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"The Undead Of The Himalayas: A Cthulhu Mythos Tale" by Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr. --
a Lovecraftian tale that is their sequel to "The Doomsday Thaw."

Just 99 cents (US). Available on Kindle/Kindle Unlimited.
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THE UNDEAD OF THE HIMALAYAS is a Cthulhu Mythos tale, told through entries in the journal of Caleb Whateley. Caleb is a distant relative of a rural scholar named Wilbur Whateley.

Because of his special talents, Caleb is recruited to join a trip to Mt. Everest. Over the years, more than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest. People have died there for many reasons, including earthquakes, avalanches, falls, altitude sickness, and glacier collapse. But on this trip, some participants will die for new and incredibly bizarre reasons.

Meanwhile, global warming is making Antarctica and other frigid areas, including Mt. Everest, slowly unfreeze. Among the items found in the mountain’s slush is the thawing, awakening cadaver of a traveler who will not allow his agenda to fail�.

This story takes place in the same Lovecraftian future as the McLaughlin/Sheehan story, THE DOOMSDAY THAW, but each can be understood and enjoyed as a unique story.

Together, Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr. have written many collections of dark fantasy/ Cthulhu Mythos fiction, including HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS, NIGHTMARES & TENTACLES, THE WRATH OF NYARLATHOTEP, WEIRD WORSHIP, and more.

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A Lovecraftian short story that takes you to the end of the world � and beyond.


THE DOOMSDAY THAW
by Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr.

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Pollution has slowed the flow of the oceans� currents to a crawl. Global warming is causing Antarctica to thaw, slowly but surely. Miskatonic University once sent an expedition to the Mountains of Madness, and they now decide it is time to voyage there again.

A young public relations consultant, Nicholas Pickman, is in charge of telling the world about the expedition’s adventures. How will he tell the world that the thawing of the long-frozen continent could unleash an array of ancient monsters, both alien and preternatural, as well as an unspeakable hybrid�?

Together, Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr. have written many collections of dark fantasy/Cthulhu Mythos fiction, including HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS, NIGHTMARES & TENTACLES, THE WRATH OF NYARLATHOTEP, WEIRD WORSHIP, and more.

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HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS has been selling briskly since the day it was released in 2021. In Amazon's sales rankings, HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS is currently No. 167 in Horror Anthologies (Books) and No. 202 in Fantasy Anthologies & Short Stories (Kindle Store).


HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS: 24 Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos by Mark McLaughlin & Michael Sheehan, Jr.
The Lovecraftian story collection HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS, which I wrote with Michael Sheehan, Jr., features new Mythos monsters that we created. The book is now available in paperback and hardcover formats, and on Kindle Unlimited.

HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS: 24 Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos by Mark McLaughlin & Michael Sheehan, Jr.
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The book includes many of the usual Lovecraftian entities, but we felt that more needed to be added to the mix.

In the book, you’ll find the traditional horrors, Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, the King in Yellow, and a Mi-Go being from Yuggoth, among others. But you’ll also meet the monstrosities we created. Here are many of them:

The creature Azalareon can be found in “The Power of Azalareon.�

Toadface lurks in the story, “Toadface.�

The Sea-Spider dwells in the story, “The Sea-Spider.�

The oceanic being Yagdolak can be found in “The Lurker from the Kelp Forest.�

Setek the colossus resides in “The Colossus in the Catacombs.�

The monstrosity G’hodloth dwells within “The Thing from Beyond the Living Door.�

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Black Friday sounds like a great day for adding more Lovecraftian horror to your reading list.....

Six Books of LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR
A Novel by Mark McLaughlin and
Five Story Collections by Mark McLaughlin & Michael Sheehan, Jr.

All titles are available in paperback, harcover, and Kindle/Kindle Unlimited formats.

