Now Available: The Children of Llothora!

The Children of Llothora is now available for purchase from both Smashwords.com and Amazon.com. More retailers will be added to the list as the book is uploaded into their system.

The Children of Llothora tells the story of an asylum inmate in his own words, describing the decline and public disgrace in society which leads him to resort to crime in an effort to start his life over somewhere else. But inside the decrepit house of the town's mysterious elderly recluse the would-be thief encounters forces beyond his understanding, an ancient ritual that promises new life at a horrible cost, and the alien children of the long-forgotten goddess Llothora.

The Children of Llothora is a short story written in a style paying homage to H.P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries. A must-read for fans of horror and weird fiction alike! 

Get it now for only 99 cents!

Cover Preview for The Children of Llothora

Created by Don Saunders,
aka webmark at Fiverr.com

I'm almost done with the final revisions for my short story, The Children of Llothora. The artwork for the cover has already come in, and I love it. I was trying to give this cover a go myself, and was completely dissatisfied with my own attempts, but I really love this cover by Don Saunders (webmark at Fiverr.com)!

Love him, hate him, or never heard of him (have you been living under a rock all these years?), H.P. Lovecraft has had arguably some of the greatest impact on horror literature of any other author in the field. I've been a huge fan of his for as long as I can remember. By modern standards, his writing is obtuse and not particularly skillful, and his early works reek of xenophobic racism that he took no pains to hide - but I love his writing anyway. I have six anthologies of Lovecraft's stories on my shelves, another volume of tales purported to be some of Lovecraft's own favorites to read, and the complete collection of Lovecraft's stories on my Kindle.

I'm not a fan. I'm a gushing fan-boy. I can admit it.

The Children of Llothora is a story I wrote with the intention of it being Lovecraft-ian, but not necessarily of the Cthulhu Mythos. It was written in an older, more obtuse style of writing reminiscent of that seen in the earlier parts of the twentieth-century, though upon revision I feel it has become slightly less-obtuse.

I'm still playing around with the exact product summary, so I won't spoil it here, but I'm really excited about this cover and wanted to show it off!