Live on Kickstarter Tuesday the 9th of January, 2024

OK, so what is Black Gauntlet: The Last Heist?

Black Gauntlet: The Last Heist is an action thriller novella meets the Cthulhu Mythos. It’s the type of story I’d love to read (so I wrote it) and it’s something that would translate well to cinema. Take the action movie like Die Hard or Extraction II and add Mythos elements. Die Hard because the action is tied to one building and Extraction II because it had me with its non-stop action from the very start. My thoughts were, “this is great. I love this. But I want to see more of it in a modern Mythos world.” Or, as people who are familiar with the Lovecraftian stories like to say, more “Yog-Sothothery.”

There’s action, a bit of humor, but make no bones about it, it is a horror story.

Horror–in its most true and classic sense–is the function of FEAR and ISOLATION. When it comes to the Yog-Sothothery that is known as the Lovecraftian tale I dare add a third aspect–INSANITY. Yes, the fear and isolation often leads the protagonists to question their world, their minds, and reality itself.

Black Gauntlet: The Last Heist will be available on Kindle and Smashwords in both the fiction novella form and the annotated version which delves into the writing process, the writing life, going from conception to edit, the Mythos world, and the aspects of what makes for an engaging action thriller.