INJECTABLES: A NOVEL OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR
INJECTABLES combines and continues concepts found in the H.P. Lovecraft stories, “The Shadow over Innsmouth,� “At the Mountains of Madness,� and "Herbert West–Reanimator.�
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HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS: 24 Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos
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THE HOUSE OF THE OCELOT & More Lovecraftian Nightmares
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WEIRD WORSHIP: Tales Of Two Strange Deities & Their Followers
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NIGHTMARES & TENTACLES: 13 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
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THE WRATH OF NYARLATHOTEP: Cthulhu Mythos Tales Of The Dark Pharaoh
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In 2023, McLaughlin was a Guest of Honor at the Necronomicon Tampa convention, along with his collaborator and best friend, Michael Sheehan, Jr. McLaughlin is the author of the novella, HEPZIBAH'S GAZEBO; the novels HUMAN DOLL, THE HELL NEXT DOOR, and INJECTABLES; and many fiction collections, including:

- THE WEIRD WORLD OF MARK McLAUGHLIN MEGAPACK(R)
- BEST LITTLE WITCH-HOUSE IN ARKHAM
- HIDEOUS FACES, BEAUTIFUL SKULLS
- EMPRESS OF THE LIVING DEAD
- MIDNIGHT PET SHOW
- DIMENSION OF MONSTERS
- UMBRA SAPIENS
- THE SPIDERWEB TREE
- URBAN MONSTERS
- and the story, KEEGAN'S COMPANIONS.

Lovecraftian story collections co-written by McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr. include:
- HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS
- NIGHTMARES & TENTACLES
- THE WRATH OF NYARLATHOTEP
- WEIRD WORSHIP
- THE HOUSE OF THE OCELOT
- THE PRISONER OF CARCOSA
- CITY OF LIVING SHADOWS

Poetry collections by McLaughlin include CRUSHED VELVET, EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH, THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW MASTER, and PROFESSOR LaGUNGO’S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES: INCREASED INVENTORY. Mark is the coauthor, with Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson, of THE GOSSAMER EYE, which won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.

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“HePZiBaH'S GaZeBo� is a dark fantasy novella about the Vultaine family � the most powerful witches in the world.

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Claudia Vultaine is a widow and a Practitioner who prefers not to refer to herself as a witch. Her greatest power is the ability to summon and control insects. She is also working to fight the Night-Birds, creatures from another dimension who wish to conquer the Earth. Claudia’s mute daughter Hepzibah left home when she was twenty-one. Hepzibah’s father Winthrop built a special gazebo for her before he passed away.

Now Hepzibah is twenty-nine and pregnant. She has returned home, ready to give birth. When Hepzibah’s child is born, it is clear that this is not any sort of normal child. When the Night-Birds carry out their bizarre plan to conquer the Earth, the Vultaine family activates an occult counter-attack � and Hepzibah and her wondrous child play a major role in the supernatural battle that follows.

So take a seat in Hepzibah’s gazebo and watch the cosmic drama unfold.

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The Wrath Of Nyarlathotep:
Cthulhu Mythos Tales Of The Dark Pharaoh
by Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr.

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Nyarlathotep was an exotic, malevolent deity who appeared in the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. He was known as the Crawling Chaos and could change his shape at will. He often took the form of an Egyptian pharaoh when dealing with people on Earth and in the Dreamlands. Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr. have written many collections of Cthulhu Mythos fiction, and THE WRATH OF NYARLATHOTEP compiles the best of their stories inspired by the Crawling Chaos.

This collection presents twelve stories and an epic poem. Many of these adventures feature elements of Egyptian lore and add to the interdimensional history of Nyarlathotep. Works in this collection include “The Abominations Of Nephren-Ka,� “The Blasphemy In The Canopic Jar,� “The Final Door,� “The Relic In The Egyptian Gallery,� “Deathless Bride Of The Crawling Chaos,� “Pyramid Of The Shoggoths,� “Midnight Pet Show,� “Stainless Steel Sarcophagus,� and more.

This collection includes the epic poem, THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW MASTER, which presents a future Lovecraftian Armageddon. In the poem, people believe that wealthy young genius Caliban Storm offers the guidance that the world needs. But in truth, there is something evil about the mysterious millionaire. Caliban offers the world amazing technological advances as he rises in power. But each advance comes with monstrous surprises, and it becomes apparent that Caliban has a wicked agenda in store for the Earth. A homeless woman named Penny sees through his tricks � but will she be able to stop Caliban?

