David Niall Wilson - Author of Deep Blue The Mote in Andrea s Eye Offers a One-of-a-kind Collectible to Launch his New Novel, Ancient Eyes
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David Niall Wilson - Author of ‘Deep Blue’ & ‘The Mote in Andrea’s Eye’ Offers a One-of-a-kind Collectible to Launch his New Novel, ‘Ancient Eyes’
Author David Niall Wilson, The Grails Covenant, Deep Blue, The Temptation of Blood and The Mote in Andrea’s Eye is creating a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted edition of his upcoming Bloodletting Press novel, “Ancient Eyes,” and is offering it to the grand prize winner of his pre-order my novel contest.
— David Niall Wilson, past president of the Horror Writer’s Association, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for poetry, author of 13 novels and over 150 published stories has a deal for some lucky reader. He’s running a contest with some serious prizes. Here’s the deal. Anyone who preorders the novel Ancient Eyes from any bookseller will be included in this drawing. David will work with the publisher to make sure all the numbers and names are gathered for the different booksellers taking pre-orders. There will be a grand prize and four runners up. This novel will be a signed, numbered, limited edition release from Bloodletting Press with gorgeous wrap-around art by artist Don Paresi (of Sepulcher fame)
About the novel: There are communities in America that have been closeted away since the earliest European explorers arrived. They brought their families and they brought their possessions and their beliefs, both open and secret. In the mountains overlooking San Valencez, California, one such community exists. In the midst of that community there is a broken-down wooden church. Above the doorway of that church, from the alcove in which they were placed generation before, two eyes stare out across the pews toward the broken and abandoned baptismal pool. They are ancient eyes, filled with malice and they draw strength from wood and stone, from the very bones of the mountain. The head they belong to is carved of wood brought from another place and another time, preserved and revered, then shunned and feared. Alone, in that old church, this carving has spread her roots, the power embodied in the crudely carved lines of her face deepening and shifting to match more perfectly with her new home. The carved head is just the mask of her power, and she bided her time for a century or more until the time was right for another power to be recalled to the mountain.
Mysterious symbols on their doors and a siren call of irresistible force draw Silas Greene and his neighbors into the woods. Entering the trees under the cover of darkness they find a fire and in this fire Silas is reborn to something greater than he was; something darker. His neighbors flee in terror, but they are already too late. They bear his mark now and will be brought under his influence one by one as he begins his campaign of slow terror and dark control, intent on bringing the old crippled church back to life.
Once, there were two churches on the mountain. Like the first, however, the other has fallen to disrepair as well, abandoned after the death of Reverend Jonathan Carlson and the subsequent disappearance of his only son, who would have been next in line to serve. The old stone chapel has long stood against the forces behind the white wooden one, but with its hearth cold and its altars bare, there is none ready to stand against the new threat of Silas Greene and his dark designs.
Until Abraham Carlson begins to have vivid nightmares that draw him back to times and places he has repressed.
Until his girlfriend is kidnapped.
As the final confrontation draws near, we see a young man coming of age, a great love born, and a battle that – in the end – is more than just a struggle for the lives of a few families living isolated on a mountain. It is a struggle both with the past and with the future at once, and the conclusion is anything but certain as Greene, Abraham, Katrina, the spirits of Abraham’s past, and the inhabitants of the mountain grapple with one another and their own inner demons for control of the church, the mountain, and their lives.
About the contest: The Grand Prize will be a hand-bound manuscript copy of Ancient Eyes, annotated, illustrated and decorated by the author. Many readers will remember that Wilson crafted a hand-sewn leather pig to promote the novella “My Eyes are Nailed, But I Still See,” and the author intends to be cutting leather again – and he promises that this collectible edition of his novel will be as odd as it is rare.
That’s the grand prize. There are four other prizes as well. The first is a $50 gift certificate to www.shocklines.com – as well as two of Wilson’s novels, signed by the author. The Second The Second is a $50 certificate for www.cemeterydance.com –plus two signed books of the author’s choice.
The third is a $50 certificate to www.alienmotives.com with the special caveat that if the certificate is used to purchase books by Wilson, or that he has contributed to – the value doubles! The last gift certificate is to www.carolinamoonbooks.com – a bookstore local to the author specializing in antique and out of print books of all types. All of these stores are taking pre-orders for Ancient Eyes, as well, with the exception of Alienmotives.com.