Dark Tales from the Mid-World - Couverture souple

Loy, Stephan Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798227239457

Editeur : Mid-World Arts, 2024

Synopsis

It's the Mid-World Arts Spooky Season Spectacular! Thirty-four tales of the uncanny, the weird, the disturbing, and the silly. Ghost stories, monster mashes, vamp vignettes, spirit scares, and a whole bunch more. It's All Hallows Eve. The trick-or-treating is done. You've collected mountains of candy. Now it's time for the monster show marathon on TV! (Swing with it, youngsters. This is something we used to do.)

This is that marathon. The television is warming up, the proper channel is tuned, and the independent artists of Mid-World Arts present to you a Harvest of Horror, a winning line-up of short "shows" and one "movie of the week" interspersed with catchy and creepy "words from our sponsors." It's a callback to The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, and classic scary movies like The Thing from Another World and The Crawling Eye. You get the tongue-in-cheek treatment from the laugh-a-minute ridiculousness of My Name is Vickie, and more than one Hammer Films homage in The Demoniacal Machinations of Dr. Daedalus Slovak and The Diabolical Plot of Count Dracula (you supply Vincent Price and Christopher Lee). You get the Creepshow vibes of Cautionary Tale and The Power of the Pen. You get the inward-looking eye of Blood on the Scarecrow and Broken In, and the large-than-life War of the Worlds vibes of Scale and B-29.

There's something in here for everyone who loves horror, loves to laugh at horror, and loves to think about the darker aspects of what it is to be human. Or inhuman; we don't judge. So put on your mask, rock that sheet that covers your ghostly body, and hold out your plastic pumpkin bag. Because Mid-World has a treat for you, and maybe a trick, as well. Boo!

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hi! Stephan Michael Loy here. A bit about me:

First that name is pronounced 'Steven, ' not 'Stefan' as so many people suppose. My mom was as imaginative as she was inventive and I suffer accordingly: -). I've published fantasy, science fiction, and satire since 2010. All those stories come from my highly imaginative and inventive mind, but they're also anchored in my wide and long experience.

--Of growing up dirt poor, in dicey neighborhoods, and with the unflaggable intention of escaping those situations.

--Of working as a journalist. A degree in Journalism from Indiana University and publication in three Midwestern newspapers, including the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Bloomington Herald-Telephone.

--Of serving as an officer in the US Army, a move that pretty much truncated that career in journalism. Served as an Armor officer, that is, led M60A3 tanks as part of the 4th Infantry Division/11th Armored Cavalry covering force on the East-West frontier of Cold War Germany in the 1980s. Executive officer of an M1 tank company in 3/63 Armor, Germany.

--After leaving the military, I took up my second love, art, the first being the aforesaid journalism. Art history student, commercial artist, and art teacher of almost thirty years. I designed and executed all my book covers.

--First and foremost, I'm a family man. Married over forty years to the coolest woman on Earth. Two wonderful boys, one of which is disabled with autism, cerebral palsy, and mild mental handicaps. I'm allowed to exist in the same house with my two cats, Buffy the Cat Toy Slayer, and the Great and Powerful Oz, First Kitty Deluxe. Still pining for my rescue Greyhound Petra, off in the Elysian Fields of Chasing Rabbits and Rolling in Grass.

I use all of this background in the stories I create to ensure the most authentic, immersive, and exciting experience for my readers.

WHAT I'VE MANAGED SO FAR

• Eleven novels published as I write this, another five on the way soon.

• Five novellas published

• Organization of the Mid-World Arts support co-op of like-minded self-published artists

• Leader of the Mid-World Arts Writers' Critique Group, formerly the Indianapolis Writers' Critique Group.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mid-World Arts
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798227239457
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 366
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne