Illuminating the Obscure

There are a couple of new publications I have pieces in – the most significant being Triple Obscura 2 from @Rhys Hughes Gibbon Moon Books.

Rhys – who I admire for his own work as well as his publishing – was kind enough to choose me for the second of volume of this great series. I have six stories – 20,000 words in total – in this publication.

The stories I chose were some of the more unusual and experimental of my output and include two about the imaginary version of the London Institute of ‘Pataphysics and two featuring my version of Alfred Jarry. In one he is a psychic detective and in the other he gets a visit from a man who has used Jarry’s story to build a time machine to prevent the holocaust.

Another story also takes an oblique look at the same event as a book finder looks for fragments of an impossible book.

The final tale is based on my time as a journalist at the Shields Gazette and is my homage to the wonderful Wodehouse.

If you are kind enough to buy a copy and like the stories, a review on Amazon would be wonderful. The other publication I’m featured in is Eternal Haunted Summer ezine in their Gardens issue. Inspired partly by the early stories of Avram Davidson it is set in my imaginary eerie Fenland village of Great Marshway.