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Part One - The Schloss (Beginning of 1st Chapter)

3/7/2014

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I have been encouraged by friends, readers and reviewers of,  "The CRY of CTHULHU" (initially published as "The Alchemist's Notebook") to publish for FREE the beginning of the first chapter.  Jim Steranko, the American graphic artist and comic book writer/artist, once told me to grab the readers’ attention with the first line. So here it goes:
PART ONE
THE SCHLOSS

From Janet Church’s Diary
        I am almost out of Valium, only one more pill left.  The stress is beginning to get the best of me.  The tranquilizer is the only thing that has made life bearable for me these last few days.  I wonder now what will happen next, if they will come for me after the drug runs out, or if I will be allowed to numb my last few minutes. 
       They won’t come close to the schloss now.  I have the lights burning in every room.  I even have the oil lamp I found going and every candle I could lay my hands on is lit. 
       They won’t come this minute.  They won’t come until the mist hides the stars and the moon. 
       Dear God!  I am not even sure who they are!
For those of you that want more you can go to Amazon.com (that was a link) and examine additional pages of "The Alchemist's Notebook," using Amazon's “LOOK INSIDE” feature.  You will be able to read and examine the first dozen pages before deciding whether to plunk down $14.95 for the paperback or $7.95 for the Kindle version...enjoy.

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       When my avocation became my vocation I was set free.  

       Writing, at first, was a hobby that I loved dearly.  It turned into a serious endeavor several years ago when I started writing screenplays.  Unfortunately selling one out of every ten was not very lucrative.  Success comes in many forms and my poor returns from screenplays matured my writing style, ultimately affording me the ability to author hundreds of magazine articles that generated a decent paycheck.  

       Fast forward to today and my initial release of my novel “The Alchemist’s Notebook,” has been re-titled and published as "The CRY of CTHULHU."

       It is a whirlwind story in the style of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos that takes the reader from Vietnam to Innsmouth then Arkham and eventually to Europe wherein chaos and screaming terror awaits all living creatures on our planet.  

       I pledge to keep the reader on pins and needles hoping that sanity and normalcy will return.

    “The CRY of CTHULHU” and all future novels, along with my blogs, will deal exclusively with that genre.


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