Beyond The Grave is a collection of the best short stories entered in our competitions, posted on our websites or submitted to us be here at vamplitpublishing.com. This is the first edition of what we hope will be a quarterly release edition.
Release date to be announced.
Timothy C. Hobbs is a 59 year-old retired Medical Technologist living in Robinson, Texas. He wrote his first short story in the sixth grade and at the time I believed the title of The Vampire of England to be quite original. The main character, Alucard, was Dracula in reverse. He still has that penciled, long-hand manuscript.
The year 2005 was his first actual money sales experience. He sold a short story and a flash fiction piece to Dark Tales (Autumn 2005 Issue#7 and Autumn 2006 Issue#9) a U.K. publication, and a short story to spinetinglermag.com (Fall 2005 Issue#4) a Canadian on-line publication. He has published short stories and poems in New Texas, an annual literary journal in 2000, 2001 and 2003. A collection of his short horror fiction, Mothertrucker and Other Stories from Amazon.com.
The Pumkin Seed released by Vamplit Publishing in 2009 was Timothy Hobbs first published novel. He is now working with his editor at Vamplit Publishing on a collection of stories based on popular fairytales. The Smell of Ginger is the first to be produced as an eBook. The whole collection will be published together under the title Once Upon a Time in Texas some time in 2011.
Timothy C. Hobbs is a consumate horror writer and his stories are both horrific and beautifully crafted.
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The Pumpkin Seed by Timothy C. Hobbs
“I am a drinker of human blood and an eater of human flesh, a monster dressed in the skin of a man.” So states Charles, the main character of the novel, after being infected with a virus transmitted by an insect vector.
The Pumpkin Seed opens in India near the Nepal border in the late 17th century. A commissioned officer of the East India Company is seeking a profitable new trade route into China. Indian bandits of the Thuggie clan attempt to stop this further invasion by the British and release a plague of insects, which carry a unique virus. This organism not only infects humans, it transforms the chemical and physical nature of the host’s body. Longevity, resilience and the need to feed on human blood and flesh make the host an efficient killing machine, especially in regard to the human race. The novel follows the characters through 17th and 18th century England and India, culminating in present day Austin, Texas.
Set in the orphanages of London and in the vile trade of body snatching, a list of characters, who are as despicable as their deeds, search for the truth and a cure for their malady. The Pumpkin Seed takes us through the vices of greed, hate, love and despair and creates a modern novel that puts colonialism in the spotlight and asks difficult questions about this generation’s guilt for the crimes of its ancestors.
Cover by Sue Midlock
The Smell of Ginger by Timothy C. Hobbs
It’s Halloween in Jasper, Texas and Butch and Suzy are driving with their dad to trick or treat at the strip mall and the local churches. They didn’t count on the truck breaking down, getting lost in the woods, or coming across the ordinary old cabin, but there’s nothing ordinary about the tenents – two spinster sisters who have been waiting eternally for children to call their own.
The Pumpkin Seed and The Smell of Ginger are available to download on Kindle (mobi), HTML, JavaScript, Epub, PDF, RTF, LRF (Sony Reader), Palm Doc (PDB) and Plain Text.
The Rise of Deadhand is a magical tale of mages, goblins, zombies and animated skeletons surrounds the transformation of a young boy into an angry, vengeful necromancer, against a backdrop of the machinations of Empirical and noble families, as well as the activities of ancient spirits and sub-human races.
These characters combine with the development of his powers to unleash events in an Empire, where the power of magic is failing, that may shake the foundations of the Empire itself. This rollercoaster of a story from the keyboard of Rick Moscatello captures the reader’s imagination and leads them through a world vastly different from the one we live in.
Available exclusively at ebookundead.com priced £8.49
Descending Skiesby Margaret Schlegel is a magical, science fiction fantasy set in a world where magic is science and the laws of nature do not apply. Andrew Granger, is dead and then he is not, but to his amazement awakening from death gives him a whole new chance at life. Will Andrew become the hero his new world needs or will the treachery and power struggles in this strange new world destroy him and the new life he’s been given.
Cover by Sue Midlock
Emun of Mor by Mathew E. C. Bridle
Trolls, goblins, orcs and an army of darkness will pit itself against the might and magic of men in a classic fantasy.
Can the magic of men and faith of the Holy Order overcome the alliance of the goblins and the armies of the undead as they scourge the land of the living?
The Prophecy speaks of one who will come with the power to defeat the evil, but can the spawn of a warlock really be the One?
If you click on the Smashword icon you can read sample chapters and our shorter length novels FREEAlone by Marissa Farrar $4.99 Vamplit Publishing
E-book Description
When Serenity reaches the end of her tether no one can save her. The men in her life to date have all been takers, users, people who suck the life out her and then somehow make her feel as if it's her fault. This was Serenity's life until she crosses paths with the mysterious Sebastian. From the moment they meet Serenity's life changes, but Sebastian has a dark secret and a past that threatens Serenity's future. View Sample
Dance on Fire by James Garcia Jr. $4.99 Vamplit Publishing
E-book Description
Two Kingsburg police officers have been butchered in an attack as ferocious as it is mystifying. Now two detectives and their families are being drawn into a battle that threatens to destroy them and those around them. In a marriage of horror and Christian themes of good conquering evil and redemption, Dance on Fire is the fictional account of characters drawn into the fire by supernatural forces.
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