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The storm is coming, so batten down the hatches and let Lighthouses guide you into the darkness!
★ If the films The Vanishing and The Lighthouse rocked your boat, you simply must read this dark anthology! ★
Black Beacon Books presents an anthology of dark tales about lighthouses and beacons. This unique book offers you, the most daring of readers, fourteen original stories of horror, mystery, suspense, and adventure. Within these pages lurk monsters from the depths of the seas and the far reaches of the cosmos. There are murders to solve, hauntings to investigate, and loved ones to be rescued. There are tales of hidden treasure, timeless curses, and ancient orders. Seafarers face ferocious storms while families fall apart and lighthouse keepers lose their sanity.
Light House, Dark House - Greg Chapman
Scrimshaw - Duncan Richardson
Horror at Hollow Head - Cameron Trost
Psychopomp - Mark McAuliffe
Trepidation - Danielle Birch
Cloak of Madness - Matthew Wilson
The Cape - B. Michael Radburn
The Last Keeper - Linda Brucesmith
In Search of Jimmy - David Dolan
Into the Light - Alice Godwin
The Crystal Lighthouse - Sam Muller
To Keep the Lamp Alight - Steve Cameron
The Tower - B. T. Joy
Will o' the Wisp - Deborah Sheldon
Reviews
"I downloaded this wonderful treasure in the dead of night. Sleepy-eyed, I thought I'd just read a few pages, then go to sleep. Little did I know that this is a book that once you start, you can't put down. I'll be wanting the hardcover now, so Lighthouses can grace my shelves right next to Poe, Lovecraft, and Maupassant. Now, I don't throw reviews out like confetti, so it has to be worthy, and Lighthouses is one of the best reads I've had in a while. It's one of those great books that keep you up all night and leave you thinking about it the next day... Simply brilliant!" - Catherine Forte
"This enthrallingly magnificent collection of shorts will delight the connoisseur of the supernatural, and scare the pants off the casual reader." - Goodreads reviewer
"I would highly recommend this for any nautical horror shelf." - Goodreads reviewer
Publisher's recommendation: If Lighthouses gives you a thrill, you'll also like our anthology, Shelter from the Storm - available through Amazon like all Black Beacon Books titles.
Greg Chapman
Greg Chapman lives a few miles from the Houston hospital where he was born. A corporate tax accountant by profession, Chapman also enjoys writing and is working on a novel. He says composing his This I Believe essay, "A Journey Toward Acceptance and Love", for NPR was a healing experience because it helped him explore the defining moments of his life.
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Duncan Richardson
Duncan C. Richardson, PE, has worked 43 years in engineering, construction, and commissioning of heavy industrial facilities. Prior to becoming an engineer he was a full time journeyman craftsman and technical writer for 12 years. He is licensed by NCEES as a professional engineer in six states and also has 10 construction licenses by state examination. He is presently working for PGESCo (Power Generation Engineering and Services Company) under a consulting contract with First Egyptian Engineering. Having participated in over 100 industrial engineering and construction projects, 40 of which were power plants and often as manager supervising all disciplines, his industry experience includes process, plant, maintenance, and infrastructure engineering in mining and desalination, water treatment engineering (including in the Red Zone in Iraq), and power engineering in the United States, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. Mr. Richardson has worked for such companies as Bechtel Corporation, El Paso Energy, and Portland General Electric; conducted formal classroom and on-thejob training for operations and maintenance plant personnel; and started and ran an independent engineering consulting firm.
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