Save 12% on any order: discounts on Sci-Fi Cyberpunk and Dark Fantasy by British author David J Rodger

LULU are running a great special offer through their online store. Just use discount code EARTH UK at  checkout and get 12% off any order. . Why not grab a copy of the latest release Living in Flames or dip into the post-apocalyptic thriller (and horror) Dog Eat Dog. Alternatively, start digging into the back-catalogue [...]

Press Release: British Sci-Fi & Dark Fantasy author David J Rodger presents his favourite occult horror, cyberpunk and Cthulhu Mythos creations in a collection of short stories

Songs of Spheres FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   British Sci-Fi & Dark Fantasy author David J Rodger presents his favourite occult horror, cyberpunk and Cthulhu Mythos creations in a collection of short stories.     HAYLING ISLAND, UK—MARCH, 2012— British Sci-Fi & Dark Fantasy author, David J Rodger has compiled a collection of short stories that [...]

In the wind-blasted landscape of Arizona, people are taking shelter in the Cthulhu Mythos

British Sci-Fi & Dark Fantasy Author David J Rodger is evolving H.P.Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos through his novels and roleplaying game. I received a google alert about my RPG Yellow Dawn- The Age of Hastur and associated novel Dog Eat Dog getting a mention.  I checked out the link and was super-pleased by what I found. [...]

Press Release: A 300 year old horror comes back to stalk the streets and subterranean tunnels of Bristol – Living In Flames, a new novel from British Sci-Fi Dark Fantasy author David J Rodger

Bristol fixed firmly to the Cyberpunk Horror map BRISTOL, UK—MARCH, 2012— British Sci-Fi & Dark Fantasy author, David J Rodger has launched a horror novel set in the merchant city of Bristol. Living in Flames is Rodger’s sixth novel and blends aspects of the city’s maritime history and secret subterranean tunnels, with the near-future flavour [...]

Personal blog: Hayling Island March 2012 – Songs of Spheres and Mayhem At The Manor

¦ Dialling in from Hayling Island ¦ 10:12 am on Sunday 4th March 2012. I’m sitting in the large lounge, at the back where the dinning table sits near the wall; I’ve got the laptop set up there, a radiator behind me keeping the day’s grey-rainy chill out of my bones. Sitting here I’m facing [...]

WiP: Just launched sixth novel, Living in Flames; cooking up ideas for number eight

Work in Progress Launched my 6th novel today – Living in Flames.  More horror than Sci-Fi but still set in the near-future Cyberpunk universe shared by all my other books.  You can download a press release for it here. Meanwhile, I went for my old-faithful walk around the harbourside this morning to clear my head; [...]

Occult or Cthulhu Mythos Relic: The Clay Woman

The Clay Woman Part of a collection of objects made by non-human hands or forged in the minds of maniacs; items of power for good, bad or disaster. Written to be used within the world of Yellow Dawn (RPG) but could easily be adapted to Call of Cthulhu, D&D and Shadowrun.   They span both the [...]

Horror humour: what made the horde of zombies run away?

A horde of necrophiliacs… *drum roll, snare* See more posts like this – click David J Rodger – DATA

You have found David J Rodger – British Sci-Fi & Dark Fantasy Author

Welcome This site is my sandbox for brainstorming new ideas, documenting the weird and wonderful gems I find on the web – things that inspire me – and promoting my books and RPG.  It’s also where I post updates on work-in-progress.  You can subscribe using the link at the top left of this page. Bringing [...]

Fan photos make a happy #sci-fi writer

I found two e-mail alerts in my inbox this morning .  Notifications of my name being tagged somewhere online.  Very nice to see your work getting the camera treatment :o) Here’s a screengrab of the links: NOVELS PICTURED: Edge, and Dog Eat Dog . NOVELS PICTURED: God Seed; Dante’s Fool; Iron Man Project, Edge, and [...]

