Memory Void: Episode 4 of The Stepping Stone Cycle

The Stepping Stone #4

by Gary Ballard

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

Dr. Jack Carter has spent the last 18 months in the care of his friend, Dr. Martin Dyer, after waking from an amnesiac fugue state. His wife, Sarah, had disappeared while they vacationed, and suspicion had fallen on Jack, though he could remember nothing from their last days together. Jack’s investigations into her disappearance had brought him face to face with unexplainable supernatural phenomenon, and Martin knew more about the strange happenings than he would admit. When their friend, FBI Agent Bill West calls them both in to consult on the case of serial killer Walter Cosgrove, the mystery deepens as Martin’s past connections with the killer come to light, connections which he cannot remember. What secrets lie beneath Walter’s killing room in the Virginia Barrier Islands? What does Martin really know about Walter’s past? And what is Cthulhu, the Sleeper who lies dreaming in the lost city of Ry’leh?

118 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 22, 2017

About the author

I began writing things down at the age of eleven, and I haven't stopped since. I have written far too many things that have gone unpublished, from very terrible horror novels in my teens, to comics during my time at Belhaven College until finally settling on cyberpunk science fiction after graduation. I have released three novels in a cyberpunk series called The Bridge Chronicles. The Bridge Chronicles in turn is one slice of cohesive universe that began as a pen-and-paper roleplaying game.

I currently live with my beautiful wife and three very insane dogs in Mississippi, where I continue to write my novels.