Category: Prose

“Since Malory’s time many writers have used these legends and retold them in their own language. The English authors Tennyson, Swinburne, Matthew Arnold and William Morris have rendered several of the old stories in verse. And noteworthy too, are Wagner’s magnificent music dramas Parsifal, which recounts the legend of the Holy Grail and Tristan and Isolda, perhaps the most famous love story of all times. Mr. John Erskine is now added to this company of distinguished interpreters, who retells them delightfully for readers of The American Weekly.”

Attributed to Watson Crewes Jr., The American Weekly, February 4, 1940.

Written by John Erskine and beautifully illustrated by Edmund Dulac, these tales from King Arthur’s court were originally published in The American Weekly and have been expertly collected into a single volume by Albert Seligman. Seven Tales From King Arthur’s Court is out now and available to order from the link below!

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In the darkest hour of night, Ann is beckoned by a voice. Antigone, it calls to her. Haunted by this name that she has not heard since she was almost too young to remember, Ann travels to Greece. She is searching for a brother who disappeared from her life years earlier.

As children, Ann and Nik were everything to each other. They had to be. Yet when Ann tracks her twin down on the island of Crete, he will barely meet her eyes. He offers her a single day: one afternoon of sightseeing in an ancient labyrinth – whose stones whisper to Ann of a past left unburied.

In this reimagining of Greek myth, we are brought back to a world of gods and kings, heroes and sacrifice. A lost world of legend, balanced on the edge of a knife. For it is here, in the shadows of this living maze, that the twins’ fate is woven into a civilization on the brink of extinction.

Written by R.X. Karvanis, this exciting new novel, Antigone, is out now and available to order from the link below!

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Somewhere, within the dark, septic corridors of 1930s New York, a young girl has gone missing. Max Thanatos reluctantly takes the case for an old friend, but he is neither a detective nor with the police. He is an exiled member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, a clandestine group of magi tasked with studying and protecting the arcane arts. As Max plunges into an insidious world of eldritch horrors and fabled societies, the already-impossible case spirals deeper into something far worse when his bloody history with the Order resurfaces, along with its cantankerous leader, Aleister Crowley.

Complications arise as other forces join the hunt for the missing girl: angels wishing to wipe the girl from Creation, an unspeakable evil beneath Chinatown, and a sadistic necromancer with his own dastardly designs for the child. Luckily, Max is not alone. Charlie Thanatos is with him, in spirit; quite literally. After he casts a spell to tether his dead brother’s soul to his own, to spare him from eternal damnation, his ghost joins the magician on every step of his journey to help save the girl, themselves, and everyone they had ever held most dear.

Written by Joshua Gamon, this thrilling new novel is out now and available from the link below!

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Love struck teenagers Marko and Radica from opposite sides of the ethnic divide in 1992 war torn Bosnia are drawn into a world of brutal savagery, but can their love endure the evil indoctrination forced upon them by their rival military leaders?

Written by Russel P Bush, this exciting new novel is out now and available to order from the link below!

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He wakes to a strange new world, transported at the moment of death by some unseen agency. The gunslinger, touched by the gods and doomed for the part he must play in their games, is caught up in the throes of a failed rebellion. Captured and imprisoned for 40 years, he emerges from his prison cell a new-made man; a creature of shadow and strife, driven by the whispers of dark forces, still wearing the shackles at his wrists—a potent reminder of his incarceration.

Volume 1 tracks emergence of The Shackled Man, a new kind of hero who rises to dominate the apocalyptic landscape of the world of dreams, pitting his strength against the race of demigods that rule these lands. Having escaped his captors, the gunslinger heads into the barren wastes to find solace, but what he finds instead is bloodshed and injustice.

Driven by an inner darkness he cannot define, the Shackled Man gathers new allies and sets his teeth against the godling menace.

Written by Morgan Quaid, Shackled Man: A Rust Chronicles Novel is out now and available from the link below!

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Drowning in grief over the death of his father and more literally underneath the boxes and bags that corral his mother’s obsession, Mark Brunson struggles just to tread water.

