After long, hard work for the past six months, I have finished my latest novel,
The House at Black Tooth Pond. It's based on
a story of the same title, which will be appearing in the anthology,
Shunned Houses, edited by
Katherine Kerestman & S.T. Joshi, this coming August (the
launch is set for NecronomiCon 2024, in Providence, RI, which I'm
planning to attend). Like many of my works of fiction, the novel is set in my
fictitious version of Martinsville and Henry County, VA, called Aiken Mill and
Sylvan County respectively. While the novel is not a direct sequel to any of
my earlier works, it does feature recurring settings and characters from
The Lebo Coven,
Fugue Devil: Resurgence, and many others.
Here's an excerpt from the book I posted a while back: "Work-in-Progress Excerpt: The House at Black Tooth Pond"
The setting of the novel (and the original story), is based on a couple of
places that actually exist in this area. The painting above, by friend and
fine artist Charles Hill, is one he did based on some of our old visits
out to the place. The drawing below is one that I did, back around 1990, which
depicts an old abandoned house my brother and I discovered in the woods of
Henry County way back when. In the novel, the two settings are combined to
create what I think is an exceptionally creepy location at which terrifying events do happen, which I hope will scare the pants of of ye.
More news about the book's publication will follow at the earliest
possibility. For more information on "Black Tooth Pond," the real location, check this out: "Black Tooth Pond"
