The Necromancer Candle: And Two Additional Tales of Contemporary Fantasy
Genre:
Science Fiction and
Fantasy
Paperback, 212
pages
Expected
publication: September 15th 2014 by EDGE 0
ISBN:1770530665 (ISBN13: 9781770530669)
Publisher: Hades
Publications (EDGE Publishing)
DESCRIPTION
A collection of three new novellas by
Canadian Speculative Fiction author Randy McCharles.
The collection
includes:
Story outlines:
The
Necromancer Candle
Cassidy’s
family has a secret. An ancient, ugly candle passed down through the
generations until it is has been all but forgotten. But now someone is looking
for it, or so Cassidy thinks. A victim of terminal brain cancer, Cassidy no
longer trusts what she sees. But real or imagined, the upheaval of her life is
moving quickly toward an end where Cassidy's greatest wish is to die on her own
terms. But is that long enough to solve the mystery of the necromancer candle?
Full
House
When Jonas
loses his job on the same day a neighbor is murdered, he finds his days at home
more challenging yet rewarding than he ever imagined. Against a backdrop of
healing family relationships and expounding upon life with his poker buddies,
Jonas finds himself pressured to solve the murder. But the more he learns, the
more Jonas sees that this is no simple murder, but a mystery that has spanned
centuries.
Merlin’s
Silver
Joan gets
more than she bargained for when she buys an expensive tea service at auction
to shake up a lackluster marriage. It seems the tea service is sought by black
magicians who will stop at nothing to get it, with only a peculiar little man
named Odds Bodkins standing in their way. But who can Joan trust? The
mysterious voice on the phone offering to buy the tea service? Her best friend
Sally who offers to take it off her hands? Or Odds Bodkins, whose designs grow
more unfathomable by the hour?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Randy
McCharles is active in Calgary, Alberta's writing community with a focus on
speculative fiction, usually of the wickedly humorous variety. He is the
recipient of several Aurora Awards (Canada's most prestigious award for
speculative fiction), for works including the novella Ringing in the Changes in
Okotoks, Alberta which appeared in Tesseracts 12 (Edge Science Fiction and
Fantasy Publishing) and was also reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 9 (David
Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer, ed). Additional short stories and novellas are
available in various publications from Edge Press, Anansi Press, and Reality
Skimming Press, including the 2014 Aurora Award shortlisted titles: The Puzzle
Box and Urban Green Man. Randy's first full length novel, Capone's Chicago,
will be available in May 2014.
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