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The Watchers

The WatchersISBN: 978-1-988253-10-7 (digital)​The 7th chronicle ofThe Refuse Chronicles,The Watchersis the 1st title of theTamara-threadof storylines and 2nd of theSentinel-thread(AfterUNCGSC: The Facility.The cross-overs are beginning!)​Picking up only days after the events ofNecropolis, we follow Tamara and her grandmother, Veronica, as they flee and attempt to find solace and refuge from the UNCGSC andThe Machine.​There is nowhere to hide.The Machinesees all.Available in ebook through Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Apple iBooks!

A Dark Corner of My Soul

A Dark Corner of My SoulISBN - 978-0-9948189-6-6 (digital)ISBN - 978-1-988253-00-8 (print)​Foreword by Lydia Schoch (blogger & Goodreads Author)"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 ReviewsPrefer ebooks?This selected collection of dark poetry will be available atOrigin Trade Coffeehouse & Lounge, Feb. 25th!

Arkham Horror

Big fan of Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror, or Elder Signs?The game board is set in Lovecraft's fictional city of Arkham during 1926. Street, building and outdoor locations are featured, as well as otherworldly locations that investigators can venture into. Players each have an investigator, represented by a character card. Each investigator has several attributes (such as "sanity"), and cards representing items, spells, and other things. As game play progresses, gates to these other worlds open and are represented by tokens placed on the board. Monsters from the other worlds enter through the gates and wander the city. The investigators travel through the city, avoiding or fighting the monsters, visiting city locations to acquire tools, and ultimately entering the gates. After traveling through the other world and returning, the investigator can try to close the gate. While exploring city locations or other worlds, the investigators face random events which may benefit or harm them. As gates open, a "Doom Track" advances; if the track reaches its end, a powerful horrific creature known as the Ancient One breaks through into Arkham. In the 1987 edition of the game, this ends the game, and all players lose. In the 2005 edition, this (in most cases) begins an endgame in which the players have a small chance to defeat the creature and win; otherwise they lose.Eldritch Horror is a tabletop strategy board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2013. The players explore locales around the world filled with Lovecraftian horrors.Players fight an ancient evil stirring from its slumber and must seal off this awakening horror before it's too late. Players travel around the globe battling monsters, solving mysteries, and equipping up, all to banish the Ancient One threatening to destroy the world.Elder Sign is a cooperative card and dice game, based on the Cthulhu Mythos of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. It is published by Fantasy Flight Games, which also produces the Cthulhu Mythos games Arkham Horror, Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game, Mansions of Madness, and Eldritch Horror.Can't get enough of Lovecraftian-horror?Want to see a modern take on Cthulhu-mythos monsters?A fresh interpretation ofYog-sothothery?Check out local Lovecraftian-horror authorMichel Weatherall'sThe Symbiot-Series!Where do you play?Kobold's Corner430 Hazeldean RoadKanata, Ontario613-836-3030Comet Comics1167 Bank StreetOttawa, Ontario613-260-8076The Comic Book Shoppe(Clyde)1400 Clyde AvenueOttawa, Ontario613-228-8386These titles are all there!Ask for them by name (The Symbiot), or author (Michel Weatherall).Catch up! The fourth installment of the series!(The Refuse Chronicles)

New Locations!

NowThe Symbiot-Seriesis available atThe Comic Book Shoppe, MerivaleColes - Bayshore Shopping CentreColes- Billings Bridge Plaza!No matter where you are, my books are there!

Thirsty?

