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The Boy Who Loved Death

Praise for the previous short story collection, SCRUFFIANS!:

"... a wickedly entertaining collection of short fiction fantastical and queer in nature—full of “scruffians and scamps and sodomites,” with some pirates and fairies besides. These stories range from comedic romps to lyrical and meditative explorations on the nature of meaning-making, while Duncan’s engaging and clever voice

Fantasycon Schedule

Having managed to scrape up some dosh and cadge a lift, this coming weekend I shall be at Fantasycon in Nottingham. Here's where you can find me:

FRIDAY 23rd OCTOBER

Room: The bar
X.00pm Arriving, Drinking, Saying Hi
Do they have Guinness? Hey, how's things? What're you having? Can you watch this while I go for a fag? Wait, what time is--fuck, I have a panel!

Immoderator: Hal Duncan
Panellists

Cover Reveal: Testament

A Song for David Cameron

(with apologies to the MC5)

Right now...
Right now...
It's time to...
FUCK ALL THE HAMS, MOTHERFUCKER!!!

*guitar riff kicks in*

Well I feel pretty good
And I guess that I could
Fuck gammon now maybe.
We all like some head
And I'm horny, he said,
David Cameron, baby.
You know how I want it,
That pork hot and tight.
My cock can't stand it
If it's cooled overnight.
So lemme leave you the spam...

The Island of the Pirate Gods

The Island of the Pirate Gods teaser from Hal Duncan on Vimeo.

Sad Puppy

PLAY:




SING:

Sad Puppy get up get coffee

Sad Puppy go to work

Sad Puppy write awesome fiction

For SJW jerks

Jerks say Sad Puppy very diligent

But his output stink

His work not "functional" or "elegant"

What do Sad Puppy think?

Sad Puppy think SJW want to kill science fiction out of spite

Sad Puppy not racist, just prick

Sad Puppy not sexist, just dick



Sad Puppy hate Hugos

Sad

And a Pinch of Salt

Issue 15 of Farrago's Wainscot as my latest short story, "And a Pinch of Salt," up there on the interwebs for your perusal. Click through for a tale of Anselm and cocksucking:


God works in mysterious ways—down strange back-alleys mostly, in enchanting side-streets off the boulevard, past the corner boys and through, between the narrow of tenement walls warped to concave overhangs, weird tiered

The Wolf and the Three Wise Monkeys

This is the first reading vid for my Patreon patrons, released by their kind support for the general public to enjoy. If you enjoy it, do spread the word via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, whatever. And if it whets your appetite for more, you can sign up for access to all future reading videos, which should be coming out monthly, at only a dollar a pop. Go here:

patreon.com/HalDuncan?ty=h

Lord Byron's Prophecy

Lord Byron's Prophecy, Sean Eads

"... readers will be engrossed by Eads’s skillful weaving of the past and present through the troubled psychology of sympathetic, fully human characters."


Publishers Weekly



I'm dead chuffed to see Sean Eads's Lord Byron's Prophecy get a very nice review in Publishers Weekly. Where I've been doing the book doctoring for a while, this is the first novel I

First Patreon Vid

My first Patreon reading is now posted for patrons to enjoy and/or download in video and/or audio, depending on reward level, so if anyone out there fancies a wee story for their Friday evening fun, go ye and make a pledge. A promise of even just a dollar a work should, as I understand it, get you access to the poststream, where you can currently see me resplendent in Rat Pack black suit,