Lovecraft
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 Life and Alchemical Reasoning of John Dee
I’ve been outlining a story about the Dee Society, allegedly founded by the Elizabethian occultist John Dee. Dee’s life is fascinating in its own right, in part because the man appears to have been a true believer, which left him open to the same kind of cons that his whole field of study was based upon.
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.
The Secret Tunnels
“You call the Salem witchcraft a delusion, but I’ll wage my four-times-great-grandmother could have told you things. They hanged her on Gallows Hill, with Cotton Mather looking sanctimoniously on. Mather, damn him, was afraid somebody might succeed in kicking free of this accursed cage of monotony—I wish someone had laid a spell on him or sucked his blood in the night!” “I can shew you a house he lived in, and I can shew you another one he was afraid to enter in spite of all his fine bold talk. He knew things he didn’t dare put into that stupid Magnalia or that puerile Wonders of the Invisible World. Look here, do you know the whole North End once had a set of tunnels that kept certain people in touch with each other’s houses, and the burying-ground, and the sea? Let them prosecute and persecute above ground—things went on every day that they couldn’t reach, and voices laughed at night that they couldn’t place!”
Artwork Launch
It is going to be a slow process to get this project off the ground. Right now it is a couple rough drafts of stories and outlines for about a dozen more. But in my spare time, I’ve been working to get the supporting infrastructure in place. So here is the first snippet of this project, the Podcast artwork! (version 1 and subject to revisions).