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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ExcerptTwo:

 

Fräulein Wunderwaffe did not return the smile. Hand onheart, the little girl drew a bit closer. Then, as the hot, animalisticpresence undulated all across Fingal’s body, the little girl’s eyes grew wide.Until the little girl’s expression turned to that of a vacant stare.

 

A moment later, her feet pointed inwards, she removed herhat and undid her long, flaxen hair.

 

Again, he cringed. “If you’ve noticed something, ignore all.This hasn’t got anything to do with you.” A third time, he cringed.

 

A most ethereal, lyrical, incomprehensible hiss commencedthen: from the other end of the winding, decorative-brick driveway, each clayblock shining the color of blue Welsh stone, a sleek Siamese cat with a coat ofchocolate-spotted ivory had just appeared. And now the creature raced towardhis shadow.

 

As he looked into the animal’s big, searching, blue eyes,the chocolate Siamese studied the off-center tip of his nose. Then the animalturned away, as if to compare the peculiarity with that of some disembodiedvisage hovering in the distance.

 

Out upon the loch, meanwhile, a miraculous rogue wavesuddenly arose—and now the swell crashed against the pebbly strand.

 

Not a moment later, a cool flame crawled across Fingal’sthroat. The strange fire rattled, too—not unlike the sound of fallen juniperleaves caught up in the current and dancing against the surface of a stonewalkway.

 

Crivens. By now, the alien, pulsating presence held him sotight that he could barely breathe. Before long, he fell to the earth, and asthe dreamlike flame continued to move across his throat, he rolled allabout—until the illusory sensation of cool warmth wriggled and twisted anddropped into his neck dimple.

 

 

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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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