Born to be Weird: A Short Collection of Demented Fantasy & Hor...

A short collection of weird, twisted stories, featuring the gothic science story The School of Necromancy (like Harry Potter meets Frankenstein and Lovecraft!) and the very bloody horror The Gauntlet of Gore, which is like nothing else. Included are the short stories: The School of Necromancy - Deep below the city of York, below the sewers, below the catacombs, lies the School. It is here, if you are privileged to be selected, that you can study the art of raising the dead. Keep it Clean - Have you ever been swallowed by a public toilet? No? This man has. A truly grotesque and odious tale. There's Only One King - Elvis Shadow walks the world, caught between this life and the next. A world containing other half-creatures, other myths and legends. Quetzacthulhu - A monstrous and terrible Old One arises to wreak destruction on the Aztec Empire, in this homage to Lovecraft. The Half-School - A dream-like account of a return to an old school. The Gauntlet of Gore - "When playing the Gauntlet, there are two options. Either you win, or the whole team dies. Either you die, or you see every other opposing team member blown to bits. There are no corpses, only giblets." January 5th - "It was January the 5th, and everywhere things were dead or dying." Cover by JCD2 Design.

About the Author

Set Sytes was born in the misty, Arthurian woods of England and was raised by bears. He never grew up, meaning that his ambition is still to become Emperor of the Known Universe (to start with). When he's not spending his time plotting how best to achieve this and more, he is composing stories - warnings of sorts, as to what we might expect when he finally succeeds in breaking down the barriers between worlds.Set has authored many stories of darkness and weirdness and flights of fancy, including the adult sci-fi/fantasy The Fifth Place series, the pirate fantasy India Bones series, the twisted dystopian thriller Moral Zero, and the fantasy/horror short story collections of Faces in the Dark and Born to be Weird. He is also the author of the non-fiction anti-depression handbook How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists.For updates on his books (and assorted other weirdness), you can follow Set Sytes on Twitter @setsytesFor something more in-depth, you can also drop by his website: www.setyoursytes.com

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