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Chymist
The first of my Clumsy Carnacki stories has just been published online. This is a story about an incompetent occult detective who is the son of the famous Thomas Carnacki.
There will be five stories in total and together I suppose they will make one novella with five parts. I have wanted for ages to write and publish stories about the incompetent son of the famous occult detective and I am delighted I have finally got round to doing so. Before today, only one had been published (in the Fantastic Schools III anthology).
The problem with getting stories like this into print is that most publishers of the niche Weird tend not to like comedy tales, and even when they do tolerate comedy tales they want them to be respectful to the old masters rather than satiricial travesties, and even when the tales are respectful they want them to be as close to the official canon as possible in their details.
The notion that the famous Carnacki had a son who was useless and incompetent and throws the family name into disrepute is a little repugnant to those publishers. But personally I find messing with the canonical way of doing things to be amusing. It's a form of attempted sabotage, I guess, but a mischevous rather than malign one (and one that will never succeed, which makes it more comical because it is harmless). Anyway, onwards! here is the first in the sequence...
There will be five stories in total and together I suppose they will make one novella with five parts. I have wanted for ages to write and publish stories about the incompetent son of the famous occult detective and I am delighted I have finally got round to doing so. Before today, only one had been published (in the Fantastic Schools III anthology).
The problem with getting stories like this into print is that most publishers of the niche Weird tend not to like comedy tales, and even when they do tolerate comedy tales they want them to be respectful to the old masters rather than satiricial travesties, and even when the tales are respectful they want them to be as close to the official canon as possible in their details.
The notion that the famous Carnacki had a son who was useless and incompetent and throws the family name into disrepute is a little repugnant to those publishers. But personally I find messing with the canonical way of doing things to be amusing. It's a form of attempted sabotage, I guess, but a mischevous rather than malign one (and one that will never succeed, which makes it more comical because it is harmless). Anyway, onwards! here is the first in the sequence...