Call of Cthulhu – mobile based version being made by Red Wasp Design [Pervasive Media Studio] – join them in Bristol 6th Jan @ 13:00 hrs for open talk

There’s a lunchtime open talk session taking place at the Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio – in Bristol – on 6th Jan @ 13:00 hours.  The clever folks at Red Wasp Design are currently working on a tech project to bring the Mythos Meme to a wider audience.  Undoubtedly they’re insane cultists. I just hope it’s [...]

Top 10 blog posts of 2011 from Sci-fi, Fantasy, Cyberpunk and Cthulhu Mythos Horror

I’ve been running this blog for about 18 months now and it’s already eclipsed the “old thing” I used to run since the late 1990s.  It’s a great counterpoint to the daily grind of crafting novels and RPG systems – where often there is very little to show for weeks at a time; a place [...]

Day Four of Four

¦ dialling in from the Sky Bunker ¦ 19:02 GMT, 2nd December 2011.  It’s dark outside.  There’s an angry wind battering the roof that slopes above my head.  The room is bathed in the blood-red glow of a lava lamp.  Eerie sounds ooze through the large speakers placed on either corner of my desk, pointing [...]

Digital Art: Paintings & Airbrushing, Macabre & Horror – Genesis of the Cthulhu Mythos

Digital Art: Paintings & Airbrushing, Macabre & Horror – Genesis of the Cthulhu Mythos Somebody recently shared a link containing a list of Cthulhu Mythos images.  Most of them were okay – well executed works of art – but most of them missed the essential quality that makes such images work as “Mythos”.  It’s a [...]

Kingdom of Shadows – a free scenario for Yellow Dawn RPG based on Roman Polanski’s classic occult thriller – The Ninth Gate

This scenario has been inspired by the movie The 9th Gate. It follows an article I wrote recently in which I present my interpretations of the occult symbolism within the film and construct a (hopefully) plausible explanation for the ending. You can read that article here. This is a scenario intended for the RPG Yellow [...]

Update: excerpts of five exciting new science fiction and dark fantasy novels now available

There are five palm-sweating novels to choose from.  Excerpts now available for each of them.  Scroll down and see what’s available: . God Seed “Mankind will be judged, and smitten and cleansed” Read Excerpt . . . . Lovecraft brought screaming and thrashing into the 21st Century! David Rodger has created a World where Lovecraft’s [...]

Dark Art: photograph of demon in human form – Evil Mockery, by Danielle Tunstall

Dark Art: photograph of demon in human form – Evil Mockery, by Danielle Tunstall Part of a series of images from the shadowy fringes of the Internet.  Visuals that stir my sense for the eerie and macabre. I like this image because it’s brutally simple and conveys a concept that spans the totality of human [...]

Scenes of terror and trouble: The Mansion on Knútr Marsh

A free RPG scenario Suitable for Yellow Dawn & Call of Cthulhu . Part of a collection of thumbnail plot sketches for locations and situations where the characters are faced by human, occult or Mythos terror.  Written to be used within the world of Yellow Dawn (RPG) but could easily be adapted to Call of [...]

Dark Art: Cthulhu Mythos sorcerer & 1920s detective with a gun whilst tentacles writhe in burning sky

Dark Art: Cthulhu Mythos sorcerer & 1920s detective with a gun whilst tentacles writhe in burning sky. Part of a series of images from the shadowy fringes of the Internet.  Visuals that stir my sense for the eerie and macabre. I like this image because for me, it taps into the heart of Mythos concepts [...]

Reasons to like Lovecraft: Lloigor

If you’re a fan of H.P.Lovecraft you may recognise and hopefully enjoy seeing this. If you’re unaware of H.P.Lovecraft, then peel the rime off your eyeballs and get into this world of ultimate, sanity-blasting cosmic horror… Another incredibly dark and disturbing facet of the Cthulhu Mythos – not one of H P Lovecraft’s creations but [...]