Dark Legacy was a fan magazine of Lovecraftian horror, Chambersian Yellow King tales, and Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E Howard fantasies. This is an anthology of tales from Dark Legacy.
Dark Legacy was a fan magazine of Lovecraftian horror, Chambersian Yellow King tales, and Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E Howard fantasies. This is an anthology of tales from Dark Legacy.
Fantasy and horror, shadows and dark forms lurking around every corner, in alleys and hallways, in statues and ancient tomes, intruding upon thoughts and minds...and, of course, the esteemed Professor Abelard.
Friends stumble upon a strange mysterious bracelet in a local coffee shop that leads them into confrontation with the Great Old Ones. Some die as a result, and one ends up at the great library of the Elder Gods on Celaeno where he meets the man himself...H P Lovecraft.
Suddenly, in the end, everything falls into place. The stars are right in their course...
A brief collection of Lovecraftian Horror...
A city descends into chaos, Nyarlathotep preaching the gospel of Azathoth while waiting the arrival of the blind idiot god.
A mysterious stranger using "thought forms" to destroy his victims, but what is real and what is merely figments of imagination.
A Halloween prank turns deadly, and there are those who decide to enact revenge.
A man returns from the dead to fulfill a prophesy, but a...
Innsmouth bought the farm back in '28. But they came back with a vengeance as Captain Shad predicted they would. What had once been a small seaside village has grown into a huge metropolis where Squids are the upper crust of Innsmouth City society, Deep Ones are middle class, and humans (AKA Land Monkeys) are the lower class scum of the city to be toyed with as Squids and D.O.s see fit for their enjoyment, amusement, and entertainment.
If y...
There are two swords long thought to be fable. One is the Zyn Blade, legendary sword of the centuries dead King of Zyntrolm, Ilian Zyn. The other is its more powerful sister sword, the Korlan Sword, both forged by the legendary Venenae sorcerer, Korlan.
Shown the location of the Zyn Blade in a vision, King M'lerek Zyn retrieves the sword and decides that if the Zyn Blade exists, so must the Korlan Sword. The young king sets off in quest o...
Deadtown in the '50s. It's one helluva place. You know the kind. If ever there was a slimy misty wet cesspool of a dive on the dark side of forever, the far wrong dark side of the wrong dark side of the tracks, yeah, that's Deadtown. The seediest slimiest sleaziest hellhole slime pit this side of Purgatory. It's a greasy place, dark and dank, with a misty fog that alternates with a misty rain. It never stops. Never. Buildings teeter on the ver...
A DEADTOWN tale...One-Eyed Jack Dalton is a biker that was framed for a murder he didn't commit and ended up in the big house. After five years, new evidence comes to light and One-Eyed Jack gets sprung...what to do, where to go...back to Deadtown! He's pissed, wants revenge, and wants to find out who framed him and why. One-Eyed Jack is certain that someone back in Deadtown knows the truth and is hiding it. When all is said and done, some poo...
A collection of term papers and essays I wrote over my college career. Most are anthropology/archaeology and history with a spattering of other subjects.
It was a dastardly kidnap plot. The Dreaded Hooded Frog has kidnapped Princess Linda. We're off on a wild raucous and riotous hilarious ride across the Multiverse with Billy Space Boy and the Astro Dog, Zap. From Dangerous Danny's Spaceside Burger, Bar, and Disco to the Planet Slagheep, follow the adventures of Billy and Zap as they attempt to rescue Princess Linda and bring peace and tranquility back to the Multiverse. And you thought this wa...
Welcome to Hell on Earth.
It began on a hot August afternoon in Mill Creek Park. That's when the mad slime from the sky infected its first victim. Jamie George was the first - he wouldn't be the last.
Soon nightmares are taking over the city. Streets are burning, buildings are crumbling, and cries of horror, pain, and anguish cut through the night. Unspeakable creatures of the shadows prey on all who happen to cross their path. The dead ...
GNYDRON...
...is a land that lies parched and barren beneath a brutal and bloated dying sun, a land where horrible beasts climb and crawl and fly and kill. A land of dreams and nightmares, of magic and sorcery, a land where fate and destiny reach out of a fabled past and into a brief, but legendary, future. A land that in 840, 000 years will be known as Zothique.
31 tales of horror and dark fantasy, some inspired by Clark Ashton Smith, some inspired by H P Lovecraft, some inspired by dreams and nightmares, some from the dark recesses of my own mind.
ZOTHIQUE...
...is the last inhabited continent of Earth. The continents of our present cycle have sunken, perhaps several times. Some have remained submerged, others have re-risen, partially, and re-arranged themselves... The science and machinery of our present civilization have long been forgotten, together with our religions. But many gods are worshipped, and sorcery and demonism prevail as in ancient days.
I am the author and architect ...
These are a random sampling of my previously published spooky, horror, and fantasy satire tales selected from the following collections -
darktowne
At the Hotel Monticello
Dreams and Nightmares
Billy Space Codger and the December Frog
These tales are some of my previously published Lovecraftian tales of horror selected from the following collections -
Gretchen's Wood
That Hideous Thing
Tales of the Louisiana Bayou
The Coming of Winter
Tales of Innsmouth City
A Dark and Stormy Night
Four young women - Tessa van Marter, Nisha Johns, and the Braden twins Cassie and Carrie - collectively calling themselves the Dia Tessaron after the Diatessaron, a compilation of the New Testament Gospels written in the 2nd Century, are on a campaign to root out and destroy the deranged mad followers of various Great Old Ones. One of the Great Old Ones, Nyogtha, the Thing That Should Not Be, set's its sights on the four young women. And in th...
A collection of tales set in H P Lovecraft's "Dreamlands, " following the adventures of various characters as they explore the regions of our dreams...and nightmares.
The Whores of DrinenThree former mercenaries arrive in the small city of Drinen to experience its fabled "Pleasure Quarter." Little do they know, a strange little old man has been waiting for them that will set the stage for an event that was foretold long ago in the ancient Scroll of Golthoth.NathicanaThe Princess of Zais is kidnapped by the notorious outlaw bandit, Jijen Malauden, and her band of cutthroats. It was an event foretold ages pas...
