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An Unbirthday Present

AN UNBIRTHDAY EXCLUSIVE FOR SUBSCRIBERS



It’s my 60th Birthday in January and I’ve decided to give an unbirthday exclusive to my newsletter subscribers. I’ll be sending out a link to download RHYTHM AND BOOZE, a wee collection of Midnight Eye stories, containing the following:

– Rhythm and Booze
– The Weathered Stone
– The Inuit Bone
– The Forth Protocol
– A Slim Chance

Thirty three thousand words of Glaswegian urban fantasy and occult detection.

If you want in on the deal, sign up at the form on the link. You’ll also get my Lovecraftian collection HOME FROM THE SEA free as a new subscriber.

http://www.williammeikle.com/giveaway...

New Book Day - RAMSKULL

RAMSKULL is new today.



In this one you’ll find a remote Scottish island, some baffled cops, bloody mayhem, a bar, an ancient Ram’s skull, dank caves, some whisky, another bar, Oban, some mad monks, a lighthouse, and more whisky.

It’s a return home for me after a few years writing Newfoundland based stories, and it’s a back-to-my-roots thing that runs in my head like a Hammer Horror, with blood so red it almost glows, screams so high they tear the top of your head off, and stoic rural workers doing what needs to be done against a terrible peril rearing up out of the past.

Another one I think should be a movie. But then I would, wouldn’t I?



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2017 - My Writing Year

2017 - My Writing Year
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The Ghost Club Launch Tour - Stop 18

GHOST CLUB LAUNCH TOUR STOP 18

My as-live radio chat with Jimmy Wienholz at The Horrific Podcast, talking about books, movies and big bugs among other things - I had a blast.

https://horrificnetwork.podbean.com/e...

THE GHOST CLUB Launch Tour - some (almost) final thoughts.

THE GHOST CLUB Launch Tour - some (almost) final thoughts.

There's still a couple of podcasts and an interview to come, but the work at my end is done.

So what have I learned?

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The Ghost Club Launch Tour - Stop 17

GHOST CLUB LAUNCH TOUR STOP 17

My as-live radio interview at Madam Perry's Salon tonight - I had a blast, talked far too much, read a few paragraphs from my Oscar Wilde story and generally enjoyed myself.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/madamepe...

The Ghost Club Launch Tour - Stop 16

GHOST CLUB LAUNCH TOUR STOP 16


A stopover this afternoon at Eric Steele's place, CONFESSIONS OF A BRITISH WRITER, to discuss how I found the voices for the individuals and their stories in THE GHOST CLUB.

https://ericiansteele.com/2017/12/14/...

Win a copy of THE GHOST CLUB

Fancy your chances at winning a copy of THE GHOST CLUB? Either sign up for my newsletter, send some tweets, subscribe to the RSS, or do all three and tweet every day for more chances to win. 

http://www.williammeikle.com/giveaway...

The Ghost Club Launch Tour - Stop 15

GHOST CLUB LAUNCH TOUR STOP 15



A stopover this afternoon at the Terror Tree blog, to discuss my favorite horror films that have been set in Scotland

http://terror-tree.co.uk/2017/12/the-...

NEW ADDITIONS TO THE MEIKLE MYTHOS

Several of the stories in my new collection THE GHOST CLUB fit into my ongoing Sigils and Totems mythos.

It’s a simple enough concept.

There are houses like this all over the world. Most people only know of them from whispered stories over campfires; tall tales told to scare the unwary. But some, those who suffer… some know better. They are drawn to the places where what ails them can be eased.

If you have the will, the fortitude, you can peer into another life, where the dead are not gone, where you can see that they thrive and go on, in the dreams that stuff is made of.
There it is in a nutshell. There are houses where people can go to get in touch with their dead loved ones.

But this gives me lots of things to play with. To even get inside a room, you need a sigil; a tattoo or carving on your skin, and a totem, a memento of your loved one. Then there’s the fact that your loved one might be a parallel universe version rather than the one you actually know.

And where do these houses come from? What’s behind the walls? How do they work? Why do they work? And who chooses the concierges who run them? Or fixes them when they don’t work?

So I’ve got all that to play with, plus the fact that the houses can exist anywhere, at any time. They’re like lots of boxy, multi-faceted Tardis, spread across space time, places and situations into which I can hook in characters and stories.

I think I’ve stumbled into something that could keep me busy for a few years.

When it came to writing THE GHOST CLUB stories, I thought it would be fun to have some of the famous writers stumble into this mythos, as if it's something that has always been out there, on the fringes of storytelling since stories were first told.

So I have Bram Stoker telling of strange doings in a house in Whitechapel, a tale that is the most directly linked in the mythos of them all, I have Rudyard Kipling's army officer stumbling into a cellar in the mountains of India where a house is in the process of being 'born', and I have Henry James telling of a chess set that may, or may not, have come from another such house, and which will turn up soon in a later story of mine that's going into the whole mythos in more depth.

These stories add to the novel, three novellas, and another handful of tales that are already published, and there is more to come.

I'm Willie Meikle, and this is my mythos.

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