Explore a dimension of ancient entities and their modern-day disciples as you read THE WRATH OF NYARLATHOTEP.

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Keegan’s Companions
by Mark McLaughlin

KEEGAN’S COMPANIONS is a short story on Kindle, available for only 99 cents. Also available on Kindle Unlimited.

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Like McLaughlin’s novel, HUMAN DOLL, it is a horror/science-fiction tale set in the entertainment industry.

Keegan Bray is one of the world’s wealthiest men, and his latest business obsession is artificial intelligence. His new company, Keegan’s Companions, is making robotic AI consorts using doll technology. Keegan’s Companions are fashioned after top models, film actresses, and other feminine celebrities applauded for being beautiful and physically exceptional. More importantly, the companions have intelligence and can carry on a conversation.

But Allegra, the prototype of Keegan’s Companions, finds fitting into the human world harder than she could ever have imagined with her robotic brain�

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THE MURDERMOBILE

Oh my God. Over there. It’s
the solar-powered murdermobile
and it’s heading this way.
There’s no escaping those flailing
metal arms, dozens of them,
brandishing axes and machetes and
dripping syringes loaded with
ebola virus juice.

On top of the murdermobile,
next to the solar panels, is a cannon
that will fire an enraged clone
of Jack the Ripper at us. Yes,
we’ll be dead soon. That insidious
doomsday vehicle is now only
six inches away. Our fate is �

Hey, it stopped. That big cloud
is blocking the sun. Boy, what a
stupid machine. It doesn’t even
have a storage battery. Somebody
should fix that.
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That was a sample poem from....

EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH: Poems Of Dark Wonder by Mark McLaughlin

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The poems in EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH cover a wide range of dark fantasy and horror themes, including mythical creatures, strange love, dark magic, and bizarre twists of fate.

Poems collected in EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH include the following, as well as many more: “The Further Adventures Of Lizzie Borden,� “Poetry & Discipline,� “Lord Of The Canals,� “Ancient Egyptian Home Shopping Network,� “Pop-Up Grimoire,� “Ten Things To Feed An Infant Zombie, Should You Find Yourself Having To Care For One,� “Strange Survivals: A Mythos Update,� “Summer Blockbuster,� “Addressing The Global Symposium On Spontaneous Combustion,� “After Valiant Perseus Snicked Off Medusa’s Head,� “A Spell To Reverse An Unfortunate Turn Of Events,� and “Embrace Of The Internet Witch.�

McLaughlin is also the author of CRUSHED VELVET: POEMS OF HORROR & BEAUTY. Mark was one of the authors of THE GOSSAMER EYE, a collection that won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry category. His 2002 poetry collection, PROFESSOR LaGUNGO’S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES was a nominee for the 2003 Stoker Poetry Award.

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HUMAN DOLL: A NOVEL by Mark McLaughlin
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I once said that "the best whodunnit of all time is 'And Then There Were None' (1945). 'Clue' is just a funny version of the concept." But if I were to count movies that *have yet to be made,* I would say the best would be a movie version of my novel HUMAN DOLL. :-)

Some aspects of the plot resemble the classic giallo format: a nameless killer murders unsuspecting victims, one by one, in unusual ways. But in this story, America’s most beautiful celebrities are being killed off, and the victims are subjected to extreme bodily destruction. These victims are guests or cast members from two TV shows � a medical reality show and a talent competition for drag queens. The performers are appalled by the deaths of their colleagues, and some wonder if they should quit working with the shows. But even if they did, would they still be marked for death?

Male model December Storm appears as a guest on both shows. Dubbed a ‘human doll� by the media, he regularly receives plastic surgery to enhance his looks. He is the founder of a modeling agency called HeadTurners, and is becoming one of America’s most popular celebrities. A private investigator is hired to look into the murders, and soon, it becomes clear that December needs to beware. He might be the next celebrity to die.

If asked who should play December Storm, I'd have to say: whoever is the most handsome actor in the entertainment industry right now, of course. Is that too much to ask�?

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