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Another horrific tale by Robert Bloch sure to make your skin crawl!-JL

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A ripping yarn sure to cut deep by the master of mystery and horror–Robert Bloch!

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Now I must go back to Yoh-Vombis—back across the desert and down through all the catacombs to the vaster vaults beneath. Something is in my brain, that commands me and will direct me . . . I tell you, I must go . . .

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The man was Halpin Frayser. He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead.–Ambrose Bierce

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We have expanded distribution for and placed “Wings of the Seraph” into paperback and e-book now. You can order on Kindle, Amazon, and soon Kindle Audible!

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. He saw towers and walls in nighted depths under the sea, and vortices of space where wisps of black mist floated before thin shimmerings of cold purple haze. And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order on chaos and hold forth a key to all the paradoxes and arcana of the worlds we know.

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“Slumber, watcher, till the spheres
Six and twenty thousand years
Have revolv’d, and I return
To the spot where now I burn.
Other stars anon shall rise
To the axis of the skies;
Stars that soothe and stars that bless
With a sweet forgetfulness:
Only when my round is o’er
Shall the past disturb thy door.”

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In that same silver paradise of shimmering night, as an alligator bellowed, mosquitos hummed, and green tree frogs chirped….a million crickets rubbed their wings together and sang.

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The Opener of the Way is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories written by Robert Bloch. It was published by Arkham House and released in 1945. This was the author’s first book. Stephen King listed the anthology “The Opener of the Way” as one of Arkham House’s “most important works”. Authors Stephen Jones and Kim […]

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Tonight, we bring back that master of horror and suspense, Robert Albert Bloch. Too many great horror writers owe this immortal their careers. More importantly for this writer, he’s a from-the-grave mentor. Bloch was a fiction writer with a diverse array of stories in crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction. He is best known as […]

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Monstrous hounds from cosmic dimensions beyond our world hunt to destroy you, alien forces probe to see what delicacies are on your mind, and vampires on the arcs of lightning issue a deadly for you to surrender. These are just a few creations of the science fiction master, Frank Belknap Long. Frank Belknap Long was a […]

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Tonight, powerful winds sweep across ancient alien wastelands. Fantastic worlds glimmer in all manner of cosmic luminescence. And something in the shadows drips slime then spiders or slithers into the dark recesses of caverns as we revive the horror, science fiction, and fantasy sorcerer, Clark Ashton Smith. Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter […]

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Immortality at a cost is a theme that has long intrigued me. Battling the forces of time to reset the mortality clock has so many levels of exploration. You could literally get lost in the concept. I wanted to approach this from a perspective of a man’s desperation and ignorance to the forces he was […]

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There’s an argument that had there been no August Derleth, there would be no H.P. Lovecraft. It was Derleth who devoted his life to promoting the genius that was H.P. Lovecraft. August Derleth was a writer, anthologist, and editor, best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. August Derleth […]

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Welcome to Dweller of the Dark!  We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d […]