GrimNoir: Tales of Horror, Steampunk Detective and Dark Fantasy

by Kevin Wright

Enter the Darkness

Travel along that razor’s edge separating horror and fantasy. Explore the desolate New England wilds where a woman of will and wit collides against a monstrosity of tooth and claw. Descend into the depths of the earth where dark things die and rise again. Trace the steps of a famed jungle explorer lost to the wilds, and pray his fate is not your own. Roam the labyrinthine corridors of the criminal mind and experience terrors known only to killers and to the men who stalk them. Travel the back alleys and plague walls of Mortise Locke, the Machine City, the last bastion of mankind in all its glory, honor, and depravity. Burn rubber through the streets of Old Mexico City, where the pyramids stand in vestigial homage to blood-hungry gods long since rotted away to dust, or have they…?
Seven tales that will take you places you never knew existed, places you never knew you wanted to go, places you’ll hunger to return to.

Genres: Horror

235 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 24, 2015

About the author

Kevin Wright studied writing at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell and fully utilized his bachelor’s degree by seeking and attaining employment first as a produce clerk and later as an emergency medical technician and firefighter. His parents are thrilled.
For decades now he has studied a variety of martial arts but steadfastly remains not-tough in any way shape or form. He just likes to pay money to get beat up, apparently.
Kevin Wright peaked intellectually in the seventh grade.
Kevin Wright wrote this bio, and this is how he actually refers to himself while speaking to people, in the third person like some steroid-addled NFL wide receiver.
He enjoys reading a little bit of everything and writing sci fi, fantasy, and horror. He does none of it well. Revelations, his debut novel, is his second venture into the realm of novel writing. His first was nigh-unreadable. Kevin continues to write in his spare time and is currently working on another full length novel.

Reviews

[Patrick LeClerc · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kevin Wright is a master of the short horror form. This is a collection of eight stories, ranging over various themes and subgenres. From a grim survival tale set on crashed Russian prison transport truck, to a gloriously dark and imaginative steampunk detective story in "Slum Chutney" and "The Dead Empty," a pulse pounding, adrenaline fueled episode in the life of an ambulance crew caught up in a dark force of ancient terror in "The New Guard," a historical take as a Native American woman caught between terrors of the Old World and the New in the time of King Philip's War in "A Shadow in the Night Rising" to a clever twist in "Steel at Dawn," finally culminating in a respectful homage to H P Lovecraft in "The Brazil Business," in which he actually manages to pull of the epistolary, this is an intoxicating smorgasbord of horror.

This is a terrific sample of what he can do, and a great choice for any horror enthusiast.

[Cameron Kobes · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing is good, and I think horror fans will appreciate this book. It lives up to the title; all of the short stories in this volume are unrelentingly grim. But, they are good stories and I was impressed with them. Several different themes and writing styles were exhibited here.