Into the Darkness with Mr. Cairo
No work on the new story this morning. I woke up an hour late, then spent the morning organizing anthology stuff, sending rejections, dividing part of the maybe pile into "Yes", "Still Maybe" and "No" piles, and cleaning out the inbox. It's going to be a pretty good anthology.
Today's spotlight chapbook is "The Legend of Mr. Cairo", which was inspired by the Jon & Vagellis song "The Friends of Mr. Cairo"--which, if you haven't heard it, you should do so--and a book I found at the library 20 years ago about torture methods. In this story, Morghan Stanley doesn't know he's been possessed by an ancient evil spirit that wants nothing more than to kill and maim. Morghan has been captured by a mysterious sect that has been trailing the demon through the centuries, and it's determined to exorcise the demon, no matter the consequences to Morghan himself.
The story is backed by "Preparations" and "Astrid Like a Candle", the first two of my Mr. Seagle and Mr. Perry stories. Though unconnected, these stories feature the same characters in similar situations: Mr. Seagle's wife Astrid has died of lung cancer and Mr. Perry is the funeral director helping him out. "Preparations" is the first story I ever had published--well, that I didn't publish myself or wasn't published by a close friend--and it opens my collection Terrible Thrills. "Astrid Like a Candle" was inspired by the Siouxsie & the Banshees song "Melt" and a Clive Barker story, which I can't remember the name of, so never mind. It's a very creepy story and one I wouldn't mind seeing filmed.
You can get this chapbook in print for $4.99 from CreateSpace (https://www.createspace.com/3964997) or Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Legend-Cair...), or for $2.99 your Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Mr-Cairo...), also at Amazon, while other ebook formats are, as always, available at Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
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Today's spotlight chapbook is "The Legend of Mr. Cairo", which was inspired by the Jon & Vagellis song "The Friends of Mr. Cairo"--which, if you haven't heard it, you should do so--and a book I found at the library 20 years ago about torture methods. In this story, Morghan Stanley doesn't know he's been possessed by an ancient evil spirit that wants nothing more than to kill and maim. Morghan has been captured by a mysterious sect that has been trailing the demon through the centuries, and it's determined to exorcise the demon, no matter the consequences to Morghan himself.
The story is backed by "Preparations" and "Astrid Like a Candle", the first two of my Mr. Seagle and Mr. Perry stories. Though unconnected, these stories feature the same characters in similar situations: Mr. Seagle's wife Astrid has died of lung cancer and Mr. Perry is the funeral director helping him out. "Preparations" is the first story I ever had published--well, that I didn't publish myself or wasn't published by a close friend--and it opens my collection Terrible Thrills. "Astrid Like a Candle" was inspired by the Siouxsie & the Banshees song "Melt" and a Clive Barker story, which I can't remember the name of, so never mind. It's a very creepy story and one I wouldn't mind seeing filmed.
You can get this chapbook in print for $4.99 from CreateSpace (https://www.createspace.com/3964997) or Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Legend-Cair...), or for $2.99 your Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Mr-Cairo...), also at Amazon, while other ebook formats are, as always, available at Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
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