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The Beauty of Death II Anthology – T.O.C. Revealed
Cover Art by World Fantasy Award Nominee Artist Zelda Devon
The Table of Contents for horror anthology ‘The Beauty of Death 2 – Death by Water‘ has been revealed, including my story ‘To Take The Water Down And Go To Sleep’.
Follow the link to see the full Table of Contents, which features Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, and many, many admirable authors. I’m honoured to be part of such a wonderful line up of writers and their tales.
The book is edited by Alessandro Manzetti and Jodi Renée Lester and published (in print and digital) in October 2017 by Independent Legions Publishing.
#TheStayMovie in Official Selection for #HalloweenFilmFestival 2017
Movie news: #TheStayMovie in Official Selection for #HalloweenFilmFestival 2017
Excited to announce that #TheStayMovie is in Official Selection for #HalloweenFilmFestival Oct 26-28 in the enticingly named Kill Devil Hills, NC USA!
Check out the Festival’s Official Site for info, and keep updated at their Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/330574154002919/
#TheStayMovie selected for Starburst International Film Festival 2017
UPDATE: The Starburst international Film Festival has been rescheduled for 2018. More details when I get ’em!
Thrilled that my award winning short film ‘The Stay’ is in official selection at Starburst International Film Festival 2017.
Starburst Magazine says, “The Stay (Directed by Frazer Lee who wrote the screenplay for Panic Button), shows us a nightmarish holiday for one lone female. Broodingly creepy, this short is very much in the tradition of classic TV show Tales of the Unexpected.”
High praise indeed! And being selected by this festival has an extra buzz for me. Starburst was my first ever magazine subscription when I was a young monster kid, dreaming of making my own movies while poring over its full colour behind-the-scenes photo spreads.
The Starburst International Film Festival takes place in Manchester, UK across the Bank Holiday weekend August 25th-27th. Tickets are on sale now, and further details about the fantastic line-up are at the festival’s official site.
Check out a trailer for ‘The Stay’ starring Daniela Finley, below.
Update: Panic Button (Trinity Film DVD edition)
Panic Button, “The best British horror in years” (Ain’t It Cool News), is re-released on Amazon Video and DVD in a newly remastered edition with new artwork from distributor Trinity Film, October 23rd 2017. (The DVD release includes an audio commentary and other special bonus features)
The Amazon #1 horror/thriller movie novelisation is also available.
Guest Author: Catherine Cavendish on ‘The Lake Crescent Haunting’
Please join me in welcoming author Catherine Cavendish, who is my guest on the blog today.
She has a haunting tale to share with us.
Take it away Cat!
The Lake Crescent Haunting
In my novel, Saving Grace Devine, a young girl is drowned, but her spirit returns to haunt the lakeside where she met her untimely end. She seeks help from the living, to help her cross over to the afterlife.
From my research, it would appear that my fictional Grace is not alone. Many people have reported seeing ghosts of drowned girls who are all apparently earthbound – searching for something, or someone. In need of help from the living to help them join the world of spirit.
Lake Crescent is an attractive resort in the Olympic National Park in the far northwest of Washington State. The account which follows concerns not an innocent young girl, but a mature woman of not especially tender disposition. Hallie Illingworth was a 36 year old hard drinking waitress in the local bar cum brothel, then called the Singer Tavern. She was attractive and married for the third time, but her current husband was a womanising, cruel and violent thug, who thought nothing of hitting his wife in full view of everyone in the bar. Not that Hallie didn’t retaliate. She was quite capable of throwing a few punches herself at anyone who upset her.
But however unsympathetic her personality might be, she didn’t deserve what happened to her. One cold December night, she disappeared. Her body wasn’t discovered until four years later by which time, a curious chemical process had occurred. The waters of Lake Crescent are so high in alkali that a process of saponification had taken place, converting the fats in her body to a kind of soap. The water was so cold that the body had been refrigerated in its icy depths.
When a pair of fishermen spotted a recognisably female body bobbing up and down on the surface, they dragged her to the shore only to discover, to their horror, that her flesh just slipped off her bones like soap. We can only imagine their reaction!
She had to be identified by a distinctive upper dental plate which a dentist recognised. He had made it for her some years before.
Hallie had been savagely beaten and bound with rope, affixed with weights. There was little doubt as to the identity of her murderer. Her husband, Monty, had gone to live in Long Beach California with a woman with whom he’d been conducting an affair before Hallie died. He was tried, convicted and imprisoned. He served nine years and was paroled in 1951. In 1976, he died in California.
Monty Illingworth on trial
Had justice been done? Well, it appears it certainly hadn’t been done enough for poor Hallie.
She is still said to haunt the lodge and surrounding areas, clattering up and down the stairs, banging doors in the dead of night. She is said to cause lights to flicker and music volume to go up and down apparently by itself. Some people have claimed to see her – pale, translucent and glowing faintly as she drifts along the shore, and over the water.
Here’s a flavour of Saving Grace Devine:
Can the living help the dead…and at what cost?
When Alex Fletcher finds a painting of a drowned girl, she’s unnerved. When the girl in the painting opens her eyes, she is terrified. And when the girl appears to her as an apparition and begs her for help, Alex can’t refuse.
But as she digs further into Grace’s past, she is embroiled in supernatural forces she cannot control, and a timeslip back to 1912 brings her face to face with the man who killed Grace, and the demonic spirit of his long-dead mother. With such nightmarish forces stacked against her, Alex’s options are few. Somehow she must save Grace, but to do so, she must pay an unimaginable price.
You can find Saving Grace Devine here:
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Other books by Catherine Cavendish include:
And are currently available – or soon will be – from:
Catherine Cavendish Amazon page
Catherine Cavendish lives with a long-suffering husband and ‘trainee’ black cat in North Wales. Her home is in a building dating back to the mid-18th century, which is haunted by a friendly ghost, who announces her presence by footsteps, switching lights on and strange phenomena involving the washing machine and the TV. Cat has written a number of published horror novellas, short stories, and novels, frequently reflecting her twin loves of history and horror and often containing more than a dash of the dark and Gothic. When not slaving over a hot computer, she enjoys wandering around Neolithic stone circles and visiting old haunted houses.
You can connect with Cat here:
Thanks to Catherine Cavendish for dropping by and sharing her haunting tale! Be sure to check out her novels. And maybe sleep with the lights on…
The Lamplighters: “A trembling nationwide!” フレイザー・リー 断頭島 ギロチンアイランド
Today marks the publication of The Lamplighters in a Japanese translation from Takeshobo Publishing, Tokyo.
The alternate Japanese title is the rather subtle and elegant Decapitation Island, which I admit is kind of growing on me!
Here’s what the cover looks like:
My Japanese reading skills are non-existent, so I ran Takeshobo’s book description through an online translator.
This is my favourite part:
“A horror horror that is rolling in an isolated island separated from the outside world, a trembling nationwide!”
The Lamplighters (or Decapitation Island!) is available now from Amazon.co.jp and all good horror horror stockists.
Yoi ichinichi o,
フレイザー・リー
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Remastered edition released October 23rd
Out Now: The Skintaker
Other Titles by Frazer Lee
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