Bøker av Darren Speegle

A couple are caught in a violent snowstorm as they ascend notorious Harrow Mountain in Chi Bay, Alaska for a getaway at a Forest Service remote cabin, only to discover that what awaits them is far worse than any blizzard.An archbishop must prowl the streets of the ancient Roman city of Trier, penance for the ultimate sacrilege.On an earth decimated by plague, a survivor fraught with guilt carries on his person a specialized strain of that plague with the teetering intent of unleashing it upon an unsuspecting world again, this time to even more devastating effect.A novelist is tormented by hellish visions of Henry Fuseli's macabre painting The Nightmare.A man haunted by family tragedy takes his girlfriend to Lake Garda, Italy, where secrets reside, secrets that could destroy both of them.These and other strange, dark avenues await the curious among the monks of a separate cloth.

Prepare to lose yourself in the mesmerizing voice and worldview of author Darren Speegle…"Speegle's delicious evocation of landscape delivers the reader, quite seamlessly, from places of precisely-evoked geography into landscapes of haunting spiritual menace…" - Graham JoyceIn his latest short story collection of dark, unsettling tales, Darren Speegle takes us on a journey through the textured layers of time and space. From Flower Age Ibiza, Spain to present-day war-torn Iraq, from the mysteries of America's Deep South to those of a haunting future landscape where humans and machines are virtually indistinguishable, these stories explore what it is to be us among the varying distances.An infamous German writer searches for the meaning of consciousness.A future artist is forced by a cult leader to try to capture his soul in a portrait.An American contractor working a camp gate in Iraq is confronted by incoming vehicles the likes of which he has never seen before.A godlike being welcomes in Halloween with a special device.A hitman tries to determine which woman among a party of three is the android, his target.This surreal collection includes: Introduction by Jeffrey Thomas In the Distance, a Familiar Sound The Flesh Winks While the Ghost Weeps The Staging Yard For Love of War Balearic Moon A Carousel of Faces Death Paper Burn Twinkle, Twinkle, Amsterdam That's the Game Song in a Sundress A Puddle in the Wilderness Nowhere"There is much poetry in these pages. It is a major component of the original voice of Darren Speegle… And his dialogue? Throughout, it sings, and scintillates. It's one of his strongest virtues." - Jeffrey ThomasProudly brought to you by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.Categories: Genre Fiction Mashups Surrealism Horror Genre Fiction Collection Horror Collection Science fiction Collection Fantasy Mystery Short Stories Literary Fiction Existentialism Short story collections Dark FantasyExperience it today!

Annotation: A Dirge for the Temporal, Darren Speegle's second collection of fiction, bursts with sensations. A Dirge lingers on the dark mystery of the supernatural, creates the giddy feeling of fear mixed with excitement, that only comes from partial revelations, things half-glimpsed and misty. Like H.P. Lovecraft or Edgar Allen Poe, Speegle's stories belong to the twilight hour, just after the glorious reds and golds of sunset have slipped away giving warning that total darkness is quickly approaching.