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That's great! Thanks for your support, Bill.
The book has been out a day or so now so I thought it might be time for an update.Ive been lucky enough to make it inside the Amazon chart for ghost stories (UK only) which I'm really proud of.
Thanks to everyone for their support.
My review:Haynes has a knack for writing dark Victorian horror stories. After reading his "The Macabre Collection", set in Victorian London, and "The Scream of Angels", set in Paris in the same era, I was really looking forward to this collection of short stories. I was not disappointed.
Unlike "The Macabre Collection", each of these stories stands alone. The one common thread running through the majority of these stories is Haynes' deployment of some Victorian era device as the centerpiece in his haunting tales. Safety coffins, zoopraxiscopes and speaking tubes take the center stage along with the ghosts from Haynes' imagination.
4 1/2 STARS
It is a great collection of stories, David!BTW, I know how much you like Victorian macabre.
How about this stand used for memento mori photos? Creepy!
That's incredible! That someone would invent something like this is truly macabre.I particularly like the winding handle, making it truly adjustable.
They re-purpose a lot of antiques these days. What do you think? Hat stand? Lamp?
Haha! A lamp definitely. The height and angle could be adjusted accordingly.
Yay! Bought! Loved your Macabre Collection. Well done!
Thank you! And thanks for your comment about the collection. It's always great to hear things like that!
Thanks, Donna. I hope they're up to scratch!
Just to let you all know A Gathering of Ghosts is still only 99c or 77p.http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LNHY7DU
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LNHY7DU
It's also available on most other platforms too.
Thanks,
Dave
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I'm delighted to announce the release of my new book, A Gathering of Ghosts. For the next week or so it will be on sale at just 99c or 77p!
It was edited by David Wailing's Storywork Editing Services and the beautiful cover was created by Michaela Margetts.
http://www.amazon.com/Gathering-Ghost...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gathering-Gho...
In the shadows of Victorian England, the ghosts are gathering. Prepare to have your blood chilled by six tales of fear and phantasmagoria…
The Silent Bell: A doctor’s invention to prevent people being accidentally buried alive backfires on him with horrific results.
The Stonegate Manor Collection: Lord Feltham’s paintings are worth a fortune, but also conceal a gruesome tragedy that has yet more lives to claim.
The Haunting of Reverend Carson: The charlatan Musgrave makes a living pretending to talk to the dead, until he discovers his new client’s demons are more than merely spiritual.
The Last Waltz: Through that miracle of technology, the Zoopraxiscope, a lonely man’s long-lost love is brought back to life before his very eyes.
The Speaking Tube: John Barker is consumed with hatred for his malicious father and torments him with voices from hell, unaware of how close to the abyss he is himself.
The Ghost Train: Alone aboard an empty train running along a dead track, Godfrey witnesses the grotesque secret that is entombed beneath Paddington Station.
Go deeper into David Haynes’s world of the macabre…