Was Wittgenstein a Mystic?
If you bring together two enigmas, do you get a bigger enigma, or do they cancel each other out, like multiplied negative numbers, to produce clarity? The latter, I hope, as I take on Wittgenstein and mysticism.
Merry-Go-Round (limited)
Merry-Go-Round and Other Words by Bryn Fortey Introduction by Johnny Mains Cover art by Peter Coleborn ISBN 978-0-9573489-2-4 Bryn Fortey has enjoyed a lifelong flirtation with words. His first sale was “A Saleable Commodity” to International Storyteller in 1969. Bryn’s first horror story publication was “Prison” in David Sutton’s New Writings in Horror & The Supernatural 1 in 1971. The similarly titled New Writings in …
Invent-10n (limited)
Invent-10n by Rod Rees. Artwork by Nigel Robinson ISBN 978-0-9573489-5-0 This is the signed, limited edition of 100 copies. Greetings Gate, let’s Agitate. Look over your shoulder. Do you see the camera? Then dig that even as you read these words of sedition and denial you are being watched by the ever e-quisitive National Protection Agency. The National …
The Smith of Hockley
‘The Smith of Hockley’ by James Brogden The Midas Scorpion was an assassin’s tool of the Elder World, from a time long before there were distinctions between magic and machine, or life and art, or death and love. It was made of gold, finely articulated, with a single bead of poison still on the tip …
Kami Ga Kikoemasu
“Kami Ga Kikoemasu” by Mike Chinn Each wave reared higher than the Oji-Maru’s rails. Hooked fingers of white spume reaching for the whale-chaser before they collapsed back into the grey sea. Ishimaeru’s guts clenched every time, leaving him shaking and hollow with fear. The next time that clawing foam might hide the gleam of bone, or the …
Lucy Lightfoot
‘The Ballad of Lucy Lightfoot’ by Jan Edwards Only one remained on the Isle of Wight who remembered Lucy Lightfoot. He was the reason she had returned, and the reason she stood in the church porch, debating on whether seven hundred years was long enough. She hesitated, glancing toward the setting sun, and then retreated …
Lives
‘Lives’ by John Grant We are waiting for Christopher to get home. Sipping wine around the kitchen table, Alice and I are just at the stage of starting to get worried. He’s all right, we say to each other occasionally, betraying our concern that there might be something wrong. He’s all right: Dick Charters will …
The Paladin Mandates
Discover how Damian first met Leigh in the story “Good Evening, Princess”. This and another five Paladin stories – featuring monsters, heroics and biplanes – are all available in The Paladin Mandates by Mike Chinn. ISBN 978-0-9532260-0-9 Cover and interior illustrations by Bob Covington Mixing in generous dollops of The Scorpion, The Shadow and Dominic Fortune, with a fascination …
Sailors of the Skies
The Alchemy Press’s first eBook in Kindle format was “Sailors of the Skies”, a novella by Mike Chinn (originally published in Dark Horizons in 2009). A Damian Paladin adventure: Mix generous dollops of The Scorpion, The Shadow and Dominic Fortune, a taste for 1930s detective fiction, and the simple desire to tell a creepy tale… If you enjoyed The Paladin …
Where the Bodies are Buried
Kim Newman‘s award-winning Where the Bodies Are Buried was co-published in 2000 by the Alchemy Press and Airgedlámh Publications. The book collects the four “Bodies” stories: “Where the Bodies Are Buried” “Where the Bodies Are Buried II: Sequel Hook” “Where the Bodies Are Buried 3: Black and White and Red All Over” “Where the Bodies Are Buried 2020” …