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Darkness & The Light - Read the Story Online

David Niall Wilson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:43:57 +0000

While I’m not a big a Lovecraft fan as many of my contemporaries and friends, the “style” of Lovecraft’s horror - the idea of things just beyond our world that are so beyond our comprehension we can’t even grasp their existence - appeals to me. I have written a number of “Lovecraftian” stories over the years, several of them appear in this volume - The Fall of the House of Escher is one, The Call of Farther Shores is another. This is one of my favorites.

Since it was reprinted online by Apex Online - and it is still in their archive - I’m providing the link here for your reading pleasure. It was first printed in THE GOSSAMER EYE - which I wrote 1/3 of - and which won the Bram Stoker Award for poetry. Some of what we included was NOT poetry, as you will see.

The Contest

David Niall Wilson — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:35:27 +0000

The trade paperback edition of this book (which is also signed) is already available. You can order it by clicking one of the various links at the bottom of this post, and I would love to hear from you if you get and read it. Feedback is such a rarity in this business…

The Signled, Limited HC edition of the book, and the Deluxe Lettered Edition of the book, are still forthcoming, and there are still some copies left. With that in mind, I’ve done what I can to make it interesting. Because everyone loves something for free, I’ve created a contest. To be entered, all ou have to do is to order a copy of the limited or lettered edition of the book before they are back from the printer and ready to ship. Your name will be entered into a drawing, and one lucky reader will win.

I created a tray case, of sorts, from a fancy old candy box - some felt - etc. It’s not great, and will probably not stand the test of time quite as well as the leather-bound, hand-sewn book (I made that too…) - but it makes a nice display. On the cover I hand-scribed a copy of an original letter from Jack the Ripper to the police.

The Definitive David Niall Wilson - An Introduction

David Niall Wilson — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:29:23 +0000

When Dark Regions publisher Joe Morey told me he wanted this to be “the definitive David Niall Wilson collection,” I wasn’t sure what to do. How do you choose? I’ve written and published over a hundred and fifty short stories over a couple of decades of writing. I have tried very hard over those years not to stereotype myself as that vampire guy, or that sex-in-horror guy, but instead to remain diverse and to keep things as fresh and new as possible. That has led to the compilation of a list of stories that almost defies logical organization.

So what I did was simple. I tried to choose stories that have meaning to me. I looked for work that defined some moment in my career and pulled them from the pile to be dusted off and included. I tried NOT to include too much that appeared in my last collection – it only came out last year, after all. To make it interesting, I added in a few original tales.

The intention of this website is to provide a comprehensive overview of the collection, to provide readers and collectors all the possible information they might want before buying and reading the book, and a forum for discussion of the work should anyone care to take part. In the books introduction, from which this, and many following posts, are partially derived, I gave a short history of each story included in the book, why it was chosen over other stories - who published it - etc. I will do that here on the site, as well as providing short exerpts from some of the work when it seems appropriate, some information on finding the original publications where they appeared, and anything else that seems pertinent.

You will also find links to purchase the various editions of this book - and in a couple of cases, other books that are tangentially related. Let the fun begin!