As I started reading I thought, ‘ahah, something historical. It was our joy to discover “Sympathetic Impulses” in the competition pile, which gave the anthology yet another take on Neo-Gothic.
His latest work, a book titled Backcountry , is a novelization of a major motion picture, and apparently if you read it, you will never go camping again! But he has written mostly stories, and it shows in the crisp writing, the firm grasp of story and the slow relentless pacing. He tells us it was always the more Gothic aspect of Poe’s tales that appealed to him. His story adds an unexpected flash of humour to the heady mix of atmosphere and twisted view of the world ruled by forces way beyond our control.įor the book in Kindle format, click hereĭavid McDonald hails from Melbourne, Australia. I know this doesn’t sound like the morbidly depressed Edgar Allan Poe we all know and love but trust me, all the Poe-ish elements are there, along with a good dash of Southern hospitality gone very awry. His winning short story “Dinner with Mamalou” made me laugh so hard tears were streaming down my face. And yet he was intrigued by the premise of nEvermore!and generous enough to donate to the cause with both his talent and his shekels. His five-year term as world president of the International Association of Crime Writers concluded in 2013, and he currently serves as the North American president. He has published eight mystery novels, a Law and Order novel, seven non-fiction books and dozens of short stories and articles too numerous to count. Surprisedbecause I recognized the name and delighted because of who he was, a frequent charming visitor to Bloody Words with the Hammett Award people. Madison Davis, I was both surprised and delighted.
When a manuscript came to us through our Indiegogo contest from J.
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