Neil Williams

Broschiertes Buch

The Derelict

Beschreibung

"The Derelict is really a story of two derelicts - the events on the first and their part in the creation of the second. With this story I've pretty much nailed my colours to the mast, so to speak. As the tale is intended as a tribute to stories by the likes of William Hope Hodgson or H P Lovecraft (with a passing nod to Coleridge's Ancient Mariner), where some terrible event is related in an unearthed journal or (as is the case here) by a narrator driven to near madness. The primary influence on the story was the voyage of the Demeter, from Bram Stoker's Dracula, one of the more compelling episodes of that novel. Here the crew are irrevocably doomed from the moment they set sail. There is never any hope of escape or salvation once the nature of their cargo becomes apparent. This was to be my jumping off point with The Derelict. Though I have charted a very different course from the one taken by Stoker, I have tried to remain resolutely true to the spirit of that genre of fiction and the time in which it was set." -Neil Williams

Autor

Neil Williams was born in Montreal, QC and lived his first decade in Quebec, however Neil has lived most of his life in southern Ontario. He has also lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, the U.K., and has the dubious notoriety of being kicked out of Romania for being "a purveyor of anti-social hooliganism" (I was a distributor for Canadian alternative rock labels and I didn't always use the official distribution channels). Neil has worked in radio where he wrote and produced radio drama, though most of his work was in writing and producing alternative rock band biographies. Neil has postgraduate degrees in Anthropology and in Sociology and he taught in the Ontario community college system for 26 years. He is now officially semi-retired and continues to teach part-time. This does give him more time for writing...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Shuck Books
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 105g
• ISBN-13: 9781913038632
• ISBN-10: 1913038637
• Artikelnr.: 61415541