Insidious Devices

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Out now from Egaeus Press is an anthology of fifteen new stories that delve into the strange realms of horological devices and cyclic phenomena. Amongst the fine authors that chronicle these weird histories you will find Mark Valentine, Alison Littlewood, Colin Insole, George Berguno and Charles Wilkinson. You can purchase this curious and wonderfully designed volume here.

My contribution is called Evenfall and is set in Greywall with, yet again, a few place borrowings from Sir Hugh Walpole. Here you will find an odd, sorcerous portal, a revenant, borderlands and maybe, out of the corner of your eye if you are especially unlucky, the Earl of Eventide. My protagonist, Robert Amersley, has a lot to contend with when he moves to the house named Eventide. I hope you have the strength to join him as a perpetual autumn from another realm seeps through the ancient summer woodland of Greywall.        

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