Novels

Two full-length novels?  For absolutely nothing?  Free books?  I must be mad! Completely off my nut.

Regardless…download them (see below), read them and enjoy them.

Both novels are set in the fictional city of Ilium, a Great Lake metropolis that’s a cross between Detroit, Buffalo and H.P. Lovecraft’s haunted Arkham.  Strange things afoot, dark forces at work.

So Dark the Night is a supernatural mystery, an homage to film noir, cult TV and pulp fiction. Imagine a weird hybrid of Raymond Chandler, the films of Val Lewton and “The X Files”.

Cassandra Zinnea and Evgeny Nightstalk are operatives employed by After Hours Investigations, a detective agency open from dusk ’til dawn. Their odd hours attract a mixed and eccentric clientele and, inevitably, they find themselves involved in cases that have paranormal and occult overtones. Zinnea’s the brains and Nightstalk supplies the brawn and as a team they’re practically unbeatable. Their relationship is fractious, bittersweet, and together they make up the most attractive and likable tandem since Holmes and Watson trod the mean streets of Victorian London.

But this time they might be in over their heads as an evil group of occultists plot to bring about the end of the world.  Cover art by Ado Ceric:

Click here to get your free PDF copy…So Dark the Night

…and here’s a podcast of an excerpt from the novel…so-dark-excerpt-1mp3

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Of the Night is a shorter effort, a  thriller set in the same universe as So Dark the Night, but taking place two years later, with a different cast of characters.

A series of events lead to a breach in the continuum, allowing fearsome creatures to break through and terrorize the citizens of Ilium.  Police detective Gus Novak soon realizes that the mutilated bodies popping up all over the city are not the handiwork of your garden variety psychopath and he enlists the aid of fellow denizens of the night in order to thwart a cruel and inhuman foe.

Cover art by Adrian Donoghue.

Click here to get your free PDF copy… of-the-night_download

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So Dark the Night took three years to write and edit and I firmly believe it is the finest work I’ve accomplished in my career thus far.

Of the Night is a shorter, companion volume. If So Dark the Night is a big budget, “A” picture,  Of the Night is a “B” flick, a tight, tense thriller, smaller in stature and scope but a treat in its own right.

Both are fast, smart, stylish reads, filled with pop culture references, in-jokes and scares galore.

Have fun with them.

These novels are available as PDF documents and can be downloaded under the terms of Creative Commons. They are copyrighted and not to be reproduced or used for commercial purposes.

Or else…