Star-Spawned
In these twenty tales of the weird and twisted you will visit temples dedicated to the worship of dark gods spawned under the diseased light of long-dead stars; find yourself lost in damned places where truth and sanity vanish like mist in sunlight; meet strangers who make you pray that all you think you know is wrong; and discover that love is really just another gateway to unending despair.
You may even find confirmation of the dreadful fact that you are what you always feared you might be.
Stories included in this collection:
Beneath Black Spires
Put on the Mask
The Turn of the Tide
The Cobwebbed Bird House
The Last Ones
Sunday (Early Evening Ecstasy)
Taking the Cure
The Rolling of Old Thunder
Red Walls
Out of Stock
Finest Garments Repaired
In the Deeps of Dream
By a Scarlet Thread
Side 1, Track 3
Treading the Lost Path (Descending Aklo Songs)
A Meeting Beneath the Moon
For the Love of Insects
Late Night, Caradoc Street
The Sixth Guardian
Doorgrave to the Bittersea
Mark Howard Jones
Mark Howard Jones comes from a town in south Wales where it once rained fish.
His 2006 novella 'The Garden Of Doubt On The Island Of Shadows' drew praise from Ray Bradbury among others. He is the editor of the anthologies 'Cthulhu Cymraeg: Lovecraftian Tales From Wales' and 'Cthulhu Cymraeg 2', as well as being author of the collections 'Songs From Spider Street', 'Brightest Black', 'Dreamglass Days: The Sein und Werden Stories', 'Flowers Of War' and 'Star-Spawned: Lovecraftian Horrors and Strange Stories'.
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