Tis' the season for shorts

SIMON CLARK IS PLEASED TO BE IN AMAZON SHORTS!> > No, that isn't a confession for an exotic taste in fashion. > Amazon.com is featuring my new short story 'They Will Not Rest' in > its Amazon Shorts program.> > At the moment this is only available in the United States. I'll be > dropping them hints to extend it to the rest of world ;--) If you > want to read the story, currently exclusive to Amazon, simply hit http://www.amazon.com/They-Will-Not-Rest/dp/B000MR96S8/ref=pd_ts_b_15/104-9839473-0297534?ie=UTF8&s=books > the Amazon US website, go to the Simon Clark book pages and there > will be a link to take you in. To download the story costs 49 cents, > and if you have a compatible phone or handheld device you can read > the story on the move (not while driving or flying a plane, I hasten > to add).> > 'They Will Not Rest' is a gruesome story of sleep deprivation, set in > the English coastal town of Whitby. This is a place that keeps > dragging me back to use as a setting. So far, Whitby has appeared as > a backdrop to 'The Hand of Glory, 'The Whitby Experience,' and > features in the Vampyrrhic novels, too. If you've never visited > Whitby are intrigued by my continued fascination with this haunting > town it appears in the first part of the 'Secret Realms, Haunted > Places' video that can be found at my website.> > To give you a flavor of 'They Will Not Rest' here are the opening lines:-> > 1. The Price of Sleep Debt. Cemetery Exodus. Sundry Vistas.> > How long can you stay awake? Twenty-four hours? Thirty-six? The fact > is, forty-eight hours without sleep brings headache, disorientation > and those first all-too corrosive hallucinations. A rat deprived of > sleep is dead within twenty-eight days. Human beings last a little > longer, although they lose their minds to full-blown psychosis long > before they lose their lives.> > And yet when the coffins started appearing in our streets and in our > yards and gardens the only way to save your life was to remain awake. > Because those long, muddy boxes full of rot and oozing bacteria soon > began to accumulate around your home. See the problem?> > * * *> > In closing, just a couple of extra items. Robert Hale Limited will be > publishing my short story collection Midnight's Bazaar. I'll post the > publication date on the site as soon as I know it. And recently I > wrote the introduction to a collection of formidable, and extremely > hard-hitting short stories, by Paul Finch. Stains is to be published > by Gray Friars Press, and is thoroughly recommended if you like your > horror at its most uncompromising.> > Until next time...> > All the best,> > Simon Clark> --