Surprise! I have a new ebook that YOU CAN BUY RIGHT NOW
Do you like screwball comedies starring famous historical figures?
Do you like both bank robberies AND grave robberies?
Do you like vampires, but kind of wish somebody would make fun of them?
Then dude: we should totally hang out.
I am extremely pleased to be announcing my newest book, available today for the ereader of your choice. There is no print version–this is an ebook exclusive, and honestly probably a little too niche-y to ever see print anyway (unless you live in Germany, where it comes out next year). After years of love and revision and polishing, I am exceedingly pleased to present:
A NIGHT OF BLACKER DARKNESS
An Extremely Silly Horror Novel
The basic premise is this: it's 1817, and a man named Frederick Whithers is wallowing in jail for a crime he didn't commit, desperate to get out so he can go and commit it for real. He fakes his own death and escapes in a coffin, but when he gets to the graveyard and crawls out of the coffin, somebody sees him and assumes he's a vampire. It's pretty much all downhill from there.
Frederick spends the rest of the book doing everything he can to steal a massive inheritance from a dead man, all the while running from constables, vampire hunters, ghouls, poets, proper young ladies, highly improper young ladies, morticians, mysterious figures, and the most pathetic collection of vampires to ever disgrace a work of fiction. The book is, as I mentioned above, Extremely Silly: imagine a horror story, as written by Monty Python, in the style of the old screwball comedies like The Producers, What's Up Doc?, and Some Like it Hot, and then imagine that for some reason it's also in the style of a Victorian frame story starring John Keats and presented by a fake historian. Some of you aren't going to get it, but some of you are going to wonder where this book has been all your life.
Intrigued? Thanks to the miracle of Internet connectivity, you can download and read A NIGHT OF BLACKER DARKNESS right this very second:
This should cover just about everybody; I tend to use the Stanza app on my iPad, and the Smashwords link works great for that. If you use a different ereader, just open the catalog and do a search. It should be available pretty much everywhere.
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Dan, I've hung on to an old draft of this you sent me almost ten years ago. Someday I'll have to print it out and have you sign it. Congratulations on this and all other success! P.S. I still want to get my hands on that "Waterfall" short story you wrote years ago--all I remember is a great scene with a vampire hiding behind a shower curtain.
