William Meikle
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Things are finally looking up for Glasgow private investigator Derek Adams. The agency is flush with cash and finally getting some respect, and the nightmares? Well, there's booze for that. But the dark side isn't finished with Derek. What starts off as a simple inquiry into the dealings of a shady bookie quickly descends into a battle with the shadowy unknown. Before he knows it, Derek is on the run, framed for an impossible murder. His only leverage...
2) The Sirens
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Glasgow private investigator Derek Adams can't seem to get away from the otherworldly, especially not when it seems to be the only paying gig in town. So when an old widow offers him two grand to find her son-who isn't exactly missing...just not himself-it's not long before things start to get weird, and a road trip to the rural village of Skye turns into a detour to the twilight. Before long, Derek is on a remote island, hip-deep in mermaids, stalked...
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Three beers and a packet of crisps is a tempting offer for your soul when you don't really believe you have one. But when it comes time to pay up, suddenly it doesn't seem like such a sweet deal. You're going to need help, but who are you going to call?
There's one man who might help, a man who knows the nature of deals with the dark side, and the ways of the old city.
Derek Adams, the Midnight Eye, is on the case...
Deal or No Deal? is a case...
4) La Invasión
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Todo comenzó durante una tormenta de invierno que azotó la Costa Noreste de EEUU y que trajo consigo una extraña lluvia verde. Lo que mojaba se marchitaba, se consumía, moría. Los residentes de los puestos remotos en las Provincias Marítimas de Canadá lograron escapar de las primeras amenazas, sólo para observar a Norteamérica, en primer lugar, y luego al resto del mundo hundirse bajo el verde terror.
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Patty Doyle holds the secret to eternal life, but it may only bring her an early death. Patty is working on a journal of a 14th Century alchemist. But after mentioning it in her blog she gets to the office to find everyone brutally murdered. Now she's on the run pursued by a killer who wants the secret of eternal life it contains. The Concordances of the Red Serpent is a thriller set in the USA, Canada and Scotland and echoes back to the glossy caper...
7) After Death
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A collection of tales of what comes after death. In here you'll find ghosts and zombies, heaven and hell, monsters both human and supernatural, a Great Detective, a couple of fiddles, the Great Beyond, the other Great Beyond, a retold fairy tale, and men doing what men gotta do, among other things. These stories cover a wide range of my career; some are earlty, others from the past few years, but all concerned with something that has alays fasconated...
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The exploits of Glasgow private investigator Derek Adams collected in a three-volume set of Lovecraftian noir. This collection includes:
The Amulet
It was supposed to be an easy case. Fast money, and a way to kill some time-something Derek Adams, a down-on-his-luck Glasgow private investigator, has way too much of. Recover a stolen family heirloom, and try to keep the relationship with his very beautiful-and very married-client, strictly professional....
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No one can handle Scottish folklore with elements of the darkest horror, science fiction and fantasy, suspense and adventure like William Meikle.In Samurai and Other Stories you'll find numerous ghosts, many Scotsmen, a big blob, some holy relics, some unholy relics, a Mothman, a barbarian, some swordplay, a shoggoth and a lot of unexpected people.This collection by veteran author William Meikle brings together stories from the past decade in an exploration...
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John Seton is a grifter, an ex-pat Scots kid working penny-ante magic tricks on the streets of L.A. But John has a secret. In his family, sometimes, the magic is real. And sometimes, it gets him noticed.An opportunity to make a quick buck sets Seton on a quest to find an ancient piece of leather of uncertain provenance, and high magic.Seton sets out onto the streets, and quickly finds that he is not the only one after the halter. He is soon at odds...
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Battle is joined...
It is 1745. The forces of the Boy-King have decimated Milecastle. The Thane is dead, another chosen, and Mary Campbell has been taken by the Boy-King as his unholy bride.
The town is a scene of carnage and the Watchers have failed...but they may yet have a chance at redemption. Can Martin be a leader to his people in their time of need?
And can Sean fulfill his oath without losing his soul?
Neither have much time to consider, for...
12) Totems
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It is a simple enough concept. There are houses like this all over the world. Most people only know of them from whispered stories over campfires; tall tales told to scare the unwary. But some, those who suffer, some know better. They are drawn to the places where what ails them can be eased. If you have the will, the fortitude, you can peer into another life, where the dead are not gone, where you can see that they thrive and go on, in the dreams...
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Murder and skullduggery on the oldest course in golf. St. Andrews might never be the same again. Private investigator John Royle takes on a routine missing person case in search of his client's brother. When the body turns up in a bunker on the Old Course at St. Andrews and John is framed for the murder, the very future of St. Andrews itself is at stake. John has to get himself out of the frame and ensure the town's place in history remains safe.
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The case of a lost husband leads Holmes and Watson into the bowels of the new Underground system, where they uncover a fiendish scheme – the recently deceased are being forced to work as unpaid labor in the tunnels. And soon the walking dead come up into the city itself, spreading mayhem and disease.Holmes must find the perpetrator of these atrocities, and stop him, before the plague engulfs London. Masterfully written, extraordinarily entertaining,...
15) The Invasion
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They came in their thousands. We fought them as one.
It started during a winter storm on the North Eastern Seaboard which brought with it a strange green rain. Where it fell, everything withered, died, and was consumed. The residents of remote outposts in Maritime Canada escaped the worst of the early damage, but that was a blessing in disguise, for they were left to watch as first North America, then the world, was subsumed in the creeping green...
16) Berserker
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Sometimes the monsters are real…
For Tor and Skald this is their first Viking raid, and their minds are filled with thoughts of honor and glory. What awaits them are beasts - huge, hairy and fanged, the Alma, who will not suffer intruders in their domain. When the Vikings slaughter a female Alma they soon find themselves in the middle of a battle with vicious creatures bent on bloody revenge. Now they must stand and be counted, for destiny awaits...
17) Culloden
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A great victory has been won, but the war is far from over.
The Boy-King now needs his bride…and his heir.
Only the young officers of the Watch can stop him. But they have their own battles to face and their own demons to fight. And those inner demons are not proving so easy to control as they are lured to the blood-soaked moors of Culloden for the final confrontation.
The dead are rising. A new darkness is fast approaching. Victory is close…but...
18) The Ghost Club
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Writers never really die; their stories live on, to be found again, to be told again, to scare again.In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Henry James held an informal dining club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest.These are their stories, containing tales of revenant loved ones, lost cities, weird science, spectral appearances and mysteries in the fog...
19) Vida En La Isla
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Algunas leyendas son ciertas... Las viejas historias cuentan de un mal muy por debajo de la tierra. Cuando una expedición arqueológica ignora la sabiduría local y abre un viejo túmulo en una remota isla en las Hébridas escocesas, ellos desatan un horror más allá de sus más oscuras pesadillas. ¿Podrá alguno sobrevivir al ataque de la Vida en la Isla? ¡William Meikle hila un cuento de terror que te mantendrá despierto hasta que voltees la...
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The long awaited night has come. It is 1745, and the BloodKing calls his army to battle and will bring them South to claim his birthright; the throne of Britain.
Only the Watchers on the old wall stand in his way.
This omnibus collection includes the complete Watchers trilogy!
The Coming of the King
The Bloodking comes!
The old wall is a border: England and Scotland, South and North, light and darkness.
It is 1745, and the long-awaited night as come....