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Friends with Benefits - Live Radio Interview

(Click image for link)CKCU's Friends with Benefits' host Tonya Price interviews horror-author, dark poet and 2018 Faces of Ottawa Award for Best Author (male) finalist, Michel Weatherall.~ Bonus! ~Opening music, Bad Boys Need Love Too, by Bahamas! Closing music, Creeping Death, by Metallica!(The song/lyrics feature in the opening chapter/scene of The Hunt: Symbiosys - introducing, what will become, Pharaoh of Necropolis)

The Refuse Chronicles

The fourth and final installment in The Symbiot-Series, The Refuse Chronicles is a collection of sorrowful novelettes revisiting lost & forgotten secondary characters throughout the series; the human debris and fallout of the catastrophic events of NecropolisThe world has changed since The Event.It will never be the same.Ancient and forgotten Cults stir in the darkness.The UNCGSC desperately prepares for a war they know is inevitable.Tamara Takahara – Tamara Gibbons – the last Symbiocyst returns; the consequences obliterating.The Machine searches for humanity's only hope and salvation.Titanic forces are in motion, their collision unavoidable.The Event may have changed the world,but the fallout has yet to come.All will be gambled.All will be lost.Be prepared. There is no tomorrow.(Photo is of Le Grand Rassemblement (The Grand Gathering), located in Sainte-Flavie, Quebec. It is the work of Canadian artist Marcel Gagnon. Used with permission and courtesy from the Centre d'Art Marcel Gagnon.)

A Dark Corner of My Soul

"Are you prepared to face what's really lurking in the dim recesses of your mind?... the thoughts that most of us like to pretend are not rattling around in the back of our skulls. You know the ones. They undulate when you brush against them, and they always seem to grow a few sizes bigger in the middle of the night."Lydia Schoch, Writer & Blogger. Forward from "A Dark Corner of My Soul" "An amazing collection of literary prose which Weatherall has kept locked in a desk drawer for two decades is now a short collection of dark and deeply disturbing poems. "The reader is transported into the mind of someone suffering and you can see the images of his words as if they were your own. "As a sufferer myself, I was amazed at just how much he was able to write and convey how mental illness makes a sufferer feel. Those images which are so difficult to explain that haunt the head flow off the page, raw and exposed for all to see.I couldn't possibly choose a favourite in the collection as they were all so powerful and beautifully written. Michel has a true talent and after reading I felt he was extremely brave to share such wonderful, if dark work."TDC Book Reviews

The Refuse Chronicles

The fourth and final installment in The Symbiot Series. The Refuse Chronicles bring this series to its brutal conclusion!The Refuse Chronicles is a collection of sorrowful novelettes revisiting lost & forgotten secondary characters throughout the series; the human debris and fallout of the catastrophic events of Necropolis.The world has changed since The Event.It will never be the same.Ancient and forgotten Cults stir in the darkness.The UNCGSC desperately prepares for a war they know is inevitable.Tamara Takahara – Tamara Gibbons – the last Symbiocyst returns; the consequences obliterating.The Machine searches for humanity's only hope and salvation.Titanic forces are in motion, their collision unavoidable.The Event may have changed the world,but the fallout has yet to come.All will be gambled.All will be lost.Be prepared. There is no tomorrow.(Photo is of Le Grand Rassemblement (The Grand Gathering), located in Sainte-Flavie, Quebec. It is the work of Canadian artist Marcel Gagnon. Used with permission and courtesy from the Centre d'Art Marcel Gagnon.)

