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Not What They Seem: Three Cryptozoological Stories (The William Meikle Chapbook Collection 45) Kindle Edition

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THREE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL STORIES

- The Cornish Owlman
- The Young Lochinvar
- The Monster of the Ness

In here you'll find three beasts that are not supposed to exist, The Cornish Owlman, The Mothman, and the thing that lurks in the waters of Loch Ness.

In these stories the creatures are all too real.

And they all have a message for us, should we choose to hear it.

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SIGILS & TOTEMS

SIGILS & TOTEMS

There are six chapbooks of my supernatural Sigils and Totems mythos

  • Seventh Sigil
  • Beyond
  • Birthings
  • Slaves to the Rhythm
  • A Secret Chord
  • Highs and Lows

It is a simple enough concept.

If you have the will, the fortitude, you can peer into another life, where the dead are not gone, where you can see that they thrive and go on, in the dreams that stuff is made of.

There it is in a nutshell. There are houses where you can go to get in touch with your dead loved ones. If you can get inside.

AUGUSTUS SETON

AUGUSTUS SETON

There are four chapbooks of my Scottish Sword and Sorcery

  • Cold as Death
  • The Silent Dead
  • Hairs and Graces
  • The Castle of Blood

Anyone for a bit of high magic, swordfighting and a taste of what Scotland was like before perfect teeth, nice hair and clean kilts became the order of the day in OUTLANDER?

My Scottish sorcerer and swordsman, AUGUSTUS SETON lives in Stirling in the late 16th C and is, usually, in the service of the King, fighting the good fight against the dark things of the world in between the drinking and wenching.

THE MIDNIGHT EYE

THE MIDNIGHT EYE

There are four chapbooks dealing with Glaswegian occult detective, the Midnight Eye

  • Farside
  • Green Door
  • Hellfire
  • Rhythm and Booze

Old Glasgow still lies, slumbering, a dreaming god waiting for the stars to be right again. It can be found in the places where Derek walks, in bars untouched by time, in the closes of tenement buildings that carry the memories of past glories, and in the voices of older men and women who travel through the modernity unseen, impervious to its charms.

Derek Adams, The Midnight Eye, knows the ways of the old city. And, if truth be told, he prefers them to the new.

CARNACKI

CARNACKI

There are eight CARNACKI chapbooks in the collection, samplers for my main body of work featuring Hodgson's occult detective.

My stories appear in four collections so far.

You may notice while reading that Carnacki likes a drink and a smoke, and a hearty meal with his friends gathered round.

This dovetails perfectly with my own idea of a good time. And although I no longer smoke, writing about characters who do allows me a small vicarious reminder of my own younger days.

I wish I had Carnacki's library, his toys, but most of all, I envy him his regular visits from his tight group of friends, all more than willing to listen to his tales of adventure into the weird places of the world while drinking his Scotch and smoking his cigarettes.

WEIRD SCIENCE

WEIRD SCIENCE

There are 8 retro Weird Science chapbooks

  • Lab
  • Spore
  • Nursery
  • Builders
  • Futures
  • Tannis
  • Contact
  • Gatekeeper

LOVECRAFTIANA

LOVECRAFTIANA

There are three overtly Lovecraftian chapbooks

  • The Keeper of the Gate
  • Up From the Deep
  • Lords of the Dance

WEIRD WEST

WEIRD WEST

There are three chapbooks of Weird Western stories

  • The Weird West
  • More Weird West
  • The Valley of the lost

TALES OF DEATH

TALES OF DEATH

There are 8 chapbooks of supernatural tales of death and the afterlife

  • Blacktop
  • A Ghostly Trio
  • Another Ghostly Trio
  • Burdens
  • Revenants
  • Old Bones
  • Tales of Death
  • Folk Songs

SETON

The remainder of the chapbooks are a mixture of fantasy, supernatural and creature features, providing an overview of my writing career that is now in its fourth decade with more to come.

There's life in the old dog yet.

Scotland's Greatest Horror Writer - GINGER NUTS OF HORROR

One of the premier storytellers of our time - FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B083ZCGPM4
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 21, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3566 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 66 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

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William Meikle
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I am a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with over thirty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. I have had books published with a variety of publishers including Dark Regions Press, DarkFuse and Severed Press, and my work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and magazines.

I live in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company and when I'm not writing I drink beer, play guitar and dream of fortune and glory.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2022
    The three stories are about mysterious creatures. They seem to show up cloaked in darkness with a message of doom.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023
    Another three will written British 🏰 paranormal fantasy world 🌎 haunting horror adventure thrillers short stories by William Meikle Chapbook Collection book 39of 53. Three very different short stories each different with interesting well developed characters lots of action, misdirection, and violence leading to the unexpected conclusions. Challenger, Malone, and Carnacki are telling tales of paranormal adventure. I would recommend this series and author to 👍 readers of paranormal fantasy adventure mystery novels 👍🔰. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶 to Alexa read books 📚. 2023 😀😯😕🐉
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2020
    William Meikle’s Not What They Seem: Three Cryptozoological Stories contains three more of his spooky paranormal stories. His stories are very consistent, so I always know I’ll enjoy them. These stories take place in Scotland. In “The Cornish Owlman,” Professor Challenger and his friend Malone go hunting for a creature that Challenger believes is a pterosaur. They meet up with Thomas Carnacki and have a spooky encounter with either a man in a long coat or a man-sized owl with wings. In “The Young Lochinvar,” Julia is disillusioned with her visit to Scotland, and is horrified to find out she’s been betrothed to a blathering narcissistic man who repulses her. She meets a mysterious figure on the train who, much like our cryptid in the first story, has some curious information to impart. In “The Monster of the Ness,” Challenger and Malone meet up again in search of the Loch Ness monster.

    These stories are a bit spooky, a bit weird, and fascinating to read about. They’re quite short (it took me less than an hour to read all three), and just what the doctor ordered when you’re feeling a bit worn down and could use a mental break. Not that that’s an issue in the world right now or anything. All three stories introduce a cryptid, but leave us with a good sense of mystery afterward.

    I can’t get into much more without spoiling the stories, so I’ll just say I really enjoyed these and leave it at that!
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