I don’t log onto MySpace very often, but I did earlier today, and saw a bulletin from Willie Meikle about a Lovecraftian short story of his that’s available for reading on 4nada.com. Naturally, I had to go read it. It’s called “From Between.”
Written in first person, it tells the tale of two old Oxford University friends, one of whom lives on a 700 year old family estate called Eillen Eighe. Neither has seen each other since before WWI. When the narrator is invited to visit his friend, Roger, at the estate, he discovers a very changed man.
Strange things happen to both men, especially in the room with a fireplace and a piano. Could the piano be the key to it all? Could it be the fireplace? There is a mystery to be solved.
Go read the story. 4nada is really annoying, in that it only forks out about four paragraphs per (badly formatted) page, but the story is well worth reading.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. At first, it reminded me a little of Brideshead Revisited, but I got over that impression pretty quickly.
Cool I’ll go take a look later after I’ve done the shopping, just wanted to share this youtube video with as many people as possible before I go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI&eurl=http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7044
Well thankee muchly for the plug ma’am.
The story first appeared in Wrongworld last year, and they paid me loads of cash for it, so they can splash it for free wherever they want now 🙂
I agree, 4nada has a few too many ads for my liking, but they’re new so they will -hopefully- learn and tidy it up
O/T – The Witchfinder Press Project.
For anyone interested in the progress of my latest “hack” project, we’ve just opened the forums which can be found at-
http://witchfinderpress.co.uk/phpBB3/index.php
Please feel free to pop over and make a noise, especially as I am the only member and that makes me look really sad 🙂
Phobia “should” be in print next month at some point and we are looking at small, sensible projects for later this year.
Amateur press, hard work, a hack editor and dreams of global domination. It’ll all end in tears but we’ll have fun along the way!
I’ll now slip back in to obscurity and get one with the job I’m supposed to be doing.
ALL POINTS BULLETIN FLAMEWAR IN PROGRESS WITH DAGSTINE ON WARCRAFT THREAD
I’ll trade you, Vern. You come make a noise on mine and I will make a noise on yours.
Matt is on the ball. He snipped DAgstine’s threat before I could get a screen shot, but he’s back to telling me that editors are talking about how unprofessional I am.
Cuss, I will have a prowl over when I get a few mins. Beware, I might make myself at home 🙂
It’s not very active, but then I have not been promoting it. I ought to.
Willie, you’re quite welcome, kind sir. I really liked the story.
For the record folks, Willie didn’t pay me off to even read his story, let alone give it a plug. I simply found it, and enjoyed it that much.
Vern, I’ll pop by your forum when I get a brief respite among all this multi-tasking.
This just in: Larry doesn’t can’t check for facts before opening his mouth, then gets pissy when he gets laughed at for falling for a 20+ year old hoax.
Hey, get your own thread folks, stop talking about Nitwits on mine … it makes me look bad. Just think, people doing searches on the Nitwits on Google will now find me and…
OK carry on. 🙂
LOL! You’re such a good sport, Willie.
Just got this from 4Nada
“Just a quick update to let you know that we are changing the look of the story pages on 4nada.com. These changes are designed to improve readability.”
Looks like they are paying attention
Sweet. The site was awfully cluttered. I felt like I was only reading 1/3 to 1/2 a page at a time, before having to click to the next one.