Victor Malone

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The Dark, Empurpled Sky: Vol 1: The Non Infinite Loop (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

The first volume of Victor Malone's Magnum Opus and final novel. A time and space spanning, genre melding, multiple narrative of epic proportions.

In 2025 an American Hacker - having just pulled off a major financial crime in South East Asia - hides out in an old lady's basement in leafy old England, whilst awaiting word from his missing in action partner.

In 2030 a bibliophile, ex-cop turned Private Detective, searching an unnamed American Metropolis for a missing girl - the exotically named Samira - crosses paths with an occult symbol.

And in 2098, a 'chosen one' known only as 'the mole,' on a quest for his village elders, wanders the scorched earth of lost civilisations, on a quest to defeat The Five Masters, and their masters, the universally feared Nefarious Ones. That is, if the Nefarious Ones are more than mere myth.

Each of these men will find their destinies within a crumbling world as the doomsday clock ticks down with cruel indifference.

Detective novel, cyber thriller, post apocalyptic fiction, cosmic horror...an end of times novel for the end of times.

[Note: this is NOT a series. The novel will be published in stages, this being the first of 4 Volumes. The complete book will be republished in all formats: ebook, audiobook, hardback & paperback. The 0.99 pricing is a limited promotional offer.]

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Autor

Malone has opted to keep his secrets secret, so we can't shed much light on his mystery.

We can tell you that he built up the cultiest of cult followings with his annual contributions to men's magazines in the 1970s, from underground fetish magazines to such luminaries as Hustler and Penthouse. Of course he doesn't have the monopoly on this, such prominent writers as Stephen King and Norman Mailer, have famously contributed to the top shelf. And Jack Ketchum's Jerzy Livingston years are now well known.
But what set Malone apart was the strangeness of his prose, and the truly surreal nature of his stories.

These commissions are said to have come about due to his involvement in the burgeoning 1970s XXX industry in America, at the time still largely controlled by the mob.

The closest thing ever documented to a novel was, And the Grave of Your Ancestors Will Call at dawn, a 70 page novella put out by the long since defunct Mythos Pornagraphica Press. Original copies are rumoured to have sold on ebay for in excess of a thousand dollars.

Then at some point during the 1980s he vanished without a trace.

The epic 800 page novel, which he is said to have destroyed at the peak of a mental breakdown, due to a minor disagreement with the publisher regarding typeset?!
Who knows?

And what of the thousand and one other rumours which have surfaced over the years: that he was on the run in Mexico, that he had gone into underground film making, and was now (under a pseudonym) working successfully as a popular Indie director, that following successful treatment in a mental health facility he began a successful career as an educator in the public school system, that he was dead, that the cause had been violent suicide...

Well, there are only two things we can tell you with any degree of certainty:
1.That Malone is very much still alive, and experiencing something of a creative resurgence.
2.That we are more than proud to have him in the Devil's Wax stable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Victor Malone
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215599976
• Artikelnr.: 72302222