Necropolis

Be Prepared. The Rising Has ComeThe 3rd book of the Lovecraftian-horror, The Symbiot-Series."Woven throughout this entire literary piece are the stories of characters forgotten from the original novella, The Symbiot. Written as three separate pieces, following 6 story lines set in 3 different ages, Necropolis is intricate storytelling!"The first piece tells the story of the fall and demise of the ancient Egyptian man-god, Pharaoh Nyarlathotep. The second brings us back to the characters we left in the previous book, ten years later. The promises hinted at in TheHunt: Symbiosys, do not disappoint and come to fruition in Necropolis, with full blown Lovecraftian-mythos monsters!"It's Modern Tech versus forgotten aeons-old evil, with a reminiscent flavouring similar to Grandma Death's fictitious book (Donnie Darko, 2001)!"It has been a decade since The Hunt and the Gibbons' children are humanity's last hope!"The conclusion of The Symbiot Series spans three millennia - from Pharaoh Nyarlathotep's genesis and demise, to the discovery of the derelict Japanese Destroyer, the Yamayuki, to the world shattering rising of R'lyeh!"The world is at its end!R'lyeh has risen!Cthulhu's high priest has awoken!Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!"'Seph Sayers, Blogger & Reviewer

Perfect Books hosts Michel Weatherall

Spring tour dates are beginning to line up! There is no rest for the wicked!Local cosmic-horror author, dark poet, and 2018 Faces of Ottawa Awards finalist for Best Author, male, Michel Weatherall will be making an appearance at Ottawa's very own independent book store, Perfect Books, 258 Elgin Street!

Daytime Ottawa TV Show!

Check out Dot Iskra Rekrut Wasilewski and Lillian Carriere on Daytime Ottawa with Dylan Black!They're promoting this upcoming Goddess of Love Valentine Psychic & Craft Fair at the Bronson Centre (211 Bronson Ave.) on Feb 11th, noon - 4pm!Don't miss it!I'll be there as a special guest and author too!

The Hunt: Symbiosys

Fear the Future. The Rising is Coming."Action packed political and supernatural thrills are the backbone of this nod to Lovecraftian horror. Michel deftly weaves a fistful of threads into a tapestry of darkness..."Laurie Stewart, Apt613 reviewFollowing immediately on the heels of The Symbiot, its events segue directly into The Hunt: Symbiosys.Barely eclipsing global extinction, the Gibbons' couple are forced to flee and hide from clandestine forces intent on their eradication.Centering between Montreal and Tokyo, this sequel introduces an unimaginable new world threat!A slow burning intercontinental chess match quickly escalates into its fast paced and violent conclusion!This book drops delicious hints of the advent of Lovecraftian-mythos monsters! Foreshadowing a hidden but impending doom, this entire sequel is haunted by an unnameable undertow which promises to reach fruition in this trilogy's upcoming conclusion,Necropolis

2018 Faces of Ottawa Awards' Gala

2018 Faces of Ottawa Awards' Gala was a blast!From arriving via limo courtesy of East Coast Limos (Keith Rogers)To an truly touching and inspiring conversation I had with Ottawa's very own Danielle Allard!Although I didn't win Favourite Author (male), it was still an honour to have been nominated! Thank you to all my friends, family, and fans! Thank you Ottawa for your support!

The Symbiot

Not All Truths Will Set You Free"In the Symbiot, Weatherall has created a spine chilling tale reminiscent of the style of Stephen King"TDC Book Reviews“Lovecraftian atmosphere and themes at their best. Michel Weatherall is a master of this style of horror - he’ll keep you up all night reading, then for days just thinking about it.”Apt613's Review"Devoted music enthusiast and accomplished pianist, Lorne S. Gibbons, realizes the grim truth regarding a long lost and forbidden music as an evil entity is unleashed which threatens all existing life of Earth. As a crescendo of unknowable forces prepare to wipe out anyone in their way, Lorne and Veronica begin a race against complete annihilation. With little reinforcements, Lorne and Veronica have to fight against the god-aspiring creature to avoid further bloodshed. However, when godly power collides with humanity, the results are devastating."Joshua Hubley"One man's musical passion leads on a temporal hunt through a Lovecraftian world on a collision course with extinction! Reminiscent with Guy de Maupassant's The Horla"'Seph Sayers, Blogger & Book Reviewerpt 613's review