Bastards of Alchemy

by Tom Piccirilli, Gerard Houarner, Erik Wilson

Bastards of Alchemy brings together two of today's most respected and prolific writers of dark and disturbing horror. Tom Piccirilli offers up "Alchemy" a tale of a fun night at the beach gone horribly wrong when dead bodies start washing up on shore. While Gerard Houarner delivers a brutally dark story of a man born to clean up the atrocities of the powers that be while a new order seeks to gain control and create a new kind of chaos. This book is offered in a 300 copy signed and numbered chapbook. #4 in the Necro chapbook line.

39 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

About the author

Thomas Piccirilli (May 27, 1965 – July 11, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Piccirilli sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. He was a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Paperback Original" (2008, 2010). He was a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. He was also a finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award given by the Mystery Writers of America, a final nominee for the Fantasy Award, and the winner of the first Bram Stoker Award given in the category of "Best Poetry Collection".

Reviews

[Geoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a small collection of two novelettes, one by Piccirilli and one by Houarner. Both stories were good in different way. It was a very enjoyable read.

Piccirilli's story told of a group of loser kids on the edge of self imploding. And they do, when a ferry sinks, and dead bodies wash up on the shore, near where they were having a bonfire. This was an average story by Piccirilli, but still pretty good.

Houarner’s story was pretty damn cool. He creates a whole mythology, in such a little time, with this story. It tells the story of a man, who has been born into a side of life that we’ve never heard about, and who follows a path. And the path is to destroy the current world, and set up a new one. This was a Matrix like story, and very cool.

[Karl]

This is copy 30 of 300 signed numbered chapbooks signed by Tom Piccirilli and Gerard Houarner, there were also 52 hardcover signed and lettered copies available.