PAGES TORN FROM A TRAVEL JOURNAL

 

• Limited edition hardcover

Bloodletting Press, Winter, 2010.

 

• Trade paperback

Necro Publications, 2012.

 

It’s a hot day in Virginia during the Great Depression, when a bus breaks down on a lonely backwoods road.  The passengers are told the repairs will take till tomorrow, so...

 

What will they do tonight?

 

Good fortune strikes! Just down the road, there’s a carnival!

 

The passengers exit the bus: a pregnant British tart, three low-life fishermen on their way back to Florida, and various other disheartened souls hoping to find greener pastures elsewhere.  But the last man off is a writer and sightseer from Rhode Island, a man named Howard Phillips Lovecraft...

 

O’SLAUGHNASSEY’S TRAVELLING SHOW!  RIDES!  CONCESSIONS!  ODDITIES   OF NATURE!  COME ONE, COME ALL!

 

A carnival sounds like the perfect cure to a boring night, and Howard embarks with vigor.  A genuine mermaid!  A living cadaver!  A man with three eyes!  Why, there’s even a girl with hands for feet!  Howard knows that such “spectacles” are all too often frauds, but...what’s he got better to do?

 

What Howard doesn’t realize is this: the carnival’s frolicky fun will quickly degrade into a  waking nightmare of unspeakable carnal depravity and sick-in-the-head violence beyond anything he could ever conceive.  And when he finally flees the wretched scene...

 

Something awaits him a thousand times worse.

 

PAGES TORN FROM A TRAVEL JOURNAL

 

A novella of the most debauched, degenerate evil...

 

One of only 300 signed and numbered hardcover copies.  Full color wrap around dust jacket, custom signature sheet and illustrated by Alex McVey.