Bards and Sages “Great Tomes” Contract Received, Contents Revealed

This one is for another reprint, “The Candle Room,” a tale of magic and Lovecraftianish mystery from THE TEARS OF ISIS, originally published in TERMINAL FRIGHT for Summer 1995.  Candle magic, to be exact, centering around an odd candle that he had bought for his girlfriend Niki’s birthday.  Fortunately it had come with instructions, so when she was kidnapped by strange, bearded gray men. . . .

So here will be another chance to read it, the book to be called THE GREAT TOME OF FORGOTTEN RELICS AND ARTIFACTS (cf. October 21), the first in Bards and Sages Publishing’s “Great Tomes” series of themed anthologies, tentatively set for a March 2016 publication date.  The theme for this one:  “Plots revolving around magical items, cursed relics, ancient artifacts, or alien devices.  The device must be central to the plot.”  And so, on Wednesday*, the contract arrived to be signed and put in the mail today.

Also a fooling around on the Bards and Sages website revealed an “up-to-now” table of contents with the proviso that one or two more titles could conceivably be added to it.  More information on it and the Great Tomes series in general, the second book in which is open to submissions now, can be found by pressing here.  While here are the contents for Tome number one:

The Candle Room by James S. Dorr

The Heart of Irelda by Jeff Sullins

Her Long Hair Shining by Simon Kewin

Digging for Paradise by Ian Creasey

Light Bringer by Deborah Walker

The Nimrod Lexicon by Taylor Harbin

Life Sentence by Miranda Stewart

The Shepherd by CB Droege

The Rightful Owner by Linda Tyler

The Head of John the Baptist by G. Miki Hayden

The Binding Agent by Douglas J. Ogurek

Seamus Tripp and the Golden Plates by Richard Walsh and Jon Garett

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*Not to be confused with the cave cat Wednesday (see October 30) who, having survived two trips to the vet and a course of antibiotics, seems now to be doing well.  : )=