A Game of Hangman

by Elgon Williams

Join in the journey through the mysterious mind of an author of fantasy. In "Episode From the Inside to the Closer" Elgon Williams took readers on a bizarre adventure into the depths of the troubled mind of Andrew L. Hunter. As a lower echelon technician working for the EthosCorp, the world's largest corporation, Hunter becomes lost in the various potentials of his life. In "Episode A Game of Hangman" we embark into the world of a novelist named Brent, who is perhaps Mr. William’s Alter ego. The question has fantasy turned fiction into reality or is it merely an illusion reflecting one's desire? Brent writes about a fantastic world called Anter'x. Designed and formulated out of the dreadful shadows of dramatic extremes, the bizarre world that is under constant assault from the heat of three separate suns. It is a world that could easily be mistaken for Hell. It is a perennial battlefield for the inhabitants. Even so, some desire peace so much that they engage great personal risk to pursue it. It becomes clear that to attain that long sought after peace depends entirely on an alternate course of events of the distant past, a time when inhabitants known as Wolves and Battle Cats roamed peacefully free but distant from each other. Brent chronicles the events that he perceives. Over time he fears that he is solely responsible for the misery in the lives of the characters of his books, especially Andy Hunter who is curiously drawn to Anter'x. To seek remedy even if it means that he never writes another word, Brent focuses on the conflicts and paranoia existing among the inhabitants. The answer he seeks may lie not only in the past but also the future of Anter'x. Brent's problem is finding a character that will take him to each extreme. As an invasion from the North appears to be imminent, the peaceful observance of a truce that has endured for many generations is about to be broken. From the ranks of many, a renegade Wolf meets a lost knight and discovers that they have the same ultimate the prevention of war and the extermination of the race of Wolves. Their objectives inadvertently set into motion a sequence of events that could resolve all conflicts or destroy the balance within the universe.

390 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2004

About the author

Born in Springfield, Ohio, Elgon Williams grew up on a farm near the town of South Charleston and the village of Selma in rural southeastern Clark County, "...about two miles from nowhere and between cornfields." He graduated from Shawnee High School in 1974. In the fall of that year, he began studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, receiving a BA in Mass Communication in 1978. Later, in 1981, he received a degree in Marketing Administration from The University of Texas in Austin. After serving as a Chinese Linguist in the USAF, he worked in Retail Management for much of his adult life. He also has experience in Computer Repair, Technology Consulting, Radio & Television Production, Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations, and Sales Management.

His publications include FRIED WINDOWS (IN A LIGHT WHITE SAUCE), BECOMING THUPERMAN, and HOMER UNDERBY, which blend urban fantasy and science fiction. Upcoming publishing projects include THUPERHEROES, the third installment in The Thuperman Trilogy and NINJA BREAD CASTLES, the sequel to FRIED WINDOWS.