The Mysterious Flame
My very first chapbook novella, published by Dead Letter Press. The publisher says it about as well as I ever could when he calls it: “a poignant but chilling novella that features a haunted monastery and a rundown movie palace; a vampiric monk and an army of animated skeletons; arcane magic and the search for a long lost secret; and caught in the middle of it all, a bewitched young woman and a reluctant hero made of clay!”
“It has the feel of a classic monster movie, and even when horrors rise, victims fall, and violence is committed on the just and the unjust alike one never gets the impression that the story has a malicious bone in its body. It is, in a word, fun, the sort of story that makes you grin when it’s over in spite of any grim goings on found within.”
- Jesse Bullington, author of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
“…a very elegant gothic feel. Grey does a great job of balancing storytelling, action, and character development in 44 pages.”
- The Monster Librarian
“Grey is a fan of Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, in whose universe these characters would be right at home.”
- Vintage Horror.com
“…this short book packs as much into its forty-four pages as is humanly possible without in any way feeling like it is overreaching or attempting to force too many disparate elements together. Additionally, for a book with such a potentially heavy subject matter, The Mysterious Flame manages to maintain a surprisingly light tone for the most part. Mr. Grey makes some welcome serious points about the nature of the mysterious flame [...] but the book simultaneously remains a whole lot of fun.”
- Speculative Fiction Junkie
“The weird ficton masters of the past would be proud to know you are carrying their torch into the 21st century.”
- Kris Reisz, author of Tripping to Somewhere and Unleashed
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