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THE HOODED MAN AT SCREAMING BRIDGE
THE HOODED MAN AT SCREAMING BRIDGE
THE KENTUCKY CONSTABLE
BOOK ONE
Itinerant con-man Reverend B. Bubba D. and his mob of young malcontents not only handle serpents and drink poison in their charismatic worship broadcasts, they also practice human sacrifice in ritual lynchings that the public finds just dandy! The Congregation of His Holy Blood With Signs Following intends to summon up otherworldly beings and initiate the apocalypse. The appearance of The Hooded Man in Waynesville portends horror and bloodshed, and as the little town descends into chaos, Constable Frankie Bray will pay a heavy price to stop the killing.
Audiobook, E-book and softcover print editions available here, January, 2027.
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PROLOGUE: Welcome To Waynesville
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CHAPTER ONE: Distortions
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THE KENTUCKY CONSTABLE
THE KENTUCKY CONSTABLE
A SOUTHERN GOTHIC DETECTIVE SERIES
A SOUTHERN GOTHIC DETECTIVE SERIES
IN H.P. LOVECRAFT'S
CTHUHLU COSMOS
Frances Ernest Bray, the youngest constable in Rockcastle County history, and his fiancée LaVinia Bird are all that remain of their two families’ once-mighty small-town dynasty. Also they are the only black and white couple in a land of Confederate flags, bad bluegrass and Waffle House stabbings.
Carrying on his late father’s legacy as Waynesville’s honest constable, Frankie endures a series of Traumatic Brain Injury-induced, Out-Of-Body, Near-Death Experiences, courtesy of Reverend B. Bubba D., Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego Whateley, Buck Standhope, and an evolving underground network of occult hilllbillies, all of them bent on sparking the apocalypse by summoning ancient entities they call The Great Old Ones.
And they are enjoying some success!
America will not unite to face this alien threat, as we all hoped and imagined.
Even these good, country people in Kentucky will curry favor and sell out their own species, courting favor in a celestial zero-sum game.
The aliens are not coming in spaceships with ray guns and teleporters.
The aliens are here.
The aliens are us.
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THE TIME BEING
THE TIME BEING
THE KENTUCKY CONSTABLE
BOOK TWO
Before Constable Frankie Bray can begin to recover from his near-lynching at B. Bubba D.'s Savage Spectacle, the Reverend's Great White Grizzly Necklace appears at his home, sending him on a cross-country roadtrip to uncover the sender of the haunted artifact, which pulls Frankie into the embrace of an even more powerful Great Old One who will threaten his sanity again with a mind-blowing tour from Kentucky through the Cosmos.
COMING IN JUNE, 2027
THE CULT LEADER'S DAUGHTER
THE CULT LEADER'S DAUGHTER
THE KENTUCKY CONSTABLE
BOOK THREE
Kumiko Morgan is not just the sexiest, strangest, most fascinating young woman Frankie Bray ever met. She is also the adopted daughter of Buck Standhope, a pretendian cult leader wannabe following on the heels of Reverend B. Bubba D. And if that's not enough to help him resist temptation, while investigating the murder of Kumi's boyfriend and theft of her priceless pearl necklace, Frankie begins to suspect that the cult leader's daughter might not be human....
COMING IN JANUARY, 2028.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Why, you might ask, why this depraved, horrifying series, The Kentucky Constable? What have you done to deserve this?
I point a crooked finger at my misspent years in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Humid summers of unending boredom wherein I moved upwards from comics to Dell Science Fixtion Paperbacks, up through Stephen Kiog, who mentioned Kurt Vonnegut, and that name kind of opened the floodgates. Also my eight years as Foreign Professor of English at Shizuoka University in Japan, recommended for the job by my thesis advisor Gary Snyder, whose presence in my life has echoed louder and longer than any other.
Twenty years teaching high school English in the Los Angeles Unified School District should not go unblamed for the horror in my blood., and somehow I keep coming back to my editorship of The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries (Kinkyusha, 1996) and my scholarly articles on academia.org. God help me, I won screenplay awards at both Austin and Breckenridge, and for years I summarized trial and deposition transcripts that probed the depths of evil.
If you ask, as my dearest friends have asked with alarm, "Who are you trying to reach?" I might quote at length passages from Irrigation Related Water Drainage Issues in the San Joaquin Valley, which I proudly co-authored as a member of a joint California state-US federal task force. after co-founding The Oxford Review as an undergrad at Miami University and reviving that editorial habit during my grad school days at the California Quarterly under Elliot Gilbert.
But none of the above work has a prayer of igniting your reading pleasure.
The Kentucky Constable series is an epic, ongoing tale churned up from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythosset in a vibrant and imisunderstood Appalachian culture that shadows contemporary American political divisions.
Reverend B. Bubba D. is out there. He is not entirely a creation of my diseased imagination. The Whateley Brothers, Buck Stanhope, Charles Leland Varney, they're all out there.
Sweet dreams.
Here's a book I really liked.
BOOK OF THE MOMENT
BOOK OF THE MOMENT
Ex Post Facto by Max Helm
On a Saturday morning in October, less than a month before the 2010 mid-terms, Stella Lykins nurses a headache of over-indulgence, and witnesses a thin stranger appear and disappear in her kitchen, right between the table and the stove. In July of 1882 in an otherwise empty pasture, young farmer Jacob Burdon encounters a woman seated at a table. In January 2138, Doctors Rabenhorst and Gujarat labor to actualize an idea conceived by visionary recluse Albinius Boole. The doctors struggle with phenomenon inexplicable, a time-jumping fugitive, and his pursuant, and unwittingly launch a week of confusion and chaos for Northwood's former residents of two centuries.
Multiple eras intersect on a single plot of ground, the Midwestern town of Northwood, where 19th-Century agraria, contemporary suburb, corporate technocracy, and borderless urbana all weave together. The world, of course, is imperfect, and Northwood is no exception, a little town built over a wound in time.
A tale told in the guise of paranormal memoir, historical pastoral, sci-fi farce, hero's journey, and theatre-of-the-unlikely, Ex Post Facto is a darkly (or at least dimly) comic novel of doubt, witness, seclusion, connection, community, friendship, the finality of choice, and the enigma of Fruit Pie the Magician.
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