Author Archives: davidprill

Another volume of club tale goodness is underway. Includes: “Die Schrecken des Trautonium” “Mystery of the Folsom Flute” “Case of the Unnerving Contrabassoon” “Rondo Alla Lucifer” “Circle of Fifths” “Night of the Short Tale” “Adventure, with Archivist” Plus one or two others

This palatial movie theater featured on the Home page was in the neighborhood where I grew up. Psychopath was actually The Psychopath, a 1966 Amicus film written by the great Robert Bloch. I was too young to see it, but this sort of bleak landscape became a blank canvas for my imagination, helped push me intoContinue reading “Stagecoach & Psychopath”

Print version?  In the works. I am in the early stages of learning how to prepare a book file for print. Handing it over to a small press publisher would be preferable, though. If you know anyone who might be interested, let me know. djprill@outlook.com

My first encounter with club tales was in the second issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction I had ever read. December 1976, Sterling Lanier’s fine Brigadier Ffellowes story, “Ghost of a Crown,” featured on the cover. The neighborhood I grew up in was a model of banality, so the notion that if I rode my bike far enoughContinue reading “Brigadier Ffellowes”

First book I ever purchased. So many big names that Robert E. Howard, William Hope Hodgson and Algernon Blackwood didn’t make it onto the cover! Contains the cracking Carnacki tale, “The Gateway of the Monster.”    “Later, when dinner was finished, Carnacki snugged himself comfortably down in his big chair, along with his pipe, and beganContinue reading “Horror Hunters”

There is a preview of Entr’acte Club Archives Volume 1 over at DriveThruFiction, but in case you haven’t had a chance to visit yet, it includes these tales: *Strange Case of Jacqueline/Heidi *Seance for Harp and Planchette  *The Whippen *New Year’s Eve Tale *Keeper of the Cane *Sonata for a Sea Monster *Night of the ImposterContinue reading “Program”

  Announcing… Entr’acte Club Archives Volume 1: Booth Merlin, Cryptomusicologist. Eight tales of anomalous musical phenomena in the spirit of Joseph Jorkens, Brigadier Ffellowes and Thomas Carnacki. None of the selections have been previously published. One-man band project: stories, cover, layout, typos, etc. Currently PDF only.   **Available here at the Store and also at DriveThruFiction.com