Before the Flood, Mon Dieu and more!

And relax … well once again, best laid plans have gone, as the poet once delicately put it ‘agly’ and I find it’s been a few months since I last updated the site. But my sword has not slept idly in the meanwhile and ‘events dear boy, events’ have kept me most occupied as we’ve […]

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April 13, 2015 – 9:27 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged | Comments Off on Before the Flood, Mon Dieu and more!

Dark Tales Panel – Dragonmeet 2014

Phew, well now that the roistering and gorging season is over, the cheese mountain has become a cheese molehill, elasticated waistbands are taking up the slack and the liver has departed for a short sabbatical, it’s time to turn thoughts to a new year and indeed, some new fear. Step forward then, an audio recording […]

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January 12, 2015 – 11:08 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Dark Tales Panel – Dragonmeet 2014

Win! Copies of The Trellborg Monstrosities and signed cover art

The Trellborg Monstrosities is the first book in the acclaimed Seraph series, chronicling the story of one man who battles the minions of dread Cthulhu thoroughout the ages. It gained 5 star reviews on release, is rated 4/5 average on Good Reads.com and was called ‘an evocative tale of blood, bullets and ice’ by renowned […]

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November 14, 2014 – 1:57 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Win! Copies of The Trellborg Monstrosities and signed cover art

Four books in one day

‘Release four books on one day? You must be deranged,’ the demon of doubt who occasionally takes up residence on my left shoulder ventured. ‘Of course I am,’ I replied. ‘Professionally so, I’m a writer.’ So after a noticeable absence of a few months, I’m finally ready to unleash not one, not two, not even […]

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October 29, 2014 – 11:27 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Four books in one day

Before the Flood – Dark Tales – The Crystal Void

Ack, best laid plans and all that, but I see once again it’s a couple of months since I’ve done the whole blog update thing… Bugger, I meant to be a lot quicker than that, but it has indeed been busy times. First up, Seraph adventure #4 entitled Before the Flood is finally finished in […]

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August 4, 2014 – 2:49 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Before the Flood – Dark Tales – The Crystal Void

Review: The Good War by Studs Terkel

So having a look at his little blog o’ mine, I’ve sort of realised I can’t keep doing updates on what is essentially a quite tedious process (writing). Well a tedious process to read about anyway. Word counts grow, plot and characters expand, but essentially repeating, ‘oh, I’ve done some more stuff, it’s now up […]

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May 27, 2014 – 11:23 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Review: The Good War by Studs Terkel

The wall and Skype me baby!

It can be tough being a writer, not real world tough, like hacking coal out of a mine, labouring on a building site or spending a twelve hour shift cleaning hospital wards, but it certainly has its own unique challenges. Some days you hit the writer’s equivalent of the wall and sit staring blankly, drooling, […]

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March 7, 2014 – 1:25 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on The wall and Skype me baby!

A!C – Dark Tales from the Secret War

Well my drive to post more regularly didn’t last long, but the path to hell is paved with good intentions and all that. Still, two posts in under 20 days is upping the old batting average considerably, so you can’t complain – this is practically prolific by mine own (admittedly) shoddy standards. But I haven’t […]

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February 27, 2014 – 11:34 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged | Comments Off on A!C – Dark Tales from the Secret War

Happy New Fear

2014 already! Merde, how did that creep up on us so quickly? Well a damn happy New Year to you in any case, even though I still feel like I’m trying this one on for size – and I’m not entirely sure about the fit.   Looking back, I find it’s early November since I […]

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January 3, 2014 – 1:44 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on Happy New Fear

#29 Be an Angel

“Be an angel and make me a coffee, two sugars,” he says. ‘My pleasure’ I reply, boiling inside but rise to go and make it. The dose is tiny, but over time it accumulates; always fatally and mostly undetectably. “Here you go, just how you like it,” I say, placing the cup on his desk […]

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November 10, 2013 – 1:46 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Very Short Stories | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on #29 Be an Angel