Thirsty for more?Drop byOrigin Trade Coffeehouse & Lounge Feb. 25th!Listen to theCHUO 89.1 FM interviewpromoting this upcoming event, with host Livia Belcea!The Refuse Chroniclespromises to be drastically different type of novel.Breaking away from traditional linear story telling,The Refuse Chronicleswill be an anthology of about 14 Novelettes. (Novelettes technically are longer than short stories, but shorter than Novellas, ranging somewhere in the area of 7,500-17,000 words).These numerous stories will be able to be read in any sequence, but will tell a larger overarching story.Ultimately, finishing off the entireSymbiot-Series!There is no tomorrow!The Symbiot-Series' books are as follows: The SymbiotThe Hunt: SymbiosysNecropolis (print edition includes all 3 volumes.)You'll be able to pick-up (and catch-up!) on this entire series! These books will be available at Origin Trade Coffeehouse, Feb. 25th!Already caught up? ReadThe Symbiot,The Hunt: Symbiosys, and Necropolis?Thirsty for a taste ofThe Refuse Chronicles?A few of its novelettes are available in ebooks!Check them out! UNCGSC: The Facilitytakes us to the most  extremely remote facility on the planet, where experimentations into Artificial Intelligence, Turing Tests, and Sentience are carried out!​​Set in a mysterious 'Dead Zone' of  Antarctica, UNCGSC: The Facility couldn't be more isolated.​It is awakening. The question is, what is awakening?Heidelberg: The Kiss of DagonFollowing the 1925 storyline from Necropolis: Pharaoh (“Schäfer's Expedition”) and returning to our heroine - Donita de LaFontaine - our story continues as both a sequel to the tragic 1930 events at theGreat Pagan Temple of Shub-Niggurath(Necropolis: R'lyeh) and a prequel to The Symbiot (1987).​Traveling with her adolescent daughter, Nadia, between Nazi Germany and the Allies' England, Donita is playing a dangerous game.​Returning thirteen years later, Donita finds herself caught in the subterfuge machinations of the Nazi's and other dark cults desperate to attainThe Music of the Spheres. With Otto Zann comatose it isonlyDonita de LaFontaine that knowsThe Music!Seven Days in Pnakotus“Seven Days in Pnakotus” features Dr. Genevieve Cadeaux from “The Hunt: Symbiosys”.Set in the desert wasteland of Australia, this 10th chronicle returns to a very basic style of horror.The orbiting A.I., Sentinel has located the lost Library City of Pnakotus. A UNCGSC team is dispatched on a mission into the Waste, but will they discover the Great Yithian’s secrets or what lurks in the shifting sands?“Seven Days in Pnakotus” transpires in exactly one week.Soon to be release covers will includeStill want more?!Although the cover art isn't yet available, other novelette titles ofThe Refuse Chronicleswill include:Saverne: Le Château d'automneTwelve StepsAmnesic GhostsHMCS NokomisThe Quarantine BattleK(no)w Tomorrow

Events!

Local Lovecraftian-horror author Michel Weatherall's upcoming Events Dates:~ Feb. 25th ~~ Mar. 25th ~~ Apr. 1st ~~ Apr. 22nd ~~ June 24th ~~ July 15th ~~ July 28th ~~ Aug. 11th ~

The Symbiot-Series: Book 3

NecropolisISBN - 978-0-9948189-4-2 (print)Be Prepared. The Rising Has Come.​​"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 & ReviewerInterested in ebooks?Necropolis,the Symbiot-Series3rd book will be available atOrigin Trade Coffeehouse, Saturday, Feb. 25th!

Cash Strapped?

Major credit cards now accepted!Outside the big box bookstores, I'm able to offer my books at a significantly reduced price! (Up to over 35% off Chapter's cover prices!)These smaller more intimate events and venues are the place to pick-up yourautographedcopies ofThe Symbiot-Series!Feb. 11th:The Goddess of Love Valentines Psychic & Craft FairFeb. 25th:Origin Trade Coffeehouse & LoungeMarch (25th tentatively):Alice's Village CafeMay-September:The Byward Market!

The Symbiot, a Love Story?

After the initial events inThe Symbiot, the world believes Marie Gibbons is dead.A faithful husband on the brink of insanity, main character Lorne S. Gibbons' motive is the pursuit of his dead and missing wife.Due to the fallout of the initial cataystic event, he never gets the opportunity until the second book. (The Hunt: Symbiosys).In a veiled sort of way, its underlying themecouldbe a love story.The second book ofThe Symbiot-Series-The Hunt: Symbiosys- follows his wife's story and reunification - again with a love theme.Although not a focal point, certain events do occur on Valentine's Day in both the second and 3rd books (Necropolis).We also get to witness the Otto Zann and Donita de LaFontaie love affair blossom to its tragic finale inNecropolis.Ok, who am I kidding? They aren't love stories. They are Weird Fiction/Lovecraftian-horrors. (Although no part of what I described in incorrect!)Swing byThe Goddess of Love Valentines Psychic & Craft Fair!I'll be there! Come and chit-chat with me. I'll give you the premise of the upcoming 4th and final book of the series:The Refuse Chronicles.Also available will beA Dark Corner of My Soul, a select collection of dark poetry.Cash & Credit Cards accepted!Great deals! Better prices available then at local book shops or Chapters and Coles!Get the entire Symbiot-Series for $ 45.00 (and A Dark Corner of My Soul thrown in for FREE!). Regular bookstore prices would be $ 61.96 (That's over a $ 20.00 savings - over 35% off!)

Apt613 Live - Discover Michel Weatherall's Lovecraftian World

Check outCHUO 89.1 FM's host of Apt 613LIVE's Livia Belcea's interview with local Lovecraftian-horror author MichelWeatherall!( ~link~ )Featured on this radio interview (and podcast) are soundtracks from Weatherall's book, The Symbiot!Tracks include Megadeth's Into the Lungs of Hell, and Mozart's Don Giovanni!