NEWS FROM THE ABYSS – END OF SUMMER

Hello Horror Friends,

I hope you’re all doing very well and had a fiendish summer. It’s been a few months, so it’s time I shared some news from the abyss. I was working hard on the new novel, and I’m delighted to report that I finished the first draft a few days ago. The novel’s working title is Black Metal, Black Magic, Black Moon. I don’t think it will change because I love this title, but never say never, so let’s call it a working title for now.

I can’t show you a blurb or plot teaser yet as this is only the finished first draft. A lot can change. What is sure is that the book lingers somewhere between urban fantasy and horror, the tone resembling the early novels of Clive Barker. We called that genre dark fantasy in the past, but I feel like that the genre definition was hijacked by sparkly vampires being in love with muscular werewolves. Nothing wrong with those books, of course, but my book is very different from them. Sometimes, this novel will be scary and disturbing (or at least I try to make it so), other times it will charter into urban fantasy territory while keeping the dark vibe. The best way I could describe it would be as Harry Potter’s magical world meets the horrors of Hellraiser while black metal blasts as the background music.

I also plan for this to be part of a larger world with multiple interconnected novels that you can enjoy as standalone stories. But if you read more of them, you will recognize characters and build a bigger understanding of the world. I don’t have a release date yet, sometime next year for sure. It depends how the editing will go. I will keep you updated with the progress.

Thanks for reading. I don’t want to take up more of your valuable time. For the rest of the year, you can expect to hear from me more, anyway. I’m already looking forward to Halloween, and the greatest season of all, the beautifully atmospheric Autumn. If you haven’t yet, please take a look at my latest release, The Uninvited Words Volume 3. And keep the chalice raised until next time.

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From the back cover:

Come and enter The Uninvited Words Collection. Enter through any story, continue in any order, but beware. Once you are through, there is no coming back. The vortex of horrors will trap you and sentence you to read. Forever.

In the third volume of horror and dark fantasy tales, S Kovax returns with a novella and five short stories. He invites you to an artistic journey in which obsession merges with insanity, a journey that not even death can disrupt. He throws you into a post-apocalyptic, vampire-ridden world through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. He dares you to look into the future, where every emotion can be engineered through a new tech-drug. And much more. Stories of destiny, despair, and devastation.

Words without invitation, bringing terror and madness as their companions. Invading your mind to reveal a world of shadows where everything is possible. Weird, monstrous, and magical things dwell there, waiting only for you.