“Are you afraid of the dark?”
Well,
it’s taken awhile, but this is finally finished.
About
ten years ago I started writing this series of short stories based around the
idea that, if supernatural investigators existed in Sydney during the 1920s,
what would that look like? The result is this noir-ish, gumshoe-y, collection
of occult detective fiction. These are the tales of Private Investigator
Patrick Dolan and his partner Anton Vadász, taken from their crime files, as
they pursue the other things that go bump in the night – the
supernatural things.
Raised
in Catholic poverty, Patrick Dolan is a hard-as-nails private investigator. Six
feet and eight inches tall, weighing over 300 pounds, he trained as a boxer and
wields a savage right hook. He works the mean streets in which he grew up and
walks both sides of the Law, looking for Justice wherever he can find it.
Anton
Vadász hails from Hungary and is the last surviving member of an ancient
lineage. After the undead destroyed his family, he devoted his life and his
considerable fortune to hunting down and destroying supernatural evil wherever it
may be found. Even under the hot, antipodean sun.
Together,
they form an unlikely but highly effective team, along with their friends,
associates and various experts in strange and mystical fields of esoteric
endeavour. They battle sorcerers, Hell-hounds, vampires, ghosts and many other
spooky entities, in their quest to rid the Silver City of its paranormal
menace.
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Copies
are available through Amazon – ebook versions are also available – and most
other online outlets. Or go to the publisher’s website – www.oceaniacom.com – to get a copy
straight from the source. You can always ask your local bookseller to whistle
up a copy for you too. Don’t forget to leave a review after reading! Enjoy!
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“Things shed their skins in the dark; they split out of their husks; they crawl up from beneath the earth and they shift their bones to become things that shouldn’t ought to exist.
It ain’t the dark I’m scared of; I’m afraid of what’s
in it.”
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