A haven of magic, myth and mayhem! Blog stops, books, reviews, interviews and more. The site of fantasy author, poet and blogger A. L. Butcher.
The year is 1888, and the place is Whitechapel, in the very heart of London. But the heart is bleeding. A mysterious killer is stalking women of the streets – his true name is unknown, but his legend will go down in history. This is a short tale of Jack the Ripper.
18 rated for scenes of violence.
You have been warned!
Ebook and Audiobook
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Here Be Zombies
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Brainsssss! The dead are walking, hungry and brains taste so good…
12 Tales of zombies and zombie hunters.
1. “Alice’s Adventures in Underland” by DeAnna Knippling
2. “I Hate Zombies” by Shantnu Tiwari
3. “Zomopolis” by Russ Crossley
4. “Zombie Ever After” by Carl S. Plumer
5. “Zombee A Go-Go” by Rebecca M. Senese
6. “Zombie Girl Invasion” by De Kenyon
7. “Life Among the Dead” by Rebecca M. Senese
8. “Usher Falling” by Sandra Seymour
9. “My Zombie Prince” by Russ Crossley
10. “A Chat Before Dinner” by Michael Kingswood
11. “The Island” by Will Overby
12. “Dragon Rising” by Russ Crossley
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Name: Augustus Thorne
Which book/world do you live in? I live within an alternate present-day world where The Cambion Journals are a part of your reality . . . albeit we’re hidden in plain sight
Tell us about yourself: (Name, race/species, etc.) My name is Augustus Thorne, and I am a Cambion. A human-demon hybrid plagued with a terrible craving to feed on the life-force of those around me. I was born during the November of 1760 to a wonderful human woman, Rosemary, whose patient guidance during my early years helped me to learn to resist the urge that would turn me into a fiend.
How do you see your world? As a foul light to be extinguished at the earliest opportunity.
What part do you play in this tale? I am the main protagonist. And you will follow the rollercoaster ride that is my everyday life as I hunt demons around the globe and deal with the fallout of my actions. Yet I couldn’t care less, I won’t rest until every last Succubus and Incubus is dead.
Do you consider yourself a good person/creature? Most certainly not. I’m a monster, cursed with a hunger I can barely control. Nobody in their right mind should come near me. But they do, to their cost.
Do you follow any religion? I worship on the altar of lives lost and dead scumbags. And I am unwavering in my devotions to sacrifice as many of the demondim as I can to the cause.
What is your favourite food? You and your most insidious, secret desires. The stronger the better.
Links to book etc
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Swift Six Set 3 – Character
Name: Augustus Thorne
Which book/world do you live in? I live within an alternate present-day world where The Cambion Journals are a part of your reality . . . albeit we’re hidden in plain sight
Tell us about yourself: (Name, race/species, etc.) My name is Augustus Thorne, and I am a Cambion. A human-demon hybrid plagued with a terrible craving to feed on the life-force of those around me. I was born during the November of 1760 to a wonderful human woman, Rosemary, whose patient guidance during my early years helped me to learn to resist the urge that would turn me into a fiend.
How do you see your world? As a foul light to be extinguished at the earliest opportunity.
What part do you play in this tale? I am the main protagonist. And you will follow the rollercoaster ride that is my everyday life as I hunt demons around the globe and deal with the fallout of my actions. Yet I couldn’t care less, I won’t rest until every last Succubus and Incubus is dead.
Do you consider yourself a good person/creature? Most certainly not. I’m a monster, cursed with a hunger I can barely control. Nobody in their right mind should come near me. But they do, to their cost.
Do you follow any religion? I worship on the altar of lives lost and dead scumbags. And I am unwavering in my devotions to sacrifice as many of the demondim as I can to the cause.
What is your favourite food? You and your most insidious, secret desires. The stronger the better.
Links to book etc
Amazon https://amzn.to/3RYfenj
Blood on the Cobbles #Crime #Horror
From legends of murder, and undead killers walking, to missing girls, deadly diseases, suspense and gore aplenty; from sleuths and detectives, murder and vengeance enter into a world of crime, clues and mayhem.
12 authors weave tales both long and short of crime and suspense.
A collection of short stories and novels.
https://books2read.com/Bloodonthecobblesbundle
Featuring:
Courageous – Russ Crossley
Who Unkilled Johnny Murder? – Robert Jeschonek
What Leads A Man to Murder? – Joslyn Chase
Nice Man Jack – Baby Ice Dog Press
By Dawn’s Bloody Light – DeAnna Knippling
Expressway Thru the Skull – M.E. Purfield
Six Crime Stories – Robert Jeschonek
Double Edged – Jessie Kwak
The Disappearance of Wicked – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Body Language – Harvey Stanbrough
Tales of Twisted Crime – Russ Crossley
Crime du Jour – Diane R. Thompson
Justice Served – Russ Crossley
The Economic Hitman – Eugene Lloyd MacRae
The Sound of Murder – Kari Kilmore
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/blood-on-the-cobbles-1
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1513274635
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-on-the-cobbles-a-l-butcher/1137022063
Nightly Bites Vol II
More short stories about vampires mingling in the pages of this anthology. Vampire Apocalypse vs. Last Vampire Survivor. Vampires with hemophobia or Asperger Syndrome. Vampires in the past and in the future, walking through the centuries because they can. Undead but immortal unless you manage to kill them. Merciless killers or merciful death givers – and even a little, shapeshifting vampire who doesn’t feed on blood.
