The Beast of Whitby

I wrote a new story! But I also repackaged The Exorcist and The Golem. I've taken the individual stories off the market because they weren't selling much. That's despite me thinking they're not bad stories - I really like the characters Adam Meyrink and Midnight Blue.

My alter ego (a lady) did this with some of her racy stories and repackaged them with a new title and a new cover. She took the old ones off the market as it wouldn't do to disappoint people who thought they were buying new raciness and had already got the previous titles. This worked pretty well. Not stellarly, but well.

Anyway here's the contents of The Beast Of Whitby: 3 Stories of the Supernatural

The Beast of Whitby

"Adam Meyrink, intellectual by nature, loner by inclination and  supernatural problem solver to earn a living, takes a missing person job from a grieving girlfriend. He finds the missing man alive and well in Whitby, Yorkshire, but the ex boyfriend doesn't want to rekindle his old love. It turns out he has made new friends and developed other interests of the black magic kind. Job done, Adam is about to leave town but the man's occultist friends want to make trouble for him.  He knows he should walk away, but Adam's not the kind of man who can bend his principles and he never turns his back on trouble. "

The Exorcist

 Dr John Eliot inherits a clock and disturbing things start to happen in his house. His daughter sleeps alone upstairs and something wants to get her. Dr Eliot thought there was a rational explanation for everything, but when his family is at threatened, he knows he has to go beyond science to protect them. In his desperation he turns to Adam Meyrink

The Golem

Now in Prague, pursuing is mysterious research, English occultist, Adam Meyrink wants to make psychic contact with long dead Dr John Dee and Edward Kelley.  Going about his business, he upsets the wrong people and they draw him into their plots and unleash a monstrous creature of clay whose only mission is to kill him. 

1 Star Review

Just got my first one star review for The Haunting. Ouch. I even dreamed I was before a committee of wise old men who agreed to write me some positive reviews to balance it. Let's see if they keep their dream word.

What's worse is that it's the first review it's had. It starts off: "The story was well written, but..."  I don't agree with what she says (naturally), but what do you do about this? I guess you just have to move on. Maybe she's right? I should say that on Goodreads the same story got 4 stars. So there.

Ghost stories are tropes - the ones that do well such as the Blair Witch and Amityville get their buzz from claiming to be true, which they aren't.

The classics use the same themes over and over.  I watched the Tractate Middoth at Christmas which was really beautifully done, but still full of tropes - ancient manuscript, wicked necromancer, etc. I also read 3 Winter Ghosts by Gary Sargent recently and that was very well written but again, supernatural murderer etc.

(can't resist a plug)

But that isn't the issue here, it's my insecurity and wondering whether they are really shit...

Now when I write something truly original such as Zventibold! no one buys it!

Here's that link again.... 

:)

God loves a trier they say.