After the Ape - Stephen Volk "The notion of 'what happened next?' following a classic monster movie - probably the biggest and best - was an intriguing one to me," says Stephen Volk, "and not only the initial considerations of public health issues. "Somehow kicking this off and shadowing its development was reading somewhere that King Kong was Hitler's favourite film. Why? "Anyway the ape is not the monster in this tale. Far from it." The Nonesuch - Brian Lumley Brian Lumley reveals "readers who attended the KeoghCons in Torquay, Devon, will immediately recognize the only slightly disguised location in which this story is set... two previous tales in this sequence ('The Thin People' and 'Stilts') were narrated first-person by the protagonist, an unfortunate fellow who, where weird or unconventional collisions are concerned, appears to be accident prone - in spades! And being a recovering alcoholic hasn't much helped his case, because pink elephants just don't compare with the creatures he's wont to bump into. "The earlier tales are alluded to, but briefly, which barely interferes with the pace of the current story. As to why I wrote this one: it's simply that I have a fondness for trilogies, let alone outré encounters . . ."

Ancient and 21st-century secrets of Petra revealed! Petra in prophecy! The immediate future based extensively on King David and the prophet Daniel. 82 revealing pages! IMPORTANT REVISION UPDATE March 28, 2011

Cloaked in gothic shadows, soaked in blood, darkness descends on the world of Sherlock Holmes. “I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.” Vengeance from beyond, forbidden passions and sadistic cruelty draw the great detective and his faithful companions into storms of madness and otherworldly violence which threaten to cloud the clarity of logic. Facing the eldritch reach of ancient talismans and arcane science, from the streets of London and Paris to the loneliest of manor houses, the great detective battles the weird and uncanny. Can steadfast reason hold against unspeakable terror when Sherlock Holmes can no longer eliminate the impossible? Follow the great detective through ten new tales of terror as he doggedly pursues investigations leading him to the edge of reason and beyond! With contributions by: David Stuart Davies, Lyndsay Faye, Nancy Holder, Mark A. Latham, James Lovegrove, Mark Morris, Charles Prepolec, Josh Reynolds, Angela Slatter, Kevin P. Thornton, and Stephen Volk. About the Series: - Book 1: Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes - Book 2: Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes - Book 3: Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes - Book 4: Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes These anthologies have received critical acclaim from prominent reviewers such as National Post, Library Journal, Booklist, Globe & Mail, etc.

Coins of a Lost Civilization by Stephen Volk. Discovered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 2018, 20 Exclusive pages of color photos indicate the Ten Tribes of Israel passed along the Bering Strait, through Alaska and Yukon and Alberta into what is now America, creating or leaving these stone precursors to coins along the way: Shofars, menorahs, torches, even now-extinct amphibian animals, in the time of their naming Mount Elias along their journey...

In this new collection of eleven stories, Stephen Volk explores the wide span of possibilities of the ghost story in its various manifestations—from hauntings set in the quotidian modern world, to ones that hark back to traditional, but no less chilling, tales of the past.

BAFTA-winning writer Stephen Volk outraged the critics with his first screenplay, Ken Russell's Gothic, and shocked an unsuspecting nation with his notorious BBC TV Halloween hoax Ghostwatch. His new, gripping supernatural drama series Afterlife was called "Terrific television" (The Guardian) and "Unmissable" (Mail on Sunday). This first collection of his short fiction, like his best work for the screen, combines scenes of intense physical and psychological horror, with moments aching sadness and poignancy. Not without occasional stabs of black humour. Whether exploring traditional ghost stories reminiscent of the past, disturbing crimes of the present, or the wild imaginings of a far flung future, Volk delights in the dark corners of haunted houses and haunted people alike.

Welcome to Shewstone House Hotel. One of those quiet places. An oasis of calm to escape the stresses and anxieties of modern living. Where a non-paying guest waits for his next victim . . . BAFTA-winning writer Stephen Volk outraged the critics with his first screenplay, Ken Russell's GOTHIC, and shocked an unsuspecting nation with his notorious BBC TV Halloween hoax GHOSTWATCH. His gripping supernatural drama series AFTERLIFE was called "Terrific television" (The Guardian) and "Unmissable" (Mail on Sunday). VARDOGER is his long new novella and it's fully as cunning and frightening as any of his previous work . . .

Created in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, 21st Century Sonnets is where the Shakespearean sonnet remains timeless! Marvel inside a Swiss castle; find a gold coin on the sandy shore of the Mediterranean; poetically examine the Dead Sea scrolls; and discover a wealth of poetic devices including secret acrostics, internal rhyme, allegory, alliteration, allusion, apostrophe, personification, metaphor, simile, myth, and much, much more! Sonnet sequences (and intra-sonnet forms including psalms, limericks, and quatrains of condensed meter) are Stephen Volkas expansions to the foundational Shakespearean sonnet. He won American national competitions and first place from a Member of Parliament in Canada. After reading 21st Century Sonnets a contemporary writes, aI just blew back, irradiated, from the utopiessence of your realma]kadzooks, such a treasure for the spying, sir! Who are you; from which celestial station did you fall? Well, no matter, that. Your words wide-cast the remnant radiation for us all.a