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    Pallid Light: The Waking Dead -
    The world ends with the flip of a switch. The thundering storms strike across the world, searing the earth, leaving destruction in their wake. Few will survive. For the folks living in Temperance, Illinois the nightmare is just beginning. When the sky roils in luminous colors, the people of the small town begin to die, and Randall Clay decides to escape. What he didn’t expect was the dead to come back to life or the nightmare that came after that.
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    "[The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson] cleverly blends the horrors of the Cthulhu mythos, the atmosphere of hard-boiled fiction and the mysteries of magic and supernatural..."
    -- The Zone

    Autographed copies with Rudolph Pearson color bookmarks (while remaining) are available from:

    ESP Shop Online

  • Dark Wisdom Anthology

    The Anthology of Dark Wisdom: The Best of Dark Fiction -
    Featuring horrifying and fantastical tales from the eponymous magazine, previously unpublished works, and award-winning short stories, this anthology of macabre fiction explores the unseen folds of urban life, other places, and other times. From the monstrous to the psychological, these tales of fearlessly venture into the hidden world of the supernatural, where strange creatures stalk the night and eldritch investigators search for the unknown.
  • About Me

    William Jones has received Bram Stoker Award nominations, International Horror Guild Award and Origins Award nominations for his works. He is the editor of several anthologies, including The Anthology of Dark Wisdom: The Best of Dark Fiction, Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World, High Seas Cthulhu, and the Horrors Beyond Series. His book, The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson was selected by Editor Ellen Datlow as a "seminal" work for readers of Lovecraftian horror. He has also written a number of role-playing game supplements, and his writings have been translated into several languages. His most recent novel is Pallid Light: The Waking Dead. He lives in Michigan.
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    Dark Wisdom Anthology: The Best of Dark Fiction
    Featuring horrifying and fantastical tales from the eponymous magazine, previously unpublished works, and award-winning short stories. For more details, visit William's blog.
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Geheimnisvolles Marokko (Mysteries of Morocco)

Morocco in Germany Geheimnisvolles Marokko

Geheimnisvolles Marokko is the German translation of William’s Chaosium Call of Cthulhu book Mysteries of Morocco. It contains additional material by Jakob Schmidt, and is available on Amazon.com (in Germany).

In both the English and the German edition, this book covers several locations in Morocco, such as Rabat and Casablanca, the Rif and Atlas Mountain regions, as well as the Sahara. Scenarios, NPCs, strange items, and optional rules are also included.

Hobby Games: The 100 Best

Hobby Games: The 100 BestEdited by James Lowder, this vast volume contains 100 essays on a wide variety of hobby games and it is now available from Green Ronin Press, Amazon, and local bookstores. Also included: Foreword by Reiner Knizia, Introduction by James Lowder, and an Afterword by James F. Dunnigan). Find it on Amazon: Hobby Games: The 100 Best.

With 103 authors, ranging from game designers to fiction authors, this book provides great insights for experienced and established hobby gamers. Topics include board games, card games, role-playing games, miniatures games, and much more. Among the numerous articles is William’s essay on the WWII miniatures game Flames of War.

Dark Wisdom Magazine

Now available is the latest issue of Dark Wisdom magazine.Dark Wisdom 11

This issue includes an interview with Jack Ketchum, Strange Happenings with Jeff Belanger, Writer at Large by Richard A. Lupoff, the Film Vault, entertainment, fiction reviews and fiction by Alan Dean Foster,Jack Ketchum, John Shirley, Robert Dunbar,Douglas Smith,C.J. Henderson, Edward Willett, Ann K. Schwader, Charles Richard Laing, Thomas Breunig, and another episode of the graphic tale “Burning Bright” by Jason Whitley and William Jones.

Hardboiled Review

Hardboiled Cthulhu Finds Its Way to Tampa

The anthology edited by James Ambhuel can be found lurking in the “Local Entertainment” section of a Tampa Bay Weekly newspaper:


Hardboiled Cthulhu ”Hardboiled Cthulhu” beats the odds and delivers 21 “two-fisted tales of tentacled terror” by some of the most competent story-crafters in the field today.These writers don’t miss a trick, and they’ve generated some new fiction that will placate admirers of H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror while beguiling fans of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

Click here to read the complete review:
Hardboiled Review

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Frontier Cthulhu

“There are old, old tribes with old, old memories there…”
–H.P. Lovecraft, “The Mound”
.Frontier Cthulhu by Steven Gilberts

Late summer sees the release of Chaosium’s Frontier Cthulhu: A New Land Founded upon Forgotten Horrors, edited by William Jones. This anthology contains fourteen tales confronting the unknowable horrors of strange new lands.
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ISBN: 1-56882-219-7
As explorers conquered the frontiers of North America, they disturbed sleeping terrors and things long forgotten by humanity. Journey into the undiscovered country where fierce Vikings struggle against monstrous abominations. Travel with European colonists as they learn of buried secrets and the creatures guarding ancient knowledge. Go west across the plains, into the territories were sorcerers dwell in demon-haunted lands, and cowboys confront cosmic horrors.
And for those interested, there is a related contest to be found here.

Lai Wan: Tales of the Dreamwalker

Edited by William Jones (with an Introduction)

Lai Wan: Tales of the DreamwalkerAuthor C.J. Henderson and others have joined forces to bring one of Henderson’s memorable characters to life: Lai Wan. She is part detective, part mystic, and has faced death only to return from it. Filled with action and pathos, Lai Wan: Tales of the Dreamwalker is memorable.

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(Published by Marietta Publishing, released April 9th 2007)

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