Today, LitNuts is shining a spotlight on the work of author Mark Fuller Dillon, including four FREE works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy.
"Mark Fuller Dillon is an original talent, whose precise use of language, obliquely disturbing imagery and meticulous world building single him out." ~Peter Tennant, Black Static #35
At First, You Hear the Silence
Genre: Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction4.40 stars on Smashwords
E-book price: FREE
A dark modern fantasy, suitable for Young Adult to Adult readers.
At thirteen, Philippe can see his father trapped in a world of secrets and silence, a world with no place for honesty or courage. But when the walls of that world fall apart, and something from outside breaks in, the silence becomes a warning shout...and Philippe will be tested in ways his father could never imagine.
"An enthralling encounter with mysteries from beyond." ~Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown
"A new twist on what used to be called science fantasy, it strikes a great balance between horror, sf, and action writing." ~David Longhorn, editor of Supernatural Tales
In a Season of Dead Weather
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Short Stories4.13 stars on Smashwords
E-book price: FREE
Short stories based on dreams and nightmares. (May be too intense for young readers.)
The weird, the uncanny, the strange: these are the local conditions of dead weather.
In a season of dead weather, the mind clutches at reality; but what does it find instead? Madness, or monsters? Ghosts, or things more terrible than ghosts? Illusions, or invasions? Dreams, or the darkness at the end of all nightmares? One thing is clear: these are tales that echoes tell in a season of dead weather...of things barely glimpsed in the moonrise...of places perfectly normal by day but haunted by the light of winter stars.
Doorways Unforeseen
Genre: Literary Fiction, Horror, FantasyNew release: October 2024
E-book price: FREE
Doorways to nightmares in prose and verse.
In Doorways Unforeseen, doorways lead to nightmares...from a bone-white church in a dead town of the captured and collected, to a barren farm where floating figures mob and kill, to a cedar forest where a creature from the sky reaches out to shatter souls. In prose and verse, these horror stories and nightmares wait beyond the mind's doorways unforeseen.
All Roads Lead to Winter
Genre: Science Fiction, Erotica4.11 stars on Smashwords
E-book price: FREE
An erotic science fiction novella.
The aliens are here, and now our lives are different: no wars, no hunger, no exploitation. For political prisoner Thomas Bridge, there can be a strange new love; for the alien delegate Avdryana, there can be companionship in a world that she finds crowded and foreign. But even with hope for the future, can there be an escape from the stifling ideas and expectations of the past?
At the heart of this story are parallel worlds, politics, the grip of memory, the strength and generosity of women, the pain of loss, the mystery of love...and all the roads that lead to winter.
Ice & Autumn Glass
Genre: PoetryPaperback: From $14.40
Poetry from Mark Fuller Dillon.
"Mark Dillon marries the Jacobean line and gothic imagery to a colloquial, thoroughly modern, goth-punk demotic, a frenzied coupling that yields up a species of frictive, delirious lyricism, a monstrous infant both old and new." ~Richard Calder, author of Dead Girls and Babylon
"These poems have strong bones, but they also have heart. They have a soul that reveals much about the poet and even more about ourselves." ~Jason E. Rolfe, author of Clocks
"Elegantly, meticulously constructed...accessible and acutely felt." ~Jeffrey Thomas, author of Haunted Worlds and Punktown
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