Head’s up, true believers! Melkart In The Land Of Blue Men is out on Kindle in the December ’23 issue of Savage Realms, a leading sword and sorcery magazine. This is the second Melkart story to appear in SR. An early fan review is favorable:
“Melkart is a herculean figure looking for adventure. To which he always seems to discover in spades. A giant has usurped the allegiance of the local men causing grief to the local authority. The predations of these men and the giant must be stopped for the good of all.”
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Enjoy, true believers. ‘Nuff said!
On a whim, I wrote a holiday season story, We Wish You A Merry Mithras, aware a limited market was available since it’s neither heartwarming nor sentimental. Lo, Mithras found a home in Wicked Shadow Press, a small press in India, in their Wicked Anthology, Christmas Of The Dead: Yule Cat Codex. I like adding India to exotic places where I’ve been published in addition to Denmark and Bulgaria. Lavishly illustrated in an appropriately seasonal manner, the antho’s full of macabre merriment in a Yuletide vein, including my own yarn where an uptight Silicon Valley exec visits his pagan brother-in-law for the holidays.
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Rejoice, true believers! Melkart the Mighty strides the earth once again. Thrill to his latest adventure (for free!), Melkart And The Daimon’s Bride. A daimon, a wolf in man’s form, terrorized a city, demanding a young, beautiful virgin as an annual sacrifice. That is, he did until Melkart came along. The story’s in the Winter Solstice 2023 issue of Eternal Haunted Summer, an e-zine dedicated to original poetry and short fiction about the Gods and Goddesses and heroes of the world’s many Pagan traditions. This issue’s theme is horror and is the first to come with a trigger warning. As a practitioner of hardboiled, two-fisted, blood and guts pulp fiction, I can only give my hearty approval! As I said, the story’s free, so get your Melkart fix with a simple mouse click. All credit and big thanks to author and editor Rebecca Buchanan for publishing my “rousing dark fantasy sword-and-sorcery adventure” (to quote her). https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2023/melkart-and-the-daimons-bride/ https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/
Girls’ Night Out is horror flash fiction about a bunch of drunk and high sorority girls who take a dare way too far, another cruel story with no redeeming message that’s a minor specialty of mine. Last Girls Club is a magazine tribute to the great gothic girls comix of the 70s and a compendium of modern feminist horror from the future. This is the second time my fiction has been featured in a feminist magazine and once again I’m flattered they accepted this old male fogey’s yarn. GNO appears in the Winter Solstice 2023 issue, Clones, Drones, And Ready Made Meals. Print copies are available through http://Blurb.com. PDF copies may be obtained at the LGC website: https://www.lastgirlsclub.com/pdfcopy/p/winter-2023-issue-no-12-drones-clones-and-ready-made-meals
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