Weighed down by high school hierarchy and a beautiful, yet vindictive ex girlfriend Mark desperately needs a life raft.

Instead, he is gifted Lester – the white trash, rodent-faced next door neighbour who threatens to expose Mark’s hidden sin.

One Big Mess follows Mark during his first week of tenth grade on his journey from outcast to icon culminating in a fist fight at “the pit” and a redemption made muddy by outmoded institutions and biased convictions.

Written by Dan Fitzgerald, One Big Mess is out now and available to order from the link below!

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Comorbidities is three novellas about irregular topics, including weaponized cats, serial-killer reincarnation, celebrity-grave robbery, mass murder, sociopathic spiritual gurus, ghost psychotherapy, military misbehavior, and more mass murder. Its author, Jim Harberson, wrote Markosia’s acclaimed short-story collection, A Disgusting Supermarket of Death (2021), and co-wrote Markosia’s Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award-nominated graphic novel, Stay Alive (2020).

1. Cat Problem: A spunky cheerleader must rescue her not-so-secret secret crush from an epidemic of weaponized cats attacking their Colorado hometown.
2. Ghost Problems: A Hollywood spiritualist falls for an actress whose new reality show is stalked by a reincarnated serial killer.
3. Lost and Found: A Hollywood super agent enlists a celebrity-grave robber and a two-fisted cult deprogrammer to rescue a troubled starlet from a flim-flamming spiritual guru.

Written by James C. Hardberson III, Comorbidities is out now and available to order from the link below!

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Newmuck, 1880: capital city of England, bloated heart of the punchably smug British Empire and home to the Roustabouts, five hardy and fearless friends aware they live in a strange world of supernatural wonders and threats, but who just want to enjoy a quiet pint or twelve at their local pub, The Bewigged Pig.

But the discovery of a severed nose inside a tin of whelks alerts the Roustabouts to the existence of the Order of the Void, a shadowy group of wealthy businessmen preparing to summon a host of terrible, godlike beings known as the Old Ones into this reality, dooming mankind, the order aided in their efforts by the inhuman Abyss-Dwellers, zealous worshippers of the Old Ones.

So, since no other bugger is volunteering for the job, it falls upon the Roustabouts to stop these sinister forces and save the world – and more importantly, The Bewigged Pig.

A story of friendship, redemption, violence, horror, and a squirrel who either has no ideas or is keeping them to himself.

Written by Alex De-Gruchy, The Eldritch Affair of the Cosmic Ne’re-do-wells: A Roustabouts Brouhaha is out now and available to order from the link below!

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Young William Belmont has been branded a coward his whole life – a label he hates because he knows it is true.
When Will’s parents are killed in the crossfire between two warring nations he finds himself en route to a prison camp and fears his life is over.

But when Will discovers a lost diary in a ditch he sees in it a way to finally absolve himself of that hated label.
He decides to return the diary to its owner – one Isabella Bertolli – and after a heart-stopping escape from his captors he sets out across a war-torn land with his faithful dog Ada at his side.

During his perilous journey Will encounters minefields, vicious predators, tanks, air raids, prison camps and more, culminating in the discovery of the diary’s final page – a page with the power to change the course of history…

THE FINAL PAGE is an epic tale of courage and sacrifice about the importance of not letting fear control you and understanding that all change begins with a first step…

Written by Thomas John Howard Boggis, The Final Page is out now and available to order from the link below!

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This Sci-Fi journey will challenge your thinking on evolution, the fate of the planet and who’s pulling the strings.

This is a fast-paced, non-stop adventure from the USA to South America.

The roller coaster journey leads to an ancient location in Peru where Liam Abram must make a monumental decision.

Follow Liam, the errant professor, as he faces life and death choices and meets an array of challenges, including jungles, guns, criminals and travelling with a woman who is not of this world.

The final question is…will you be part of the Controlled Burn and succumb with the rest of humanity?!

“When you take your last breath you will be judged, did you do anything useful for the planet besides breathing the air?”
SE Lewinski

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