Oakfield ¦ the planned next novel by science fiction & dark fantasy author David J Rodger – where crustaceous horrors The Mi-go will terrorise a small Cornish township
Proposed cover concept for Oakfield - Image and manipulation by Hagenland Photography
I’m currently deep into an 8 month overhaul of Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur, with a view to launching an updated version (2.5) early in 2012. After that I’m looking forward to releasing (or unleashing) the second of the two novels I wrote in 2010, Living in Flames; the first being DOG EAT DOG, the post-apocalyptic thriller set in the world of Yellow Dawn. Next in the plan is to compile an anthology of the cyberpunk, sci-fi & dark fantasy and gritty horror shorts I’ve put down over the past few years. And then… finally, I’ll be able to turn my hand to producing a new work of science fiction and dark fantasy: Oakfield.
The story is already mapped out in a mass of hastily scrawled pen and paper notes, so hopefully I’m looking at a 6 month turnaround from start to finish; fingers crossed it’ll be out before the world implodes within a cataclysmic Mayan ending in 2012. The bare bones of the novel is about Annabel Spaulding, travelling to a picturesque but isolated community of Oakfield to investigate the house her recently deceased grandfather left to her; only she rapidly begins to suspect her grandfather’s death was no accident and soon learns there are human agents of a monstrous, unspeakable and cosmic terror lurking within the township. These brutal men want something that she now posses and will seemingly stop at nothing to get it; but what is it they want, and what are…They…? I’m hoping to satisfy fans of H.P.Lovecraft’s Whisperer in the Darkness and introduce the uninitiated to the unrestrained, unspeakable horrors that seethe and writhe within this unexploited strata of fiction: the Cthulhu Mythos.
LIVING IN FLAMES: Set in Bristol, UK, in the near future, it follows the lives of three people that collide in a gruesome twist of fate. A carved African idol is discovered clutched in the hands of a dead man who is barely human. Greed unlocks centuries-tarnished mystery about the origins of the idol and brings back to Bristol a banished bloodline hell-bent on vengeance and diabolical glory. You can grab a sneak preview of first chapter here. Due for publication Summer 2012.
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