Available on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, I tunes
Universal Link https://books2read.com/b/bQBDB0
Paperback http://amzn.to/2FRNBI1
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nightly-bites-volume-2-barbara-gtarn/1128179846
THE STORIES
The Blood is on the Wall by Felicia Fredlund
Bloody Aversion by Rebecca M. Senese
Chuck the Cross by Ezekiel James Boston
Jesslyn by Joleene Naylor
In the Shade of the Slowboat Man by Dean Wesley Smith
Legacy of the Hunted by Russ Crossley
The Raven by Barbara G.Tarn
She-devil of the Spanish Main by David Miller
So Many Nights, So Many Sins by A.L. Butcher
The Aswang Who Ate Stardust by Kate Pavelle
The year is 1888, and the place is Whitechapel, in the very heart of London. But the heart is bleeding. A mysterious killer is stalking women of the streets – his true name is unknown, but his legend will go down in history. This is a short tale of Jack the Ripper.
18 rated for scenes of violence.
https://www.books2read.com/TheWatcherJTR
Title: Web of the Succubus – Book 4 of the Cambion Journals
Author: Andrew P. Weston
Genre: Occult Horror
Main character description (short): Think of Damon Salvator from the Vampire Diaries mixed with a dark-haired version of Geralt, the Witcher, and you’ll be on the right track.
Synopsis:
Augustus Thorne has his work cut out, trying to juggle his recuperating capabilities with a turbulent personal and professional life. On the plus side, things have improved dramatically with Colleen Wolf. But, as he endeavors to cement his relationship with her, events conspire against him.
It transpires there are elements within some of the most powerful human governments who are secretly collaborating with the demon court. Their goal being to turn the majority of mankind into chattel. Brood livestock, whose only purpose is to serve the demondim’s ghastly appetites. Augustus simply can’t allow that to happen. He sets out to frustrate Asmodai’s machinations, unaware that a spider is waiting in the dark.
And it’s ready to pounce.
Brief Excerpt 250 words:
“Is it ready?” Marissa bit off each word as if they were offensive to her palate.
“Soon my love, soon,” Lamia crooned. “But tell me, why the sudden urgency?”
Marissa’s hair stood on end, the sheer potency of the charge coursing through her body generating fingers of lightning that crackled from her extremities like hungry tentacles. “That bitch seems determined to screw me over. They’re engaged, for Azazel’s sake. Engaged!” Her last remark was laced with sufficient venom to poison Leviathan.
“What?” Lamia gasped. “When? How did . . . how in the devil did they . . .”
“You tell me,” Marissa cut in. “One moment things are progressing wonderfully. I’d been careful not to get too clingy or take advantage. I bided my time, established a trust, built up mutual rapport—and then bam! He comes home leaking all sorts of puerile shit from his overexcited vapid little man brain about a spontaneous proposal at the airport. Oh, and get this. Not only did he propose, but he used a void signet to seal the deal. Not just any void signet, mind you. That wouldn’t be good enough for the esteemed Colleen Wolf. She’s gone and landed herself one of the original five. A Pentagryst, for pity’s sake! Neither of them have a clue what it is, which is just as well, because if they learn how to activate the damned thing, she’ll be virtually untouchable. Fucking pasty-faced flesh bag!”
Why should readers buy this book (50 words max)?
Because it will call to you on a deeply personal level. It’s as dark and menacing as a brewing thunderstorm on All Hallows Eve, and deals with the very real issues governing volatile relationships between passionate, supernatural creatures.
Links etc.
Amazon https://amzn.to/3RYfenj
Author Bio:
Andrew Weston is a bestselling author from the UK who now lives on the beautiful Greek island of Kos with a growing family of rescue animals.
As creator of the critically acclaimed IX Series, the Cambion Journals, and Hell Bound, Hell Hounds, and Hell Gate, (novels forming part of the Heroes in Hell universe), Andrew has the privilege of being a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, the British Science Fiction Association, and the British Fantasy Society.
He also enjoys writing review articles for Amazing Stories and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
All links:
Website/blog: https://andrewpweston.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @WestonAndrew
TikTok: @andrewpweston666
When a young nurse accepts a job at a former military hospital, she unearths a family secret and finds the spectral occupants a little too familiar.
A short ghost story.
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Library of Erana 