Blog Tour: ON THE THRESHOLD by M. Laszlo

 

On the Threshold

by M. Laszlo

 

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GENRE: Historical Science Fiction

 

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BLURB:

 

Obsessed with learning the origins of the cosmos, the actualmeaning of life, and the true purpose of civilization, a fine Scotsman namedFingal T. Smyth dedicates himself to the study of Plato’s most extraordinaryideas. Convinced of Plato’s belief that humankind possesses any and all innateknowledge deep within the collective unconscious mind, Fingal soon conducts aseries of bold, pioneering occult-science experiments by which to resolve theriddle of the universe once and for all. However, Fingal forgets how violentand perilous the animal impulses that reside in the deepest recesses of theunconscious mind. And when Fingal unleashes a mysterious avatar of his innateknowledge, the entity appears as a burning man and immediately seeks tomanipulate innocent and unsuspecting people everywhere into immolatingthemselves. Now, with little hope of returning the fiery figure into his being,Fingal must capture his nemesis before it destroys the world.

 

 

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Excerpt One:

 

Autumn, 1907: late one morning, some kind of torrid,invisible beast seemed to wrap itself all around Fingal T. Smyth’s body. Eachone of his toes twitching fiercely, he exited the castle and scanned thedistant, Scottish Highlands. Go back where you came from. As the entity wrappeditself tighter all about his person, Fingal blinked back his tears. I’mmelting, I am. Aye, it’s the heat of fusion.

           

Gradually, the beast’s heartbeat became audible—eachpulsation. At the same time, too, the illusory heat of transformation emittedan odor as of oven-roasted peppercorns dissolving in a cup of burnt coffee.

 

Over by the gatehouse, Fräulein Wunderwaffe appeared—thelittle German girl wearing a plain-sewn robe and square-crown bowler. In thatmoment, she no longer seemed to be a sickly child of seven years: herinscrutable expression resembled that of a wise, indifferent cat.

 

Perhaps even some kind of lioness. Fingal cringed, and herecalled a fragment of conversation from three weeks earlier.

 

“She suffers from a most unnatural pathology, an anguished,maniacal obsession with cats,” Doktor Hubertus Pflug had explained. “Ever sincethe poor girl was a baby, she has always regarded it her fate to one daymetamorphose into a glorious panther, for she believes herself to be einGestaltwandler. Do you know this word? It means shapeshifter and refers tosomeone who possesses the power to take the form of anything in nature.”

 

The heat radiated up and down Fingal’s spine now, and histhoughts turned back to the present. Aye, it’s a change of phase. I’m meltinginto a chemical compound. Despite all, he greeted the girl and willed himselfto flash a grin.

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

M. Laszlo is anaging recluse who lives in Bath, Ohio. Rumor holds that his pseudonym is areference to Victor Laszlo, a character in the classic film Casablanca. On theThreshold is his first release with the acclaimed, Australian hybrid house AIAPublishing. Oddly, M. Laszlo insists that his latest work, On the Threshold,does in fact provide the correct answer to the riddle of the universe. 

 

Buy link: https://aiapublishing.com/product/on-the-threshold-m-laszlo/

 

 

 

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