A mariner sailing from BC’s Douglas Channel to Haida Gwaii is seduced by mysterious lights on Hecate Stait, not knowing a seductive monster lurks off Aranzazu Banks.
My short story Aranzazu Banks appears in the new anthology of Canadian horror and magic realism Canadian Dreadful edited by David Torcher and published by Dark Dragon.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday. I am usually at home watching a streaming movie and getting ready to go to bed just after ten. This past Saturday at nine, I was watching Part 2 of the documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes on Crave in Canada (HBO in the United States). I seldom […]
It’s not unusual to discover, while writing a non fiction project, that the most minor of characters deserve their own book and more . This week as part of my own book research I have discovered a forgotten age of fighting sail officer who is likely worth a biography or a novel or even a […]
Captain’s log 18191029 It was October, 1819. The Royal Navy sloop HMS Pheasant part of the new anti-slavery West Africa Squadron, was on patrol off Accra in what is today Ghana. For the research and writing on my latests book project, I was reading the log and came across a reference that I had not […]
