Chalk Mountain by Mark A. Nobles
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“Elwanda La Vonne Stasey, born January 10, 1922, in Desdemona, Texas, died in a place where time does not exist. It wasn’t even a place…”
On the winter solstice of 1940, in Chalk Mountain, Texas, eighteen-year-old Elwanda Stasey sets out on a Year Walk, a ritual that promises to offer a glimpse into the future. She believes she has been well prepared for her journey by her grandmother’s fantastical tales from the old country. Stories of bewitching and deadly creatures that dwell in the forest—Huldra, the beautiful forest spirit, who claims her companions for eternity; Nøkken, a shapeshifter who charms those who stray too close to the water’s edge to their doom; and the bäckahäst, a horse that drowns its innocent riders.
But what Elwanda sees on this fateful night will reveal far more than anyone in the little town of Chalk Mountain could have imagined and will set the stage for what could be the destruction of everything, and everyone, Elwanda knows and loves.
Sin casts a long shadow in Chalk Mountain. To save her family from its darkness, Elwanda may find that those who walk between the worlds—those she has been taught to fear—are her only hope.
Chalk Mountain is a potent blend of Southern Gothic and Norwegian myth and monsters, with a dash of voodoo, small-town Texas sensibilities, and old-time, Old Testament vengeance. Nobles weaves a thicket of a tale that is a frightful pleasure to get lost in.
Stories of a Different Dark by Mark A. Nobles
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Step into a different dark….
These Texas tales of mischief and mayhem will carry you from the Piney Woods all the way up to Fort Worth, and meander as far west as Muleshoe, but even locals may not recognize the landscape. Jumping genres like a jackalope through folk horror, fantasy, and science fiction, this collection knows no borders.
Populated by bored demons waiting for a taste of sin, a condemned man saved and destroyed by his fiddle, a dispirited janitor left to mop up after a failed Rapture, a despairing boy who runs into the arms of a monster, and a reluctant creator of the universe, the countryside of Nobles’ imagination is as varied and wild as the Lone Star State.
A group of friends in a bar may or may not have had a brush with the Almighty. Two old friends meet at a Texas crossroads to continue their epic and mysterious journey. A little girl with a special gift sees dark forces closing in that are invisible to the rest of the world. A man who has chosen to spend his life consuming the sins of others seeks to lay his burden down in a most shocking fashion. A couple walking home late at night discover they are not the people they thought they were.
Take a trip through a country where creatures of legend beckon from the shadows, and the uncanny might be sitting on the next barstool.
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Picnic on the Square by Mark A. Nobles
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A rich history of justice — or horrors?
In the early 1900s in Texas, a brutal series of lynchings is perpetrated by and for eager white crowds. The accused — almost always people of color — are tortured and killed regardless of guilt or innocence, often while the law looks the other way. These monstrous acts of bootstrap “justice” play out in a carnival atmosphere that makes murder a family outing, complete with souvenirs.
Tooter Boatman, renegade scion of a privileged white family, sets out on a quest to free the souls of the executed, while reckoning with the fissures in his own. Led by wise and possibly magical companions, he strives to escape the gruesome legacy that stains his family tree, and to exorcise the buried racism in his own heart. Reeling backwards through time, will he be able to acknowledge his unwitting role in the atrocities he records, before it is too late?
Anchored by newspaper stories that prove the atrocities all too real, this is an unflinching examination of the dark recesses of Texas’ past, as well as a profound awakening to a yearning for redemption.
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