Some legends are true... The old stories tell of an evil far beneath the earth. When an archaeological expedition ignores local wisdom and opens an old barrow on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, they unleash a horror beyond their darkest nightmares. Will anyone survive the onslaught of the Island Life? William Meikle spins a tale of terror that will keep you awake until you turn the final page!
Patty Doyle holds the secret to eternal life, but it may only bring her an early death. Patty is working on a journal of a 14th Century alchemist. But after mentioning it in her blog she gets to the office to find everyone brutally murdered. Now she's on the run pursued by a killer who wants the secret of eternal life it contains. The Concordances of the Red Serpent is a thriller set in the USA, Canada and Scotland and echoes back to the glossy caper movies of Hitchcock. Mix with a bit of Da Vinci Code type musings on alchemical secrets and stir well.
Music can transport you. It can bring sunshine on a cloudy day and lift your heart in times of trouble. But there is another side, a darker side, to music. Allow yourself to be open to a different melody, and who knows where the dance will take you. In this collection you will follow the music into dark places, down dark passageways, where dark melodies play. "As with the best of horror fiction, the stories (in Dark Melodies) are more about the characters than what happens to them, and the changes that result from their contact with something uncanny. Good collection." - Don D'Ammassa "William Meikle's stories capture the reader's imagination and takes it on a whirlwind of a roller-coaster ride that will leave you breathless come the last page." - Ginger Nuts of Horror
A strange sickness affecting the members of the House of Lords. As Holmes and Watson begin investigating, they uncover information that will send them on the run to evade both the police and a gang on assassans. Accused of murder, they must follow a foe who is intent on discovering the secret of immortalisty.
From Scottish writer William Meikle comes a novel that is a welcome return to those tomes of pure enjoyment that we read with guilt in our early teens, in the tradition of James Herbert's THE RATS and Guy N. Smith's NIGHT OF THE CRABS. It begins with a dead whale on a Boston shoreline--not in itself an unusual occurrence. But the things that claw their way out of the blubber are very unusual indeed. A cast of giant crabs, evolved over centuries, descends on a small coastal town and, having feasted, make their way to the city using the sewer system. Soon they are swarming around Manhattan, hunted and harried by a SWAT team tasked with ridding the city of the menace...before the menace gets big enough to rid itself of the city. "I don't think you can have much more fun reading a book than "Crustaceans." It is one hell of a ride that will keep you turning the pages as fast as you can read them. There is bloodshed galore, epic man vs. crab battles and there is even room for some heartfelt moments." - Famous Monsters of Filmland
It was supposed to be a simple mission. A suspected Russian spy boat is in trouble in Canadian waters. Investigate and report are the orders. But when Captain John Banks and his squad arrive, it is to find an empty vessel, and a scene of bloody mayhem. Soon they are in a fight for their lives, for there are things in the icy seas off Baffin Island, scuttling, hungry things with a taste for human flesh. They are swarming. And they are growing. "Scotland's best Horror writer" - Ginger Nuts of Horror "The premier storyteller of our time." - Famous Monsters of Filmland
Some seaweed, a jellyfish and some material brought back from the Peabodie expedition to Antarctica. An innoccuous enough blend you might think. But when a storm in the North Atlantic frees a sample that has been dormant inside an old wreck, the new creature finds that it is hungry. Our plastics-oriented society has given it an abundant supply of food... more than enough for it to grow, and build, and spread. Can anyone escape the terror that is... THE CREEPING KELP? Praise for William Meikle: "The author is relentless; just when you catch your breath, something new and exciting happens, sending you spinning into another part of the adventure, and keeping you flipping pages to see what's next." - David Wilbanks, Horrorworld ..". solid prose commands attention right from the start and carries the reader straight through to the climax." - Garrett Peck for Cemetery Dance #40 ..".descriptions so vivid you can almost hear the clash of the swords and smell the blood." - Murder and Mayhem Bookclub "Meikle is a writer that can grace the page with words of beauty whilst twisting a nightmare into grotesque shapes before your eyes." - Len Maynard and Mick Sims "William Meikle's short stories and novels are shining examples of what is missing in horror fiction today: atmospheric in style, old-school in character, with an intriguing story to be told. Utmost use is made of the author's native Scotland in many of his tales, and his forays into the Cthulhu Mythos stories are original in concept, building on Lovecraft's works." - David Wynn, Mythos Books
Four novellas. Four sleepless nights for you to enjoy. Gerald C. Matics, Michele Mixell, G. N. Braun, and William Meikle Double Vision - Gerald C Matics Henry has been having problems with his sight. What his doctor calls 'floaters' instead seems to be something much more sinister. End of the Night - Michele Mixell It is the '60's, and a young girl leaves her past to find the ocean. She finds something else on the way first. Chimera - G.N. Braun The Cantrell Company has a dark secret on Chimera Island and when the alarm sounds, and the communications stop, a small group of elite soldiers is sent it to find out what has happened. The Auld Mither - William Meikle David returns to his father's estate after a brutal murder. David looks to finally rid himself of his father's legacy, only to find it went deeper than he knew.
Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #4 includes 12 short stories: "Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain" — Cat Rambo "Forever" — Rachel Pollack "The Dragonmaster's Ghost" — Henry Szabranski "Restart" — William Reid "Feeling All Right" — Richard Zwicker "Universe in a Teacup" — Seth Chambers "Skipping Stones" — Erin Cole "Incriminating Evidence" — Charity Tahmaseb "Posthumous" — James B. Willard "Your Cities" — Anaea Lay "Seaside Sirens, 1848" — Anna Zumbro "#Dragonspit" — William Meikle In the non-fiction section, this issue features: -Interview With Author Cat Rambo -Interview With Author Charity Tahmaseb -Interview With Author William Meikle -Interview With Editor Lynne Thomas -Artist Spotlight: Kuldar Leement -Book Review: Half a King (by Joe Abercrombie) -Movie Review: Interstellar (2014) (Christopher Nolan) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.
Author William Meikle resurrects Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic character Professor Challenger in this fast-paced novella. The book is available in a leather-bound Deluxe Hardcover with slipcase edition which is stamped with a raptor on the front cover in red foil as well as a trade paperback edition. Strange lights on the moors, weird noises in the night, cattle disappearing; these are more than enough to prompt Malone's newspaper to send him to investigate. And when his old companion Professor Challenger also goes missing, the hunt is on. The trail leads Malone to the British military, and to a research station in the Bristol Channel, where an old terror proves, once again, that some things are not meant to be contained.
September 2012 Welcome to the first issue of LampLight. We hope you enjoy the dark tales you'll find inside. We speak with Bob Ford about writing, life and hair products. J.F. Gonzalez brings us a view into our literary past. with a discussion on reprint anthologies. Kevin Lucia brings us part I of his volume long novella, And I Watered It, With Tears. Fiction from: William Meikle Nathan Yocum Rahul Kanakia Ian Creasey Mandy DeGeit
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